Guild Wars 2

Why was the new anti stealth trap added? Did you do any testing on potential impact on the thief class? Will we see other traps in the future such as; anti pet trap, anti clone trap, anti boons trap, etc?

Your reply would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

1) This is a WvW question, so this is the wrong forum.
2) The stealth trap will not hurt thieves. No one is going to waste 15 badges, 525 Karma, and 10 supply to break stealth on a single thief for 30 seconds. No point.
3) The stealth trap hurts mesmers more than anything. They can be placed across broken walls to catch mesmers trying to sneak-port. They can be placed outside portals to keep veil-rushes from being possible. Pretty much every good use for them involves effectively stunting mesmers in some way.

I’m a Thief and a huge Thief advocate, but really I don’t see this being as horrible as some people make it out. Like Hick says, it’s a pretty limited resource that isn’t gonna be tossed around willy-nilly, so you won’t have people dropping them at their feet in the middle of PvP. (or sure as heck not very often) And if it’s the cost of making some people stop whining about Stealth, (of course it won’t) that’d be worth it in itself.

they added this because every single day everyone cryed out loud how mesmers and thieves are so overpowered they should shut down them from the memory of the game (i really think most of them never played a mesmer or a thief in wvwvw, or even worse they died as mesmers and thieves quite a lot and they don’t want you to be better)