Guild Wars 2

A thief attacking me in stealth when I got my shield stance up won’t reveal because their attack is blocked. Seriously this seems more like a oversight than anything, if I block their attack to prevent them from always getting the first hit they should unstealth not be able to constantly attack me in stealth until they get a hit.

Something very annoying… Miss/Evade should not break stealth… Block should.

evade and miss should do, someone sneaking up behind you fires a pistol at you, you’re gonna notice them whether the shot hit you or not!

When you risk an attack you extend yourself and make yourself known to the attacker, it shouldn’t depend on whether you’re successful.

Wanderer.5471:

evade and miss should do, someone sneaking up behind you fires a pistol at you, you’re gonna notice them whether the shot hit you or not!

When you risk an attack you extend yourself and make yourself known to the attacker, it shouldn’t depend on whether you’re successful.

So anytime someone presses a key that is an attack it should break stealth? While I won’t disagree whole heartedly… I do know that landing a good BS is one of the hardest things to do especially if the target knows the thief is there… If they can some how code it to where evades break stealth but not misses (out of range etc etc…) Idk but what I do know is that doing that would bring thieves lower than warriors on the totem pole… I think most that don’t play thieves and maybe some that do would agree that stealth should break on block…

Stealth should drop on block. Not the whiffs though. Stealth is not sneaking around being unnoticed, it is a powerful magical ability that cloaks all sight and sound.

Forestgreen.7981:

Seriously this seems more like a oversight than anything

What?! ANet? Oversight in spvp? No way.

What I want to know is if it still burns the initiative for the C&D on the block. I noticed the block thing this weekend and was sorta already running, screaming, and on fire so I missed that one teenie detail. Someone help me out.

C&D burns initiative even if you fire it at the wind. Also, the trait that is used to make it more spamable by reducing the cost by 2 actually instead gives back the thief 2 initiative (out of 6) when he enters stealth. So when he whifs his C&D on a miss/dodge/evade/block/immune there is a huge initiative cost in the process.

You thieves are redik of course it should break on miss/block/attack because you are then no longer being sneaky and you exposed yourself the end its not up for debate.

Don’t hit block during the first 1-2s after a thief stealths so that when your 3s block wears off he comes unstealthed. If not, then it means he used another ability to stay in stealth.

You might want to try dodging his cnd after that.