Guild Wars 2

I’ve been using a stealth heavy build for a while and i love how it plays, except, the actual stealth fails so often it’s silly. It is NOT due to the debuff (exposed/visible?) you get after breaking stealth with an attack. I carefully watch that debuff to make sure it goes off before using another stealth skill. The one’s that fail the most are Steal with Hidden Thief trait and Blinding Powder. The only one that seems somewhat reliable is Shadow Refuge.

What happens is that i simply don’t enter stealth. Maybe there’s an auto-attack going of a fraction of a second after the stealth, thus breaking stealth so fast you don’t even notice it (common issue with stealth in general it seems).

Maybe i’m missing something, but i don’t think so. I’m pretty sure i should enter stealth when using my stealth abilities. If it failed once in a while i’d get over it and move on, but it literally fails around 30-40% of the times i use it.

I concur that this is one of the annoying bugs for me currently — that the auto-attack breaks through some stealth abilities. Most notably, the traited stealth on steal (making that traited special almost worthless). Would be wonderful if it could be fixed so that auto-attack is cut off there.

The skill “Throw gunk” (The ethereal field) from stealing will automatically break any stealth if you have it active when trying/using/being in stealth. Pretty annoying and I can’t think it is intentional.