Rogue hide/sneak was never skill dependent. I remember well my main was a rogue til about 2001. Hide > invis + ivu but there were some mobs that saw thru hide. Pretty much all bosses, FGs, and then some random stuff. I remember well in Sol B that the see invis kobolds did not see hide but the sonic bats did see hide (I'd take a wrong turn in SolB pulling corpses and bam dead by bats). When trying to get to assassin room in Lower Guk (human rogue on VZ sneaking into darkie territory to ninja a DE mask, yay!) as rogue you could hide/sneak past everything except those damn vampire bats could see you unless you hugged wall really well or got lucky on ticks. (Bats seemed to hate rogues) In Plane of Hate a lot of see invis stuff didn't see hide but you had to watch out for liches and something else. You could make it all the way to the epic book drop with hide if you got lucky with spawns. Level 1 Brell rogues could pull corpses in the Hole because the elementals could see hide (but were good faction with you) but the undead (KOS) couldn't see thru hide. As others have posted I'm sure all this stuff has to be up on the Safehouse archives somewhere.
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