Shattered Kingdoms

I think he said zap.

Isn't that what he said?

I'm pretty sure the punchline was zap.

As the arrow passed harmlessly through his or her ethereal body as a GM charm pounded on the scout as the mage watch with glee?

Make ambush worth with reaching weapons would be a good compromise for scouts.

I'd just take heal and WoR herbs.

Scouts aren't good because they're viable against mages, they're good because with bounty NPCs in the mix a tribunal scout is nigh unkillable to the point of stupidity.

You mean a defending tribunal scout, of course, I'm sure.

Remember when sprite scouts with Tregr and black death could ambush kill merks? :/

That's only cause you're not in a tribunal. Having your own tribunal guard in the fight really changes things. Especially if you have Waish to keep them from walking away.

Remember when I murdered everyone on the mud with a scout only using arrows and a monkey?

Things just seem to get rusty with time.

No, it isn't. Tribunals guards chase when they're hit with ranged combat, so the scout just has an intermediate step of shooting your trib guard, running around a corner to kill it when it chases past some guards, THEN going back to plan A.