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Mask of Deception  
 

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Slot: FACE
Charges: Unlimited
AC: 4
CHA: +13
SV MAGIC: +7
Effect: Illusion Dark Elf (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 6.0) at Level 15
WT: 0.4 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL except ERU HIE TRL OGR IKS
Slot 1, Type 7 (General: Group)

Item Type:Illusion
Stackable:No
Submitted By:Naan Aokiri
Lucy Entry By:Kerasota
Item Updated By:SwiftyMUSE
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2022-01-14 17:45:26
Page Updated:Mon Apr 10th, 2017

Expansion: Original Original


Rarity: Uncommon
Level to Attain: 30

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Zone Name
Lower Guk
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Sometimes you win.. Somtimes, you have to come back
# Dec 24 2003 at 9:41 AM Rating: Decent
I camped the Assassin/Supplier room last night. I can confirm that all 3 mobs in the room are on a 30 min timer. I even timed it with a stop watch =)
I was in that room for the better part of 4 hours. I had the supplier spawn 3 times and the Assassin spawn once. When I got there, another rogue was camping the room. He got the first mask and then left me (32 Rogue & 62 Druid) to the camp.

One thing I can tell you is to root/snare! if you don't and you can't kill the mob before they run off you WILL die.

I saw a lot of PH's but about 1 out of 3 cycles there was a supplier at least. Just wish I would have seen another assassin... oh well another night.

(on the upside i was camping foragers in TT before this and I was lucky enough to get the Iksar mask =)
Assassin
# Dec 22 2003 at 10:31 AM Rating: Decent
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This weekend me and my FI camped assassin Sat nite he spawned twice and the supplier spawned three times dropping bag everytime. Assassin did not drop mask both times. Stayed up till 4 am waiting for mask to drop. Went back next day. and in 3 spawn times we had two masks and 1 bag. So pretty cool even though we waited a very long time. Camped both lvl 20 bards in Lower Guk waited for Assassin to spawn logged in Bards and looted masks. Least to say I was very happy. BTW Entire zone is on a 30 min timer. More than enought time to get lower lvl chars in without getting attacked.

Eenariel Saralonde
56th Knight of Tunare
Torvon Surver
spawn
# Dec 11 2003 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
Well finally after about 20 spawns he showed. My guess is that he spawns about 5% of the time.
spawn
# Dec 08 2003 at 9:07 AM Rating: Decent
don't know if something has changed but was there for 4 spanws (30min between spawns.) Not one time did the assasin spawn. If he is on a 50% spawn probability this is just plain bad luck as is the post before who was there for 5 hours. My guess is that he spawns less than 10% of the time could be as low as 5% or less.
Bad Luck!
# Nov 26 2003 at 11:46 PM Rating: Decent
My bard and guild friends with a rogue and pally tried to get this mask today. We were there for about 5 or 6 hours and the assasin never spawned. My Bard died 4 times and I ended up with nothing and less xp than i started. Bad luck...
Level to get and Clicking it
# Nov 14 2003 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
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60 posts
Quote:
I am a 60 human paladin, wanted to see if this was clickable from inventory, like my ammy of necropotence. People don't seem to directly address this anywhere here, they just wonder.

Well, simply put, If you are not a bard or rogue, you CANNOT use this item. It is NOT clickable from inventory for non bard/rogues either. It says wrong class / deity, blah blah.


As of last night, my 16 rogue was able to right-click the mask from a main inventory slot. Apparently the effect is BRD/ROG only (like the mask itself) but doesn't require equipping the mask.

I got this mask at level 5. The live frogs didn't hate me, so Upper Guk wasn't a problem. I used Sneak/Hide to go all the way through Lower Guk. We zone in at point C on eqatlas.com's map of the Dead Side, which is 7 on the UGuk map. It took forever due to my extremely low speed, but it worked. I had some friends there hunting for experience and none of them could use the mask, so I thought I'd stick my rogue there in case it dropped. It did.

A few of us ~50s took a ~40 to LGuk for power leveling. We decimated everything in this area almost instantly (we were headed further down).

Pretty much any rogue who can get to LGuk should be able to get to the room. Even if you can't kill it yourself, it may be worth checking to see if someone else is there (for the Light Burlap Sack or even experience) that will let you loot it.
try it!
# Nov 09 2003 at 7:19 AM Rating: Decent
Just to put my 2pence in with respect to the posting that mentioned several high lvl chars to do this:

1. dont be afraid

2. all u need is a 56 pally to totally clear out all in the way without even gettin below 80health (took my pally under ten minutes to virtually clear zone on that level) and not even taking care to single pull. I am sure this also works with other high lvl mellees. Cake walk if you have higher alt.

3. my 40 bard however could not sneak past the mobs - had to fight way out; so be careful if you try sneak/hide suggested by one post
soo easy
# Oct 19 2003 at 10:22 PM Rating: Decent
this was the easiest thing to get once i got there, i made a wrong turn but found my way went up the ladder just one mob plus the assasin followed me down i chamred one dotted the other then killed him w/in 40 seconds and bam i got my mask :o very nice to have
RE:WOOT
# Oct 15 2003 at 4:17 AM Rating: Decent
Meant 53 Druid =P

Edited, Wed Oct 15 05:12:59 2003
WOOT
# Oct 15 2003 at 4:16 AM Rating: Decent
Spent about 7 hrs in assassin room slaughtering every frog with my druid , then , I noticed only 2 of the 3 spawns popped , so I started to med then out of nowhere the ghoul assassin starts hitting me.WOOT , so i used winged death and breath of ro on him , he was dead in about a min , then i logged my rogue who was parked there(delkai.send him a tell!!) waiting about 30 secs then looted my pretty new MoD , now im a sexy dark elf almost all the time ;).

Mantorok 51 Druid (Real Moonwolves)
Delkai 21 rogue (burning Destiny)
Innoruuk Server
A 29 Bard
# Sep 09 2003 at 3:51 PM Rating: Decent
Hello Everybody I am a 29 bard on the E'ci server and I was just wondering Is is possible for me to get this mask? Havnt hunted in Guk Yet with this Char so he is not KoS there COuld I get some opinions

Luguna Wyntersong
Bard of the 29th stanza
Orsa Amicitian for life
Server of Tunare
RE: A 29 Bard
# Dec 30 2003 at 1:00 PM Rating: Decent
Well the stuff in lower guk is undead stuff, spiders, all that stuff. If you aren't KoS in guk, you will be kos in lower guk anyway.
RE: A 29 Bard
# Oct 11 2003 at 9:47 AM Rating: Default
Yes, get a good group =)
This make you a True Rogue
# Aug 25 2003 at 6:58 PM Rating: Decent
Just because you select to play a Rogue, does not make a True Rogue. There are three things that make you a Rogue: pick pocket, making posion and the Mask of Deception.
Other classes
# Aug 18 2003 at 1:19 AM Rating: Decent
Ok guys, I just looted the mask on my other comp.

I am a 60 human paladin, wanted to see if this was clickable from inventory, like my ammy of necropotence. People don't seem to directly address this anywhere here, they just wonder.

Well, simply put, If you are not a bard or rogue, you CANNOT use this item. It is NOT clickable from inventory for non bard/rogues either. It says wrong class / deity, blah blah.

Now to destroy it... sigh.
O M G
# Aug 11 2003 at 5:14 PM Rating: Default
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674 posts
I have been playing on PVP server, I play a wood elf Rogue, lvl 11 Un-twinked.... Its not easy. Anyways, I was in upper guk, and I was mapping it a bit because the saltwater crocks are great xp at 11.

So I run into this nice bard. (Will edit post at home and totaly give her props) We get to talking, and shes asking what I am doing, I explain im mapping a bit before I hunt. Asking her was shes doing, she shows me, by becomming a darkelf.

So I comment of course on how cool that is, and that I may get one one day. So she offers to have her 60'ish + beastlord clear the way, and I can loot!

Believe it or not you *CAN* sneak and hide, even at level 11. So I sneak down, the ENTIRE way to the assasin's room. My swimming was way too low for the stretch of water. You could probably turn off sneak at this point, and I would have been ok. She cast enduring breath on me.

So there I was, in the assasin's room. I had 'Spirit sight' on, that was I could self check to see if I had the "( )" around my name, to be SURE i was hidden.

She cleared the room before we went up, and then 2 more times. After that, I hear fighting, earlier, this time by a bit. And its the Assasin! She kills him and right after the other 2 in room pop. So its about every 30 minutes as posted, and then Assasin will pop a few minutes before that timer.

I snuck and hid my way out, she battled vampire bats bravely and other baddies. Then something went wrong, I had anticipated it would, there was NO way I could trick the fates so. An AE snare, It easily slowed me by 90%. 'Bond of soul' or something. The really screwed up part was that it dropped my sneak and hide. I was very very lucky, she dropped the ghoul 3 inches in front of me.

then.... the zone re-popped! I saw her dissapear and thought it was a fluke, or that maybe id just calmly sneak out. Nope. LD. Disconnected. Right at the ramp by the icebone skelle guys.

When I logged back on I felt fairly confident I was in a safe place. Oddly, I came back to have a small train, a blur of something mow me down.

She ways on! Whewt. And offered to drag my corpse to live side zone line! So I loot and here I stand, at lvl 11 with a mask of deception. I know its wrong, and I know some work very very hard for theres, I respect that. My RL Girlfriend went through hell for hers.

I just want others to know its possible, Anything can be done witht he right people, or person. I am not 100% sure, but I believe its useable at 15. The spell says it is, and I think someone said they used it at 22ish, at least.

I want all those old school and new school players to know, I know how coveted this item is, especially on a pvp teams server. I respect that very much, and I cant thank her enough!

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· 'Valdon Gravedancer' Terris-Thule. Dwarven Cleric 34th circle.
· 'Junglebug Sugarpants' Terris-Thule. Halfling Druid. 52nd season.
· 'Shinook Eldergod' Terris-Thule. Troll Shaman of 32nd rite.
· 'Soultree Vixen' Terris-Thule. Woodelf Ranger of 34th season.
just got it
# Aug 08 2003 at 2:17 PM Rating: Decent
just got this mask a few min ago. drops off of ghoul assassin at loc pos 630, neg 770 (around there anyway). took out the place holders pretty easy (with 62 war, 61 sham, and me a 53 bard), and he popped up about 1/2 hr later and dropped mask on the first time. conned green to me at 53. hope this helps a little.

Minstrel Oipunker

bard of the 53rd song
Bad Luck
# Jul 31 2003 at 12:42 AM Rating: Decent
The other day... Some of my guild and I went after the Mask of Deception. My 38 Rogue and another guild memebers 29 Bard were trying for the masks. After about an hour the assasin spawned and we smoked him pretty quick. I looted my mask. One of our wizzies pets ran after a mob that was almost dead and aggroed seemed like the entire zone onto us. Well all of us died and it took all of like 7 hours to get bodies and rezzes. :)

Stake 38 Rogue (Kings Men)
RE: Bad Luck
# Feb 29 2004 at 12:31 PM Rating: Default
Wouldn't it have taken less than seven hours to get the experience back?
YAY!
# Jul 08 2003 at 6:31 PM Rating: Decent
I got my Mask today, but died 4 times trying to get it [:banghead] and i cant use it! [:bah]
dont need to swim at all for this.... /boggle
# Jul 01 2003 at 10:08 AM Rating: Decent
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I am not sure about how you guys are getting there, but I learned from my monk that the easiest way to get to this place is from the Raster spawn.

Run all the way (non kos) to the back of upper guk, only swimming is to get to spiders... and they are non kos as well.

Once you get to 'live' side of lower guk, run along the long road there then north eastish through the little maze there to the raster spawn and the pit to minos. They were non kos as well. Figure out where the invis pit is and jump across it. up the little winding path to the ladder. climb the ladder and make your home base the room at top of ladder with stone floor and square hole for ladder. You can log on and sneak and hide till success here easily.

Once snuk/hid, open the door to the gargoyles and hang a right and there are the undead stuffs ... hang another right and you are approaching the ***/sup room (which will be on your left).

No swimming needed at all and only frogs are between gargoyles and ***/sup and not one of these saw through my lvl 9 sneak/hide.

run up there and see if camped... if not hang out or log and come back. Or bring alt there and clear out the place and your rogue/bard will be just 6 possible mobs away from you.

worked for me anyhow.

but once I hit water, my sneak/hide drops. Not sure why... gives message i need to be on dry land or something.

The Gargoyles never saw through my sneak/hide one time after passing them to and from the ladder camp spot several times.


Edited, Tue Jul 1 12:06:53 2003
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Soop 53ish War
Brell (CT)

Pugette Tripsalott
67 Monk - Brell (CT)

Mangie Scumsuccer
65 Shaman - Brell (CT)

Poket
71 Mage - Brell (CT)

Deathlich
58 Necro - CT
Got It!
# Jun 01 2003 at 3:58 AM Rating: Good
After parking my rogue for well over a year, I dusted off the cob-webs and started playing my rogue. I was at lvl 42.

8 of us, 7 from my guild and one from our alliance guild went. Avg lvl of player turned out to be 49. Was overkill but as the mighty warrior of the group said, overkill is better thank being killed.

When we made it to the room, supplier and the assasin were up. When we killed them, no drop. The spawn cycle was exactly 28-30 minutes. It took 10 cycles before the assasin popped again. Finally got my mask.

Here is some information from my notes:
1)Be patient - took longer to get it than I thought.

2)Keep someone in the room - we did and good thing. People will park there and go invis or log and come back in. We killed and pulled into the room below to kill the time. Had we not had a presence in the room, we may have lost the spawn.

3)Have cloudy potions and invis vs undead potions if there is no one in your group than can cast these if doing this at lower levels. While not kos to the live frogluks, our de members were. The invis vs undead came in handy as we wanted to get to the room asap as there was another group forming when we zoned into LGUK. While they had to fight their way through the zone, we made a straight shot to the room.

4)Have good maps - this is the 2nd time ever in the zone and it was as confusing as the first time. Very easy to get lost (for me anyways, even with maps)

5)Remember note 2 - when we ported out, there was a list of 4 other groups wanting room. I actually wrote down the order and when we left, in /ooc said who had it next and then gave the list by order.

Overall, a long experience getting the mask. Did manage to gain a full yellow in a raid group of 8 and ding 43.

Good luck to those going after this mask. I was happy and actually felt warm and tingly when I got the mask!

Regards to all, Woneye
Deathguard faction
# May 03 2003 at 6:49 AM Rating: Decent
I recently got my DE mask for my bard and was wondering if anyone knows anything about the Fleshweaver guy they recently put at the Neriak commons zone line. I need to get to 3rd gate to do the wine quest but they stuck this guy right at the zone line! I zone in, my DE illusion drops and this guy will probably kill me. Anyone know if he will kill you as soon as you zone in or what? Thank you for any suggestions.
RE: Deathguard faction
# May 04 2003 at 12:16 AM Rating: Decent
all the times ive seen him, he has been close to zone line but not close enough to get agro as soon as you zone in..
My story
# Apr 19 2003 at 11:32 PM Rating: Decent
This is how i got this awesome mask. For 4 days i had my rogue in Lguk asking groups that were camping ***/sup if i could loot mask if it drops, but they never stayed there long enough. Last night in fact, while i was offline, someone tells me that 2 masks drop within 30 mins of each other and both rot LOL. so today i brought my lvl 51 SK over there and started camping. all 3 mobs popped at once, which they did the first time, i had a bunch of trouble with them. bareley was able to kill the supplier which droped the sack, then i had to FD. those frogs are tougher then they let on.
So i get a guildy to come down with me and help. after a few hours with no show on the assasian the guildy leaves, then i get someone else to help me. i camped that place 6 HOURS before the assasian even popped, and thank goodness he dropped the mask that time, in which i logged my rogue and looted. the odds of this happening to you are slim, but it can happen so dont think being able to run down there your first time and loot it within minutes like some of these lucky folks are able to do will happen to you, because it sure as hell didnt work for me! :) goodluck!
Nice little thingy for bard :)
# Apr 12 2003 at 4:51 PM Rating: Decent
got it when i was 51, bard,
i camped the room myself alone,
there are 3 either knights or wizards or what so ever similar stuff pop in this room,
all con light blue/green with low HP,
charm, pet attack, chanting, and melee out the last one,
no big deal at this lvl,
but have to make sure your pet is attacked by both the other 2 mobs (in a swarm),
it is a 20 to 25mins re-spawn time,
kill them all until the assasin pop,
it cons dark blue to 51 but its HP is low that you can just melee it out flat with slow/haste songs etc.
DE mask - inventory slot and clickable

re masks
# Apr 04 2003 at 1:35 PM Rating: Decent
Oh srry to port again but there is a vah- shire mask and dwarf mask a forgot to mention above
Other marks?
# Apr 04 2003 at 1:33 PM Rating: Decent
Can anyone tell me the other masks for rogues that turn them into other races.
I know of now ones listed below
Dark elf
Half elf
Halfling
Gnome
Wood Elf
Iskar
and Erudit

If there are any others plz E-mail me about them at MMRRBB11@aol.com. also i hear there is barbarian mask but i can't find it.
RE: Other marks?
# Jul 05 2003 at 10:31 AM Rating: Decent
The Barbarian mask drops off Avatar of War in Kael.

Flayed Barbarian Hide Mask.

Edited, Sat Jul 5 11:42:23 2003
RE: Other marks?
# Apr 04 2003 at 2:12 PM Rating: Decent
Dwarf - Besmirched Mask of Conception (Sleeper's Tomb)

High Elf - ?Name - Drops off Stanos (High Pass Hold)

There is a Barbarian Mask, good luck finding info on it. From what I've heard, someone in Legacy of Steel has one, it's NOT No Drop (priceless), and they trade it around for fun...

Vah Shir - Guise of the Hunter (Ssra)

I've also heard of a Human Mask, but can't find any info on it.



Edited, Fri Apr 4 13:40:00 2003
RE: Other marks?
# Aug 10 2003 at 3:04 AM Rating: Decent
were can i find Stalos ??? he isnt on the beastiary on HHP ? Any help would be apreciated




RE: Other marks?
# Apr 30 2003 at 2:01 AM Rating: Decent
Human illusion is in vex thal, its actually a head piece, its all/all drops off Kaas Thox Xi Aten Ha Ra

there is also Illusion Fire Elemental mask that drops in vex thal forgot mob name tho, wasnt all classes but more than bard/rogue

an illusion water elemental in sg, thats bard and ench, shoulders if i am not mistaken

lute of the wolfhowler is illusion werewolf for bards, drops in velks

Edited, Wed Apr 30 02:44:26 2003
RE: Other marks?
# Apr 04 2003 at 7:15 PM Rating: Decent
High Elf mask is a quest for Stanos' head... you have to give his head to General V'Ghera... which means you have to do the first part of the Rogue epic to spawn him and get it, and that rogue can't get his epic. The General isnt a nice guy, and by no means a trivial encounter. A lot of work to look like an uppity High Elf.

Barbarian mask (Flayed Barbarian Skin Mask) drops off the Avatar of War... yet another non-trivial encounter as I'm sure you know.
Finally...
# Apr 02 2003 at 11:42 PM Rating: Decent
Took 4 attempts but I got it.

First attempt, level 7: Fumbled around UGuk (never touched a frog, so wasnt KOS... which helps A LOT), finally made it to the dead side of LGuk. Got in there... nobody there besides me. Literally. So I unhid and bloodgated with the help of a nice ghoul wizard.

Second Attempt, level 9: Got down to LGuk, nobody camping ***/sup. Nobody wanting to kill them either, so I blood gated again.

Third Attempt, level 25: Took some friends with me this time... 55 dru, 51 rng, 28 war (55 dru's other account)... ranger needed to go on raid, so he left. Foolishly. we tried to hold the ***/sup camp by ourselves. Me and the warrior did fine for a couple room spawns, but we caught the tail end of a train when (again, foolishly) pulling from elsewhere. Needless to say the war and I died very quickly with druid following shortly after. Was lucky that a very nice cleric rezzed us all, and druid ported us out ASAP.

Fourth Attempt, level 32: Got down to LGuk no problem. Got to ***/sup room no problem. Waited for one spawn, about 20 mins... Assassin popped, dropped the mask, I was on my way. Whole ordeal took maybe 30 minutes tops.

Was it worth it? Yeah. Its one of the rites of passage that we rogues have. Is the mask anything other than a toy? Yeah, actually. Being a barbarian I am faced with 2 problems. One, I am night blind. Two, I'm huge. Being able to switch races at will is kinda nice, plus it warrants me the ability to shrink myself to a more manageable size, and see very well in the dark.

My Mask of Obtenebration? Yeah thats a toy, pretty much... no real reason to be an Erudite other than to freak people out.

Plus DE's are damn sexy in full plate. ;)

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