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Stealth

Stealth

Instant	6 sec cooldown

Requires Rogue
Requires level 5

Conceals you in the shadows until cancelled, allowing you to stalk enemies without being seen.

Subtlety (Level 10)
Attacks from Stealth and for 6 sec after deal 10% more damage

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Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

6 seconds

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy (30)
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 40
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Increase Run Speed % - Stacks

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Dummy (127)
Server-side script

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Modifies Effect #3's Value (23)
Affected Spells:

	Garrote		Ambush

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Feral Druid Guide

Rogue PvE
compendium - the
do's and dont's

Warlords of Draenor
Rogue Changes

Comments

Comment by Groucho

I highly recommend binding stealth to your ~ key or your middle-mouse click, or any skill you find yourself using a lot. I set my Special Action Button 1 so it's now Stealth when I'm playing a rogue and Bear Form when I'm on my druid.

Comment by meme

If you are farming a dungeon, the best way to sneak around enemies is to do the distraction spell and quickly run past them but NOT touching the enemies.

Comment by almightyfoon

For rogues the level you get it is incorrect, it says you get it at 1, but you actually get it at 2. I know its not a big difference in level, but someone is gonna roll a rogue and get confused when they can't stealth.

Comment by marcusdds

When stealthing and trying to sneak up/past a mob, be aware of this - if the mob turns to your direction, stop moving. It has sensed you and is checking for you. If you keep moving, it's very likely (or certain) it will see you. Just stop moving for a few seconds until it turns back away. Sounds like I'm joking but I'm honestly not.

Comment by Warhead

Stealth can be used whenever you are out of combat. This means that in PvP combat, you can go Stealth as soon as your opponent has not damaged you for 5 seconds.
Making use of this technique, restealthing, can be pretty powerful, relying on talented Gouge, slows, and stuns to avoid damage while waiting for the 5 seconds. When stealthed again, you can use powerful moves like Ambush, Sap and Cheap Shot which you cannot in combat.

Comment by Rarehunter

At level 19, the few safest ways to combat a rogue in stealth are: 1. Casting Hunter's Mark on the rogue before he/she stealths. 2. Sending your pet to attack the rogue before he/she stealths. (The pet will keep to its target and will break the stealth with damage) and 3. Perception. All other ways are generally mana inefficient or dangerous. (i.e. Arcane Explosion spamming or just tabbing until the rogue gets close enough for you to detect him/her)

Comment by Grunty

I have stealth at my V button and i really recommend to bind stealth on a easy available button that is hard to miss click on

Comment by HaveyJoe

It might be helpful to note that there are certain actions a rogue can do that won't be broken/interrupted by stealthing. The most notable that I use all the time is eating food. You can start eating, stealth, and you will keep eating and regaining health. I've found this very useful when working in areas where mobs are fairly concentrated, to name just one example.

Comment by Chaosinfused

Another useful ability able to be used while stealthed is poisoning your weapons. you can be stealthed, click the poison and apply it to your weapon without leaving stealth mode. As far as I know, this still works as of patch 3.0.3, but Blizzard may have taken it out, if somebody can confirm its working, please let us all know.

Comment by pnukup

I think fall damage no longer break stealth.
I was in rank 1 stealth and took 12 fall damage and I did not get out of stealth.

Comment by hellothere123

Get used to this ability try it out a lot see how far you can get to mobs what angles are better and you will become a master of stealth which will help so much in pvp and pve

Comment by Pachirisuneytor

When logging out while in stealth, after you log in again you will not be in stealth.

Comment by nax9

Some people who like those small rabits jumping around them often make this mistake while using stealth: companions will not be stealthed when you use stealth. Of course a mob will not detect you just because your companion, but in PvP an enemy player will think about what is that cat without anyone moving towards him.
So you can prepare to a quick die if you forgot to dismiss that companion before you started steathing.

I hope this information was useful.

Comment by nax9

Some other things about stealth-detection:

Stealth is not invisibility, invisibility can be detected by only special spells and has a limited duration, while stealth is unilimited and can be detected by everyone
Stealth cannot be detected if the stealther behind you, even if you press the left mouse button and rotate the mouse (so you can see your char from the front)
Stealth detection is incresed for humans (players) or can be incresed if you use special items, spells, abilities
When you are detecting a stealther he\\she\\it is transparently visible, so it's still very difficult to spot him\\her\\it from far
Any damage against the stealther will turn off stealth (when you think that an enemy stealther is near you, use an AoE damaging spell)
Engineers can make Alarm-O-Bot while Hunters can flare, each detect any stealting or invisible enemies in the area (these just for examples)

Comment by prophet122

Ive been looking for a cool / clever / funny sound script for my rogues stealth... any suggestions?

Comment by Xelestial

Er, no it's this:

Stealth now reduces your speed by 30% and is only one rank.

Comment by Deluge

Ever find yourself mashing your stealth button 200 times a second to get into stealth asap just waiting for you to get out of combat?

Of course this is a pvp situation, but what happens is you stealth and push it ONE too many times, and you get out of stealth again. Solution?

#showtooltip Stealth
/castsequence reset=1 Stealth, !Stealth, !Stealth, !Stealth, !Stealth, !Stealth, !Stealth, !Stealth, , , ,
/cast Stealth

This macro will ONLY put you into stealth for as long as you keep mashing it, if you stop mashing for one sec and press it again, it will take you out of stealth. (this can be overwritten by holding shift)

-Deluge

Comment by Kujo

Beware, joining a BG queue will drop you out of stealth.

Comment by aznorakh

so master of deception increases +15 aura making it 4 times harder to get detected?

Comment by Zakton

If you have a non-combat pet out while stealthed, it will be very easy for an enemy player to spot you because they can just AoE near said pet. There are however some exceptions to this for you rogues that want to have a pet out while stealthed:

The Wolpertinger from the brewfest world event is a unique pet in that it can only be seen while drunk. (It can be seen by you or people in your party even while sober) So you can usually have it out without fear of being spotted.

Egbert, from the children's week event, can be an interesting pet to use with stealth. He runs around randomly and can confuse an enemy player into thinking you're somewhere else. Be cautious if you decide to use this crazy bird though.

Comment by TheDancingTree

this is a really awesome ability :) and the goblin sneak animations rock :D

Comment by ExperimentX4d2

As of 4.1, this is changed

A 4 second CD
No speed penalty
And in conjunction with the Nightstalker Talent, It has NO Cooldown and u move faster Stealthed than running…

ARE U F**KIN KIDDING ME?

Comment by Zz0mg

A 4 second CD
No speed penalty
And in conjunction with the Nightstalker Talent, It has NO Cooldown and u move faster Stealthed than running…
well its a nice buff, though I don't think it will stay like this for long.

Comment by Connane

Well i for one will find this very interesting in fact...i have a rouge soo i will be farming bgs once again to get my honor back up lul. oh and its called night-stalker now so its not stealthing or invisibility soooo your stalking people as a rogue not being invisible there's a distinct difference.

Comment by Rurone

With 4.1's launch, Stealth has no movement speed reduction anymore! Rogues are masters of the Shadows truely!

(Then again, you probably knew)

Comment by George14

Stealth has a 2 second cooldown in 4.1 if you are a Sub rogue.

Comment by Orentis

Interesting observation from a newbie rogue: the Officers in Stormwind have an icon above their heads that looks like an eye, when you are stealthed. Why? What other NPCs do?

Comment by rlindse5

better stealth than rogues
This is actually incorrect, though it is a very common misconception of the abilities BECAUSE!
Most people look at Stealth and just see Apply Aura: Stealth Value: 40
and then look at Prowl and see Apply Aura: Stealth Value: 50
These are the base values you get at the level you can learn the ability.
You also receive 5 value per level gained after learning the ability.
(which is why it's easier to detect lower level rogues than higher level rogues)
Soooo....

For Rogues!
a level 5 rogue has 40 stealth value
a level 6 rogue has 45 stealth value
a level 10 rogue has 65 stealth value
a level 15 rogue has 90 stealth value
a level 85 rogue has 440 stealth value

For Druids!
a level 15 druid has 75 stealth value
a level 85 druid has 425 stealth value

So before modifiers, a rogue of equal level to a druid will always have a greater than or equal level of stealth

Comment by Attis

Do you feel that chill running up your spine?

Comment by spottedtauren

Most of the time when I use stealth of course I don't have a non-combat pet out, but sometimes it
used to be fun to have one out while stealthed to confuse or scare the enemy during pvp.
Occasionally the other player would mistake the non-combat pet just for a critter that was part of the
battleground (or zone if you were just out for some world pvp). Other times the player would recognize
the critter did not belong and would run away when they realized a rogue was approaching.
Either way it was sort of fun to do.

But now, if you stealth the non-combat pet will also become invisible. Sounds nice but it is actually
pretty lame. If I wanted other people to not be able to see my non-combat pet I would not summon it.
I am not sure when (or why) Blizzard made this change but I have not read any other comments about it so I assume
it was rather recent.

Also of course if you are in the same party and are stealthed, all the party members will still be able to see
you and your non-combat pet (this is the same as it has been for as long as I know).

Comment by Error3

This ability does not break eating. Start eating a food and then press stealth to heal up without people being able to see you.

Comment by Auryk

When playing the various mini-games on Darkmoon Island, if you shapeshift or stealth, the Darkmoon Faire action bar will come up over your normal action bar. This can be resolved by reloading your UI.

This is listed in the 4.2.2 Known Issues sticky on the Blizzard Entertainment Bug Report Forum.

Comment by Barhah

As of 4.3.2 I went back and made another rogue (boy howdy do I love making more rogues) and I noticed Stealth no longer seems to lower your movespeed. I'm not sure if this is a glitch or what, but I've confirmed it with my character pane's Move Speed section, and in a foot race with a friend. In fact, Subtlety rogues with the Nightstalker talent move faster than an unstealthed entity, but only while stealthed.

Edort: Whoops, it looks like not only have other people noticed this, but it's been here since 4.1... WoWHead is up to date on this, but WoWWiki isn't, guess I got confused. Well, at least I can add this: the cooldown has been reduced by four seconds, not six. Someone said it was four seconds above me.

Comment by Z3ROH3ALTH

As most of you know, your companion will be present while stealthed, allowing for enemies to easily spot your location. Although, your companion can also be used to your advantage, no matter which vanity pet your currently using. If you use your pet in combination with a Fetch Ball, (which can be used in stealth), it will cause your pet to run to an area of your choice, thus acting as a second "Distract"!

You'll be able to cause your enemies to run down the tunnel in WSG, chasing after your little pet, while you triumphantly grab the flag and sprint to victory!

Comment by UndeadWarlock

It appears that non-combat pets now hide while in Rogue stealth: tested and confirmed with a Rogue friend for both friendly and unfriendly targets. (We dueled) I became curious and decided to test this after seeing a Mage go invisible in EotS and their pet disappearing with them!

Comment by HostDunkelheit

A neat little thing I just noticed and haven't seen pointed out here: You don't seem to leave footprints when stealthed. A nice touch.

Comment by idhauntthat

A must have before going inside women's locker rooms :3

Comment by akhtor

Prior to patch 5.3 you cannot remain in stealth while doing pet battle in enemy cities, interact with target (battle pet) cancels your stealth, so when you will finish fighting, nearest guards probably will attack you before you will enter stealth again.

Comment by Phasha

Here is a fun macro I recently devised after 6.0 launch. It combines 4 abilities, Stealth, Sap, Vanish, and Feint, into one button:

#showtooltip
/cast Vanish; Sap; Stealth
/cast Feint

How to use:

Press the macro:
1) If you are out of combat, not stealthed => Stealth
2) If you are out of combat, stealthed => Sap
3) If you are in combat, not stealthed => Feint

Press alt key + the macro:
1) Cast Vanish

Feel free to leave any comments and feedback on how you like it. =D

Comment by andivicio

Garrison followers that are your bodyguard will stealth with you independent of their class.

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