Guild Wars 2

Stealth Gliding in Bloodstone Fen seems useless against the White Mantle. Not sure if this is intended or not, but you should be able to use it to avoid attack temporarily.

I noticed this too. It appears that members of the White Mantle have also obtained the stealth detection mastery.

I’ve found that usually when I get hit in stealth it is because the attack was fired before I was stealthed. In this game there are many skills that track people through stealth if they are started before the stealth is applied.

For example in pvp, I believe that rifle warriors can use their kill shot and it will continue to track thieves that go into stealth. If you fire a projectile, stealth won’t make it miss.

The thing about Bloodstone Fen is that the projectiles that enemies fire have a super long range, and so they have a super long travel time. If an enemy fires a projectile at you right before you stealth, it can be a few seconds before it actually hits. This can be easily mistaken for the enemy detecting you while in stealth.

The other thing at play is that the projectiles home in on their targets. This is necessary or they would never hit the moving target that is a gliding player, but it makes it so that the projectiles continue to home when stealthed.

You can use stealth to avoid a lot of damage, but you have to use it early and proactively. If you need to avoid attacks, both the 4 and 5 skills do that, and the 4 skill is a minor heal.

^ That makes sense. Those projectiles can be slow as molasses.