Guild Wars 2

I noticed that when I use the Guard ability, my pet will get stealth until hit hits an enemy. Why does my pet loose stealth when it attacks, but no other stealth ability in the game drops stealth when it connects with attacks?

What? Jaguar stealth is the only stealth that doesn’t break on attack.

What Stormleaf said.

However, I do feel like the stealth that guard gives is completely pointless. It’s not like it gives pets a special from stealth attack. And who cares about hiding a pet? They can’t do enough damage to worry about anymore anyways.

All stealth gets broken when an opponent takes damage. The only things you can do without breaking stealth are non-offensive actions (setting traps as long as they dont’ hit enemies, healing, ect). Even NPC’s using stealth is broken by hitting something. Go fight a Jungle Troll and when it goes into its stealth + poison field attack, if you let yourself get hit by the poison field the troll will be pulled out of stealth.

Unless Jaguar doesn’t as above. I dunno, I still don’t actually have (nor really want, especially with the nerfs) a Jaguar. Which would make Jaguar a special case, not the norm.

As for Guard’s stealth being pointless…. I utilize it to good effect to let my pets get into position for combat without drawing aggro in advance. Use Guard to send my pet into the enemy group, and by the time the enemy sees them they’re in the middle already so the enemy will never start running towards you beforehand.

Its also nice for stealth attacks of powerful F2 attacks like Drake’s breath. They don’t reveal themselves until after the windup of the attack (since stealth doesn’t drop until damage is done), so its pretty much guaranteed to connect. In PvE anyway, players may or may not see it coming in PvP.