Guild Wars 2

Title days it all… stealth disruptor traps don’t seem to be working at all since being re enabled.. bug or feature?

Anyone else seeing this? I’ve tested it twice now. Tornado goes off, once the Theif didn’t even unstealth. The other he did but only for 3 seconds… not 30.

I tested it briefly and found that if you are blinded when your trap activates (either trap) then you will miss everyone and the trap will have no effect. Without blind, I haven’t had a problem but then again I never use stealth traps besides testing it out.

definitely not an issue of blind in my case,

and even if it was, is the only defense against stealth supposed to be completely broken by an ability that thieves can spam?

Stealth disruptors don’t give revealed if there aren’t any stealthed players in the trap radius when it is triggered. So if a thief is visible and triggers the trap while visible, it will have absolutely no effect, kind of like a player with no supply running over a supply trap. I’ve fought plenty of thieves who run over the trap and then stealth 2 seconds after because the trap doesn’t do anything to visible players. An interesting thing though is that if a visible thief triggers the trap while a stealthed thief is nearby within the trap radius, it will apply revealed to both the stealthed thief and the visible thief. So if you’re trying to bait a thief into the trap, make sure to get them to use stealth first. Source of the information comes from me trolling thieves all day everyday with stealth traps.

Waffler.1257:

Stealth disruptors don’t give revealed if there aren’t any stealthed players in the trap radius when it is triggered. So if a thief is visible and triggers the trap while visible, it will have absolutely no effect, kind of like a player with no supply running over a supply trap. I’ve fought plenty of thieves who run over the trap and then stealth 2 seconds after because the trap doesn’t do anything to visible players. An interesting thing though is that if a visible thief triggers the trap while a stealthed thief is nearby within the trap radius, it will apply revealed to both the stealthed thief and the visible thief. So if you’re trying to bait a thief into the trap, make sure to get them to use stealth first. Source of the information comes from me trolling thieves all day everyday with stealth traps.

thanks, thats some really good info right there. =)

seems the way they work is clumsy at best.

Um unless they updated this. I personally tested the stealth trap and it originally worked regardless if you were stealth or not when you crossed it. I have not come across one in a good 3 weeks so there may have been an update to it. But if there was not it will still go off.

On another note the animation for the stealth trap is not a tornado… That is a supply trap. Are you sure you did not mix them up?