How this worked in the past, sadly no longer.

https://youtu.be/f2hizxsys40

Wlnamp wrote: »

stealth (https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Shadow+Cloak) from a night blade in pve does not work against mobs, mobs see you in a stealth.
A typical situation - I went into the dungeon with a group, mobs overheated at me, use the stealth to throw aggro, but the mobs continue to run at me in the stealth and attack, although the distance is quite large (I use the bow)

The shots fired by mobs after I used stealth always hit and drop invisibility.

Most (if not all) dungeon mobs have an infinite leashing radius, meaning they will always pursue you to the death (either your or their) regardless of how far you run.

From my limited testing, it seems that using NB cloak on NPCs has the effect of reducing their effective leashing radius: enemies won't easily deaggro if you keep hanging around near them while being invisible.

But infinity scaled down is still infinity, so the dungeon mob behavior makes perfect sense if you think about it that way

Lysette wrote: »

Wlnamp wrote: »

stealth (https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Shadow+Cloak) from a night blade in pve does not work against mobs, mobs see you in a stealth.
A typical situation - I went into the dungeon with a group, mobs overheated at me, use the stealth to throw aggro, but the mobs continue to run at me in the stealth and attack, although the distance is quite large (I use the bow)

The shots fired by mobs after I used stealth always hit and drop invisibility.

Yeah it is a pvp skill - this is as well what bothers me - that pvp and pve skills are mixed and not marked as such.

In ESO there are many abilities which are effectively PvP-only - in PvE they are either completely useless at worst, and far outclassed by other alternatives at best.
A couple examples I can think of:

• Rune Cage (meh even in PvP after the nerfs, totally pointless in PvE),
• Haunting Curse (PvP delayed burst ability, a rather meh DoT for PvE),
• Defensive Rune (PvP anti-gank aid),
• Shadowy Disguise (only useful for some PvE quest content requiring stealth, otherwise PvP only),
• Shadow Image (PvP gap creator tool, useless in PvE),
• etc.

Curiously, many of the abilities in the Alliance War skill line are also BiS for PvE: Vigor, Warhorn, Barrier, Purge, Rapid Maneuver... to name a few.