EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SNEAK ATTACK.

It's a technique rye. I know that even the sneak you cast will have no aggro because you didn't atk boss yet. What I do now is after they atk boss I cast manual crossfire and manual sneak zero aggro. Then I cast decoy it's a target cast so it'll already take aggro but my sneak is already activated by that time. That's how I escape crossfire aggro at start of battle.

 

We can test again if you want.

 

Yes, casting it manually would be your 1st move. I never mentioned about crossfire and decoy, since I am giving a general idea not confined on snipers/crossfire alone.

Life for example, we farm sdm with party consist of 1 crossfire, 1 garyou and 2 finale. I use sneak manually before using impact finale sneak combo. Everybody is spamming and I don't get aggro. ^_^

 

Yeah correct, works also at the start of boss battles. Shhhh let's be quiet now shall we? XD

 

Me and @TheXIIIthGuy confirmed just now.
It absolutely bypasses it doesnt consume at all.
You probably got aggro from cast sneak + crossfire + decoy + gswield all at once since they all bypass sneak.

 

Sneak attack can be a good opener, a lot of 2h users use astute as an opener. 2h users usually have more AMPR than archers, but I think since archers have decoy now it's not a problem.

 

so if i used sneak with save tag or consec at suitable order, will it generate 0 aggro?

 

No, combo tags does not affect the aggro generated by a skill's mp cost. A 400mp skill will still generate 400 aggro even if you reduced its cost to 0.

 

quick aura is actually in my combo, bless> sneak> quick aura> holy fist, apparently; after me casting quick aura- boss now chasing me. I'm predicting that this is some kind of bug.

 

Sneak still generates aggro of it's own. Also Bless will generate as well. If you don't wait for someone else to cast skills, you may take aggro.

 

So, is it really decoy was counted by sneak and not suit for silent dps archer? Can somebody give me pointer how to cast cf buff but still out off aggro?

Sorry for my bad englush

 

1.) Do ghost/fake hit. Search YouTube if you don't know. But if you did, you have to ditch impact and war cry skill.

2.) Manually cast Sneak before doing your combo. You have to ditch impact and Warcry too.

3.)Easiest way would be is to have a tank.

 

Decoy is covered by sneak if on boss map and not covered (bypassed) if on mini boss map. Can be a bug? Who knows.
If you want to get 0 aggro I dont recommend using decoy.

Still doable with impact.

 

But you got to hit the boss right?

 

No need. No hit = no aggro = no sneak consumed.

 

Thanks all, I was reset decoy although it give me little headache about mp XD

 

Decoy is still very good skill to have. Just dont use it when party requires extreme minimum aggro like in gem runs.

 

Really? Ahhh my bad, reset skill was ended,