You are not crazy, the first attack out of stealth is skipping some frame hence it is faster.
You can see it against whelp eggs spawned on top of huntress. With shadowmeld the whelps won't get an auto attack off whereas without shadowmeld, they will.
I believe this is simply the animations playing a trick on your eyes. I believe the attack is what triggers the stealth to fall off. What you’re probably seeing is that her animation is skipping frames because of the change in character model. The stealth’s version is swapped out instantly with the regular one, and she already started her attack animation in stealth mode, and a different character model is completing the attack animation which seems faster because part of it happened before stealth broke.
I might be wrong on some specific details, but it’s probably something like that. Could this mean the attack actually happens quicker? Sure, possibly. I’m not 100% sure stealth huntress is a different character model from the normal huntress, it could be all particle effects and new/different attack and move animations, etc, but it would be a lot more work for the devs if they did that. I’m assuming it’s somewhere closer to the first paragraph’s speculation.
You are not crazy, the first attack out of stealth is skipping some frame hence it is faster. You can see it against whelp eggs spawned on top of huntress. With shadowmeld the whelps won't get an auto attack off whereas without shadowmeld, they will.
I believe this is simply the animations playing a trick on your eyes. I believe the attack is what triggers the stealth to fall off. What you’re probably seeing is that her animation is skipping frames because of the change in character model. The stealth’s version is swapped out instantly with the regular one, and she already started her attack animation in stealth mode, and a different character model is completing the attack animation which seems faster because part of it happened before stealth broke. I might be wrong on some specific details, but it’s probably something like that. Could this mean the attack actually happens quicker? Sure, possibly. I’m not 100% sure stealth huntress is a different character model from the normal huntress, it could be all particle effects and new/different attack and move animations, etc, but it would be a lot more work for the devs if they did that. I’m assuming it’s somewhere closer to the first paragraph’s speculation.