Guild Wars 2

The trait “Hidden Killer” is supposed to provide a 100% Critical chance from Stealth with the first strike. However, the “buff” (a non-titled icon) wears off after a few seconds and does not reapply when Stealth is renewed. Thus, if you chain two Stealth skills or remain in a Shadow Refuge, you won’t crit on your un-Stealthing hit.

The following conditions cause it to expire:

• Cast Blinding Powder, then Hide In Shadows

• Cast Shadow Refuge and remain in it for the full duration

• C&D a target, then use Blinding Powder or HiS

Basically on anything that extends your Stealth duration, the resulting hit will not guarantee a Crit. A simple fix would either be extending the “buff” duration, or having it renew if a new Stealth skill is applied.

Thats a good point me and guild member was testing that out in spvp too seemed his buff ran out even once he chained stealths together even though activiating a new stealth should activate the trait once again, I do not play a backstab thied or crit but he does, would like to see this fixed.

Possibly on a cooldown of 90 seconds (average for traits), but tooltip may be incorrect.

The Hidden Killer buff is the weird monster buff icon with no text you can see in your buff bar when you stealth. It simply disappears 3s after getting applied and doesn’t stack at all.