Bards can not sneak & hide. Only rogues can do that.
Rokenn
>
> This is definitely not true. Just this week, I was bored and
> decided to try
> to figure out how to use the lockpicks I had bought when I got the
> lockpicking skill. I just happened to be in West Commons,
> so I headed on
> over to Befallen. I finally discovered that you can pick ALL
> the Befallen
> locks by holding the lockpick on your cursor and
> left-clicking on the door.
> I opened each door several times, never got a failure, but
> never got a skill
> raise either. I don't remember if I had trained several
> points into the
> skill or not (I may have; I had a lot of training points to waste)
>
> About the Hole entrance rock thing; I went along on a Hole
> raid around
> level 40 (yeah, a little young, but you know how those
> caster's want their
> crack song... hehe). Apparently you might not even need the
> locked rock
> picked as there is some space around it you may be able to
> swim through (of
> course SOMEONE has to let the big races in).
>
> Interesting thing about the raid was that they brought along
> a few level 1-3
> rogues along to sneak/hide their way around for corpse
> recovery... Worked
> really well too! =8^)
>
> Which brings up another question of mine... It seemed that
> those level 1-3
> rogues worked wonders with Sneak/Hide. Now, being level 1-3 they're
> sneak/hide skills can't be all that high (unless like Iksars
> that are born
> with Swimming skill of 100). Now, how well does bard sneak/hide work
> compared with level 3 rogues? Is there some technique to
> using sneak/hide?
> I tried sneaking behind something in Kaesora the other day
> and the mob
> immediately aggroed on me.
>
> Olgwinn Pendragun
> Bard of 45 Missed Notes
> E'ci
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:01:05 -0500
> > From: "Bill Mann" <dabard@...>
> >Subject: Re: Lock picking the Hole
> >
> >Hmmm... I thought I saw a patch message a while back about
> the locks in
> >Befallen being changed so you couldn't pick them anymore?
> >
> >
>
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