Guild Wars 2

I think we need more counter-stealth skills and I made a post about it in the profession balance forum.
I’d like a less biased opinion about one of my suggestion though (that post got kinda trashed by thieves)

We all know longbow (aka power) rangers are weak. Even if you’re one of those “I use power ranger and I kill X and Y and I feel good” as a dps spec you’re still inferior to all other dps specs.

Do help make longbow rangers a bit more wanted in roaming, and make them a bit more defensive, I propose:
- Hunter’s Shot also applies 3 seconds of ‘Revealed’ to the target.

I think it fits the concept of a hunter’s shot nicely, since you can track your foe bettre while being in stealth yourself.
What do you think?

No. You’ve already got Sic em that applies reveal. Just time it right and its awesome. Not so much if your running solo cause 4s is prolly not enough for you to down them. If you see a common time where a mesmer / theif will use stealth use Sic Em. Hunters shot IMO is on a too short of a CD to apply reveal unless its a short one at which case its kinda useless. But I don’t want the Ranger to get any less stealth as it is by increasing the CD on Hunter’s Shot.

While it would be nice I personally would say to reduce Sic Em from 40 secs to 30 secs with a 5 second ( 5 – s is filtered?) reveal.
(As a theif player)

Morte de Angelis.7986:

No. You’ve already got Sic em that applies reveal. Just time it right and its awesome. Not so much if your running solo cause 4s is prolly not enough for you to down them. If you see a common time where a mesmer / theif will use stealth use Sic Em. Hunters shot IMO is on a too short of a CD to apply reveal unless its a short one at which case its kinda useless. But I don’t want the Ranger to get any less stealth as it is by increasing the CD on Hunter’s Shot.

While it would be nice I personally would say to reduce Sic Em from 40 secs to 30 secs with a 5 second ( 5 – s is filtered?) reveal.
(As a theif player)

Consider hunter’s shot can be easily avoided by evading/dodging/blinding.
Longbow Rangers rely on their utilities too much to replace anything with Sic Em.

It’s on too short of a cooldown to apply a 3s reveal. And it’s not really that easily avoidable.

DanSH.6143:

Morte de Angelis.7986:

No. You’ve already got Sic em that applies reveal. Just time it right and its awesome. Not so much if your running solo cause 4s is prolly not enough for you to down them. If you see a common time where a mesmer / theif will use stealth use Sic Em. Hunters shot IMO is on a too short of a CD to apply reveal unless its a short one at which case its kinda useless. But I don’t want the Ranger to get any less stealth as it is by increasing the CD on Hunter’s Shot.

While it would be nice I personally would say to reduce Sic Em from 40 secs to 30 secs with a 5 second ( 5 – s is filtered?) reveal.
(As a theif player)

Consider hunter’s shot can be easily avoided by evading/dodging/blinding.
Longbow Rangers rely on their utilities too much to replace anything with Sic Em.

Thats your choice. I rely on Assassins Signet, Shadow Refuge and Shadow Step and I want a few other things as well. You want to not use Sic Em? Fine. But a reveal thats on a 8 sec CD is a little too good.

You want the reveal? Then replace something with Sic Em. Simple as.

How bout we just nerf stealth in WvW?

Chokolata.1870:

How bout we just nerf stealth in WvW?

The actual problem is a mix of blindness/evade/stealth/leaping spam thieves have.

Reveal from Sick Them is only good to troll thieves who rely on stealth when they see a zerg coming, but it doesn’t change anything vs a good thief if you’re a power ranger.

Only change on hunter’s shot I want is giving the ranger the 10s swiftness aswell as the pet, revealed would be too much on such a short cd attack like many already pointed out, however more skills in game causing revealed would be a good thing it can and is abused a little too much by certain classes and I don’t like how it works in gw2 at all and never have.