Guild Wars 2

so I just observed a new trick used by these people. Apparently full stealth thieves are not only annoying in fight but they can keep hiding in towers/posts with very very brief visible time.. which , of course, can be very easily countered by hiding on some spot. Actually they don’t even have to hide, their non-invi time only lasts like 2 seconds at most and they can remain practically undetectable for minutes, waiting til people are gone and then begin taking towers with ease.

you nerfed mesmer once because they can carry a horde of army into tower. 3 full invi thieves are just as capable of taking towers/posts with this tactic. And I saw it with my own eyes today.

thoughts?

they nerfed mesmers to only allow 20 people through a portal and they increased the cool down. 20 people can still take a tower through a mesmer portal and 20 people is not a small amount of people.

Anyways just stand inside the smoke screen if that is what they are doing it will mess up their heartseeker when they try to go invis. Also just because they can do it doesn’t mean thieves do it. Its not like a mass of thieves are running around trying to ninja a tower when they can be out ganking. The ninja a tower is usually left up to mesmers.

Also this is old news(3 months ago) that thieves can stay invis inside enemy towers for a long time. Its not really any different than ninja a keep or tower and letting no more than 4 people kill the guards and nobody attacking the door, so you don’t get orange swords. Its gonna take that theif or 3 thieves a long time to kill the keep lord if they don’t die and you will have white swords on the keep just like you do when a group tries to ninja a tower but don’t create orange swords.

Also I will add that stealth will drop aggro and allow the npc’s to regen health. So 3 thieves have to keep a decent rate of aggro up kill the guards and keep lord in order to take that tower. If they shadow refuge and stay in it to long then keep lord will just regen health and the npc’s.

So it’s no big deal, eh? because I’m pretty sure mesmer hiding is 100x less effective and not triggering sword isn’t gonna remain unnoticed for long and they also require rams and people. And I’m pretty sure they didn’t take that long to kill tower lord, by the time I saw them and ran from the door to the lord spot, he’s already killed.

and they are all condition thieves, so losing aggro is not their problem at all.

but whatever, I just killed them all off. back to wvw.

You killed them and prevented them from taking a keep, isn’t that a somewhat memorable event? And wouldn’t such events add to the variety and spice of WvW?

Lol this is awesome. “I killed 3 thiefs solo, but what they OP”.

First, we need time to pull this off. Second, isn’t this a great tribute to the server when they are outzerged? Small but organized groups have a chance of taking keeps through alternative ways. Also, they don’t have to be all thieves. 1 thief can keep the stealth up for several allies as long as they stick close to him and don’t attack.

Infiltration, assassination and subterfuge. This is war!

Im pretty sure i would rather fight 3 thieves than 20 people and if they are coordinated a portal comes then another comes with another mesmer.

I gotta say, as a thief and a avid supporter of our class, they need to remove the ability to stealth via cloak and dagger on a wall or gate. This seems like an abuse of the mechanic, and it would be great if someone from Anet could let us know whether or not this is considered exploiting. I may, or may not have tried this before, and may or may not have rezed a mesmer who was dead inside a tower so that they could portal an army inside. If I did do this, (pressing #5 repeatedly on a wall) I would feel dirty and sullied.

Don’t you play a mesmer, DavyMcB.1603?

Reminds me of camping keeps as an assassin in DAoC

Why does CND work on inanimate objects?

Columba.9730:

Why does CND work on inanimate objects?

Probably the same reason you can’t light a wooden door on fire.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Columba.9730:

Why does CND work on inanimate objects?

Probably the same reason you can’t light a wooden door on fire.

Lol, then my sylvari should be immune!

Cause your sylvari is a door!

oZii.2864:

Cause your sylvari is a door!

it’s a knob.