How to perma Stealth

[Knighthonor.4061]

How do you do this? What's the build and rotation for doing this? Can somebody teach me this skillset?

[TorQ.7041]

You make a deadeye. Pick the trait to stealth on dodge with a rifle. Pick shadow arts as another trait. The last trait u want is trickery for intiative. And take shadow meld as the elite skill. Now you can just dodge with rifle and gain stealth. U could also take the heal skill that gives stealth and blinding powder. With all those skills up and dodge roll. U have perma stealth.

[Sephylon.4938]

Adding to the above, have endurance regen food. Adventurer runes also help to keep your endurance up for dodges. Otherwise leap or blast finisher+smoke field=stealth

[saerni.2584]

You can also in a non Deadeye build use D/P and leap finisher combos to achieve the same effect for more effort.

 

The Daredevil can use a bounding dodge in smoke fields to gain stealth so you can be fairly invisible that way.

 

A core thief will take the most effort but still possible a few different ways. Same combo requirements but might need a few utilities. Blinding Powder is a blast finisher and in smoke field that will give a lot of stealth before you even leap combo.

[bubblewrap.4987]

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[Michael Conrad.6704]

"Death's Retreat is basically the Infiltrator's Arrow of this build when it comes to mobility, but that's just one aspect of it. In combat this serves as a spammable condition cleanse or even combo tool for stealth access when used in a smoke field.

We recommend that you set up a bind for "about face" (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement). This makes it easier to teleport forward with this skill using the following sequence: about face ⇒ Death's Retreat ⇒ about face."

 

This is excerpted from a build in Meta Build. How exactly does this contribute to Stealth ?

[KrHome.1920]

> @"Michael Conrad.6704" said:

> "Death's Retreat is basically the Infiltrator's Arrow of this build when it comes to mobility, but that's just one aspect of it. In combat this serves as a spammable condition cleanse or even combo tool for stealth access when used in a smoke field.

> We recommend that you set up a bind for "about face" (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement). This makes it easier to teleport forward with this skill using the following sequence: about face ⇒ Death's Retreat ⇒ about face."

>

> This is excerpted from a build in Meta Build. How exactly does this contribute to Stealth ?

Metabattle does not say that it contributes to stealth. The keybind refers to the mobility aspect of death's retreat.

 

Btw.: Please don't necropost! This thread is from 2018 and outdated. The game has seen a lot of updates since then. E.g. you can not perma stealth on dodge anymore.

[Michael Conrad.6704]

My apologies.

 

[Sobx.1758]

> @"KrHome.1920" said:

> > @"Michael Conrad.6704" said:

> > "Death's Retreat is basically the Infiltrator's Arrow of this build when it comes to mobility, but that's just one aspect of it. In combat this serves as a spammable condition cleanse or even combo tool for stealth access when used in a smoke field.

> > We recommend that you set up a bind for "about face" (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement). This makes it easier to teleport forward with this skill using the following sequence: about face ⇒ Death's Retreat ⇒ about face."

> >

> > This is excerpted from a build in Meta Build. How exactly does this contribute to Stealth ?

> Metabattle does not say that it contributes to stealth. The keybind refers to the mobility aspect of death's retreat.

>

> Btw.: Please don't necropost! This thread is from 2018 and outdated. The game has seen a lot of updates since then. E.g. you can not perma stealth on dodge anymore.

 

True about necro, but it also does say about the stealth in the part he quoted:

"(...)or even combo tool for stealth access when used in a smoke field."

 

@"Michael Conrad.6704" this skill is a leap combo finisher, so when you use it inside/through a "smoke field", you gain stealth.

Some details about which finishers do what in specific combo fields: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo#Combo_effects

How to know if the skill is a "combo finisher: whatever"? Hover over a skill button and it's included in the details, usually near the bottom.

[ASP.8093]

> @"Michael Conrad.6704" said:

> "Death's Retreat is basically the Infiltrator's Arrow of this build when it comes to mobility, but that's just one aspect of it. In combat this serves as a spammable condition cleanse or even combo tool for stealth access when used in a smoke field.

> We recommend that you set up a bind for "about face" (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement). This makes it easier to teleport forward with this skill using the following sequence: about face ⇒ Death's Retreat ⇒ about face."

>

> This is excerpted from a build in Meta Build. How exactly does this contribute to Stealth ?

 

Death's Retreat is a Leap Finisher, you can use it just like the Black Powder + Heartseeker combo.

 

Try this: Kneel, drop Sniper's Cover, immediately stand up and do Death's Retreat through the smoke wall. (This is inefficient in WvW/SPvP, because Death's Retreat costs 6 init there; in that case you'd be much better off swapping weapons and using Heartseeker or Cluster Bomb with Sniper's Cover.)