Guild Wars 2

Matias.9814:

From my testing, the auto-attack that breaks the stealth from Hidden Thief always occurred when I was wielding a ranged weapon (pistol or bow) in my main hand, and never occurred otherwise (sword or dagger in main hand.) It also only occured when my weapons were already drawn. (drawing weapons to start combat negates the errant auto-attack.) I can’t for the life of me think of a reason why this would occur, or why you would want it to. I just hope they remove this functionality soon.

I have never managed to get my character to not attack, tried all weapon combinations holstered or not.

Try it again.
It attacks 1 time 100% of the time for me.

When I use steal while having auto-attack on my character attacks exactly one time at the same time he steals so if I use hidden thief trait that causes an instant uncloak after being cloaked.

A workaround is to disable auto-attack, steal, and then enable auto-attack again but there is no way I’m going to do that every time since it makes me very ineffective.
I could also have auto-attack disabled all the time but then i have to sit and spam the 1 key all the time to attack and that is not fun.

Could you please make it so that stealing doesn’t automatically cause your character to attack one time?
Or is this trait not supposed to be used by people who use auto-attack?