Shadow Dance Bug, Please Fix

#0 - March 25, 2010, 10:11 p.m.

When you cast Shadow Dance, a new bar appears much like if you enter stealth or any other "form." However, if a Rogue casts the Vanish ability while Shadow Dancing, their stealth bar will replace their Shadow Dance bar. This I don't have a problem with.

When the Rogue comes out of vanish, while Shadow Dance is still up, the Shadow Dance bar will not return despite the buff being up. The Rogue's original bars will appear, instead of the final seconds of what should be the Shadow Dance bar.

This is a crucial, crippling bug that needs to be fixed. Many, many times does a rogue need to vanish while Shadow Dancing to avoid CC, to break CC, and then have their Shadow Dance ruined by a UI error.

Please address this issue. I hope I typed it clearly enough.

tl;dr Shadow Dance UI gets bugged out if the rogue vanishes while it's up.

Ghostcrawler

#11 - March 26, 2010, 6:36 p.m.

It's technically not a bug. It's just a limitation in how the bars work. Rogues essentially have 3 bars and there are just some technical reasons why we can't go back to the Shadow Dance bar once we've dropped it.

I think the real solution is probably to make it so you can't / don't want to Vanish while dancing. I assume you're Vanishing to get out of roots or dodge spells, but we could solve those in other ways. The spell dodging part of Vanish has been so frustrating to rogues for so long that frankly I'd rather figure out another way to get the same functionality that would feel better all around and leave Vanish as strictly "you want to go back into stealth."