Guild Wars 2

I play an evasive ranger.. and my second most played is a thief
cleric amulet
rune of the flock
sword/ dagger for 3 evasive attacks
traited to lower sword and offhand cd’s
healing regen signet
0/0/30/10/30
16k health
1388 healing power
3k armor
50 endurance up keep
troll urguent is my heal (pop it as soon as i go into battle)
ect
ect..
now i do well against a lot of ppl.. and i hate/ love backstab but my idea on it that would personally help my main toon is.. that while the thief is stealthed and throws the backstab at me and misses ( because as soon as they disapear i start evading) i believe they should pop out of stealth!.. if they were blocked they would or if the target was immune why not evade? no harm right they can restealth in 3 sec and i do 400 damage a hit WOW lol! k im done! good day

i would also like to say i am rank 30 and have been running this build since the 3 day head start.. just for any nah sayers

the immortal ranger build is still alive?

i think it is a valid point. very gamebreaking, but still valid.

- a thief

I like this idea.

I don’t mind the idea of adding a risk factor to BS. It’d force BS thieves to be much more mindful when they strike.

what could it be more mindful than having only 1 chance to hit your back to trigger the max damage with no armor and nor hp, having also the stealth debuff on you?

Yes. In my experience using BS (in PvE) as with all stealth skills, they have a no harm, no foul kind of execution. If you miss, you didn’t attack, so you don’t lose stealth. (AS is more strict, but now 2-4 more chances, albeit at 15% instead of 50%) so you can try again before you lose stealth, especially now with the AS fix.

Dual.8953:

Yes. In my experience using BS (in PvE) as with all stealth skills, they have a no harm, no foul kind of execution. If you miss, you didn’t attack, so you don’t lose stealth. (AS is more strict, but now 2-4 more chances, albeit at 15% instead of 50%) so you can try again before you lose stealth, especially now with the AS fix.

if the thief was fixed so attacking air still reveal stealth, you have only 1 chance to hit with backstab, hence my question about mindfull thief.

right now yeah, if you miss you can try again

i personally dont care if they are to far away and attack and miss.. sometimes i go into stealth on my thief and backstab the air 3 times in a row for fun. All i really care about is lining up evade with things like (a hit, a block, immune) ect. those all bring the thief out of stealth except evade. if an assassin attacks but the samurai has faster reflexes the assassin is no longer hidden

They can do 2 things without nerfing any damage for the Thiefs
1) Steal doesnt grand u stealth (no free Backstab > they will have to use the cCloack and Daggers first)
2) Steal triggers a 0.5 global cooldount to all Thief spells ( give a small reaction time for the player to dodge-react)

killthehealersffs.. dont talk! that has nothing to do with evade get out of here

Shukran.4851:

Dual.8953:

Yes. In my experience using BS (in PvE) as with all stealth skills, they have a no harm, no foul kind of execution. If you miss, you didn’t attack, so you don’t lose stealth. (AS is more strict, but now 2-4 more chances, albeit at 15% instead of 50%) so you can try again before you lose stealth, especially now with the AS fix.

if the thief was fixed so attacking air still reveal stealth, you have only 1 chance to hit with backstab, hence my question about mindfull thief.

right now yeah, if you miss you can try again

It’s mindful because you have to be sure you’ll hit or you’ll suffer grave consequences. Puts more pressure on the thief.