Guild Wars 2

I have a little problem. I look at the videos on permanent stealth and saw that all you need so to have enough trait points in shadow Art and have the first Shadow Art Traits set to V(gain initiative when in stealth) and X (regain initiative faster when in stealth) but when i apply the stealth combos just as the videos i am in stealth for a lot shorter time than the videos. One of the videos have that in addition you must have 20% enchant mod and i have no idea what that means. The video link is
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAJ-js5qUY
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyX5vGbZq4
Look that the long time these guys are in stealth for with the same setting in traits and applying the same cluster bomb and I have the same techniques down to the T I can’t even go half the time these guys are in stealth for can some one help me.

You can no longer permanent stealth. The “infusion of shadows” trait has been fixed. You gain 2 ini when ENTERING stealth. You don’t keep regaining ini when you’re in stealth doing stealth stacking.

Hey, these videos are old.

The trait “infusion of shadows” used to give 2 initiative every time you applied stealth on yourself.
Now, only when you use a skill that makes you enter stealth.

Along with this, the minor trait “Meld with Shadows” only works with stealth skills since then, you get no benefit from it using stealth combo fields.

Thieves are very squishy. I believe it was the only thing that could of put us on par with warrior and other professions. Shocks that is really unfair. We got nothing.

They did nerf infusion of shadows, but you can still permastealth. What they changed is the ability to permastealth without utilities.

Right now, you can take Shadow Arts X (Patience), and rotate your d/p 5222 + hide in shadows + blinding powder. If you do it properly, the cooldowns on your utilities and the regen on your initiative should cycle so that you can maintain stealth permanently. If you’re having trouble, you can toss shadow refuge into the mix to do it even more easily.

So in this vein, 4 HS thru BPS doesn’t work anymore? I never do it because I’m lazy to HS that many times.

As mango mentions you can still perma stealth which I’ve witnessed for myself, not forgetting the Descent of Shadows Trait which gives you Blinding Powder after Falling.

With 15 in Trickery you can still jump 4 times through the bp field.

Zorlon.4127:

Thieves are very squishy. I believe it was the only thing that could of put us on par with warrior and other professions. Shocks that is really unfair. We got nothing.

You can still stealth very reliably, depending on the spec you’re using.
The nerf to the Infusion of Shadows doesn’t have much of an impact, really. Perma-stealthing is useless in realistic scenarios. (and you can still pull it off with certain traits/utilities)

AikijinX.6258:

You can no longer permanent stealth. The “infusion of shadows” trait has been fixed. You gain 2 ini when ENTERING stealth. You don’t keep regaining ini when you’re in stealth doing stealth stacking.

You can actually, you just look like a fool doing it.

X/X/20/20/15 (w/e + patience; then w/e with quick recovery) + infiltrator’s signet and blinding powder using d/p. You can toss SR if you feel comfortable but I didn’t have to. Needless to say I didn’t use the build for anything more than seeing if perma stealth still existed, and it most certainly does. Problem is it does you no good.

NinjaEd.3946:

AikijinX.6258:

You can no longer permanent stealth. The “infusion of shadows” trait has been fixed. You gain 2 ini when ENTERING stealth. You don’t keep regaining ini when you’re in stealth doing stealth stacking.

You can actually, you just look like a fool doing it.

X/X/20/20/15 (w/e + patience; then w/e with quick recovery) + infiltrator’s signet and blinding powder using d/p. You can toss SR if you feel comfortable but I didn’t have to. Needless to say I didn’t use the build for anything more than seeing if perma stealth still existed, and it most certainly does. Problem is it does you no good.

There’s a pretty OP p/d + d/p perplexity build that runs 0/0/30/20/20. That said, taking patience and quick recovery prevents you from taking better traits.