Guild Wars 2

One thing great about the stealth mechanic is how it disables your auto-attack, since otherwise you would immediately unveil yourself prematurely.

One issue that I have been having, occasionally on my thief, after using an ability that applies stealth, (Blinding Powder) it would not stop an auto-attack once it has started, resulting in an immediate removal of stealth and disallowing myself to use a stealth opener.

As a thief, I only ever encounter this issue with the pistol or shortbow, but with flash powder I have to time its usage somewhere in between when the bullet hits and before the cast-time attack bar is about half-way. This gets rather annoying to the point where I often click completely off my target in order to use my ability without worry of interruption.

The issue isn’t apparent when using something such as Hide in Shadows due to the cast time which inherently halts what you are doing in order to perform another action. This time is also more than enough for any airborne projectile to hit their target.
Perhaps make it so you can only be un-stealthed by actions that occur WHILE invisible. This may come off as a nit-pick, but anything to help polish the game a bit certainly helps.

P.S. Using the Ranger’s Barrage before Hunter’s Shot means you’re gonna have a bad time.

Same problem on mesmer with any of the ‘bounce’ attacks (staff 1, GS 2, pistol 5). If an attack is mid-bounce, the stealth pops off immediately. Serious when you consider the bounce can go on for 1s or longer (with illusionary ellasticity).

Would be good to exit stealth on skill usage, but something a bit smarter so you don’t pop using a heal skill (although that could be considered a balancing change for stealth which I generally feel is a bit too powerful at the moment).

its okay, soon all classes will be stealth classes. So far, the stealth ranks.

1. Thief
2. Mesmer
3. Ranger
4. Engineer.

only 4 more to go

You can always disable your auto feature by [CTRL + R Click] on the 1 skill UI. This is how I used to play thief in order to avoid accidental skill use. I also used it on things like sword ranger to prevent myself from auto-locking onto and enemy and being unable to disengage.