Guild Wars 2

like the title asks, if a thief comes out of stealth and has reveal on him and i put the new sick’em reveal debuff on him, will it stack duration ? or will it override the current one ?

Hopefully none of the two. If he’s not in stealth and has already the revealed debuff the CD should be blown

I’m guessing you’re a thief !
blowing the CD makes it totally irrelevant, and not stacking the debuff duration also makes it pointless, as we have seen already a 4 second reveal debuff does absolutely nothing to moderate stealth abuse !

if it does stack, thieves would actually think twice before engaging, as running away would be difficult with an 8 seconds stealth debuff.

Whether Fasalina is a thief or not, I think the idea is smart use of skills. Are you saying that if a thief is not in stealth and does not have a reveal debuff, then you want sic ‘em to add the debuff? That’s not lending way to smart use of skills, but just spamming it and hoping it helps. I hope it only works against actual stealth to promote smart gameplay.

um, did you actually read what the dev’s were saying about the skill at all ?
the whole point is to apply reveal debuff when the thief is not in stealth, if he is in stealth sick’em doesn’t work at all.

my question pertains to when the thief comes out of stealth by attacking with say backstab and triggers his reveal debuff, than would applying my reveal debuff from sick’em stack to it or just plain miss or override the one present ?

if it overrides present debuff, it becomes useless.
if it doesn’t stack what’s the point !
if it misses, why bother creating the skill in the 1st place.

you talk about smart skill usage, how about using my debuff the smart way and waiting for him to ambush and apply his debuff than i apply mine and double his reveal debuff timer, instead of applying it to a thief that doesn’t have the debuff at all.

Seras.5702:

Whether Fasalina is a thief or not, I think the idea is smart use of skills. Are you saying that if a thief is not in stealth and does not have a reveal debuff, then you want sic ‘em to add the debuff? That’s not lending way to smart use of skills, but just spamming it and hoping it helps. I hope it only works against actual stealth to promote smart gameplay.

If I recall from the live stream, it works the opposite way (seeing as you can’t target someone who is in stealth). It now applies the revealed debuff to the target. And it has plenty of ways to be used in an intelligent way.

They are getting low on hp, and you fear that they’ll stealth/disengage, reveal them so they can’t run while you do the last bit of damage. The devs also suggested another one; reveal them when they are down so they can’t stealth out of a kill.

If it only worked vs. stealthed targets, doesn’t that make it the opposite of smart? Just wait till they stealth, and then directly counter it, instead of having to figure out when is a good time to use it preemptively.