Guild Wars 2

Proposal
Move all stealth sources to a shared timer which stacks in duration up to a maximum value. Currently stealth is exited on the expiration of the shorter timer.

Why?
To prevent a team mates stealth skills being detrimental to a team’s effectiveness. I’ve only noticed this to occur with the mesmer’s mass invisibility elite, but it may apply to other sources of stealth.

Examples
- Thief uses shadow refuge. A mesmer casts mass invisibility. The thief is is only granted 5 seconds of stealth as opposed to 15.
- A mesmer starts the cast for mass invisibility to save an engineer. However the engineer has used toss elixir S for stealth. The mesmer has wasted a 90 second cool down for no gain to the engineer’s survivability.

Discussion
- Not sure if a shared timer is implemented for balance reasons or simply unintended. I believe it is the latter, but can anyone come up with an instance where a shared stealth timer would be affect game balance?

I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure you’re still stealthed and you “coming out if stealth” from your POV is a graphical bug, if it you you’re talkig about.

RedSpectrum.1975:

I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure you’re still stealthed and you “coming out if stealth” from your POV is a graphical bug, if it you you’re talkig about.

Nope. Mass Invis applies a stealth buff that’s different from other stealth sources. This essentially wastes the duration of MI if it’s longer than 5 seconds.

Renny.6571:

RedSpectrum.1975:

I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure you’re still stealthed and you “coming out if stealth” from your POV is a graphical bug, if it you you’re talkig about.

Nope. Mass Invis applies a stealth buff that’s different from other stealth sources. This essentially wastes the duration of MI if it’s longer than 5 seconds.

Oh I worded wrong, I know you’ll get two different stealth buffs but I meant you’d still be in stealth anyway j think from the longer stealth. I mean an elite is wasted but it’s not like a longer stealth like SR is wasted by a 5 second stealth and while were are in this topic, isn’t decoy it’s own stealth as well? Like it’s very own buff that stealths you? If so can it bypass revealed ?

RedSpectrum.1975:

and while were are in this topic, isn’t decoy it’s own stealth as well? Like it’s very own buff that stealths you? If so can it bypass revealed ?

Yes, it bypasses Revealed and also doesn’t stack with any other forms of stealth, including a mesmer’s own MI or Prestige…