Guild Wars 2

About 1 out of every 4 Sneak Attacks, and 1 out of every 5 Backstabs, I get a weird glitch. It pauses on the skill, resets the cooldown to .5 seconds (I have had it reset it up to a 1.5 second CD before), and then I can use it again. It doesn’t do it every time. It isn’t based on the class or enemy either, it is doing it on basic mobs.

Same thing happens with my Backstabs. I go to Backstab something, it glitches, then puts a hard .5 or 1.5 second cooldown on the Backstab. Is this a known issue? I tried doing some searching for it, but didn’t find anything. It is very inconsistent. Other times I can CnD and Sneak Attack right away.

It is getting pretty frustrating not being able to reliably hit a Sneak Attack through a field, and having to wait upwards of a second to use the ability. And yes, in PvP and WvW a seconds makes a huge difference (between an enemy healing or not).

Anwho, just curious if it has been brought to their attention, or if the change was done on purpose. I did take about 8 months off, but noticed this issue pretty quick after a day of being back.

There’s a 1s cd on all stealth attacks for thief since people whined a lot about them being used to remove aegis without breaking stealth.

This isn’t the 1 second cooldown. 75% of the time I can Sneak Attack right after tagging a target with CnD. This issue is almost an interrupt. The skill animation freezes, my character spazzes out, and the skill resets with a random cooldown. But it is basic mobs causing the issue even, so I know it isn’t an issue of being dazed. I will try to record it tonight and post a link.

There is also aftercast on backstab hence why it seems so long. Latency (or rather NCSOFT servers having a party again) might be also an issue as well. I know what you mean and have seen it before.

Asur.9178:

There’s a 1s cd on all stealth attacks for thief since people whined a lot about them being used to remove aegis without breaking stealth.

???? y not just make it reveal the thief if they break aegis.. the cool down is a pain, it is so easy to miss if your game gets even a lil bit laggy

caveman.5840:

Asur.9178:

There’s a 1s cd on all stealth attacks for thief since people whined a lot about them being used to remove aegis without breaking stealth.

???? y not just make it reveal the thief if they break aegis.. the cool down is a pain, it is so easy to miss if your game gets even a lil bit laggy

Maybe due to the fact that it does no damage to the aegis user. The teef in me would like this tradeoff (as I run revealed training, the extra 200 power would help…not as much as backstab but still)

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

caveman.5840:

Asur.9178:

There’s a 1s cd on all stealth attacks for thief since people whined a lot about them being used to remove aegis without breaking stealth.

???? y not just make it reveal the thief if they break aegis.. the cool down is a pain, it is so easy to miss if your game gets even a lil bit laggy

Maybe due to the fact that it does no damage to the aegis user. The teef in me would like this tradeoff (as I run revealed training, the extra 200 power would help…not as much as backstab but still)

I know u are not doing damage but at least u hit something and remove a boon .. instead of getting stuck in stealth without being able to use your auto attack and forced to use initiative if u want to break stealth … idk it is just weird getting locked out of your auto attack

caveman.5840:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

caveman.5840:

Asur.9178:

There’s a 1s cd on all stealth attacks for thief since people whined a lot about them being used to remove aegis without breaking stealth.

???? y not just make it reveal the thief if they break aegis.. the cool down is a pain, it is so easy to miss if your game gets even a lil bit laggy

Maybe due to the fact that it does no damage to the aegis user. The teef in me would like this tradeoff (as I run revealed training, the extra 200 power would help…not as much as backstab but still)

I know u are not doing damage but at least u hit something and remove a boon .. instead of getting stuck in stealth without being able to use your auto attack and forced to use initiative if u want to break stealth … idk it is just weird getting locked out of your auto attack

Your error is in thinking that balance devs actually have any experience with thief and would understand the issue or care for that matter (which they obviously don’t, they only cared about DHs when they implemented that change, they didn’t care about how many issues would rise from that).

I really wish some bug would occur for couple days that caused other classes to be locked out of their AA if they used class mechanics so people would get an idea how stupid the whole issue is.

I have the same issue – noticed it in PvE and it feels as if I pressed the buttons too fast. It might have always been there but since the cooldown it’s more noticable – don’t know.

What helped me was recording the bugs I came across (not that very issue) and taking tons of kitten from my fellow thieves on here calling everything I listed as a bug a L2P issue – but anet were able to see what I meant and fixed a lot of stuff.
Try that.