Guild Wars 2

Mesmer’s have a lot of skill failure since the start of the game but the last week in WvW has been shocking.

Mass Invisibility, Veil, Blink, Decoy, and The Prestige have all been failing far too frequently.

I have a feeling that this is being caused by one of two possible traits…

Master of Manipulation

or

Mirror of Anguish

My feeling is that if you try to cloak while Mirror is in operation and you are being attacked, then the cloak fails.

The skills fail most frequently when fighting Guardians and/or Rangers. As I don’t play these classes, I have no idea if they have a shout or skill that stacks that causes skills to fail or not. But I’ve had all 4 cloaking skills fail one after the other more than once both today and yesterday. Nothing worse than having all your cloak skills fail and be on full recharge while fighting with a PU mesmer build.

As for blink… blink has never worked with 100% reliability since the start of the game.

Oh Hai! Just noticed this post after I posted….

I’m having the same issue. I’m not sure what is causing stealth to fail and also need suggestions.

Im leaning towards it also being the master of manipulation trait, but I’ve tested it on NPC’s that don’t have a ranged attack and I still revealed. I don’t run mirror of anguish. I’ve also still revealed without running the master of manipulation trait against lords, guards and NPCs not just in WvW but in PvE.

Looking for a good non stealth Mesmer build until sorted.

I never had an issue with this pre trait changes patch.

UPDATE: I’ve worked out one of the reasons the skill fails but not all…

When using the torch skill ‘The Prestige’ to cloak… if you come out of the cloak then it causes damage to nearby foes – INCLUDING any ambient wildlife (rabbits and other one hit things)… this then triggers a block similar to a reveal trap that prevents you from cloaking for a while… if you did not notice that you killed some ambient wildlife when you uncloaked then you might miss the block on cloaking again and this then causes the next cloak to fail and recharge in full.

I am not sure if it is a bug or not that you get the cool down from damage caused by leaving the cloak but I do think that they should exclude ambient wildlife from that happening. Note… this is not a weapon attack skill… this is damage caused just by uncloaking near something – so you have a lot less control on it happening other than trying to make sure there is no ambient wildlife about before your cloak is about to run out.

The other thing I’ve started to notice but need more research before I can say for sure is that sometimes if a clone attacks or shatters then it reveals you with the cool down feature that prevents cloaking again. I’ve only observed this twice so far, so need to try and figure out if it is a specific clone or set of circumstances that is the cause.

I am not sure if this is related, but I have been having a strange issue in which my time warp wouldn’t work. I checked the ground targeting, and it was green. The skill wasn’t in cooldown either. It would take a few tries to get it to finally lay down.