How to deal with the Stealth problem

StealthLore charges/potions.


25 second buff. No sound bite or colored effect on activation, except the character drinking a potion animation AND a combat log entry, something like, 'PLAYERNAME becomes more aware of the shadows!' This message should alert to any player of all 3 realms, within 700 units of the location StealthLore was activated.


The effects range should be 25% of the alert's range, or 175 units. It should be a steady buff working at all times during buff duration. Which will detect and reveal any player in range with the Stealth skill activated. Players who are camoflauged should not be revealed but the camoflauge should begin blinking and fade off in 10s . It should then be removed and the player receices a combat log entry stating they stumbled a bit in the presence of such heightened awareness, the SL using player should receive an ambiguous message in the combat log the moment they caused Camoflauge to begin blinking, stating they were able to sense the movements of something that's one false step away from being caught. The archers Camoflauge should gain a 1min cooldown when it drops in this fashion.

If the player gets in range again of the archer again while Camoflauge is down, they are revealed in stealth like normal to the SL potion player.

Any class can use SL potion, however, it overrides any other means of detection a player might have.
Players should drop out of stealth upon using it, be unable to stealth themselves while under it's effects, and the potion should have somethung like a 5-7minute reuse timer. Which is separate from all buff/heal potions timers.

Make this potion tradeable to players, droppable, destroyable, sellable, and ONLY buyable from NPC merchants for BOUNTY POINTS. Restrict it from being sold on consignment merchants.

I think you should add a special blue con to a L50 player, BP merchant in RVR zones. I would have them patrol from CS/Cain/svasud on out to the mile Gates of both enemy realms, wait at each gate for 2-3mins then move on and complete back at town. Make these merchants aggressive realm guards who drop a SL potion upon death. The potion should not be expensive. 10- 20 bounty points per potion, or dropped free if you slay an enemy realm merchant. There should be a realm alert indicating the map the merchant was slain in but not name the player, just the realm that slayed the merchant.

A player shall be limited to carrying a maximum amount of current realm rank + 2 at any given time.


This gives stealthers a reason to be on their toes, this also adds dynamic to the mile gate camping RVR encounters. Simply standing in the doorway waiting to PA the next passerby becomes a harder task if they have a chance to see you.

I would also include a unique spell effect expired message when the buff wears off.

The Hunter becomes the Hunted. Sincw stealthers are alerted you're SL wore off and will know you're on cooldown for a few minutes.