[Bug] Dropping stealth "randomly" from quest triggers

[Enkal]

I've seen a few posts about the random dropping stealth bug (went back 6 pages but couldnt find any now from the patch 1.1 complaints )

Anyhow I accidently discovered something that breaks my stealth for no reason in Shimmersand, quest: "Behind their eyes, a storm" where you free mind controlled traders. You have to take them to 50%, use an item and then they run off to despawn some 20m from you.

Now if I stealth after I've used the item on them but befpre the mob despawns I will drop out of stealth. Every time! No dots or any debuff on me. If I wait for them to despawn I can stealth without dropping out of it. This is 100% reproducible.

My theory is that there are a bug with quest objectives that makes you drop stealth because of some trigger. Otherwise I see no reason for you to drop stealth because of a despawning NPC.

Made a ticket about it but I thought I'd share and see if there's any other quests that makes stealth behave like this?

[Enkal]

Found the same behaviour in another quest in Shimmersand: Universal Controller

[Automark]

I've seen that as well, I just assumed that was normal. But it does 'bug me.

[Enkal]

I've seen that as well, I just assumed that was normal. But it does 'bug me.

I wouldnt call it normal, dropping stealth because a quest NPC despawns? No, it's an oversight or a bug imho.

[Red Exodus]

It happens if you get rift loot too. It used to annoy the crap out of me when I had to leave a rift that I opened because of elites or defiants, only to have my stealth drop when someone closed the rift later and my rift loot popped up.

[Delimeat567]

Hopefully this doesn't apply to all quests, including zone quests...

[Chancellor Gowron]

It happens if you get rift loot too. It used to annoy the crap out of me when I had to leave a rift that I opened because of elites or defiants, only to have my stealth drop when someone closed the rift later and my rift loot popped up.

the man speaks the truth

[Ethernia]

Happens when you go up a rep level too ;)

[drakhon]

It happens if you get rift loot too.

It's not the loot, it's when you gain Planar Charge, which is what the orb-like things that drop on everybody are. I've had it where all I did was open a tear as I was going by and then a while later somebody closed the rift, the orb dropped and I popped out of stealth.

[Enkal]

So basically there are alot of game triggers that counts as some sort of non-stealth action that in turn breaks our stealth.

Ran into another NPC-despawn destealthing in Stillmoor with a quest where you "cured" Defiant werewolves so they could take revenge.

[Enkal]

Anyone know if this has been fixed yet? I havent had a chance to test it again.

[Enkal]

Still alot of threads about people dropping stealth so I dont think this bug has been fixed yet.