Guild Wars 2

I was in a hefty keep fight earlier on and the commander was calling out for someone to take out a siege weapon. I did and it was one of the few moments I actually felt like I was contributing to the overall zerg-fight.

Anyway, that sparked an idea for a new ability that might help give Thieves a more pronounced roll in large-scale PvP, without changing their play-style.

What if Thieves could temporarily disable siege weapons, either with a trap, a trait or anything? Maybe even something like “if you Steal a siege weapon you will disable it for 15 seconds”.

A potential upgrade for that might be the ability to sabotage a siege weapon, making it backfire on its user when fired next. So someone using a sabotaged Trebuchet might actually knock himself off and damage the siege weapon, including everyone around him.

This is just an idea I considered worth sharing.

That would be a great idea.
In a RvR gamestyle would be nice a real thief role.
Pity arena does’t care about roles..
Hope a dev reads this thread and gives us his opinion about that, also becouse steal should be something more then an utility

Great idea.

+1

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Well when you steal to an object like siege you get nothing, so it would be interesting if you stole from a siege weapon and got a stolen ability that could disable siege. Maybe even give it a utility against players as well so it wouldn’t be an ability you could only use on siege. Ground targeted disable siege for X amount of time would be a neat stolen ability from siege though.

It’s a great idea that the devs are never going to implement because this game is supposed to feature skills that a) do damage and b) are highly spammable.

Fantastic idea. +1

Agreed, really nice idea, would definitely make me feel more useful in wvw.
+1

Also would be neat if something like this would also add to stealing from engineer turrets and other objects like them. Could you imagine stealing from a turret and getting its activated ability? Or even getting an ability that disabled the turret, or maybe even both! Like stealing from a turret disables it for a second and gives you the activated ability as the stolen ability. Pesky supply crate, I steal your net and use it on your pesky engi master MUAHAHAHA. Ahem, may have gotten a bit carried away there.
At least it wouldn’t be like the annoying steal from engi’s themselves and how it reveals you, I mean I have gotten used to it for the most part and still put it to good use most the time but it’s still annoying. =P