The Vanish BugFollow

Can someone please explain what the exact nature of the "Vanish bug" is.

It's existence, and discussions about it, have (for some reason) become a little more prevalent on blogs and forums of late; And I must be honest, I can't say I've noticed it bugging for me in any way, and I use it a lot (I still think I'm a warrior and believe I can take a beating ;-> ).

I'm guessing it's related to Vanish not working in certain circumstances (and not if you have a DoT on you - that goes without saying), I would just like to know what those situations are.

I have, in all likelihood experienced it, but have not noticed it.

There used to be something with two rogues pulling each other out of vanish when their hitboxes touched, or something similar to that, but believe Blizz finally acknowledged and patched the problem. I've noticed that if I CoS/Vanish (I removed the macro after several mishaps) out of multiple dots in a BG that occasionally I'll get pulled back out of stealth, but quantified it as a lag issue rather than a vanish bug.

'The vanish bug' basically means when you vanish, it should work (I.E. no DOTs/effects on you) but it doesn't, you simply enter stealth and leave it again right away. I've actually had it happen twice in a dual yesterday, and twice in 4 arena games as well. It's particulary annoying.

I suppose it's unfixable (unless the rogue gets 0,5 sec of complete immunity) because when you get hit and you vanish, server lag sometimes puts the vanish first, then the hit, resulting in your stealth getting immediatly removed.

I've never had much problems with it but for me it definitely still exists; in fact, it has never happened 4 times on one evening for me before like it has yesterday.

It is, it's happened several times to me. Seeing a raptor run at me from mid to DR in EOTS when I'm stealthed w/o a mark on me sucks.

let me expand.

Every action we do in wow is a button click ofcourse. Latency is the time it takes between our click and for the message to reach the wow servers for it to react ingame.

Now the problem here is that lag sorta messes with vanish in this way. With a the relative times and latency of your vanish and the enemies attack. Whats more is your at a disadvantage against AI enemies, who the server can shoot off actions immediately [no latency issues for mobs] while your vanish takes 0.5 or 0.3 [from what i understand every 100 latency is = every 0.1 seconds of lag in terms of button clicking to action occuring time].

Now if you count in the slight server lag, your lag and a load of enemies on your ***, your vanish is toast. I ussually justify this by thinking "hey if it was real life with loads of frenzied enemies, they would have a chance to hit me through the smoke", though its just me justifying a BS situation.

Theres no real way to solve this sorta problem.

Whats annoying is how hunter or warlock pets sometimes follow and attack though it seems you set off a vanish from a good distance. But iv