[Bug] - Stealth and Vanish
| by Aninja | 21/03/2007 17:47:36 Ok Blizzard I'm posting this because I did not see it in your "2.0.8 known bugs" Thread. You have obviously just overlooked it (I hope). There is a Bug with stealth and vanish: Problem with stealth: When a player with a pet sends his or her pet at a rogue when that rogue is not in combat and the rogue uses stealth that pet will continue coming after the rogue and will actually take him or her out of stealth! This problem is constant! I have heard this argued that pets are like projectiles, a player sends its pet after you and it takes you out of stealth just as say a frostbolt would. I hope this is not the stand blizzard takes on this bug because it would be a very low and lazy attempt to justify ones poor programming. Pets are infact not projectiles. They are pets. They have abilities of their own and do not need this godly "sense of smell" to take rogues out of stealth. Is it fair for a pet class to be able to see a rogue across the map then send his pet after that rogue making it impossible for that rogue to re-stealth? What if that rogue is not as fortunate as some players and has a short sight range compared to other players? I can imagine this bug would be extremely annoying to those players. [Little story] Imagine it yourself. You’re walking along arathi basin out of arathi basin having just finished off a mage. You wait to exit combat so you can re-stealth and once it dos u stealth then cruise along for a little while say 5 seconds... All without knowing that the hunter just beyond your sight range has sent his pet after you! so there u are safely out of combat, decide to stealth then 5 seconds later that hunters pet that ran from 80 yards away comes out of no where and breaks you of stealth! This is no big deal for you though because your vanish is up! All you have to do is vanish then you have escaped! ... ?[/little story] Problem with vanish: This one is simple... auto attacks break vanish. What gives his has been around forever do you have plans to fix it? Are you even going to acknowledge that it exists? Here is a pic of one of my fellow rogues’ unfortunate end due to this bug: http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s120/AstralVuzz/?action=view&cu rrent=Picture1.jpg In case the link doesn’t work ill tell you what happens. Rogue is getting attacked by a hunters pet. The rogue vanishes and the pets auto attack brings him out, then the rogue uses prep then vanishes AGAIN and the pet auto attacks him out of stealth AGAIN! [Little story] So the pet brought u out of stealth form 80 yards away it’s a projectile so what!? This rogue has vanished baby! ... Damn that auto attack! .... = ( [/little story] It may seem that I am the devils advocate here but what I said was based on experience, my "little story" is a typical PVP round. There are countless rogues who experience these same bugs. Here are some links to some unsatisfied rogues who made threads about vanish/stealth. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=86329119&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=86010423&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=86429122&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=85312442&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=85539407&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=85082628&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=85242633&sid =1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=85243115&sid =1 These were just the ones I saw this night! On the fist two or three pages on the rogue/bug forums!! How can you ignore/miss this? I know there’s a way to check to see if one person is simply making different threads on different chars. Check if you must none of these threads were made by me. Request to public: No replies complaining about how long my thread is please. I don't care if you have ADD. |
by Hortus | 22/03/2007 03:41:48 We have addressed both these issues multiple times. Stealth is not an escape mechanic it does not drop NPC aggro including player pet aggro. If you need to escape combat with a player pet you will need to use vanish. Vanish can be broken by auto-attack because of the slight delay between your taking an action and the server processing that action, this is the same reason someone can be polymorphed at the same time that they counterspell an opponent. This is a limitation of the mechanics of the game medium and will not be changed in the foreseeable future. |
| by Hortus | 22/03/2007 23:30:01 As I've said before, these are limitations on the stealth and vanish abilities. You may not like them but they are not bugs. Please take your discussion and opinions about them to an appropriate forum. |
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