I figure this is intentional and not a bug, but I never hear anyone talk about it.
In stealth you can’t cast shadow dance, which I see some logic behind but still think is silly. What’s most annoying though; I can’t go stealth if I still have shadow dance up. If I am trying to leave combat on the tail end of dance and stealth, I either have to wait or remove shadow dance form myself.
Is this to prevent certain gimmicks? For example, popping dance before the opener to do bigger burst with shadowstrike? I don’t really see how that would be too OP, but someone please chime in here.
Is this just a bug?
Not being able to dance while in stealth is to stop any awkward overlap, but to stealth while in dance you would need a cancel aura macro to cancel the remaining dance then you will be able to stealth, the reason you can’t stealth while in dance is because it basically already considers you to be stealthed minus the invisible part
You can create a stealth macro that will cancel Dance and stealth if that’s what you want to do.
I understand the overlap issue, but not being able to pop dance while stealthed in order to benefit from the damage buff is silly. Since dance doesn’t trigger effects that require actual stealth, it would seem blizzard programmatically considers dance as different. So it’s impossible to pop dance for the damage AND use shadowstrike from stealth (unless you vanish after dance).
I realize I can cancel dance to stealth with a macro, which is an acceptable workaround I suppose, but I don’t see how that would be considered an “awkward overlap” when I literally am pushing stealth expecting to go invis.
why would you want to dance while stealthed? that’s exactly what we don’t want. everything dance does, stealth does better and has no charges. Plz don’t change this blizard.
Here’s the macro you need, you can smash it and it will stealth ( without destealthing ), have fun removing dance and going stealth and sitting at no charges of shadowdance for 2 mins.
#showtooltip Stealth
/cancelaura [nocombat] Shadow Dance
/stopattack
/cast !stealth
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This is exactly what i use as well
I’d assume Huge Shadowstrikes if we’re talking PVP. Stack the initial 25% boosted Shadowstrike with 10 stacks of Dagger in the Dark, 15% Symbols of Death and 15%(30% if talented) Shadow Dance. Maybe even 8% from Nightstalker.
Lets translate this, so you saying we should rework a spell ( and obviously get even more nerfed on base damage because of it ) just so you can sit on top of someone to get 10 stacks of dagger in the Dark, use symbols while stealthed wasting the 40 energy and while also giving away a secondary dance charge being unable to use subterfuge ( so only in 2’s or world content ).
This may actually work on afk ppl, or on below 1200 rating where ppl are not spamming their gladius interface on your name to get you disarmed / stunned as soon as you appear.
If you want to hit one button and kill ppl then just make a warrior and sit in defensive stance either with condemn or spear of bastion or go lolret and kill ppl inside of a hoj.
Please leave rogues alone. Class is in need of major sustain buffs for subs, our burst is fine.
Oh and if he wants more burst then he should be orc, or at max human if he doesn’t want to go horde.
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I was just saying why someone would want to Shadow DanceDance in Stealth is all.
Plus, the only reason you can’t use Shadow Dance right now is because of a bug it used to have in Legion where if you did us Shadow Dance in Stealth, you would stay in Stealth for the full Shadow Dance while being able to murder your target. That was really fun while it lasted. 
So, unless they’ve fixed that, there’s no chance they’ll change it.