Guild Wars 2

I havent in a while and I’m wondering when did they put a CD on thieves backstab? Its a thieves only burst, that has to be in the back, reveals you for second after, and now has a cool down for if you miss? dafaq?

What was their mindset for this?

Funnily enough it happened right after Helseth playing on a Thief made sure Anet Devs stayed dead in a match, he had no other goal

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Funnily enough it happened right after Helseth playing on a Thief made sure Anet Devs stayed dead in a match, he had no other goal

I doubt kitten devs are the reason but then again it has happened in other games.

Look up the video it was pretty funny to watch, notice the date then look at the patch date that added the Cd

How Anet decides on class balance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWZ9lkbK_2U

LoL “I can smell the half-delivered patches.” xD

I’m in the same boat OP. I just started playing thief again and I couldn’t work out why my auto attack went on cd when I tried to attack from stealth. Of all the things Anet could nerf, haha, this is ridiculous.

Dumbest change ever, if you ask me. (Or anybody that has played played thief).

Requirements to do a successful Backstab:

1. Be able to go on stealth.
1a. Remain stealthed (harder every day the more with all these revealaed debuffs)
2. Chase your opponent and place yourself behind him. Have in mind you only have 3 seconds to achieve this.
3. Stab.
4. Wait out your 4 seconds Revealed time and return to step 1.

This is already the hardest skill to land in all game.
Now add:

1. Take one second away from your stealth , dodges or simply moves an inch.

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