Guild Wars 2

I rarely contribute ideas to the forums because my belief is to leave that up to the devs who are the best at it. But the stealth trap announcement for WvW sort of got me thinking, and, I don’t know, I thought this is kind of cool. It’s probably not original and perhaps a bad idea so take it for what it’s worth:

Larcener’s Bane

Pets track targets under stealth.

(Pets would follow, not damage the stealthed target; pets stop and sniff then go in the thief’s direction, then stop and sniff, then go a few hundred units in thief’s direction, etc.)

If the pet tracked perfectly and cause damage, this trait would too strongly nullify thief’s primary source of mitigation: stealth, motivating the “stop and sniff” mechanic. Thoughts?

Or why not make the ranger the only class that can track stealthed players?

I like it.
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It does make logical sense but it would probably be too powerful, one thing though I really think stealthed players should make a specific sound when moving close to you atleast if they move in front of your character or similar like in many other games.

I do like the idea of having a trait that allows pets to stick onto stealthed players. Would definitely fit the mold of the hunter working with his pet to track his/her prey.

Yeh pretty cool idea

Daoc had that exact skill for a archer class. It sucked in that game, but it coulda been cool.

To be honest I’m pretty happy with the improvements our pets got, I don’t think we need more tools to beat thieves.

And with the spread of S/D, I see thieves using their blinks more instead of stealth.

In wich scenario you think it would be balanced? Cus I can only think about P/D builds, but not many thieves keep playing it.