Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I don’t know if it is just me or everyone of it is suposed to be like this…

I’ve been playing alot with the thief and I’m only noticing this now.
When the ranger starts casting the Rapid Fire and the thief enter in stealth, the “skill” will hit all the shots while the thief is in stealth.
That also happens with rifle warriors, but mostly with Rangers.

i’ve never noticed this before, may be due the fact that was not that many rangers in WvW or Spvp before.

Cheers.

This is not a bug. If a skill begins executing against a targeted enemy prior to the enemy stealthing, the skill will still hit. You probably just hadn’t noticed before. This is true across the board, even against AI enemies. For instance, when fighting bandits, if they fire off their pistols at you and then you stealth before the projectiles reach you, you still get hit. And it works the other way around – if you have a skelk targeted and you begin your attack before they stealth, your attack will still land.

The skill continues to track you once you have dropped target, though. It shouldn’t be doing this.
I don’t think, anyway

It’s just the way it is. If the game has determined that an attack is going to hit you and the attack was launched before you stealthed, it’s going to hit no matter what.

It reminds of Star Trek Online. If you’re in a starship that can cloak and a torpedo was launched before you cloaked, it’s going to hit you anyway if the game determined it would. But in STO it could be a fatal choice to cloak. Torpedoes do more damage when they hit your hull then when they hit your shields and cloaking drops your shields completely.

It takes practice. You just have to learn how to cloak at the right moment to lessen or eliminate the damage you will take when stealthing.

Edit: Some advice: if you’re low on health and covered in (polka) DoTs, don’t bother stealthing unless you can heal yourself first. If your healing is on cooldown you might as well keep fighting unless you’re sure you can survive after you stealth. I’ve killed many a skelk with (polka) DoTs while they were stealthed.

Two words: Intended behaviour

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You can still dodge away from the shots and it’ll drop the target lock, yes? Or if you steal or otherwise teleport it should start making the shots miss unless you teleport right in front of their aim.

Nope. If the attack begins to shoot at you before you stealth, nothing you do will stop it from firing at you (the ranger loses you as a target but the attack finishes). Even if you dodge the beginning of Rapid Fire the arrows will continue to target you, they won’t harm you during your evade frames but any shots after the evade ends will hit you.

This isn’t a bug, it’s intended behaviour.