Guild Wars 2

They’ve finally done it. Next patch, they are addressing the stealth mechanic and removing the Thief’s ability to enter stealth while in combat.

According to the balance team, stealth is just too good that it allows players to get the first hit and in the case of Thief, they are given so much power to burst down their target. The balance team decided that the profession’s ability to reenter stealth after a massive damage burst removes all counter play which makes the target unable to defend themselves; “it’s just you can only heal and cleanse so much in any given time” a source close to the balance team said.

Their solution to this problem is to make Revealed a permanent debuff while in combat and wears off 3 seconds after combat. This will require the Thief to pick the right targets and to prevent Shadow Arts assassins from “trolling” other players. “As a compensation, we are giving the Thief a new trait that will replace Last Refuge called Shadow Form” according to the same source. Shadow Form is a trait that automatically triggers when the Thief gets hit which gives the Thief a 1 second buff that will negate all damage from the next attack with a 3 second internal cool down.

According to our sources, ArenaNet balance team are still testing this change and looking into any possible imbalance it may cause for the future. Whether this change will be embraced with welcoming arms or will be welcomed with torch and pitch forks — only time can tell.

Source: http://goo.gl/1Qzq3l

Now, you know … you have to make these things believable
No way they’re removing stealth, with how much they continually frontload it … and LR?

Happy FIRST APRIL! ????

i wouldnt be surprised

Joke’s on you, it’s really happening. And you know how plausible this is.

Zero Day.2594:

Joke’s on you, it’s really happening. And you know how plausible this is.

Which part? The nerf or the Shadow Form?

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Zero Day.2594:

Joke’s on you, it’s really happening. And you know how plausible this is.

Which part? The nerf or the Shadow Form?

:P Nerf.

Btw your “sources” gave it away… Sounded like you’re writing a news article.

Zero Day.2594:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Zero Day.2594:

Joke’s on you, it’s really happening. And you know how plausible this is.

Which part? The nerf or the Shadow Form?

:P Nerf.

Btw your “sources” gave it away… Sounded like you’re writing a news article.

It can’t be too serious or too legit else people will believe that it’s true — even though it’s more than likely to happen.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Zero Day.2594:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Zero Day.2594:

Joke’s on you, it’s really happening. And you know how plausible this is.

Which part? The nerf or the Shadow Form?

:P Nerf.

Btw your “sources” gave it away… Sounded like you’re writing a news article.

It can’t be too serious or too legit else people will believe that it’s true — even though it’s more than likely to happen.

Should have linked to the patch notes of the Chinese site and said that they translate to so and so…
Would have at least gotten people to believe to the point of them trying to paste the patch notes into Google translate or using chrome. Ofc people would doubt themselves, like if they missed to copy-paste properly, if it’s not translating properly – but they probably wouldn’t doubt you.

<3 Sir Vincent III … you got me, sir :-p

I was sure that link was going to be to some post like the ones for Condition stacking that came out the past week or so.

Well-played.

Sebrent.3625:

<3 Sir Vincent III … you got me, sir :-p

I was sure that link was going to be to some post like the ones for Condition stacking that came out the past week or so.

Well-played.

It was a pleasure.

r u kidding me i finally hit 80 and now they take stealth away? this class is garbage now. ima just play on the faceroll gaurdian instead unless they dont do this. stupid anet

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Are you playing along?

oh yea hahaha i was playing along