Guild Wars 2

I tried to find a topic about this but I have 4 stealth abilities with my thief. Steal (w/ 2 sec stealth trait), hidden assassin (health skill), Blinding Powder (utility skill) & ofcourse cloak and dagger weapon skill. While playing PvE, I cycle through these skills to take advantage of the backstab, I try to cycle through every 5 sec. With that said, sometimes the stealth activates and sometimes it doesn’t, it gives the animation but no stealth. Bug or stealth cooldown?

did you have the revealed debuff?

(did a huge, “IMMUNE!” pop up when you attempted to stealth)

naphack.9346:

did you have the revealed debuff?

(did a huge, “IMMUNE!” pop up when you attempted to stealth)

Actually, I remember seeing that “sometimes”. I’ll try again later today to keep a eye out on the debuffs. I was curious about this so I tried it with different mobs and also in dungeons. It happened too frequently and im sure I’m not that blind to miss the multiple IMMUNE pop ups though. The fastest way I usually tested to see what was wrong with stealth was fighting mobs while using action skills cloak and dagger, waiting 2 seconds then doing a steal for stealth and it just steals, no stealth. The steal +stealth works fine as a battle opener or say if im running away and need a quick stealth.

Not going to lie though, sometimes right after cloak and dagger + attack, I use blinding powder to restealth again but it doesnt stealth (sometimes I even follow up with a steal/stealth), thats why I thought it was some kind of cooldown.

Also just to add.. it works fine while im running around spamming skills. The only problem I run into is only during battle that it sometimes fails to activate.

Want to learn a cool trick?

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A2: No. (stop reading)

If you open with Cloak and Dagger and use back stab you will get the revealed debuff. If you keep going into your full auto attack chain (one rotation) and after the last skill finishes you recast Cloak and Dagger it will land the stealth RIGHT at the end of the revealed debuff.

Using the above will maximize your DPS to its fullest when using the D/D spec. When I was leveling I would throw down an ambush trap when standing beside my target then start the Cloak and Dagger chain. The stealth would cause my pocket thief to take the damage and I would be able to just unload on my target.

Hope this helps

Professor Sensei.2941:

Want to learn a cool trick?

A1: Sure! (keep reading)
A2: No. (stop reading)

If you open with Cloak and Dagger and use back stab you will get the revealed debuff. If you keep going into your full auto attack chain (one rotation) and after the last skill finishes you recast Cloak and Dagger it will land the stealth RIGHT at the end of the revealed debuff.

Using the above will maximize your DPS to its fullest when using the D/D spec. When I was leveling I would throw down an ambush trap when standing beside my target then start the Cloak and Dagger chain. The stealth would cause my pocket thief to take the damage and I would be able to just unload on my target.

Hope this helps

Thanks Professor!! I definitely need to check out that debuff. I didn’t know after cloak and dagger that you get the revealed debuff, I have to confirm later on when I play. I could swear playing that I didnt notice it buy ill pay extra attention to it. Naphack said the same thing so I guess I better check that out & thanks for the tip! Just started playing 2 weeks ago and I enjoy it.

Mystogan.5689:

Professor Sensei.2941:

Want to learn a cool trick?

A1: Sure! (keep reading)
A2: No. (stop reading)

If you open with Cloak and Dagger and use back stab you will get the revealed debuff. If you keep going into your full auto attack chain (one rotation) and after the last skill finishes you recast Cloak and Dagger it will land the stealth RIGHT at the end of the revealed debuff.

Using the above will maximize your DPS to its fullest when using the D/D spec. When I was leveling I would throw down an ambush trap when standing beside my target then start the Cloak and Dagger chain. The stealth would cause my pocket thief to take the damage and I would be able to just unload on my target.

Hope this helps

Thanks Professor!! I definitely need to check out that debuff. I didn’t know after cloak and dagger that you get the revealed debuff, I have to confirm later on when I play. I could swear playing that I didnt notice it buy ill pay extra attention to it. Naphack said the same thing so I guess I better check that out & thanks for the tip! Just started playing 2 weeks ago and I enjoy it.

Glad I could help and welcome to the party!! There are lots of cool tricks you can do with a thief.