Guild Wars 2

I was doing my dailies and noticed that if I go to mine ore with a hostile mob nearby, and drop a Shadow Refuge near that mob, it puts me in combat (even if the mob isn’t triggered by close proximity to me on approach). I’m guessing the pulsing from the stealth field does this.

Has it always been this way, or is this new?

(While it’s PvE in nature, I imagine it would translate to pvp/wvw)

If you’re running blind on stealth and you blinded the mob when you dropped the refuge that sticks you in combat

Corrupt.4930:

If you’re running blind on stealth and you blinded the mob when you dropped the refuge that sticks you in combat

Yeah, but the strange thing is, I’m not running it I’m not sure what happened but I’ll go through some more tests.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the case. They recently nerfed caltrops & caltrops on dodge to put you in combat if a mob touched them effectively making it impossible to get through a zone without getting in combat & getting hit. Wouldn’t surprise me if they made it so any AoE ring a mob steps in (regardless of whether it does anything or not) puts you in combat.

There has been a hidden change to this ability in PVE as well.

When you stealth while fighting a boss or mob it will continue to toss AoE down on you after you stealthed, period. This has been happening now since two patches ago, and was never documented within the patch notes.

I Shadow Refuged, walked on the other side of the room, the boss threw his missiles at me long after the stealth went down and I moved.

in PVE I use stealth to gain HoT, nothing more. So when I saw that the first time, I thought “Meh, lag maybe”. No, it happens every time now within PVE.