Placate broken in latest patch?

Is anyone having problems with placate after the latest patch?

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Stalkers' Placate ability no longer grants the same strength Stealth in PvP as Hide. It is now roughly 75% as effective as the stealth from Hide. This should reduce the ability of Stalkers to fade out of view of an entire group of players after attacking.

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The Americans have discussed the problems they're finding in PvP here and here.

Is anyone else finding it's changed in PvE as well?

Yesterday I was soloing and with my difficulty setting was coming up against two or three red and purple conning bosses within my missions although the spawn sizes were generally only two or three mobs. A nice challenge!

My normal tactic is to AS the minion, placate the boss, run off to allow things to recharge, return with built up AS then either scrap to the death or rinse and repeat depending on how things are going. This normally works well with the boss ignoring me for long enough to get out of aggro range.

Trying this after the patch is very different though. Now the minion drops, I placate the boss, he looks at me running away, thinks for a second, launches an attack then chases after me! This was happening repeatedly against Freak Tanks, Underbosses, Longbow Officers, Archons, Arachnos spider fellas; every boss that I came across. I didn't notice this happening against lieutenants or minions (mainly because here placate is used to set up a critical).

Is anyone else experiencing this?
Is this working as intended?

i've had the same problem

i've also noticed that when running around with hide on i seem to get spotted and shot at since the patch.

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i've also noticed that when running around with hide on i seem to get spotted and shot at since the patch.

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I'm getting the odd enemy seeing through Hide, and I'm not talking about Cone attacks here.

same prob hear too

and when i flee hide again and come back boss seems to still are loocked to me and sometimes break my hide

i have too an odd bug. sometimes when i AS the animation of the power start and in my toolbar i see it has been used, but the power itself do nothing. i mean no damage or miss message, and i am still hidden.

O_o

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i have too an odd bug. sometimes when i AS the animation of the power start and in my toolbar i see it has been used, but the power itself do nothing. i mean no damage or miss message, and i am still hidden.

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This happens when you start to AS someone and he goes out of your line of sight(behind corner or jumps off rooftop).

if it had been like that ok but it do it against non moving foe too ..
so still "O_o"

happens to me in millions of mishs

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i have too an odd bug. sometimes when i AS the animation of the power start and in my toolbar i see it has been used, but the power itself do nothing. i mean no damage or miss message, and i am still hidden.

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Well-known bug, no fix in sight at the moment.

oki

i do some thread necromancy cause i really need advices.
today in bloody i had a fun duel with a dark/sr rava
the duel was very srappy like i like them but my problem is that it seems it became impossible to use placate effectively
i placated him 6 or 7 time, half the time he was able to attack me still. other half i tempted to place an AS just after the placate and everytime he was interupting it by a punch or a drain or a fear and that was not queued attack

so if placate don't make us untargetable ( remember you now are seen by every body whith placate) what use doest it have?

i mean AS was really totally useles in this figth i did fight with only punch lunge and impal. how i am supposed to take down a foe with that?

SR has +perception in focused senses so he could still see you also with the reduced stealth in placate now (75% stealth in placate)

What you expect tobe hidden from everyone?

HAHAHAHAHA *cough cough* silly Stalkers...

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SR has +perception in focused senses so he could still see you also with the reduced stealth in placate now (75% stealth in placate)

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i know that.but, hidden or not placate has the purpose to ùake the user untargetable by one target for some sec. (not to hide him).

and it's clearly not the case. he still can hit me. that's the prob cause with a drain or a fear always ready, using placate for placing an AS is now impossible?

so what use have placate now? i mean i take a power slot and as far as i'm concerned no it do't worth to take it instead of an attack (which stlaker lack IMO)

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What you expect tobe hidden from everyone?

HAHAHAHAHA *cough cough* silly Stalkers...


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very interesting intervention, really. but not the point and not even a bit funny.

Actually this may be a bug. I just had a fight in warburg, where I and the stalker did some tests after the placate had failed 2 times. I checked my combat log, and it read: "You have been placated. You cannot target Captain Skyfire" (that is, myself!).

When we tried to reproduce it we couldnt do it, but when we were fighting and jumping around it happened at least twice. Maybe its a distance issue or something..

so technical/bug issue report?

Yes, this should be bug reported imo, if you can test it with someone in pvp and figure out what situation causes it then definitely..

bah like you said it's weird cause in a non fight i mean if i stand near a heros and placte him it seems to work. but when in fignt at the same distance with no queued attack he said i am still targetable like i did not used placate :/