Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to figure out why this happens. Many times a night I end up opening up with sneak attack right after going into SR. This seems to happen when I change targets and sometimes when I keep the same one. The only solution I found is to just hit esc and make sure i have no target at the beginning of SR.

Has anyone nailed down what causes this?

Auto attack on?

Elmuerto.9840:

Auto attack on?

Yea but stealth cancels AA doesn’t it? If this is my problem I guess I just have to deal with it. Not using AA for Pistol#1 would hasten my journey to carpal tunnel.

Stiv.1820:

Elmuerto.9840:

Auto attack on?

Yea but stealth cancels AA doesn’t it? If this is my problem I guess I just have to deal with it. Not using AA for Pistol#1 would hasten my journey to carpal tunnel.

Not always. Blinding Power gives you stealth, but if you’re in the middle of an Auto-Attack the stealth condition will be automatically cancelled before having any effect.

Happens to me all the time. It sucks. Having to hit Escape really busts on your nuts with the urgency you’re usually in when having to Refuge, too.

Might be worth the time to rebind command cancels to something other than Escape.

I have a similar problem with bow and steal stealth. With a melee weapon, 99% of the time I become stealthed my auto-attack correctly cancels and I do not unstealth, however with a bow sometimes I do.
I think it might be because you have a projectile (in this case, bullet) en-route to the target before you become stealthed, then the bullet hits the target while you are stealthed, and since you just dealt damage to an enemy while stealthed, you become revealed. Maybe.

More testing would be needed but I bet this is why. It would be nice if stealthing didn’t cancel on an auto attack that was already on the way to the target before you actually stealthed.

Ravien.4823:

I think it might be because you have a projectile (in this case, bullet) en-route to the target before you become stealthed, then the bullet hits the target while you are stealthed, and since you just dealt damage to an enemy while stealthed, you become revealed. Maybe.
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As a p/d thief I am almost positive this is the case. And it happens a lot and really sucks because if I’m using my utility to stealth it means it’s an emergency stealth most of the time and this causing me to insta-reveal sucks.

Ravien.4823:

I have a similar problem with bow and steal stealth. With a melee weapon, 99% of the time I become stealthed my auto-attack correctly cancels and I do not unstealth, however with a bow sometimes I do.
I think it might be because you have a projectile (in this case, bullet) en-route to the target before you become stealthed, then the bullet hits the target while you are stealthed, and since you just dealt damage to an enemy while stealthed, you become revealed. Maybe.

More testing would be needed but I bet this is why. It would be nice if stealthing didn’t cancel on an auto attack that was already on the way to the target before you actually stealthed.

Your theory is correct, for that exact reason: Never use clusterbomb when stealthing after it. Also never use auto attack on your weapon as a thief … Unless you’re bashing a gate and eating some popcorn…