Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Woosty wrote:Curious about this myself. Seems like it should be a top priority considering it's for an ability that basically defines a class.

jsb wrote:I'm surprised there isn't more discussion here about this long-standing bug with the core mechanic of this class:

Currently on Nostalrius, being detected by an enemy NPC immediately breaks you out of Stealth. This is a bug. In original WoW, being detected did not have an effect on Stealth directly. Instead, it would cause the NPC to attack you and only this attack would be what broke you out of Stealth. Consequently, it was often possible to land a Cheap Shot on a target after being detected, but before the enemy could land its first attack on you.

So, this is a serious bug which basically negates one of the great advantages of Cheap Shot in solo PvE, i.e. the fact that it can be used while in front of the enemy.

While the current behavior is obviously incorrect and needs to fixed, I'm not sure about some of the details of the correct Stealth breaking behavior. I was hoping that some of you might have some recollection (or better: evidence) of how the original mechanics worked. That way, we could compile instructions on how the correct behavior needs to be implemented.

The points I'm not so sure about:

• Taking damage from attacks and spells certainly broke Stealth. But what about enemy attacks that missed you, or which you avoided by dodging / parrying? Would those keep you stealthed?
• What about fully resisting a spell?
• It seems like crowd control effects all broke Stealth. Were there any exceptions? How about resisted crowd control effects?
• Would you break out of Stealth as soon as an enemy NPC started casting a spell or only as soon as the spell hit?

Youfie wrote:All resisted spells cancelled your Stealth on retail until BC though, and don't cancel it here, though.

ebashuvkashu wrote:This is very serious bug with stealth as long as mobs parrying atacks and you don't regaining part of energy back. I think stealth detection is bugged too, because mobs see me in stealth far away. Only one clean way to land cheap shot is to use Distraction. If I remember correctly, In retail Classic WOW when mob was about to see you, he will turn his head to your position. This was some kind of warning to you. No such thing on this server, mobs just break your stealth when they see you, and I mean they see you in stealth far away. Sometimes I think that stealthed and unstealthed aggro radius is the same LOL. And of course a lot of bugs with other classes. I don't think it will be resolved too fast. AQ and NAXX is top priority Don't care about gameplay, yeah!

jsb wrote:The dev team recently announced they're going to take some time fixing existing game mechanic bugs before moving on with new content. Let's hope this Stealth bug is also on their radar.