Guild Wars 2

This happens quite a lot. I’ll use my heal…or any other Stealth for that matter and position myself behind the enemy (be it mob or player) for a Backstab.

Yet despite being right behind my enemy….Backstab doesn’t execute properly and constantly misses the target. Sometimes even if the enemy is stationary. I hear the sound, I see the animation, but no damage is applied and I’m not decloaked either.

I remain in stealth and try again a split second later but sometimes even that fails for some reason. This happens in PvP as much as it does in PvE and I can’t figure out why. This doesn’t have anything to do with Blindness…I’ve checked…it seems to something about collision detection or a player model issue.

I’m a male Asura, and…iirc…this tends to happen vs. larger targets. Maybe there’s some sort of player model issue…I don’t know.

Anyone else experiencing a similar issue.

You move slower in Stealth, and slow due to combat, while they may have Swiftness. Try using Signet of Shadows, it helps a bit but still the movement difference is pretty noticeable and you have to adjust. It basically means using a Dancing Dagger before going in for the C&D / Backstab.

That, or you could be stepping through your enemy, or you have Melee Assist still turned on in the options – turn it off, and be in the sweet spot ‘inside’ the enemy’s collision range.

Or this could just be lag.