Guild Wars 2

Hmm testing a new build and discovered that the ‘Revealed’ doesn’t work against the stealth from Hide In Plain Sight trait. Think this is a bug?

Not sure if it’s technically stealth. I think it’s actually “camouflage.” Similar to stealth, but you can’t move or you become visible again. So I have no idea if revealed isn’t working against it because of that or not.

That’s probably exactly why reveal isn’t working on it jc. If only we had more access to camouflage…imagine being able to stand still for 10 seconds to drop aggro during a tough boss fight.

I suppose my second question is, do you think it SHOULD work?

Actually, I think it works because it’s not the RANGER doing the actual attacking (i.e. the direct damage). It’s the pet.

It’s no big deal but I would like to hear from an official if its intended or not just to settle the even argument in my mind :P

Hide in Plain Sight doesn’t give stealth. It also doesn’t trigger Remorseless.

aussieheals.6843:

I suppose my second question is, do you think it SHOULD work?

If you go by the fictional premise behind the skill (pet catches the target’s scent), then yes it should work.

But if you go by the fictional premise behind everything else, pets shouldn’t stand in red circles, longbow’s damage shouldn’t decrease at close range, medium armor classes should be able to dodge more than heavy armor classes, greatsword should do more DPS than 1h sword, pets (unarmored animals) should easily be able to outrun and hit people who are moving in armor, all classes should do the same damage with the same weapon (if your attributes are the same) instead of nerfing one class’ damage because they have a pet, and on and on.

So I’m willing to let this one slide. The fact that you can’t move while camouflaged means the person attacking knows exactly where you are when hide in plain sight kicks in. They can drop an AOE on top of you. The whole reason for making sic’em prevent stealth was that you could move around while stealthed and others would have no idea where to AOE to root you out.

Holland.9351:

Hide in Plain Sight doesn’t give stealth. It also doesn’t trigger Remorseless.

This.

Unless it gets the other benefits from stealth, it shouldn’t get any of the drawbacks, so no, revealed should not be apply to Hide in Plain Sight.

Solandri.9640:

But if you go by the fictional premise behind everything else, pets shouldn’t stand in red circles, longbow’s damage shouldn’t decrease at close range, medium armor classes should be able to dodge more than heavy armor classes, greatsword should do more DPS than 1h sword, pets (unarmored animals) should easily be able to outrun and hit people who are moving in armor, all classes should do the same damage with the same weapon (if your attributes are the same) instead of nerfing one class’ damage because they have a pet, and on and on.

That game sounds fun! haha