Guild Wars 2

Just to clarify, this is WvW, if that makes a difference.

I’m playing a trapper P/D build that I’m enjoying quite a bit, but it seems that more often than not, auto attack will continue to fire even once I enter stealth(usually via trapper runes+trap). We’re not talking the projectile was in transit while fighting, I mean I literally stop to drop the trap, I gain stealth, and then about a half second later, autoattack kicks back in, not even using the sneak attack, just the regular, single shot autoattack.

Is this a bug? Or is it just loading queued autoattacks that I pressed before the trap? It doesn’t happen all the time(never after CnD), but if I’m fighting several enemies especially, it will sometimes just break right out of stealth without a sneak attack. Would you suggest turning auto attack off if it really is just me spam clicking 1 too much? Or would the damage loss be too great. Any help or just general tips are much appreciated.

You may be experiencing skill lag(very common in WvW on some servers, sometimes hardware issue or internet provider). That mixed with pistol cast-time. As well as bullet travel time. To put more control in your own hands/skill, you can hold control and right click your number 1 ability to completely stop auto attacking, this will allow you to pause for a very tiny moment before stealth. Hope I helped enough.

There is a “stow weapon” option in the keybinds menu, put this on a easy to reach key. By using this option your weapons are manually put away all attacking is stopped by this this also ends all channeled skills like daggerstorm etc. use this.
This will however not stop projectiles that are still in mid air so be carefull with those especially if you have riccochet traited the bouncing projectiles can reveal you.

I also recommend to disable the autoattack in wvw and press all attacks manually put aa on one of your mouse buttons, it takes a while to get used to but it is very reliable and avoids delay in your other attacks by “half-finished aa”.

Cool, I’ll try both of those things and see how they work out. Thanks for the advice.