Guild Wars 2

Osskil.1029:

Waffler.1257:

Osskil.1029:

Listen, stealth IS the main feature of a thief. If you were to take that away from them, they are just a really weak warrior with tiny little swords. Would you like your clones taken away from you? Grenade spam? Hundred blades? You see what I am saying here? Every class has their signature moves/mechanics, and though you might not like or agree with them, that doesn’t mean ANet should hold your hand and remove it from the game.

Assassins from GW1 (which the thief is based on btw) did not have stealth and were very good at at taking out players. Additionally, I don’t see how adding stealth to the assassin adds to the strategic depth or complexity of the class. I vote that Anet forgets that they ever created the thief and just bring back the assassin.

Because change is bad, right? Good thing that ANet isn’t a democracy that takes its votes from users.

Stealth is not the main feature of Thieves, that is just stupid to say. The main feature the F1 ability for thieves, the class mechanic of thieves, is Steal. That’s why Mesmers have stealth as well, and other classes can utilize stealth. Don’t be a silly. And who is saying to remove it, I think everyone aside from the care bears here is asking for a change to stealth so that it doesn’t add duration into long near 4 minute chains.

I guess I am against the person who responded to you then. I have no issues with initiative (I love it’s name) and I think it is a unique system that allows for interesting play.

I love that Anet didn’t keep the name Assassin, but it actually isn’t that much change considering one of the most popular Assassin builds was Dagger Spam, and one of the most popular Thief builds is Dagger Spam.

Different name same result, like eating mcdonalds or burger king everyday; you will still get fat.

In short, Stealth is the issue here, not thief, and stealth needs to be EDITED so that you can not perform long stealths, shall we say 5 seconds. If you can’t line up your back stab in 5 seconds, or move away from something in 5 seconds well oh well.

Make 5 seconds a max duration, and then throw in a time period before you can restealth, call it “found” or “seen.”

Back to work.

Then I see him do the mist thingy and poof he is gone. I waited for 2 minutes and the doors haven’t opened. He went poof and disconnected/ported…. how is that fair?

This isn’t a valid argument. To begin with, from what you’ve described we know he or she didn’t port because they wouldn’t be able to during battle, i.e. mist form does not remove you from battle. Moreover, any class can log off during a losing battle, even after they are downed, and the most egregious of all, just before they are finished. It happens on all classes, all the time. What does this have to do with mist form? Nothing.

I’m a warrior with 2900 toughness and 3100 power, I can deal with thieves no problem when it comes to combat. However, the situation in the video is not combat; All I would be able to do is run around auto-swinging my sword hoping to hit the thief to bring him out of stealth