Guild Wars 2

Hide in Plain Sight (the old DnD term for stealthing right in front of someone) has always been a bad pvp mechanic. It was disabled on Bastions of War when I played for this reason. Guys had to use terrain to restealth. Stealth is ok if it is used to get the jump on someone, but it is hard to deal with if a person can stealth right in front of you after attacking you. It’s then that Stealth crosses the line as you can enter and leave combat at a whim. You are not punished for your bad decision to attack someone, you can just restealth and try again later. Stealth in this game is a worse mechanic than any I have ever seen. Stealthing should cost you something, in this case you both heal and regen energy when stealthed which is backwards.

In this situation, what annoys me is that Anet promised no permastealth and yet it exists.

I think Anet got it about right.

It’s very difficult for a thief to maintain Perma-Stealth, you have to set up a black powder AoE, then jump through it with HS several times before it fades. It’s hard work to keep that going without a slip up and it severely limits your mobility.
The concentration required to keep it up for long periods is mind-numbing.
Not my idea of fun really.

The perma-stealth isn’t a perfect invisibility either because the BP AoE can be seen . If you see that and know what it means, you can easily flush the thief out.
Knowing how your enemy works is 90% of the fight in this game.

TLDR: L2P

phaneo.4597:

Jayne.9251:

Next patch apparently ranger pets will detect/remove(?) stealth.

“Sic em” will let your pet catch enemy’s scent and hit them through stealth, yes.

Maybe “AFTER” they fixed Sic em so that it actually works.
Most of the times, it is a command to tell pet to pick flowers.

Thieves who know their class don’t need to rely on stealth to win. It’s only periodic, not permastealth, just as the developers intended. The developers didn’t intend permastealth to be in this games.

I log into forums and every day I see a thread posted about perma stealth thief. Nabs will keep posting such threads until the receive a thief on plate for dinner.

UnknownRH.4592:

I log into forums and every day I see a thread posted about perma stealth thief. Nabs will keep posting such threads until the receive a thief on plate for dinner.

Don’t worry good thiefs will still be good, it’s just the rest of you that will need to reroll the next Op class to win

sminkiottone.6972:

UnknownRH.4592:

I log into forums and every day I see a thread posted about perma stealth thief. Nabs will keep posting such threads until the receive a thief on plate for dinner.

Don’t worry good thiefs will still be good, it’s just the rest of you that will need to reroll the next Op class to win

I welcome these changes since they will remove all the scrubs ruining the reputation of my class. I welcome the challenge! My thief is just too easy right now.

Sanduskel.1850:

Thieves who know their class don’t need to rely on stealth to win. It’s only periodic, not permastealth, just as the developers intended. The developers didn’t intend permastealth to be in this games.

Yeah, but that just as bad. The problem is not much the fact that you can stealth for indefinite time, the problem here is that you can stealth and get away whenever you like

OP l2p

20 of you were chasing one thief. He got exactly what he wanted. Next time ignore them thieves are masters of shadows. If they try to get away you can try to burst them but if it take more than 10 seconds to even hit them just give up this is what thieves do.

It cuts like a knief what those dirty no good thifes are allowed to get away with