Guild Wars 2

Seriously, they hate stealth/thieves.

First of all they give classes ways to remove stealth, even traps dedicated to it, but now they’re making it so towers can have a stealth revealing buff around them, WTH.
To top it off I read on here supposedly (haven’t looked into it) they’re giving Mesmer more stealth capabilities then us also?
I don’t mind counter-play, but all these couples together is overboard IMO.
They’re making our core mechanics and role in this game very obsolete.

i guess everyone spec into s/d and evade spam the kitten out of everyone

it’s a good thing they do. Stealth is pretty unfair. In conquest that is partially allevated by losing ability to hold a point when invisible. But in wvw it only makes sense there are tools that prevent from whole nation of thieves from moving into enemy base unnoticed.

no one likes thieves

Don’t know. Stealth shouldn’t make the Thief, or any other class for that matter.

Yeah not too sure they’re too fond of them….
They also don’t seem to be too fond of their “vet”/current players, judging by whats going on.
O well, so many other games out there!

quagganzilla.6450:

now they’re making it so towers can have a stealth revealing buff around them

I’ve missed this. Do you have a link to this info?

My main issue with anything that removes the ability for a thief to stealth is that it takes our backstab away. Without anything able to match the damage potential of backstab when unstealthed, what are we supposed to do?

Kageseigi.2150:

I’ve missed this. Do you have a link to this info?

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36174

ZAM Article:

The War Room is a building that allows the building of different WvW tools. Some of the examples we can see in the trailer are Airships assaulting Stonemist and players controlling Charr vehicles in the new borderlands. Most of these are set to their own things, such as airships only attacking Stonemist, the charr vehicles only available at specific locations in the new borderlands, and a stealth-revealing buff around towers.

Interesting, thank you. It seems swords may be the way to go. I’m getting ready! :-D

pepper.6179:

i guess everyone spec into s/d and evade spam the kitten out of everyone

Did you catch the part where vigor got a global 50% effectiveness nerf? Also, Feline Grace no longer restores endurance. Couple that with no 10% damage bonus to acro and suddenly s/d isn’t that great anymore.

Thief is about to be pigeonholed, hard.