> 1) Am I mistaken, or is it impossible to actually have all of our
> skills set up on buttons? I have eight ability-only skills now which
> require buttons to use them. I think I can only set up six at once?
4 combat, 6 abilities. I cannot fit all my abilities on buttons.
Use Instill Doubt and Bind Wound in combat buttons, not ability
and that will help some. Don't put Disarm traps on a buttons nor
Pick locks, those skills work without buttons.
> 2) Anyone know the max on Hide and/or Sneak?
Hide 40, Sneak 75.
> 3) What does it mean to have a lower/higher Hide skill level? It
> *appears* to work perfectly each time. I hit the button, I disappear.
> Does skill level determine the length of time that it works? Or whether
> the MOBs can see you anyway? Or anything else at all?
Hide at 40 works about 1 in 5 times for me. It determined whether
you successfully hide, not the duration or the mob fooling factor.
> 4) Is there any way to know whether Sneak actually worked or not?
> Other than trying to move and estimating based on your walking speed?
> What does Sneak do? Is it just a mobile Hide? Why do we have Hide
> then, when you could Sneak and stand still?
No. Rogues get a message when it fails or works. We have to move
to see if it is functioning. At 75 Sneak it usually works on the
first try. Sometimes I can Sneak by things that scowl to me....
sometimes is the key word. I use Sneak to sell to vendors whom
I cannot CCC. Rogues can use Sneak and Hide together to move
invisibly, we cannot do that, so the two skills are completely
independant.
> 5) Are they getting rid of Instill Doubt? Has anyone ever trained a
> point in this skill?
My ID hasn't gone up in months, and I practice against pets, snakes,
people, corpses, anything. It just isn't moving. I put in one point
at the beginning, but the skill is useless for us, since we have a
fear song which is 99% more reliable.
> 6) Begging 77 now, never got more than a copper (well, I seem to recall
> having received a silver piece once, but I may be deluded), although I
> now get a copper more than half the time, it seems. Anyone with a
> higher skill who managed to get more? In terms of cash received, are
> there "good" begging targets and "bad" begging targets (other than pets
> and ships)?
I have only hearsay on this. Someone said with max skill you could get
plats from things. I spoke to someone else, and the most they've gotten
is a silver piece. My begging is like my instill doubt, it doesn't
budge.
Harmonic.