Since 8.2 I have had so many stealth, prowling, and feign death fails I have lost track. Did these abilities get a serious reconfiguration or can I just blame this on the terrible bodyguard system that has been forced on us in Nazjatar?
Sometimes the bodyguard feigns death too, but more often than not they do not. My druid and rogue have also had their prowl, stealth, and vanish abilities completely thrown out the window during gameplay with one of these bodyguards around. Sometimes an enemy will find me from distances where it seems like I should have escaped their threat already anyhow.
A lot of the stealth etc. failures have happened during those missions or traveling to the next. It is not something I can avoid especially since they locked story/lore missions behind bodyguard experience leveling.
I play a dual-gatherer 120 hunter in Nazjatar, and I am not using a follower/bodyguard yet. I’ve noticed there are a couple groups of slithery mobs that ignore my “feign death” completely. I’m lying there pretending to be dead and they keep whacking on me.
So far I’ve found 2 or 3 areas like that. I think it’s always the same mobs – those tall snake things that carry weapons. It isn’t random: my feign death works fine everywhere else.
Interesting to hear that it is happening in Nazjatar without bodyguards.
I just ran the intro to Mechagon Island scenario (yet again) with my rogue and the Prince with the Rustbolt Rebellion seemed to cause the same kind of problem with my stealth while he was following me around. One of the few times you have a non-pet companion in that zone. I guess the only other time would be when you revive bots.
Anyway, I would like to know if this is a fluke or not. Assuming that it is I doubt it will be fixed so I guess we wait for 8.2.5 or 8.3 or whatever to find out.
There are times where it just falls off. I thought I was trippin… but once in AB when I was stealthing alone to Farm, it just dropped. No one around, no one hit me.
I simply restealthed. But that made me realize that there is something wrong.
I dont have any issues with my Druid prowling. But he is resto/balance, so I dont spend as much time stealthed. Maybe I dont notice it.
But it happens like maybe three times a week, that I notice, on my Rogue. Just a complete dropping of stealth with no apparent reason.
Stealth will drop randomly in some areas of Nazjatar, but you also have to be wary of things like the Starfish you can pick up for a buff. They will put you into a “False Stealth” state, similar to shadowmeld while pulling you out of actual stealth.
You’ll still appear as though you’re stealthed but mobs will detect you at a near regular distance. You can restealth after clicking the starfish.