Guild Wars 2

So I finally got around to playing my Ninja Nurse joke build, and discovered that Merciful Ambush was changed but not mentioned in the patch notes.

• Pre-patch description: Create an ambush trap while reviving an ally. Grants 2 seconds of stealth to players and their allies when beginning a revive. This effect can only occur once every 20 seconds.
• New description: Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally. Stealth(3s): Invisible to foes.

I could swear that MA used to actually place an Ambush Trap (the utility) and you could get a Thief NPC out of it. I tested it in PvP and it doesn’t actually place an Ambush Trap… can anyone confirm/deny that this was actually a nerf and the tooltip wasn’t just completely wrong pre-patch? Because if it was an intentional change, the time was buffed to 3 seconds to compensate, but it just seems a little odd that it was changed and not mentioned in the patch notes.

The patch notes only say this:

• Merciful Ambush: This skill now functions with the Meld with Shadows trait for the recipient of stealth.

Anyone have an answer?

i think it was a stealth nerf

This was changed before the 15th. I am not sure when, but I used it a few times just to try it out when I noticed it. It is much better than the ambush trap IMO. it stops stomps if you start to res if they are mid stomp and you can’t interrupt.

Well, unless intothemists.com and gw2skills.net are both wrong, pre-15th it included an Ambush Trap. :S

I honestly didn’t get a lot of success out of it when I screwed around in hotjoin, too many people who just keep auto-attacking. You would really only be able to do it with a tPvP team.

It was changed from ambush trap to stealth in the same patch when larcenous strike was introduced. It was never both trap and stealth.

It’s been like that for a while and it is an ok trait. Move along, nothing to see here.