Getting killed and watching a rogue vanish and get off scot-free is absolutely infuriating.
Before you say “pvp on a pvp server”, as any class other than a rogue, you literally cannot fight back because then the guards are attacking you, and you will ultimately die either way.
So what’s the point of even having neutral guards if they’re totally inert and useless, between being able to vanish away to break combat and having glitch spots that they evade bug?
Bubble hearth
For real…you just need to make your character look more intimidating so the rogues are scared to jump you. Put on a full set of ret gear with a big 2hander regardless of your spec. The rogue will assume you are ret and will probably wait for an easier target.
The guards do see through stealth. If you vanish 99% of the time you are getting knocked out by the guards. Maybe he figured out some random spot where he has time to vanish or something.
He vanished underneath the Alliance flight path, in the middle of the town, more or less.
It sounds like getting knocked out of stealth is random chance based around batching and less based around the guards actually seeing through it.
Vanishing after you LOS the guards is the key,
I have a Hand of Rag. If anything it feels like it makes people more likely to attack me as a trophy kill.
I was on a hunter, anyways, so bubble hearthing was out of the question.
You mean stealthy assassins are able to evade the local guards after killing their targets?
Sounds like a pretty cool RPG.
What is the point of vanish if guards see through it?
Logic works both ways, sorry.
I put on my UTB and pvp gear regardless of my spec in pvp high areas and rarely get attacked by rogues cause they assume I am arms spec. Usually still kill them even with my PVE spec if they jump me lol.
Idk I’ve vanished when I was like 30 feet away from guards and in the water.
they just track me down and find me.
lol what? Why would I ever be afraid of a ret noob?
I thought rets were hard for rogues… I have never played a pally lol
A good ret is hard. A lot of people rolled ret because of Esfand. Sadly most of them aren’t that great. There’s a bit more effort required to make some specs work well in raids or pvp. Not all put in the effort and it shows when “the rubber hits the road”.
A well played retadin is going to wipe the floor with a squishy rogue. Of course, not too many of them are that good so… yeah, a noob playng ret (or any spec) is going to be an easy kill for you.
Rogues are the only thing i can consistently beat 1v1 lol.
Oh, like level 20s being camped by level 60s? That kind of “not being able to fight back”? 
Gank alt meet main.
Even this late in the game, there are some people without Mains 
I try to help new lowbies when I can even as a healer 