Guild Wars 2

So I’m assuming it is possible to go stealth 5 times in a single fight since that happened to me but what I’m confused about is that the thief could get off a few attacks before he becomes unstealthed. Like, he’ll pistol whip while stealthed and then he appears after I’m already stunned. Is this some kind of trait or glitch or what is it?

I’m guessing you were in WvW. It’s a glitch. search the forum for “player culling” and you’ll find all sorts of posts about it.

Yes, it’s a known issue where the game itself is having a pretty significant delay for letting your client even know someone is there. It’s not only stealth, however. In some cases a normal player or zerg of players can be right on top of you before the game decides to draw them for you.

Now, about the 5 stealths. There’s no limit on the number of times a thief can go into stealth. The only real limitation is the “Revealed” debuff, which prevents them from re-entering stealth for a few seconds.

The engine right now is just a fail with larger battles. Even in PvE. A good example is the claw of Jormag in PvE. There are 80-120 people, but you never see more than 30-40 nomatter how long you stay.

And its getting so bad you can actually run past one anothers zerg or group before each one loads.

Its not only in WvW, I played some PvP with my guild mates. I played a stealth heavy mesmer. They said that I was invisible most of the time and sometimes they only knew that I was here was because phantasms spawned out of nowhere.