Guild Wars 2

So yeah, at this point we know that anti-stealth traps can totally kitten over a stealth thief, but they are fairly expensive to use on a regular basis. Sure you can afford the badges and karma, but it’s low gain and it eats the badges you would use for siege.

Lets call that a big loss to prevent any arguing.

HOWEVER, you can also totally ruin a zergs day with supply draining traps from stealth. So on 1 hand you will sometimes hit a bad situation and very potentially death because of an anti-stealth trap. On the other you can remove 5 supply from an entire zerg.

Overall I say this is a nerf for selfish types who just want to “pown baddies” and an incredible buff for thieves with an idea of teamplay.

Of course there is no way they will allow traps to remain as currently without making it break stealth, that would be silly.

For the supply trap, I foresee anet making a change to these at some point. I don’t think it will be soon but I think it will happen. I’m sure most of us have seen the video of some VOTF thieves supply bombing a enemy zerg. Well after I had a go at it my self, it is extremely easy to do. Single handedly I had a zerg able to do nothing but hit camps over and over. If this widely catches on, there will probably some major QQ at some point. IMO this is a buff because we are the only class that can effectively do this with minimal threat.

Stealth trap is a double edged sword imo. I camped a area north of hills with a trap placed waiting for a thief to come by and attack me. Kited the thief to the trap and killed him with out an issue. I think it will be very useful for thieves or people that wait to scout open field areas like camps. Also the fact that you can stealth and then drop the trap in a 1vX fight. Looking at it that way its a buff for sure but there is the flip side. A thief could do the same to you or if your in a group fight, any random person can drop them making 1vX much harder for thieves.

Either way I’m looking forward to some creative ways people use these traps.

Well, if nothing else the thief community might learn the ways to play thief that do not rely on stealth, and I don’t just mean flanking strike spam lol.

Ralathar.7236:

Well, if nothing else the thief community might learn the ways to play thief that do not rely on stealth, and I don’t just mean flanking strike spam lol.

While I think that the kittenfest that the Thief forum has turned into is pathetic, it’s posts like yours that prove that people like you don’t even play a Thief and trying to argue with you would be completely futile.

I mean really, Thieves will need to learn to play without stealth? Oh, so I suppose Eles will go without attunement swapping then? You know, because that’s their central class mechanic and everything and obviously they need to just learn to play without it.

Honestly man… lol…

Ralathar.7236:

Well, if nothing else the thief community might learn the ways to play thief that do not rely on stealth, and I don’t just mean flanking strike spam lol.

Then u mean death blossom spam ? Couse there are no other ways.

Incurafy.6329:

Ralathar.7236:

Well, if nothing else the thief community might learn the ways to play thief that do not rely on stealth, and I don’t just mean flanking strike spam lol.

While I think that the kittenfest that the Thief forum has turned into is pathetic, it’s posts like yours that prove that people like you don’t even play a Thief and trying to argue with you would be completely futile.

I mean really, Thieves will need to learn to play without stealth? Oh, so I suppose Eles will go without attunement swapping then? You know, because that’s their central class mechanic and everything and obviously they need to just learn to play without it.

Honestly man… lol…

I love my support thief and just to test how viable it would be I have run multiple different non-stealth builds and succeeded. Both ranged and melee.

Then again my main is a sheer glass staff ele so I’m used to surviving without stealth and without the high level of mobility thief has. I have more CC though and some extra range. Irony of ironies one of my banes is a glass cannon theif, but perhaps more ironic they can down me midfight but because my guild uses team work they die or run and I do not die. No help for poor target selection against by choosing to tr for someone with good positioning skills haha.

Still, pretty much any flanking attack, portal, ambush, etc is hitting me first so I have to be ready to evade countless amount of “you die stupid ele” on a regular basis. Not to mention that I’m visible 100% of the time and carrying a staff so people naturally try to kill me knowing I’m squishy while I light neon signs saying “I’M OVER HERE!!” by casting repeatedly with a staff.

Karolis.4261:

Ralathar.7236:

Well, if nothing else the thief community might learn the ways to play thief that do not rely on stealth, and I don’t just mean flanking strike spam lol.

Then u mean death blossom spam ? Couse there are no other ways.

Had a s/d thief catch me in a stealth trap earlier today in EB- just sat in black powder>auto attack til he attempted to heal (hide in shadows animation) then head shot>heartseeker x2 and good night. Yes he was terribad (wasn"t upleveled though) but then again I didn’t panic when I couldn’t stealth>bs. Even without stealth we have a few reliable escapes like 2 evades, heartseeker, shadowstep, short bow 5, blind powder etc. However I do agree that the stealth hate in general sets a bad precedence,