Guild Wars 2

Hi Thieves and Devs,

What was the main purpose of increasing the revealed debuff to 4 sec in Spvp? Lowering burst dmg? It made sense when the trait mugg was so powerful.

However, with mugg now being a shadow of its former self, dmg vise, is there any chance that we can see the revealed debuff decreased to 3 seconds in Spvp as well?

It would make a lot of stealth builds viable in Spvp again.

What do the Thief community think?

Cheers,

Your friendly neighborhood Thief

I think revealed is good at 4 seconds. IMO thieves are overall in a good place right now.

I’d like them to give pistols a good once over though, the vulnerability shot and auto attack seem a bit under tuned

Reveal Debuff in Spvp has been reverted back to 3s. Just was not released in patch notes, wanted to give Thieves a surprise. May,14 and a surprise they did (Anti stealth traps)

Devs dont read nor care about these boards.

Better off posting in spvp forums.

AikijinX.6258:

Reveal Debuff in Spvp has been reverted back to 3s. Just was not released in patch notes, wanted to give Thieves a surprise. May,14 and a surprise they did (Anti stealth traps)

I thought this too (pre 14th), did you test on dummies in the mist? For some godawful reason, its 3s in the mist, and 4s in actual games (which is obviously extremely confusing)

Hexs.8015:

I think revealed is good at 4 seconds. IMO thieves are overall in a good place right now.

I’d like them to give pistols a good once over though, the vulnerability shot and auto attack seem a bit under tuned

D/D is still an inferior set in almost every way to D/P.
S/P is rarely taken due to the fact that AA > PW, and doesn’t cost init. If PW did something interesting and unique, it would be a different story.
P/D is underpowered and boring because its 5->1….5->1… and stacking all your damage onto a single condition makes it ridiculously easy to cleanse.
P/P is a worthless, poorly designed spec that needs an overhaul. Body shot is still garbage, Vital shot and Unload are on opposite sides of the spectrum, and P/P has 0 access to a thiefs normal defensive measures (Stealth and evasiveness)
Alot of our traits are useless, and need to be combined/redesigned.

On the plus side –
D/P is a very solid, playable spec.
S/D is a very solid, playable spec.
SB is still one of our most well designed and useful weapons.
The traits we have that are worth taking are generally very good.

In actual Spvp match the reveal debuff is still 3sec. Test it yourselves. Stealth, then check the reveal time. It goes right down to 2… 1…. Doesn’t really give your 3, because it had already started on stealth.

AikijinX.6258:

In actual Spvp match the reveal debuff is still 3sec. Test it yourselves. Stealth, then check the reveal time. It goes right down to 2… 1…. Doesn’t really give your 3, because it had already started on stealth.

Perhaps I’m mistaken. I only bring it up because a few weeks ago I was testing in the mists and noticed the change, but was informed about the Mists/actual game split. I assumed your case was the same.
I’ll check when I get home.