Guild Wars 2

Hiya everone,

I believe shadow refuge is bugged. It doenst matter how long i stay in it to stack stealth, the moment i leave the field my stealth breaks

You have to stay in SR for the duration of it or you will lose all stealth you stacked. Wait till circle runs out then you will be fine.

Thats couldt be intended right? Even with 2/3 pulses i have 4 seconds of stealth. Seems strange that it would break those remaining seconds if I leave it.

Cant remember it worked that way some time ago. Or did AN change it?

as far as I know it has always worked that way. Crossing the edge of a SR, including lag moving you out of it, will instantly reveal you whether you had 1 second of stealth or a minute (which isn’t possible just saying for example).

It is completely intentional. In fact, if you overlap 2 SR’s and move from one to the other, you will still be revealed. This fact sucks when you have some thieves randomly throwing down SR’s.

to be safe, wait until the Shadow Refuge completely disappears before you begin to move out of the area. With some practice you can tell how close you can cut it, but if you move out of the ring before it has vanished you Will be revealed. The way I worded here may seem odd, but think server lag. Don’t rely on SR if the servers are very laggy, or do if I’m facing you so I too can wonder why you were revealed suddenly >.>

*edited for clarification.

This is working as intended. SR is a huge stealth gain for low risk if you can leave it at any time and remain stealthed. Instead, you must wait it out in the limited range of the circle in order to keep your stealth. This gives opponents a brief opportunity to attempt to down you or knock you out of the ring, like sumo.

Speaking of SR, want some fun? Play a ranger, throw “Sic’Em” on a thief about to pop SR and watch them run around inside their circle trying to figure out why everyone can still see them. They stop moving because they think SR will save them and they have trained themselves not to leave the ring, giving you and your pet time to catch up to them.