I finally was able to get Fraps working with Windows8 and captured the absurd number of times that Mesmer Stealth just completely fails. ~33% of the time from personal experience.
Things not caught in this video, but I have seen often …
1) Someone Channeling an attack on me after I use Stealth.
2) Someone still having me ranged targeted and casting attacks at me while in Stealth.
3) Stealth failing on cast and giving the Revealed Debuff.
80 Elementalist (RotV), 80 Mesmer (RotV)
80 Necromancer (IRNY), 80 Guardian (IRNY)
GW2: it’s like DAoC, but for the WoW crowd.
I can’t tell you much about the first event: that one just seems like a straight up bug since you never disappeared at all, but the second two I have theories for:
Event two: Your Staff 1 skill hit a target immediately after you used Decoy. This counted as attacking from stealth, and as such Revealed you. This doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it may have been what caused it.
Event Three: For some reason, you went into stealth immediately before you used Mass Invisibility. Then you attacked, got the revealed debuff, and the debuff expired just after you used Mass Invis. I’m guessing that you’re using Desperate Decoy? (Trait V in Dueling)
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It’s pretty obvious, and nobody’s impressed.
Event Three: For some reason, you went into stealth immediately before you used Mass Invisibility. Then you attacked, got the revealed debuff, and the debuff expired just after you used Mass Invis. I’m guessing that you’re using Desperate Decoy? (Trait V in Dueling)
Event Three: For some reason, you went into stealth immediately before you used Mass Invisibility. Then you attacked, got the revealed debuff, and the debuff expired just after you used Mass Invis. I’m guessing that you’re using Desperate Decoy? (Trait V in Dueling)
Weeeird. You can see the ‘Revealed’ Debuff proc in the video though, immediately before you use Mass Invisibility. I have no idea why it came up then though.
Regarding the two questions in the comments of the video: The Illusionary Mage at 0:40 probably got blocked by his temporary invulnerability while he was standing up. This seems kinda dumb, but I’m betting that’s what did it. And as for how that Guardian got back up… It looks like they managed to cast Symbol of Faith, which can get you about half the healing you need to Rally alone.
Mixing insults with your post is like pooping in a salad.
It’s pretty obvious, and nobody’s impressed.
Weeeird. You can see the ‘Revealed’ Debuff proc in the video though, immediately before you use Mass Invisibility. I have no idea why it came up then though.
I have seen this with all Mesmer Stealth spells. The Revealed Debuff appears before the stealth goes off and blocks it for no reason.
80 Elementalist (RotV), 80 Mesmer (RotV)
80 Necromancer (IRNY), 80 Guardian (IRNY)
GW2: it’s like DAoC, but for the WoW crowd.
Not a bug, more of a pain in the kitten but it took a long time for me to figure out why 80% of my sword 3 clones failed to cast yet went on cooldown, range. Would be nice to get the “out of range” indicator on that skill.
