Trinitycore: [3.3.5] Stealth + Absorb vs Channeled spells

Created on 17 Dec 2017 · 12Comments · Source: TrinityCore/TrinityCore

Description: Channeled spells like Blizzard, should remove Stealth even if some absorb is active

Current behaviour: Stealth is removed only after absorb fades

Expected behaviour: Rogue lose stealth when hitted by blizzard, even if has some absorb effect active

Steps to reproduce the problem:

Put a rogue in duel with a Mage
Cast stealth with rogue, add some absorb effect (like power word shield)
Cast Blizzard on rogue location

Branch(es): 3.3.5

TC rev. hash/commit: 484c681e43057baf65079291d0e886b454dce7b8

Has some info about it here: http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/163617-power-word-shield-and-stealth/

Branch-3.3.5a Comp-Core Sub-Spells

Source

Keader

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I think the information from wowwiki and gamepedia is risky to consider, because anyone can edit them without being sure if it's really how it should work. Video fragments like the ones you mentioned is a lot safer imo.

Being wikis you can always see the change history and go back to an old revision of the text

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Power_Word:_Shield

In PvP, this spell can be enormously helpful to rogues and Feral druids: if they take any sort of damage (including AoE and DoT), they will be broken out of [Stealth], which can expose them unexpectedly - and often fatally. Shielding a stealthed ally will protect them from these forms of damage, allowing them to jump out of stealth at their own leisure.

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Word:_Shield

In PvP, this spell can be a huge boon to bestow on Rogues and Feral Druids. Any damage taken will unstealth a character. However, if you Power Word: Shield a Rogue, AoE damage that doesn't get through the shield is absorbed, which greatly increases the difficulty of finding a Rogue by laying down an AoE. Power Word: Shield will also absorb the damage from DoT's, allowing DoT'd Rogues to Vanish safely. Just know that if the AoE or DoT damage is greater than the shield will take, then the actual character will take damage and stealth will become undone.

Unrelated to the bug, it's not about damage but initial spell hit (works similar to consecration, see #19008 )

ariel- on 26 Dec 2017

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Not only channeled but AOE spells like Holy Nova, Frost Nova, Shadowfury etc don't put the target out of stealth also.
Ground spells with a duration like DnD and Consecration is supposed to remove stealth only if it hits the target on cast.

Some videos:
https://youtu.be/EwLOcI4h_kg?t=530 (Holy Nova)
https://youtu.be/MKxGDeyMbGc?t=700 (Arcane Explosion)

Nertx on 21 Dec 2017

I think @ariel- worked on that some time ago. The following fragments show an invisible mage who finds the rogue with an arcane explosion and / or frost nova. Note that the rogue has PWS buff some time ago.

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Noryad on 22 Dec 2017

This information
http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/163617-power-word-shield-and-stealth/
https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/5168867416

is related to the videos above, however:

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Power_Word:_Shield

In PvP, this spell can be enormously helpful to rogues and Feral druids: if they take any sort of damage (including AoE and DoT), they will be broken out of [Stealth], which can expose them unexpectedly - and often fatally. Shielding a stealthed ally will protect them from these forms of damage, allowing them to jump out of stealth at their own leisure.

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Word:_Shield

In PvP, this spell can be a huge boon to bestow on Rogues and Feral Druids. Any damage taken will unstealth a character. However, if you Power Word: Shield a Rogue, AoE damage that doesn't get through the shield is absorbed, which greatly increases the difficulty of finding a Rogue by laying down an AoE. Power Word: Shield will also absorb the damage from DoT's, allowing DoT'd Rogues to Vanish safely. Just know that if the AoE or DoT damage is greater than the shield will take, then the actual character will take damage and stealth will become undone.

Noryad on 24 Dec 2017

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I think the information from wowwiki and gamepedia is risky to consider, because anyone can edit them without being sure if it's really how it should work. Video fragments like the ones you mentioned is a lot safer imo.

Nertx on 24 Dec 2017

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I think the information from wowwiki and gamepedia is risky to consider, because anyone can edit them without being sure if it's really how it should work. Video fragments like the ones you mentioned is a lot safer imo.

Being wikis you can always see the change history and go back to an old revision of the text

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Power_Word:_Shield

In PvP, this spell can be enormously helpful to rogues and Feral druids: if they take any sort of damage (including AoE and DoT), they will be broken out of [Stealth], which can expose them unexpectedly - and often fatally. Shielding a stealthed ally will protect them from these forms of damage, allowing them to jump out of stealth at their own leisure.

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Word:_Shield

In PvP, this spell can be a huge boon to bestow on Rogues and Feral Druids. Any damage taken will unstealth a character. However, if you Power Word: Shield a Rogue, AoE damage that doesn't get through the shield is absorbed, which greatly increases the difficulty of finding a Rogue by laying down an AoE. Power Word: Shield will also absorb the damage from DoT's, allowing DoT'd Rogues to Vanish safely. Just know that if the AoE or DoT damage is greater than the shield will take, then the actual character will take damage and stealth will become undone.

Unrelated to the bug, it's not about damage but initial spell hit (works similar to consecration, see #19008 )

ariel- on 26 Dec 2017

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Does this work? I tested it in pvp when the player took damage only he was put out of stealth.

Patch:
https://gist.github.com/Langerz82/352015142089588b4cf2dbf634d74b73