Guild Wars 2

Is it intentional that if you go into shadow refuge in stealth (let’s say 8 seconds of stealth) and then you either walk out of it or get knocked out if it, you lose ALL your stealth?

Just so you understand, if I go into a shadow refuge (just as an example) of a different thief, and then I get my full 10 seconds of stealth, then I immediately walk into a different shadow refuge, if I leave that next shadow refuge early, I get the reveal debuff, even though I still had 8 seconds on my previous stealth….why is this?

A real example – I use blinding powder to disengage from a fight, I then cast my heal, right now I have 7 seconds of stealth, if I then cast shadow refuge and use that to continue to heal up and remove condis, if I get into that refuge and a mesmer knocks me out, I lose all my stealth and now have the reveal debuff, even though I still had multiple seconds left on the stealth that I had prior to even going into refuge.

Personally I think the moment you leave your shadow refuge, or it runs out, that you should become visible.

As to your current predicament, I believe that this is possibly intentional to prevent 5 thieves from stacking stealth to permanent.

As to it revealing you and taking you current level of stealth, that could be a bug. But going from refuge to refuge should not stack stealth.