Are you certain they didn’t use a detect pot?

Detect pots don't pull you out of stealth, they just allow the user to see stealthed enemies and hit them with direct damage to pull them out of stealth.

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

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Detect pots don't pull you out of stealth, they just allow the user to see stealthed enemies and hit them with direct damage to pull them out of stealth.

According to UESP https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Invisibility:

Invisibility causes you to be undetectable by enemies for a short time, instantly entering stealth. This effect differs from traditional stealth in that it is not broken by damage over time effects or an enemy's detection radius. An invisible enemy can still be revealed through the use of stealth suppressing abilities or damage from ground-targeted effects.

Being invisible through the Unnatural Movement for vampires and Nightblade cloak, stealth detection radius and DOTs don't force people out of invisibility nor can they be seen. I was invisible through the Vampire invisibility, so I'm pretty sure.

Your detection radius, which is what is referred to in this article, is the base radius which you pull crouched players from stealth when they are not using shadowy disguise or vamp 4 invis. It is what gets increased by certain things like the CP passive, medium armor passive, etc.

Detection pots grant you a buff called detection, which allows you to see stealthed enemies without pulling them from stealth. You can then attack them directly with direct damage, dots, etc, which will then pull them from stealth.

There are two different mechanics of invisibility. Since people often name these things differently, I'll stick with the following naming convention:

- stealth - invisibility when you crouch. This is easily revealed, as an enemy can come close to you to see you.
- detection radius - the radius within which you can detect a stealthing enemy (i.e., come close and see the enemy crouching).
- invisibility ("true Invisibility") - invisibility granted by a skill (like a nightblade's Cloak, a Vampire's sprint, or an Invisibility Potion). It cannot be revealed by an enemy simply coming close, as stated on UESP (and this is true), but it STILL CAN BE REVEALED by:
- detection potions (and there is no way to know if a person has used one. Well, you will know when you receive damage from them :P)
- skills (like Revealing Flare)
- sets (like the Sentry set)

Each method has its own revealing radius in which it can see an invisible enemy, so if you run far away, detection potion will not be able to reveal you. Each method also works differently: for example, Revealing Flare removes invisibility from target completely, while a detection potion allows you to see target but does not remove invisibility from target and nightblade's Piercing Mark allows you to see a marked target but does not remove the target's invisibility as well.

So, to detect you, this person is using potions (most likely). I can show you how it works if you want, or you can find information online, or if you have friends in game, ask them to help you with testing, just use NB's cloak to get invisibility and try to use detection potion, NB's Mark and Revealing Flare to see what they do. Hf!

Or they were wearing the Sentry set, which allows you to see everyone, regardless of stealth:

Bonuses
2 items: Adds 25-1096 Maximum Stamina
3 items: Adds 3-129 Weapon and Spell Damage
4 items: Adds 15-657 Critical Chance
5 items: Adds 6-266 Weapon and Spell Damage
5 items: When you begin to crouch, gain Stealth Detection for 10 seconds. This effect can only be activated every 30 seconds.

I've used it to see nightblades and vamps in ImpCity.