Guild Wars 2

So, one of my tactics, in pvp and wvw at least, has been to cloak, evade backwards and cast some phantasms while repositioning before my stealth expires.

These new initial attacks when casting a phantasm comes from the character, this means that you can no longer cast phantasms while in cloak without potentially breaking your cloak early. And from what I saw a dev say, they plan on adding initial attacks to more phantasms over time.

I honestly thought that being able to use some skills, such as phantasms, in cloak, was intentional. Was this done intentionally to break cloaks if you cast a phantasm? This seems a significant nerf in exchange for a weak buff, ESPECIALLY for pMage, lying right next door to a stealth skill.

So was this intentional?

If it’s intentional, I hope it remains.

All attacks break cloak. Rules are only rules when they apply to everyone.

Time to try some new tactics. There are usually advantages and disadvantages to all balance patches. This one sounds like it’s disadvantaged you.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

All attacks break cloak. Rules are only rules when they apply to everyone.

Of course they do, but summoning phantasms wasnt originally an attack. Thats the point.

Vayne.8563:

Time to try some new tactics. There are usually advantages and disadvantages to all balance patches. This one sounds like it’s disadvantaged you.

True. I’m very disappointed in this aspect, but the point of this was I wanted to know just how intentional this was; they talked about how this was a buff, without mentioning that nerf that came along with it, so I just wanted to know how intentional this stealth interaction was.