Guise of the Hunter  

 

Been going at this guy for about 10 hours now. At first, this guy spawned every other clearing of the "pit" and now, he spawns every 7-8 clearings :P I guess i gotta keep going at it and i'll be a happy lil' Rogue!

This mask drops off of Shissar Assassin in Ssra on Luclin on the first floor (entry level) of the temple, approximate /loc -275, +215, between 2 locked doors and past a nasty trap. Rogues are not required to get to this camp, but they sure help.

From The Grey zone line (if you put on an EB item for the trip here remember to put your good gear back on) you will be in a small entry hall with one door leading into the temple. Opening the door you'll see the first room with perhaps 4 or 5 mobs, and 2 doors leading deeper. You can invis through here, go through the door directly opposite the entry to room and down the hall. There're 4 more mobs in the hall, in alcoves halfway down hall, but you can invis past these too. At the end of the hall you make a left turn and you'll come very quickly to the end of the hall. You should have passed one door on your right just before the end of the hall and there will be another door to the left at the very end of the hall. This door on the left leads to the Assassin camp.

There are 3 mobs in this next room, and at least one always sees invis. You'll probably have to kill all 3 to move further. Once it's safe (mobs dead or don't see invis) you'll need to get through the stone tomb "door" directly opposite the entrance to this room. Lockpick skill of 210 or better is needed to open it, but you can bypass that requirement by levitating yourself and climbing up one of the black monument poles on either side of the tomb-door, then running to on top of the tomb. You will sink a little bit once on top of the tomb, at which point you should be able to Duck and pop into the hall on the other side of this door.

Once through the locked door, you'll be facing one mob, standing right in front of a trap in this hallway. Most mobs after this point see invis so you'll likely have to fight your way from here. So, pull that one and kill it, then sense / disarm trap if able, or get your cure spells memmed. The trap effect that hit me was Breath of the Shissar which was 20 minutes @ 200 hp/tick DoT. After that mob there are 2 more in the hallway you will meet and have to kill as you go deeper. After the 3rd mob you kill in this hall you will come to a hole in the wall you go through and reach a short ramp with a door at the top. It's not locked and through this door is the camp for Assassin and a couple of other named.

The room is set up as a central recessed area (the pit) with a walkway going all the way around (the ledge) with doors at 2 ends. The end you came in with the ramp leading back to the trapped hall, and the door at the opposite end which is another 210 lockpick door but one you cannot levitate over this time. That's okay, this is your camp, you won't need to go farther. If you stay close to the walls you should be able to kill any of the mobs on the ledge without agroing the pit mobs, but if you get too close to the inner side of the ledge a mob will eventually agro you. Level 60 is high enough to pull singles in this room without getting adds, but lower level I think you'd need pacify or splitting. If you're with a group I'd recommend camping outside the room on the ramp past the door you came in. If soloing, camp next to one of the firepits on the ledge inside the room.

The Assassin spawns in the pit, on the side of the room by the 2nd locked door, right next to the ramp that leads to that door. When you enter the room from the trapped hall his spawn point is at the left of the ramp on the opposite side of the room.

The mobs here are temple guard (warrior), warlock (necro), arcanist (wizard), spirit binder (shaman), priest (cleric) and elite temple guard (SK) along with the possible named and the Commander that can spawn almost anywhere on first floor. The Elites and the Commander are the toughest mobs you'll face, and it's arguable which are tougher. The Assassin is a pushover compared to either, so if you can take an Elite you're pretty much set for this camp.

Almost any level 65 player should be able to solo this camp, and many twinked or raid geared level 60s could too. A couple of things to keep in mind. All mobs in Ssra summon. Rot timer on this loot is 8 minutes. Bring cure poison if you can't cast the cure or disarm the trap. Bring a way to gate or port out, you're stuck between those 2 locked doors now unless you can pick lock.

what lvl would you think able to handle this camp, because i am 67 and am thinking i can but probably need healing pots or a healer

i am a collector of illusions for my bard and this is the worst one i have tried to camp yet (saying that after getting 8 already 2 that are grp+ masks even)the camp is easy to get to just lev to top of the locked door and duck and your in then just fight to the pit and its far ramp left mob, i have seen 2 named in 2 days no idea if they nerfed it or i am just realy unlucky on this drop but its getting me insane the only other one that compares to how rough the wait is camping this mob is prolly the water elemental one from SG...good luck to anyone camping it i suggest you have house chores or something to do while at this camp tho its boreing as hell

Grab a levitate climb one of the posts on the side and run over the door. You will slowly sink, once you stop sinking duck and look down and you will be able to enter the hallway.

Edited, Tue Feb 21 13:30:31 2006

It's anything but Common - this is about Rare to Very Rare

If a Rogue is doing 1.5 Epic then this mask can be used to skip the Baking tradeskill part in Shar Vahl

While I see many people here saying that it's a bard mask, what most of them probably don't realize is that to get to the assassin's camp, you have to pass a rogue locked door (too high for bards to pick). This means that for a bard to get this, you're going to need a rogue who either already has it or doesn't want it. Every rogue I know badly wants this, so the latter probably isn't all that likely.
The other drop is also for bards/rogues, gloves with a 3% picklock mod. Haven't figured out which is the common and which is the rare so far...seems to be about even.

And as far as the mask being Vah Shir usable, that's simply because they can be bards and rogues. If you look at the other masks, they're either all races or all rogue/bard races. There's nothing to stop a DE from getting the Mask of Deception (though they probably wouldn't want to...)

high elf mask is no drop.

In a recent patch they changed this mask to make it Human useable.

dropped by A Shissar Assassin
in the temple=P 55ish i believe