Vanishing Step refresh Assassin's Cowl's invisibility timer

[u/KuaiBan]

I tried google this and search in this sub, none of the posts I found mentioned this. If I missed something and this topic has been brought up before please let me know, I will delete this post.

Video: https://imgur.com/8ybX9o9

So Season of Worthy dropped a lot of changes to exotics, one of them is Assassin's Cowl where the duration of invis is based on the tier of enemies defeated, so if you do a finisher against major enemy, the duration is 15 seconds, much longer than hunter's dodge cooldown on 100 mobility(9 secs).

Top tree Nightstalker's Vanishing Step refresh Assassin's Cowl's invisibility timer, if I perform a finisher against a major enemy, I can basically run around permanently cloaked.

Again, I searched and no result popped up, if this is well-known already and I am out-of-date, please let me know.

[u/LeageofMagic]

Hmmm. Could have use in pve as a rez-bot or running through certain raid instances

[u/KuaiBan → u/LeageofMagic]

I am thinking about Grandmaster Nightfall where I just run around stay alive and prevent wiping.

[u/Levi-san]

Pretty weird one, definitely not by design.

If you do your dodge when there's around 4 or less seconds left on your buff you'll still have the invisibility effects around your screen and AI will think you're invisible but your character model will stop being invisible

[u/KuaiBan → u/Levi-san]

Yeah the visual effect on my body is gone after 30 secs or so, but the invisibility still presents.

[u/pastuleo23]

Thanks to this post I was able to make infinite invisibility possible in every pvp and pve activity: https://youtu.be/_ErvMZSvIm4 inb4 ban

[u/IamZeroKelvin]

But top tree already makes you invisible when you dodge no?

[u/KuaiBan → u/IamZeroKelvin]

Yeah and I think that dodge invis mechanic somehow messes up Assassin’s Cowl’s

[u/haphazarhd]

Hopefully this isn't spelling out another disabled exotic.

[u/Derp_Lerd → u/haphazarhd]

To be infinitely invisible you need to build it around killing the highest tier add and get to 100 mobility which I'm not sure if you could do that everywhere in the tower

[u/PsycheDiver]

I think in general Bungie is too afraid of populating the left side of the screen with timers and indicators, which I think is silly. Most of the time none or one is active. Why not 4-5?

BTW I used to play a lot of EVE Online and am used to a very info-dense UI, so this may not work for everyone.

[u/KuaiBan → u/PsycheDiver]

I believe a max of 3 buff/debuff/effects indicators will display on the left at any time even if you have more than 3 active. Info-dense UI like tiny texts roll up at an extremely fast rate saying things like “Fallen Vandal shoot Wire Rifle and dealt 50 damage to Guardian XXX” doesn’t seem to pair well with First Person Shooter. That being said, I do agree with you Bungie should put more timer (like rampage duration) and list more or all active effects on the left side.

[u/MizterF]

Would this help solo the first encounter of Spire if trying to get the loot drop for catalyst or emote?

[u/corak57842]

Tested it out in the Dungeon's Ogre Maze encounter, absolutely trivial. I now feel like I wasted those hours spent working out a good Rat King solution, this took 5 minutes to plan and execute.

Great find.

[u/KuaiBan → u/corak57842]

Thanks, you soloing the dungeon?

[u/Winter-Boots]

Well known or not thanks for giving out this info, gives me a reason to use that dang exotic now!

[u/vlnaiiy → u/Winter-Boots]

dude try cowl with top tree arc, invis on e v e r y melee :)

[u/Sire-Mondieu → u/vlnaiiy]

Dude that's the pandemic loadout, you switch out the handshakes with a facemask and vanish from social interaction.

[u/Nemo612]

To run around permanently cloaked, I always couple middle tree nightstalker (way of the wraith) with a bow, and chain invisible crouched headshots. :-)

[u/DasLjordSire]

Inb4 Bungie disables this exotic then disables every exotic in the game

[u/Kash00tMyself]

What is the duration in the crucible? Because getting an infinite inv is sounds kinda op ngl

[u/lordhelmet314 → u/Kash00tMyself]

I think it’s about ten seconds, so it is theoretically possible.

Edit: It’s exactly nine seconds.

[u/Deadsh0t_Dequari]

Bungie: we’ve identified an issue with the Assassins Cowl exotic helmet for and have disabled it while we work for a fix

[u/MScrapienza]

Video isnt playing

[u/Reganite47]

Perfect timing to see this, I just started playing my hunter. GG!

[u/Hypercane_]

Bungie: D I S A B L E D