Guild Wars 2

Alright I’ll get into the topic right away of why I believe the mechanics to be broken.

During my experiences as a thief (Level 80 full CoF), I’ve been utilizing stealth abilities to maximize survivability and get those lovely back stabs in for high dps.

Now recently since the three patches back I have noticed that the mobs in PvE have been hitting me in stealth.

Now I know if an enemy has begun an attack and you go invisible they are still locked on so they hit you which is terrible mechanics for stealth but that’s not where my issue is. During CoF explorable path 2 I ran in to save Magg and placed a shadow refuge on him, 8 seconds later all the enemies run to us and begin to hit us.

Now this has happened a lot of recent so that begin to make me believe the PvE mechanics of thief are bugged.

If anyone has any feedback on if this has happened to you or a different class please reply with your experience.

Thank you for reading.

I’ve experienced problems with Shadow Refuge as well lately, but mostly because it’s duration of stealth seems to be sporadic, or variable…

I’m having a problem possibly with becoming revealed after dodging (might be a side effect of having picked Power of Inertia, I’m still trying to decide), or with becoming revealed if leaving combat.

I’m also very annoyed by Meld with Shadows not working properly with SR, even though I know it would give you a very high stealth uptime if it did. Seems like a no-brainer that it really should work.

*Edit: Somebody has noted this on Wiki, I just found out!
“Moving outside the area of the refuge triggers revealed. The area it was cast on retains this property for about 10 seconds after the spell was cast, or 6 seconds after the refuge appears to have expired. You will be revealed even if you were stealthed by another skill and didn’t enter the refuge while it was pulsing.”
That sounds like a very likely explanation for your troubles and mine.