Guild Wars 2

The description of “Sic Em”
Your pet rushes at your foe, revealing them and dealing increased damage.

I’ve been testing this skill for several months but it is not working as the description says – revealing foe. and how many target(s).

1) I activated the skill and thief goes poof , into thin air. my trap works better.

2) I activated after the foe goes poof, pets not doing anything because there’s no target …. what is this skill for exactly?

need to be look into because as of now its not doing anything.

Its one of the better made hardcounters to stealth they introduced, because it makes you think when to use it. You need to have the thief in your target and activate it while the thief is still visible. So when you pressure him and he wants to go into stealth to clear condis, regenerate health, etc, you can deny that for some time, giving you time to finish him. Timing it correctly can screw any thief and sometimes mesmer.
Other uses:

-thief uses black powder in order to stealth with heartseeker through it —> activate sic Em so the combo wont work

-mesmer wants to use mass invis (long casting time). —> sic em completely negates the elite

-thief runs to a downed target to get them both stealthed and rezz him. Use sic em for easier targeting, no health regeneration and no damage reduction.

Think ahead when to use it and it makes it far to easy against thieves.

It doesn’t work is what is am saying. tested it for several months its not doing what it should. maybe i need more practice. … but so far its not working.

SweetPotato.7456:

It doesn’t work is what is am saying. tested it for several months its not doing what it should. maybe i need more practice. … but so far its not working.

1.) Target the visible thief.
2.) Press “Sick ’Em!” to put the ‘Revealed debuff’ for 6seconds on the thief. → Thief can’t enter stealth for 6 seconds.

(At the same time your pet gets the buff ‘Sick ’Em!’ for 10 seconds, which increases its damage and movement by 40%. The buff is on your current pet, so don’t swap it.)

Teutos.8620:

SweetPotato.7456:

It doesn’t work is what is am saying. tested it for several months its not doing what it should. maybe i need more practice. … but so far its not working.

1.) Target the visible thief.
2.) Press “Sick ’Em!” to put the ‘Revealed debuff’ for 6seconds on the thief. -> Thief can’t enter stealth for 6 seconds.

(At the same time your pet gets the buff ‘Sick ’Em!’ for 10 seconds, which increases its damage and movement by 40%. The buff is on your current pet, so don’t swap it.)

You do not need line of sight. As long as you have the thief targeted, it will work. Sic Em will bypass blind, line of sight, dodge, block, and 99% sure invul.

Teutos.8620:

SweetPotato.7456:

It doesn’t work is what is am saying. tested it for several months its not doing what it should. maybe i need more practice. … but so far its not working.

1.) Target the visible thief.
2.) Press “Sick ’Em!” to put the ‘Revealed debuff’ for 6seconds on the thief. -> Thief can’t enter stealth for 6 seconds.

(At the same time your pet gets the buff ‘Sick ’Em!’ for 10 seconds, which increases its damage and movement by 40%. The buff is on your current pet, so don’t swap it.)

Also make sure you don’t issue any other pet commands like its f2 or the pet will lose the damage and speed buff.

Ive been running shouts for a rather long time. Sic Em is working. The only part of the skill that might not work is the dmg and speed buff. But as Puck mentioned thats only if you give the pet another command after the initial use.

I just played a full dodge build (wasn’t sure what utilities to add) so I tossed around things and came to Sic’em. Sic’em when you double Hyena is LETHAL. Just saying… So full dodge, ogre rune, activate hyena, sic’em- proceed to let AI 3v1 the Thief/Mesmer while I go on my marry way.

This is a learn to play issue. Sic em works fine.

Eurantien.4632:

This is a learn to play issue. Sic em works fine.

Unless they fixed it, the Sic’em buff on the pet gets removed the moment you issue a command to the pet or use another shout. So no, Sic’em does not work fine.

I don’t understand how hard it is to use a 1200 range insta cast reveal skill….

“Sic Em!” works when I use it, but if I give the pet a command its bonus damage goes away which is :/

The reveal is only six seconds. You’re probably using it a the wrong time when the thief doesn’t want to stealth to begin with, then when he wants to your revealed has run out.

All this reply just reinforce that “sic em” need to be be look into or something. its not doing what its doing.

SweetPotato.7456:

All this reply just reinforce that “sic em” need to be be look into or something. its not doing what its doing.

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We’ve told you exactly how it works. The reveal needs to be applied while you still have a target (before he stealths). The pets damage and speed buff works as long as you don’t issue another command (which includes f2).

I wouldn’t mind if they changed it so you could use sic ‘em in conjunction with the pets f2 for a nice damage spike, or if they changed the way the skill worked so it provided an aoe reveal that forced people out of stealth. But this is just wishful thinking, the skill consistently works in the ways I described above. If something isn’t working for you, odds are you made a mistake.

Looks like this was just updated
“Sic ‘Em”: The effect from this ability is no longer removed when you give your pet another command.