Guild Wars 2

My idea is that during fights every other class has to fight while being seen and constently being targeted. I play thief mostly and pretty much only WvW anymore. Stopped PvP’ing at rank 40 a few months ago and i am actually getting bored of WvW atm…. SO! I would like to be challenged to step up my thief gameplay and stop playing easy mode.

I honestly believe ppl should have a way to combat stealth, especially with how accessible it is. Thieves WILL still have the advantage over other classes because they can still drop target and (you will see) can go stealth again imminently as long as they didnt hit someone from stealth .. in which case if they did they would get the already in place – revealed debuff. This change would make the game more fun to me, stop ppl from crying, and teach thieves to be better players. It would force them to learn to dodge, keep CD’s ready, and calculate the risk of engagement just like every other class has too!

My ideas are!!
When a stealthed player gets hit it removes stealth but does not apply the revealed debuff. Very simple but it would give a more balanced feel and a way to combat stealth! I truely believe this would help the game..

Of coarse things that wont take you out of stealth are..
AoE fields
conditions
necro marks
guardian staff autoattck (lol that would be bad)
and chain attacks like ranger longbow or rifle warrior (as long as the first attack didnt hit you while in stealth)
ect.

another idea i have is change last refuge and make the player drop BLACK POWDER instead .. they could even gain stealth from that if they know how or are quick enough

reduce ini cost of CnD to 5

increase heart seeker to 3 ini and put a trait 25 to 30 points deep into the trickery line to decrease the ini of all #2 weapon skills by one.. this will make things a little more spammable but the thief would have to sacrifice something to get to it (most likly damage) and it would also make it harder for those d/p to be so cheezy!

shadow refuge should be a stealth pulsing area that does not give the revealed debuff.. it should work like this.. im in stealth in my shadow refuge and it is pulsing every second to give me stealth.. oops i get hit.. my stealth is gone.. pulse.. i have stealth again and they just gor blinded because i have it traited to blind on stealth WIN!

EXAMPLE OF THIEF ON THIEF: 1 thief CnD another thief but then gets CnD’ed.. oops the first lost his stealth but if he can guess where the other is on his next CnD he will have it and not the 2nd thief.

AND get rid of that stealth trap ANET! it is no longer needed.. (after you implement this) and the playing field is now fair game!

The bad thieves will crumble but the good will excel!!

Assassins never die.. because they never enter a fight they will have to run from!

SIGNED Pump The Brakes ( WvW thief from Deso ) better know as blondie

Glass warrior w/ GS & rifle

Stand in corner

spam 1 while thief in range, spam rifle when out of range

win

they already do that. whats your point? thief could stealth and dodge roll out of corner and not get hit! what was thief doing in corner anyway?

Hurtappl.6405:

they already do that. whats your point? thief could stealth and dodge roll out of corner and not get hit! what was thief doing in corner anyway?

Thief is melee, must go near corner. Thief not melee, instantly gets wrecked by warrior rifle.

Hurtappl.6405:

Stopped PvP’ing at rank 40 a few months ago and i am actually getting bored of WvW atm…. SO! I would like to be challenged to step up my thief gameplay and stop playing easy mode.

Cool, do what I did and switch to Necro roaming in WvW. My main was a Guard, but I became bored of how easy it was to stay alive and simply win fights through attrition, so I switched to Necro for a challenge and was not disappointed. It requires a very active style of play and forces you to know the builds of the players you are fighting and predict their actions to win. Fighting multiple opponents is especially hard requiring a lot of kiting, flawless dodge timing, and micro-management of each of the opponents you are fighting against. Plus even if you mess up and lose a 1v1 against a class like a thief, it’s not like anyone will be impressed when the thief brags about killing a Necro :p.

i did actually make a necro recently but i just cant lvl another character for some reason… im not very patient it is really fun tho and hopefully maybe i could someday muster up the strength to go through the grewling lvl system.. but not now .. and you are right NO thieves impress me except Alpha Bladie who still refuses to use stealth and sticks to pistol whip lol LOVE YOU BLADIE

Hurtappl.6405:

i did actually make a necro recently but i just cant lvl another character for some reason… im not very patient it is really fun tho and hopefully maybe i could someday muster up the strength to go through the grewling lvl system.. but not now .. and you are right NO thieves impress me except Alpha Bladie who still refuses to use stealth and sticks to pistol whip lol LOVE YOU BLADIE

Haha, I know exactly how you feel. Coming from GW1 where you could get a char to max level in 6 hrs, this game is absolute murder to level up alt chars. The interesting thing about necros is that they don’t have just 1 or 2 builds that are ridiculously powerful like other classes. They just have a bunch of mediocre builds, which obviously makes fighting other classes very difficult, but at the same time it allows you to be a lot more creative in how you build your character.

Thieves discussing among themselves the OPness of stealth. <3

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/IMO-shadow-arts-trait-line-is-way-op/first#post2065990