Hide in Shadows

This article is about the skill. For other uses, see Hide in Shadows (disambiguation).

Deception. Vanish in stealth and cure conditions. Then gain regeneration and heal yourself. — In-game description

Hide in Shadows

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Deception

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

13027

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Hide in Shadows

Deception. Vanish in stealth and cure conditions. Then gain regeneration and heal yourself.

 Healing: 6,026 (1.0)^?

 Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

 Regen (6s): 780 Heal

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

— In-game description

Related traits

Critical Strikes

• Hidden Killer — Gain bonus critical-hit chance while stealthed. This bonus lingers for a short duration after you've been revealed.

Shadow Arts

• Merciful Ambush — Heal when you enter or exit stealth. Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shielding Restoration — Grant barrier to nearby allies when you use a healing skill.
• Shadow's Embrace — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Meld with Shadows — Gain superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.
• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.
• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Cover of Shadow — Gain protection when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Rejuvenation — Gain initiative when you enter or exit stealth.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.
• Premeditation — Deal increased strike damage for each unique boon you have; concentration is increased.

Specter

• Panaku's Ambition — Gain barrier when you strike foes with a stealth attack. When you apply stealth to allies you also grant them barrier. This effect can only be received once and will reset when stealth is removed.

Notes

• The conditions are removed before the healing is applied. Thus, Poisoned would not be able to apply its -33% healing potency effect. Poison applied after activation will reduce the Regeneration boon's effectiveness as normal.
• The base healing done by this skill is equal to (138 + Level^2 * 0.92).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
June 28, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 40 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Increased cooldown from 30 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
December 11, 2018	This skill's description has been updated to clarify that it removes conditions before it heals.
July 10, 2018	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to heal for slightly less than the listed value.
May 08, 2018	The base healing of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 15% base heal increase in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased the base healing by 15% in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug in which this skill was not receiving increased stealth duration from Meld with Shadows.
April 19, 2016	This skill now removes confusion in addition to its other removals. Increased the duration of regeneration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This ability is now classified as a deception.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Hide in Shadows has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This was the default healing skill for thieves until the September 2014 Feature Pack, where it was switched with   Signet of Malice. The skill got an unlock requirement of one Hero point.