Guild Wars 2

Its kind of like Stealth, except you can still see the thief, he is just mirrored in the background, and you can’t target him, but you can still see him.

This boon is affected by “Boon Duration” and all stealth traits, but its a weaker form of stealth.

When your hiding you are harder to see, but you can still be heard walking and you can still be seen. (kind of like predator, you just mirror the background.)

What exactly would you like to use this for? :-)

STRanger.5120:

What exactly would you like to use this for? :-)

I dunno, could be useful in some thief traits and improving duration on some of them.

Every “new” thing,either new boon or new weapon,skill,trait e.t.c brings a new variable to the equation —-—> harder to balance.

So it’s basically the same than Stealth, but it can be removed from you by non-targeting boon removals and opponents can clearly see you, which means they only need to swing their swords at you to strike you whenever they want (not targeting doesn’t meant not hitting, they can hit you while in stealth).

Not to mention that altering some visual options players could make those mirrored/transparent opponents even easier to spot, rendering it useless even for trying to go unadverted.

I think I will stay with traditional Stealth, that other one would be useful to break agro in PVE and that’s it. If human players can see you, they can attack you even if they aren’t targetting you.

If it’s just for the visuals, you and your allies see you that way, so in your screen you’re a cool predator

And as ZLE said, more stuff means hardering the balancing curve.

Hi everyone,

Please try not to go off topic or answer to troll posts. Keep the discussion constructive about the idea here explained by the OP.

Thanks

Daecollo.9578:

Its kind of like Stealth, except you can still see the thief, he is just mirrored in the background, and you can’t target him, but you can still see him.

This boon is affected by “Boon Duration” and all stealth traits, but its a weaker form of stealth.

When your hiding you are harder to see, but you can still be heard walking and you can still be seen. (kind of like predator, you just mirror the background.)

Sortof like the camoflauge of another title I totally get what you mean. It would be awesome for pve imo.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Thief-from-the-nostalgic-old-school-RPG-POV

They are missing many of the things that make a thief a thief imo especially from an old school dice roller pov.

basically distortion …sept instead of not targetable theyre invuln…we has that…and its on the purple clone thief class…i mean mesmer

This idea has potential, especially considering that the necro and Mesmer would probably receive some use of this as well.

Btw you should’ve put this on the ‘suggestions’ forum.

Daecollo.9578:

Its kind of like Stealth, except you can still see the thief, he is just mirrored in the background, and you can’t target him, but you can still see him.

This boon is affected by “Boon Duration” and all stealth traits, but its a weaker form of stealth.

When your hiding you are harder to see, but you can still be heard walking and you can still be seen. (kind of like predator, you just mirror the background.)

And what would the purpose of this be? Because it sounds:
1.) Redundant.
2.) Something myself nor any moderately competitive Thief player would ever even consider as useful.

Two big reasons:
1.) What you’ve proposed is effectively what Stealth is already, just that you’re asking that the main benefit of Stealth be removed entirely.
2.) You’re not “hidden” if people can see you. You’re lurking, and not very well at that.

Aervius.2016:

Daecollo.9578:

Its kind of like Stealth, except you can still see the thief, he is just mirrored in the background, and you can’t target him, but you can still see him.

This boon is affected by “Boon Duration” and all stealth traits, but its a weaker form of stealth.

When your hiding you are harder to see, but you can still be heard walking and you can still be seen. (kind of like predator, you just mirror the background.)

And what would the purpose of this be? Because it sounds:
1.) Redundant.
2.) Something myself nor any moderately competitive Thief player would ever even consider as useful.

Two big reasons:
1.) What you’ve proposed is effectively what Stealth is already, just that you’re asking that the main benefit of Stealth be removed entirely.
2.) You’re not “hidden” if people can see you. You’re lurking, and not very well at that.

Well if your hiding in a bush and not moving its really hard to see ya, even if you are semi-visible, it hides you from being targeted/hides your name, but your still able to be seen.