Guild Wars 2

Honest question. My original character was a Ranger. I loved the ranger and killed almost everyone I came across in WvW but I couldn’t even begin to fight a thief, I could only hope to run. So I created a thief to learn its strengths and weaknesses. What a fun class to play! Then they put in the 4 second stealth timer and thieves were no longer that impossible to kill class but still a lot of fun. I’ve since created a Mesmer which to me is the most fun class to play yet. But every once in a while I still come across a thieve who is only ever visible for maybe a second, then gone again and this is in combat. Most of the thieves I encounter cant to this, nor can I when I’m on mine. Is it a spec? What am I missing? I still have no chance in hell to fight this perma stealth thief but now I cant even emulate it with my own thief to see how to counter it. How are thieves still doing it?

If you come out of stealth without attacking, you don’t get the revealed state. Therefore, if I await to naturally come out of stealth to poke you a little and jump back into stealth, I can. It’s not extremely effective though, but highly annoying..

Ohhh geeze. Maybe that’s what he did! Its was extremely affective against my Mesmer buddy and I and were pretty good at fighting thieves but we really don’t have enough aoe’s to counter that. I had no idea that was possible. Im going to try it right now on my thief, thanks!

Oh my freaking goodness. All this time and I could never figure it out. It worked perfectly. Time to play my thief again for a bit lol