Stealth

This article is about the effect. For other uses, see Stealth (disambiguation).

Currently invisible. Ends if you deal damage. — In-game description

Stealth

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Currently invisible. Ends if you deal damage.

— In-game description

A character under the Stealth effect with the gray outline.

Stealth, also known as invisibility, is an effect which allows the stealthed character to be invisible to enemy players and avoid being detected by hostile NPCs.

A stealthed player character will appear as a transparent outline to allies. Hostile NPCs will stop attacking if their target goes in stealth, although they will not lose their accumulated aggro towards the target and the stealthed character won't immediately break away from combat. When thieves enter stealth, their first weapon skill changes to a Stealth Attack, which can only be used while they remain in stealth. Characters in stealth cannot be targeted by enemies, but can still be hit by attacks and take damage without breaking stealth.

Hitting a foe with an attack breaks stealth for the attacker; if the attack was made out of range, misses, was blocked, or was evaded, they will not break stealth. Abilities that do not deal direct damage (like Caltrops) will not break stealth, even though they apply damaging conditions. When a character breaks stealth, they gain the Revealed effect which prevents the user from re-entering stealth for several seconds, regardless of the skill used. The Revealed effect is not applied if the stealth ends normally.

Similar effects

There are a few similar effects to stealth, these are:

•  Hide in Shadows — An effect almost identical to stealth created by some mesmer skills, but with a pink outline.
•  Camouflage — An effect provided by Ash Legion Spy Kits that is lost when movement occurs.
•  Stealth — An effect granted by the mount skills Stealth and its upgraded version Stealth 2.0.

These other effects however do not stack with stealth, and don't trigger traits or skills affecting stealth. The skills and traits providing these effects are not therefore listed below.

Related skills

A thief prepares to enter stealth mode.

See also: Hide in Shadows#Related skills for Mesmer skills that grant an almost identical effect, but with a pink outline.

Weapon skills that apply stealth

•   Hunter's Shot — Longbow
•   Cloak and Dagger — Dagger
•   Tow Line — Spear
•   Smoke Trail — Harpoon gun
•   Death's Advance — Rifle

Healing skills that apply stealth

•   Hide in Shadows — Deception

Utility skills that apply stealth

•   Blinding Powder — Deception
•   Shadow Refuge — Deception
•   Shadow Portal
•   Shadow Gust — Cantrip

Elite skills that apply stealth

•   Sneak Gyro — Well
•   Shadow Meld — Cantrip

Profession mechanic skills that apply stealth

•   Toss Elixir S — Elixir, Tool belt, Elixir S
•   Blinding Tuft — Stolen skill
•   Throw Feathers — Stolen skill
•   Steal Defenses — Stolen skill
•   Steal Durability — Stolen skill
•   Steal Health — Stolen skill
•   Steal Mobility — Stolen skill
•   Steal Precision — Stolen skill
•   Steal Resistance — Stolen skill
•   Steal Strength — Stolen skill
•   Steal Time — Stolen skill
•   Steal Warmth — Stolen skill

Pet skills that apply stealth

•   Stalk — Juvenile Jaguar

Downed skills that apply stealth

•   Smoke Bomb

Drowning skills that apply stealth

•   Vanish in the Deep

Combos that grant stealth

•  Combo Field: Smoke ×  Combo Finisher: Blast
•  Combo Field: Smoke ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Common skills that apply stealth

•   Aetheric Cloak — Mini-Golem
•   Blinding Tuft — Tuft of Hair
•   Create Distraction — Order of Whispers Spy Kit, Spy Kit
•   Second Shadow
•   Snowblind
•   Stalk
•   Throw Feathers
•   Throw Feathers — Harpy Feathers (consumable), Moa Feathers, Feathers
•   Vanish — Empty Barrels
•   Visibility Impediment Dynamo — Inquest Keypad

Related traits

See also: Stealth Attack#Related traits

Traits that apply stealth

• Celestial Shadow (Druid) — Grant superspeed and stealth to nearby allies when leaving celestial avatar form.
• Merciful Ambush (Shadow Arts) — 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.
• Silent Scope (Deadeye) — Gain precision. Gain additional precision while wielding a rifle. Enter stealth when you dodge roll with a rifle equipped.

Traits that improve stealth

• Hidden Killer (Critical Strikes) — Gain bonus critical-hit chance while stealthed. This bonus lingers for a short duration after you've been revealed.
• Merciful Ambush (Shadow Arts) — 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.
• Shadow's Embrace (Shadow Arts) — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Meld with Shadows (Shadow Arts) — Gain superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.
• Leeching Venoms (Shadow Arts) — 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 (Shadow Arts) — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Cover of Shadow (Shadow Arts) — Gain protection when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Rejuvenation (Shadow Arts) — Gain initiative when you enter or exit stealth.
• Panaku's Ambition (Specter) — 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.
• Prismatic Understanding (Chaos) — Increased stealth duration from mesmer skills. Gain random boons while you are in stealth.

Related equipment

• Relic of the Unseen Invasion — Grant yourself and nearby allies superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.

Notes

Bugs:

• When a creature loses stealth during an action, from the point of view of clients who couldn't see the model while it was cloaked, the animation for that action will play from the start, or not at all, instead of playing from the frame corresponding with the moment at which it was revealed.
• Losing either Stealth, Camouflage or the Hide in Shadows effect will cause the player to become visible, even if they still have any of those effects active when it ends (this happens even if the player did not get the Revealed effect). If the remaining effect is stealth, thief traits and skills will still benefit from it, but the player will be visible until a new invisibility effect has been applied.

• The revealed effect lasts 1 second longer in sPvP.
• If an enemy is channeling an attack on a player that goes into stealth, it will often continue to do so until the channeling ends or the player moves far enough away.
• Striking an opponent with a channeled melee skill such as Whirling Wrath or Hundred Blades immediately before and after the target enters stealth will often times cancel the cast of the skill, even if the skill requires no target to execute.
• Reflecting a projectile while stealthed will break stealth.
• Stealth is able to be stacked up to 5 times. When capped, new stacks with a longer duration will be able to replace current stacks with a shorter duration. However the current active stack cannot be replaced.
• Stealth does not work on Miniatures.

Version history

Patch	Changes
August 25, 2015	Fixed a bug that allowed players in stealth to be finishable by enemies.
May 05, 2015	Fixed a bug that could result in characters permanently keeping stealth on death.
March 31, 2015	Fixed a bug that could result in characters permanently keeping stealth on death.
February 26, 2013	Changed the way monsters react to players using stealth. Using stealth no longer resets NPC aggression tables.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Stealth has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the February 26 2013 update, gaining stealth would reset aggro of enemies.

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