Guild Wars 2

Thieves are dazing my character while he has stability. Anybody know how this is happening?

Are they stealing your stability?

Dunno. Steal dazes my character no matter what I do.

Because Steal strips stab before the daze is applied, it’s working as intended.

Sounds like that needs to change. What a screwed up design.

Slight of Hand
“Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.”
“If this trait and Bountiful Theft are both used, Bountiful Theft’s boon steal will trigger before the daze.”

Bountiful Theft
“Prioritizes aegis over other boons, followed by stability, protection, regeneration, retaliation, fury, swiftness, might, resistance, quickness and vigor.”

Yup, that is why thief is so deadly.

Doesn’t matter how much stacks of stability you have. They can instantly strip it and make you extremely vulnerable.

Now that the OP mentioned it, there could be a bug.

Last weekend I noticed this as well several times, though not particular to daze, I did not see daze icon, I had stab on and it was not stripped, the icon was still there, yet my toon felt as if it was stunned. Basically rooted in place and unable to use any abilities / skills, while I still had stab on.

Its entirely possible that there were some “under the hood” changes made to base mechanics in part of preperations for the expansion and how stab interacts with new incoming skills / abilities and stuff may not work properly. There could be several bugs at play seperate or even together:

1. Perhaps the stab icon is bugged and does not disappear like its supposed to when stripped.
2. Server lag or server not properly receiving / registering stab vs some skills or under ceirtain conditions, you still have stab client side but not server side, server side overrides client side.
3. CC abilities bugged. Stab will not work under ceirtain conditions vs CC abilities as its supposed to due to new changes, or lack thereof.

etc. etc. There could be many things affecting this and happening. Bummer I didn’t think of it sooner, I’d have checked my log and taken some screenies of it but was too excited to play new specs and dismissed it as weird stuff due to server lag.

something similar happened to me…
i casted a Infusing Terror (reaper 3rd skill in reaper shroud – 3stacks of stability) then having 3 removed…
dont know what, or what skill, “stealed” or “removed” all 3 stability then i was stunned in this case…

in every class-skill-steal-whatever is this correct (or even fair) to remove 3 stacks entirely?

shouldnt remove or steal 1 stability? seeing how stability works? otherwise whats the point on having 20 stacks of stability if then one thief or some skills remove all stacks?

Tongku.5326:

Now that the OP mentioned it, there could be a bug.

Last weekend I noticed this as well several times, though not particular to daze, I did not see daze icon, I had stab on and it was not stripped, the icon was still there, yet my toon felt as if it was stunned. Basically rooted in place and unable to use any abilities / skills, while I still had stab on.

Its entirely possible that there were some “under the hood” changes made to base mechanics in part of preperations for the expansion and how stab interacts with new incoming skills / abilities and stuff may not work properly. There could be several bugs at play seperate or even together:

1. Perhaps the stab icon is bugged and does not disappear like its supposed to when stripped.
2. Server lag or server not properly receiving / registering stab vs some skills or under ceirtain conditions, you still have stab client side but not server side, server side overrides client side.
3. CC abilities bugged. Stab will not work under ceirtain conditions vs CC abilities as its supposed to due to new changes, or lack thereof.

etc. etc. There could be many things affecting this and happening. Bummer I didn’t think of it sooner, I’d have checked my log and taken some screenies of it but was too excited to play new specs and dismissed it as weird stuff due to server lag.

They still have the issue of objectives not changing color on the map after they’ve been taken, or the RI timer being incorrect on the map vs. on the lord/supervisor…there seems to be a trend here and it has me worried for when the expansion actually rolls out.

Lol. complaining about a class that has no source of stab of it own.

just as a tip Wiki has almost every formula up for every skill in the game.

Bountiful Theft.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bountiful_Theft
Larcenous Strike
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Larcenous_Strike
Rendering Shade
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rending_Shade
Superior Sigil of Absorption
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Sigil_of_Absorption