Guild Wars 2

There are a lot of mechanics in the game that allow people to stealth, blink and generally get away but recently I’ve noticed an upsurge in the number of enemies who simply disappear when attacked.

It’s become common to catch someone and move in for a killing blow, sometimes even down them and suddenly they’re gone.
Yesterday I saw a whole raiding party at our North camp one by one pop out of existence when they got caught by a bunch of us. They didn’t reappear either, they were simply gone.

At one time there was a bug that allowed you to call up a WP and keep the accept dialog box on-screen to pop even if you were in combat. This was removed (I just checked to make sure). Apart from that, I can’t think of any mechanism that might do this.

Any ideas?

Not sure but I had my Engineer in today and ran across an enemy Guardian. As soon as I attacked the Guardian went stealth and did not reappear until she was 20 feet away from me. Now there is nothing that I know of that will cloak a Guardian who is at full health.

Theftwind.8976:

Not sure but I had my Engineer in today and ran across an enemy Guardian. As soon as I attacked the Guardian went stealth and did not reappear until she was 20 feet away from me. Now there is nothing that I know of that will cloak a Guardian who is at full health.

Norn elite skill ?

Make.1065:

Theftwind.8976:

Not sure but I had my Engineer in today and ran across an enemy Guardian. As soon as I attacked the Guardian went stealth and did not reappear until she was 20 feet away from me. Now there is nothing that I know of that will cloak a Guardian who is at full health.

Norn elite skill ?

Nope, I should have mentioned that she was a human.

Could be these: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_Infiltration

More likely the frequency of these disappearing acts seem to be the servers acting strange with the abnormal load they’re trying to handle.

I have seen this as well. usually happens to me after they have downed. They just poof, like they went stealth, but i know they didn’t, or they logged out. But wouldn’t logging out give me the xp reward as well?

I just started noticing it about 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Some of them at least were likely queued for another WvW map or sPvP match and they got the queue prompt. When this happens they’d have a 30-60s or so window to travel to the WvW map or SPvP match (depending on which). This can be done even if you’re in combat.

Gilburt.9146:

Some of them at least were likely queued for another WvW map or sPvP match and they got the queue prompt. When this happens they’d have a 30-60s or so window to travel to the WvW map or SPvP match (depending on which). This can be done even if you’re in combat.

I considered this. It’s a possibility but the chances of a queue pop at just the right moment (even given 60s leeway) really make it highly unlikely.

More likely IMO is the possibility of a disconnect, maybe triggered by a sudden burst of activity. I’ve certainly been getting a lot of DCs lately but I don’t think any happened in a fight.

PS. I play Norn. The Norn elite doesn’t work like that, you transform very obviously into a ‘leopard’ first.

There is a bug related to a consumable item that lets you do it
Not gonna post it here obviously, its already been forwarded to devs
Now to wait 5 months until it gets fixed

AnarchyMike.2597:

There is a bug related to a consumable item that lets you do it
Not gonna post it here obviously, its already been forwarded to devs
Now to wait 5 months until it gets fixed

That’s what I was looking for. Thought it had to be something like that.

Now I just need to look see what just went through the roof on the TP.

i done it few times OP

it is called queue popped for EB

It has happened quite a bit to me but I am usually queued in one BL for another.. Tonight several of my party members were in the middle of a fight and our EB queue popped all at the same time. We considered it but we’d been in queue for a looooong time so we went ahead and hit it. I am sure the people we were fighting were quite perplexed