Once you are in attack mode and target an archer, he will automaticaly attack you while you are still in stealth mode (KR client here). Dont think its a cheat.
**Noticed too late that your are speaking as thief, but maybe interesting for new pvp stealthers:
Only solution i found is to target people only if you are close enough to move out of stealth anyway and do your..erm..18 dmg or so. Good thing is, while he is forced to to laugh at you, you have time to sneak away. If someone has an idea how to compensate Stealth and Hiding skill to make enough meelee damage...i am a big ear. "Boh!" doesnt work to make them run after a DS.
If ninja, dont forget they can see you smoking (animal form), at least i can in KR. Tons of other ways to unhide you.
If new to PVP i would train to "escape" for several days or weeks.
With GM hiding and smoke bomb you will survive 9 of 10 encounters if you dont want to do damage. Staying visible to make damage is deadly if you dont have a very good feeling for your hiding skill. It takes a very good timing to rely on it, i.e its easy to hide while an arrow is still flying at you to reveal you again.
Sneak in distance to your enemy for a while (with wolf form) to see if he is able to reveal you easily, get slowly closer to be sure he is a blind fish.
Dont be lazy, check his equip. Many PVPers have their weapon special blow already "loaded". Its good to know what their first strike could do.
At beginning try guys with melee weapons. Then archers.
Found Mages usualy are easier to escape from then archers, but their spells are confusing at beginning.
Once you got a feeling for it, you can experiment with dealing your first damage, "good" PVPers usualy react in the same way (heck, you guys could even change your scripts from time to time

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Smoke Bombs and some Enchanted Apples are your friends.
Good thing about stealthing is you can choose your enemy. If you think someone is a cheater..lay down a muffin, its the only thing he could handle.
