Mask of Deception  

 

This could also apply to any character with the ability to hide.

I've noticed that when I loot a corpse, there is a small delay between /loot and the loot window appearing. You can use this small delay to your advantage. Simply target a corpse, put "/loot" in your command line, but do NOT hit enter yet! Put your mouse over your hide button. Now, as soon as you hit enter to use the /loot command, during the small delay before the loot window pops up, hit the hide button with your mouse! Poof, you'll hide *before* you loot, and you'll be hidden while you loot! I've used this technique several times to loot corpses. After you're done looting, you'll still be hidden, so if you were already sneaking, then you can simply slip away with the loot.

This can also be used to buy/sell with merchants in hostile territory... ;)

my friend has a WE rouge that got this thing at level 10. he had a couple of high level friends kill the assassin, then he looted. he also has a full set of ry'gorr armor on (also purchased by the high levels), and i think the ry'gorr looks WAAAAY better on a dark elf than it does on a wood elf. you don't have to wear to have the effect, just put it on, cast the spell, take it off.

Well, me, a barbarian rogue, just got my mask of deception today. I actually died a lot trying to get the mask. I wanted to remain bound in Everfrost as a newbie so that I can respawn in Everfrost when I die exp'ing. Because I kept on dying on the way to Guk (for various reasons, accidentally drowning while auto-running in the Karanas and afk, dying to undeads in Kithicor unheededly) Well, anyway, I had no trouble getting through Guk. Being a Barb rogue worshipping Bristlebane allowed me to remain dubious to live frogloks. Thus, my travelling through uguk was a breeze (I have great understanding of uguk and lguk from experiences) My swimming, hiding, and sneaking skills were maxxed for my level (level 5), cuz I wanted to be able to swim through the river tunnel when I arrive in lguk. Well, it turned out that while sneaking (without SoW), I couldn't get out of the river, so I had to get drop my rogue invis and get a IU (invis versus undead) to get out. When I began hiding/sneaking throughout lower guk, I made sure everything in my path was indifferent to me. It was really weird that one vampire bat managed to see through my rogue invis and conned "ready to attack" to me. Fortunately, I was nowhere near the bat at the time of discovery. Everything else, maybe even including BTGs (bloodthirsty ghouls), remained indifferent to me with the exception of the ghoul lord. The first time I arrived in lguk, the zone was practically empty, so I went down to the live side and took off invis and got ready to camp. For some reason, one ghoul was wondering through the live side at the time and killed me :( Mind that I was bound in Everfrost the whole time (I didn't want having to try to get a bind and having to respawn in Halas every time I died after I get the mask). Then the second time I arrived in lguk, it turned out that there were only 3 groups in lower guk at that moment (being on Rallos Zek, there are only a little more than half the number of groups at any moment in any zone compared to blue servers), and that a two man group was camping the Assassin. As soon as I arrived there, an assassin popped and got me the mask. As I left the room, even though my hide and sneak buttons were still pressed, I had already lost my invis due to looting of the mask. Good thing I noticed as I went down the ladder and conned a nearby ghoul. It was a good thing that the zone was clear and that I was able to get out of the river past BR (bedroom) by taking off sneak.

Anyhow, after I arrived back in Everfrost, it came to me as a big shock and disappointment when I found that I could not use the mask as a level 5...

Well, there's my story.

BTW, does anyone know what level I can start using the mask? Thanks.

It took me 5 days to get the mask. Now i have it and i love it!

Took me four hours and four deaths but I got the mask and a basalt carapace... and 2 yellows of XP. Those damn wizards down there nuke for 250 and they sure like to nuke my poor bard! I'm sticking with the Bedroom group until at least 35 now. With an IVU and the correct map, gettting to the assassin isn't tough. Getting the assassing to pop however is, as that was the first one in 6 hrs. the group had seen. Good luck and come see the inky in his new Lambent BP!

Llewyen Aoide, 32 Bard, Officer NGoH
Tribunal

I would love some advice on how to get my lvl 16 bard one O dese. PLZ PLZ PLZ help.


Lvl 45 wizard
Lvl 16 bard

Got mine by waiting, and I kid you not ... 30 seconds, last night. Hmmm, a 60th level Shadowknight on my server, Bagbokk, got an aggro by the assassin, ran back to the zone, told me to log in, I looted it, equipped it and activated it in record time :)

(I have the most insane luck that it was 1) not camped, 2) popped at the right time, and 3) dropped the mask first time. Rest of the night continued to lose lottos, I think I burned up all my luck in one hit that night :P)

I tell you something, as we discuss loot and all here ... nothing matters more in EQ than the friends you make ... so you can pull off stuff like this. Be nice, and people are willing to be nice back!

Also, be polite, even to newbies ... one newbie I helped out now beats my main in level. (Gave her a Runic Carver at level 6) Make friends with people on your server, and your EQ life will be much easier.

Just my 2 cp :)

Shadowkiss Greystar, 26th rogue, Rodcet Nife.

I got this at a low level. All you have to do is ask if anyone is camping the assassin and ask them to send you a tell if it drops. Then get an IVU and run to the room. Be sure to look at a map first. The only tough parts are the bat room (that can see you) and the water tunnel (which you are only in for a few seconds, depending on your swimming skill). The only thing that takes long is waiting for it to drop. I just practiced my instrument skills while I waited.

Ok, heres my story.
Went in at 12:00 pm (night) and was right there waiting, a levle 52 pally soloed him adn the mask dropped. Im a level 9 rogue in hide/sneak and right b4 i can loot it, about 15 seconds b4 actually, something sees through invis and wahcks me /cry. I come back, pull corpse to zone and loot, its now 12:45ish and a new group has started cmaping him, but this time i have to roll against a bard in there group. Lots o froggey's pop up and down, then *** spawns, has Serrated Bone dirk. Player 1 in group wins roll. Two more spawns and he pops again with thew mask, lose to the bard by 25 about /cry. Spawns twice more in a row both with Serrated Dirk's, player 4 in group and player 1 again wins, but player 1 turns nice and lets me buy the second one he got from him for 1pp /cheer /thank Saitou. Then three more spawns go by and he pops again, with the mask and i get it, finally. But there is more tragedy, on my way out after thanking the group, I can't make it out of the water with hide/sneak on, sooooooooooo i decide to make a dash for it and take off sneak/hide, jump outa water, run for the zone and die inches b4 the zone line /cry. Come back, loot corpse and run back to South Ro where i camped Exhausted (its now 4:30am). So there is my tradegedy story to all you people and good luck getting it!

http://www.thesafehouse.org/pages/resources/shequipguide.htm#guise

Copy and paste the link into your browser if you can't click on it. It's a good guide for getting the mask courtesy of The Safehouse. Good luck.

Also, when I did this around level 10, I asked for an IVU at the zone. Made sure to ask if the assassin was camped and if I could loot the mask if noone else needed/wanted it. I used a map of LGuk from eqatlas.com to find my way around. Took me about 3 hours of waiting before it dropped. Only time I died was trying to figure out how to leave guk :-)