Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else having a hard time getting this to work without revealing yourself ?

I do the typical rotation, and get constantly ( roughly 80% of the time ) revealed.
If I do the same thing, but with bound instead, the success rate is extremely higher, and I barely get revealed doing that.

Iv’e tried countless times even against the golems in the pvp lounge and it’s the same thing all the time. Iv’e even tried spamming my stow away button in case it was me auto attacking causing it to reveal stopping me from using backstab and nope, I land next to the golem revealed and with my weapons put away.

Iv’e recently moved and my internet is monstrous compared to what I had previously, I don’t think that would cause my attacks to register so fast that it reveals me before I get the chance to even stealth =\

Try to time your steal differently. Dont use it immediately after HS but later in the animation. Works for me every time. Also shadow arts trait which stealth’s u after steal is causing the reveal.

first i’d like to say blackpowder>heartseaker is such a waste of initiative unless you’re finishing someone off with less than half hp. but with that issue with reveal, it’s not worth the potential damage boost. that’s exactly why i’ve abandoned heartseeker as a stleath completely. bound offers a much more consistent result.

it could be a number of things. it could be that your computer, rather than your internet, is making you lag and it processes your damage weird, especially if you’re traited with mug.

i use bound to stealth because it’s usually the LAST thing to cause damage, after steal damage, and sigils. also, it seems to stealth after the animation ends for bound. i successfully stealth 99% of the time. i’m confident of it.

Achey.3612:

first i’d like to say blackpowder>heartseaker is such a waste of initiative unless you’re finishing someone off with less than half hp. but with that issue with reveal, it’s not worth the potential damage boost. that’s exactly why i’ve abandoned heartseeker as a stleath completely. bound offers a much more consistent result.

it could be a number of things. it could be that your computer, rather than your internet, is making you lag and it processes your damage weird, especially if you’re traited with mug.

i use bound to stealth because it’s usually the LAST thing to cause damage, after steal damage, and sigils. also, it seems to stealth after the animation ends for bound. i successfully stealth 99% of the time. i’m confident of it.

I agree that bound is super reliable for stealthing, but dash is very useful for that mobility, combined with SB you’re pretty much untouchable ( implying you are without it anyway lol ) But having immunity to movement impairing effects is what pulls me to using it.

Ill try things out and see if my results are any better, but yeah, so far this reveal thing is quite frustrating.
With my internet being way better I’m actually able to focus on PvP and try and get better, this bug ( for me ) makes me sadface =\

You don’t happen to run Shadow Art’s “Hidden Thief” trait, do you?
Because if you do, that’s why. Try it without Black Powder and timing the Steal at the very end of the Heartseeker animation.

If you’re not running Hidden Thief, then I don’t know what it is that’s causing you to get revealed… It’s definitely not a bug I’ve ever ran into.

Vornollo.5182:

You don’t happen to run Shadow Art’s “Hidden Thief” trait, do you?
Because if you do, that’s why. Try it without Black Powder and timing the Steal at the very end of the Heartseeker animation.

If you’re not running Hidden Thief, then I don’t know what it is that’s causing you to get revealed… It’s definitely not a bug I’ve ever ran into.

Very traditional DA/TR/DD

But I tested it out more, and so far its super consistent if I literally steal ASAP after heart seeker is used.

I usually try to time my steal mid heart seeker to interrupt something so I don’t always steal asap. If I heart seeker close and they don’t use a skill I simply won’t bother to steal and save it for for a bit after. Because saving it for that extra burst damage ( mug + damage on interrupt ) feels more important.

I mean, it seems I’m the only one effected by this, so its gotta just be a timing thing with less latency and me just being kitten

tested working fine https://youtu.be/L1sHFkNCoew here a clip if it help you with timing.