What use is vanishing act?

[Blakeavon]

<p>I love the AGI aa line cos of bump and poison, so thought i might as well just spend the last 2 points getting vanishing act but for the life of me cant work out why i bothered.</p><p>I presumed it was a faster way to go into stealth (unlike our normal one) so that i can use cheap shot and backstab more often when Bump was down. but no vanishing act doesnt work that way <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> if you use it mid fight you get the message sayign your not in stealth. and it doesnt put you into stealth</p><p>sure the ability to quickly hide the group for 2mins can be handy but why doesnt it act like a normal invis when soling with it</p>

[Jait]

<p>It's just poor man's "smuggle".</p><p>You can take your group past some trash with it.  Very little else.  As you sadly discovered, it's fairly worthless.</p>

[Tri]

it's the best group stealth spell in the game, the debate should be on how usefull is stealth ( PVE ) , but for 2 points it's a nice toy now. And Coin Toss sucks bad, i ve been playing with it and here are the results : -Can finish a newly opened HO wheel if nothing else is cast during the time it takes to complete the wheel ( that applies to anyone in the group <img src="/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> ) -Equivalent of using master lvl 70 spell to finish the wheel, giving the highest HO bonus possible ( +26 in melee skills for example )

[Mildavyn]

Ugh, i HATE that poison proc... breaks mez and its annoying to cancel.

[Kilnger]

Last I checked it, Vanishing Act did not work in combat as it claimed to. If it did, VA would be an amazing PVP Tool as it would become a full group evade (which after a taunt will all but shaft most everyone since they're forced to target nothing). Other then that, it's a smuggle that can be fairly useful if you don't party with the other classes that use smuggle/group invis. If you went that far down agi, may as well pick it up in the end. Instant cast goes a long way.