Guild Wars 2

This is a plea to save many depressed Thieves from committing terrible acts of harm to themselves. Yes, it has come to my attention that many of the Thieves here have already accepted their deaths and gave themselves a public funeral.

Not all hope is lost, however. There are still those who remain with us, but for how long, we do not know. There are many whom I have seen charge head first into an engagement so they would be cut down by the blade of another. But there are also those who are on the edge of despair, and they may yet wish to live. However, I believe they would embrace death if it were offered. It is for those I would hope the powers that be will do the following…

Please give Thieves immunity to self-inficted harm.

Such methods include (but may not be limited to)…

Suicide by Mesmer: Mirror of Anguish
Suicide by Necromancer: Reaper’s Protection
Suicide by Guardian: Amplified Wrath

Please, either give Thieves pure immunity to such things or at least place them immediately in Stealth (or mist form) while affected by those traits. While another Last Refuge is not desired, it does not make sense for a well trained Thief to harm him or herself for successfully attacking. The only possible reasoning for them to do so is to end their suffering.

There must be some solution to this needless cardinal sin!

First of please change the title to something more representative for your thread. I tought you were becoming suicidal because of thief

Next to that giving thieves this kind of immunity would be very unbalancing. As an engineer I dont mind too much when the mesmer reflects a knockback. This means that the trait is in some situations more effective as others. Its the mesmers choice to take a trait, that is in this case more effective against thieves than others.

If you suspect an enemy to have such a trait, for example mirror of anguish, shoot a quick headshot first. It will barely do anything to you and then you can start the fight. It now is on 60s cooldown. Its a matter then about tactical gameplay.

In all honesty it should show the trait as a buff on the class so you never have to play a guessing game. Its not like a thief’s life isnt hard enough already with the whole screw up once your dead thing.

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In all honesty it should show the trait as a buff on the class so you never have to play a guessing game. Its not like a thief’s life isnt hard enough already with the whole screw up once your dead thing.

Either that or a visual cue.

A glowing mesmer that has mirror of anguish up means we can time our cc so we dont get rng’d by it.