Stealth

[KharnTheFoul]

Hello,

Noob here, just got the game a few days ago. Probably the best WoW-based MMORPG I've played; I think I might jump ship from SWTOR. (I realize that the expression "WoW-based MMORPG" has been redundant since 2004)

Anyway, I had a question about stealth I couldn't find an answer to. The various wiki's just repost the game's descriptions of Disciples of Lands' stealth powers with zero context... but how valuable is stealth from a combat perspective? Is it useful to stealth a dungeon, stopping only at required fights or checkpoints, switching out to your war or mage gear when needed? Does it have a role in PvP? Or is it a pointless mechanic, and I should stop leveling up botanist just for stealth?

[ForteXX]

You cant do stealth in a dungeon, each stealth skill is only usable by the gathering class that gains it. The only Gathering skills you can use on a battle class are the ones that tell you where gathering nodes are.

[KharnTheFoul]

You cant do stealth in a dungeon, each stealth skill is only usable by the gathering class that gains it. The only Gathering skills you can use on a battle class are the ones that tell you where gathering nodes are.

Right, but can you stealth past baddies as a botanist, then switch back to a conjurer/gladiator/etc to fight the boss? Just want to know before I sink a lot of hours leveling botanist

[Niwashi]

but can you stealth past baddies as a botanist, then switch back to a conjurer/gladiator/etc to fight the boss?

Not in dungeons. You can during open landscape questing, and occasionally it can be useful for that.

I've done a few quests where I can handle a single enemy but not multiples, and I'll switch to miner or botanist while I get past the groups and position myself where I'll be able to pull a single mob at a time. But not only is movement slow while stealth, but when you switch back to your combat class, you have to wait for all your skills to come off cooldown. Since this is only useful when the mobs are at the limit of what you can handle, you may be in trouble if one aggros you while all your skills are still disabled for the switching-class-cooldown.

[Sparky]

Exactly this. This is the reason why there is a skill cooldown for changing classes. So that things like stealth are not OP. Its still useful mining and botany so that mob aggro does not disrupt your gathering but no other class even needs stealth since sprint is so OP. Seriously as a level 5 you can comfortably pass through any zone including level 40-50 areas since sprint effectively makes you unhittable until you are way past the point at which the aggro resets. Try it and see. You get the sight lines from mobs but rarely can they even attack you when you are sprinting.

[Estellios]

Nope, you can't switch classes at all when in a dungeon.

[Naus]

You cannot switch Jobs in the middle of a dungeon, so that's not really an option.

[ForteXX]

As said above, plus, you cant even enter a dungeon as a non-battle class.

[KharnTheFoul]

Boo, that sucks. Ty for the info.

[HEC]

It helps a little when you leveling other battle classes as some quest would send you to / through enemy strongholds for some quests but it's hardly worth leveling any of the DoL just because of that.