Guild Wars 2

According to some random pastebin ( cause random info found on pastebin is most reliable source of information ever) thief is going to get a new elite skill, and in every thief favourite category: trap. YAY!

Repel Trap (Trap)
Set a trap that launches foes away when triggered.

After thinking for a while of all possibilites to use this awesome skill, i think i found the most awesome one: I could pop my lyssa runes with it! Doesn’t it make thief too strong this time?

Source: http://pastebin.com/e9276EXr

This is awesome, I always wanted to launch these clones and pets chasing me!

Okay, but seriously, our traps are so bad because usually random things walk into them instead of actual players. To make them even worse, they can be dodged. With exception of shadow and ambush, they need redesign.

Too bad they’re fake. Look at the mesmer elite. And the warrior one would just be completely awful to fight against.

It would be totally useless anyway. An elite skill should represent it’s owning class in a unique way, an invisible trap with a hilariously weak effect most other classes have a simple weapon skill, is not worth to be an elite skill. Not to mention that most of the forum users think only in PvP / WvW dimensions (even those who don’t come up with a “NERF THEM TO DEATH! Already there? Even more then!” thread daily). A simple knockdown is useless in PvE as an elite skill even more worthless than the new venom healing skill.

Definitly fake. That is all.

Id actually try to use such an elite in Eotm, but its cd would probably be really long for some reason to make it not worth it.

roamzero.9486:

Id actually try to use such an elite in Eotm, but its cd would probably be really long for some reason to make it not worth it.

Not to mention that traps are easily dodged if you’re paying attention to the opponent’s animations and know the radius. Being on a long CD would just add insult to injury, and I would rather slot Tripwire which has a 3s knockdown and 5s of crippled, along with a 24s CD when traited (10pt adept).

I can’t imagine an elite having a 24s CD, and it would need an added secondary effect to make it worth taking over the 1.5s stun of BV.

Though I think this is fake, I just want to comment here and say…

nope.avi

On the off-hand chance that this is real.

kitten .

Fake or not, I could totally see the devs do this. I mean look at the redundant Venom heal we got.

The topic incliding Link got removed from Prof balanve Forum…so i guess its true. A trap…ouch…

But this will hurt Rangers even more. Instead fixing their signets they get an elite which should help. For the cost of rao…np…Power Ranger has alot of Power…

This are fake. Someone at ANET would be crazy to even consider it. As for thieves, if they added a new elite, it should be a signet.

It should be anything that works underwater

NyuuNeeChan.2891:

It should be anything that works underwater

you ask too much xD

style.6173:

This are fake. Someone at ANET would be crazy to even consider it. As for thieves, if they added a new elite, it should be a signet.

That’s what I thought as well, but in all honesty, if the new trap launched the opponent a significant distance (900, more than guardian banish) and had AoE potential I could start to see it being relatively useful, especially if it had a ~60s CD that would be traited down to kitten with Quick Traps.

I don’t think it’s fake! That new necro one (not the shark) is right in line with the new necro heal! :P

style.6173:

This are fake. Someone at ANET would be crazy to even consider it.

Every time we think one of these leaked pastebin things is way too dumb to possibly be real, it usually ends up being legit. ._.

Sounds lame enough to be true.

Although I did laugh out loudly when reading it at first, picturing us laying the trap near a cliffside and launching enemy players off it.

Dee Jay.2460:

Sounds lame enough to be true.

Although I did laugh out loudly when reading it at first, picturing us laying the trap near a cliffside and launching enemy players off it.

For visual reference:
http://youtu.be/Gq_bjaI0NTo

Domey.9804:

The topic incliding Link got removed from Prof balanve Forum…so i guess its true. A trap…ouch…

But this will hurt Rangers even more. Instead fixing their signets they get an elite which should help. For the cost of rao…np…Power Ranger has alot of Power…

They could of removed it so people don’t get the wrong info. Not to say they are going to share with us their info but its only responsible to make sure false rumors don’t circulate.

its probably true and designed for Eotm…
This + scorpion wire should be good for a laugh or two at least.

First thing i looked when i saw those leaks was if the thief elite was a trap in order to see if i could trust them or not.

Seems legit to me.

I want to see 50 giant mesmers rampaging across the battlefield smacking things with their hands, making siege golems look like toy robots.

Giant butterflies everywhere.

a trap used for …..defense? launch foes away…. sounds bad.. BUT if u imagine how u can use it:

1. laying trap , step forward/around your current enemy launching incoming foes behind your start position away – with a CD of max 45 sec – nice.

2. cliffside – ok^^

i also want to mention that the trap will be blockable – ok one foe will evade and trigger but other foes will be launched away, in my opinion..

@warrior: who can remember which nekro elite skill from gw1 warrior will get?^^ in addition with a second (normal) skill from gw1

Hah. I could see some of these, with some tuning, but just looking at the Mesmer one ensures that it can’t be a real leak.

Dat Warrior elite, though.

Ofc the warrior gets the best one, even if it is fake

Fake or not: Poor guardians getting a spirit weapon .. At second thought yay even more zoo’s in pvp -_- ! Cause they’ll buff spirits if this was true.

I hope it’s fake. They need to improve traps before adding new ones.

Doggie.3184:

I hope it’s fake. They need to improve traps before adding new ones.

Nope. They did squat to venoms and we got skelk venom.

I would use this…

Every now and then…

I’m still holding out hope for Jarate. We could even use that underwater as a point blank area effect...

plz no more traps .
would be just happy if they got rid of them all together
i would rather have like shrunken throwing stars instead as a ulitility
more ninja less trapper leave the traps to the ranger where at least u can throw them some where

smoke screens u can’t see through or something like that could be nice idk
but i feel like traps r just a wasted ulitility as it is now
they r not fun . highly situation . can only be placed at your feet .
no more traps plz plz be fake

Tetsuyja.7805:

a trap used for …..defense? launch foes away…. sounds bad.. BUT if u imagine how u can use it:

1. laying trap , step forward/around your current enemy launching incoming foes behind your start position away – with a CD of max 45 sec – nice.

2. cliffside – ok^^

i also want to mention that the trap will be blockable – ok one foe will evade and trigger but other foes will be launched away, in my opinion..

@warrior: who can remember which nekro elite skill from gw1 warrior will get?^^ in addition with a second (normal) skill from gw1

wont work next to a cliff bc u would have to be between cliff and trap andits usually the other way around.

to evryone: this is another joke of a useless trap. will be a small rectangle and affect 1 person.

null field makes this look like a joke and thats

Hey, whatever. The Engineer one sounds sweet. XD

But how is a Kit going to have a Cool down and still function as a Kit.. I question the validity of this source.

Wolf.5816:

Hey, whatever. The Engineer one sounds sweet. XD

But how is a Kit going to have a Cool down and still function as a Kit.. I question the validity of this source.

I expect there would be long cooldown, powerful skills within the kit, but you can switch to the kit any time you like.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ….
I want prefer a signet as elite for my upper cool signet+ might stacking build ….
but….
a ae/cc trap …. << hmmm . on 30 sec cd… maybe … hmmmm << …. better then a single venom stun …. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…. XD … could be srsly funny

I see also a good counterplay against shadow refuge of stealth thiefs … hehehehehehe

Viking Jorun.5413:

style.6173:

This are fake. Someone at ANET would be crazy to even consider it. As for thieves, if they added a new elite, it should be a signet.

That’s what I thought as well, but in all honesty, if the new trap launched the opponent a significant distance (900, more than guardian banish) and had AoE potential I could start to see it being relatively useful, especially if it had a ~60s CD that would be traited down to kitten with Quick Traps.

I still can’t see anyone ever use it except in one of two places:
— skyhammer
—trolling in eotm

In every other situation, one of the existing elites would be better.

I still think thieves need a signet elite.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Ofc the warrior gets the best one, even if it is fake

Considering that and thieves getting a trap (remember ANet loves thief’s traps and venoms)… It makes it look legit, just the mesmer bit throws it off…

Zero Day.2594:

RedSpectrum.1975:

Ofc the warrior gets the best one, even if it is fake

Considering that and thieves getting a trap (remember ANet loves thief’s traps and venoms)… It makes it look legit, just the mesmer bit throws it off…

The mesmer one just shows that they watch too much anime

Maugetarr.6823:

The mesmer one just shows that they watch too much anime

Actually there is an Asura you meet in the personal story (the Asura story and later on you meet her in Orr again) that fights like that in Orr.

I’m pretty skeptical about this “leak”…but it seems like just about every time in the past when we get leaked patch notes, they turn out to be legit.

I actually don’t mind having an elite trap, but if they want to fix traps, they need to improve the current traps instead of just trying to tack on another.

This is why adding a venom heal didn’t fix venoms. In the end, you still sacrifice too much dps to make a venom build really viable in PvE and you lose the condi/stun breaks that you need in PvP when you fill your bar with venoms.

I’m all for venoms and traps being made viable…but I hope they balance devs realize that this can’t be achieved by simply tacking on another skill.