Guild Wars 2

Occasionally when using cloak and dagger, hide in shadows, or shadow refuge I don’t cloak. It is a little annoying when it happens because I’m trying to break agro at the time.

So I can try to avoid this issue, does anyone know why I wouldn’t cloak when using these skills?

Do you have the revealed debuff at the time? If you use an ability that deals direct damage while in stealth you’ll break stealth and get the revealed debuff, which will show in the list of buffs/debuffs you have, and this prevents you from entering stealth again until it has expired.

Sometimes when I use an ability that places me in stealth my character will appear visible on my screen but I seem to be in stealth; the stealth icon appears in my list of buffs and players/NPCs behaviour as if i’m in stealth.

I thought this was going to be a ‘most interesting man in the world’ thing, with a legit complaint.

I am disappoint.

Also, if you use shadow refuge, and run out of the circle before the circle disappears you get the debuff as well.

Alex.6940:

Sometimes when I use an ability that places me in stealth my character will appear visible on my screen but I seem to be in stealth; the stealth icon appears in my list of buffs and players/NPCs behaviour as if i’m in stealth.

This seems to be what is happening at times. The stealth icon is present but I am still visible on the screen.

Jake.1842:

Also, if you use shadow refuge, and run out of the circle before the circle disappears you get the debuff as well.

Will have to remember that, I learnt to wait for the circle to vanish quite early but occasionally just use SR to break agro when hide in shadows is still in cool down.

I am disappointed, I thought the thread title was going to be followed with a Dos Equis parody.
“I don’t always cloak, but when I do, it’s because I have Shadows Rejuv.”
After backstab lands, count to three (i.e. one Mila Kunis one-thousand, two – etc.) and then start up CnD. Once you get practiced with a method for timing your playstyle around revealed, you can effectively maximize your damage output (and thus, your overall survivability if you’re burst. Dead enemies can’t kill you, after all.)

At which point, mind you, most non-instanced PvE content becomes a joke.

I noticed this happening to me ever since I started using the Stealth heals allies trait.

I was expecting to see something along the lines of “I don’t always cloak, but when I do I prefer…” but since its not. I’ve not played my thief enough to notice, but I do know that if you’re lagging a bit sometimes the cloaks and uncloaks don’t always show on time.

Stay stealthy my friends.

Alex.6940:

Do you have the revealed debuff at the time? If you use an ability that deals direct damage while in stealth you’ll break stealth and get the revealed debuff, which will show in the list of buffs/debuffs you have, and this prevents you from entering stealth again until it has expired.

Sometimes when I use an ability that places me in stealth my character will appear visible on my screen but I seem to be in stealth; the stealth icon appears in my list of buffs and players/NPCs behaviour as if i’m in stealth.

Happens to me too occasionally and it’s been happening since launch.

Not a huge issue but it is a little annoying.

Obviously some sort of rendering bug.