Guild Wars 2

The decoy description says that the skill grants stealth, yet it does not grant the stealth mechanic that the elite ‘mass stealth ’, the utility field stealth skill,and the thief skills produce. Is this intended? Or is it a form of ’Bug’? I ask as recently ive moved more from my thief to mesmer for WvW and find i am using skills assuming stealth and it not happening.

Grateful for any clarification.

Silent

ceejay.2517:

yet it does not grant the stealth mechanic that the elite ’mass stealth ’, the utility field stealth skill,and the thief skills produce

What do you mean by this?

As far as I’m aware, there are only two types of invisibility: Stealth and Camouflage… and mesmer only uses Stealth.

Every time I have used the stealth+decoy, it has properly provided me stealth. Same with The Prestige torch skill. Could you be more specific in why you think it is not functioning properly?

He’s probably immediately dodging, or using a skill afterwards.

I think he means that using Decoy grants you the buff “Decoy” instead of the buff “Stealth” that you get with all other Mesmer and Thief stealth skills. As far as I can tell they function the same.

The wiki says “Gain stealth and summon an illusion to attack your foe.”, doesn’t indicate there should be anything else with a different name…

Mongo.2490:

The wiki says “Gain stealth and summon an illusion to attack your foe.”, doesn’t indicate there should be anything else with a different name…

Instead of parroting the Wiki (which is very often wrong), test it yourself. In any case it’s not important, functionally it is identical to stealth.

Embolism.8106:

Instead of parroting the Wiki (which is very often wrong), test it yourself. In any case it’s not important, functionally it is identical to stealth.

I’m at work, otherwise I would. No need to be rude.

Mongo.2490:

Embolism.8106:

Instead of parroting the Wiki (which is very often wrong), test it yourself. In any case it’s not important, functionally it is identical to stealth.

I’m at work, otherwise I would. No need to be rude.

Apologies, I did not mean any offense. I am a bit tired however of the amount of false information on the Wiki.

Embolism.8106:

I think he means that using Decoy grants you the buff “Decoy” instead of the buff “Stealth” that you get with all other Mesmer and Thief stealth skills. As far as I can tell they function the same.

Embolism has understood what i mean, when you cast decoy and then mass stealth the decoy is its individual buff which runs alongside the normal stealth buff rather than stacking…

any dev care to shed some light on if this is an intentional difference?

even though it is really dumb of me to shine light on this(in case it is a bug). But decoy is a stealth all on its own. You can pop it while you have the revealed debuf and it will still stealth you. Or at least i go invisible and i would assume it does the same on my enemies screen. go test it and see. hope this isn’t a bug as it is really useful to take advantage of and as we all know they will fix bugs that help us in 2 days but ignore bugs that hurt us for months. cheers