Guild Wars 2

I took a break from my thief for awhile in order to learn some other classes and how they work: necro, mesmer, warrior, elem. But on returning to playing my thief again, I’ve noticed that some of my abilities don’t perform the same way anymore.

Cloak and Dagger: It feels like they nerfed the range on it. Previously I had the range in which I needed to be to hit with it down to second nature. Now it seems like I have to be virtually standing right on top of someone in order for it to connect. And even when it does, I’ve never seen so many instances of “immune” before in my life, especially right after someone is downed. Why do players even get a short immunity to anything upon being downed is a mystery to me. And no, it wasn’t the revealed debuff.

Stealth in general often times just doesn’t seem to work. I’m not talking about channeled attacks continuing to hit once they’ve started(that’s it’s own level of stupid). I mean when I activate Hide in Shadows or C&D and nothing happens. Stealth doesn’t activate, no error or immune messages. Just nothing happens. And I made SURE that the revealed debuff was not on.

Mostly it just feels like a few of the core ways in which thief works don’t perform the way they used to. Has anyone else experienced anything similar to this, or am I just seeing things?

I’ll go in game and try it in a little while. But, as of earlier today, I’m suspecting there was unspoken game modifications, a bunch of minor stuff I’ve noticed aren’t quite right. Maybe I’m being paranoid, but I pay pretty close attention to minutia.

I haven’t bothered to play in about two weeks, but I recall having most of those issues back before I quit.

C&D is commonly joked about having to be in kissing range to land, and it’s been that way for quite some time. Maybe the fact that you took a break from Thief made you forget how close you had to be to land C&D?

When you go into stealth and it looks like it didn’t work, look at your 1 skill to see if it changed to the stealth skill. Other people see that we have gone into stealth, but it doesn’t show up on our screen (kinda like the opposite of the rendering issue).

I dont think ure seeing things, i havent let go of my thief and C&D its a lot harder to land now, and i get a lot of hits that dont trigger invis, too… i thought i was doing somrthing wrong, but now, with more ppl complaining…

It’s ok for CnD to have little range; in the end you’re going through them for backstab anyways so who cares.
By the time CnD goes off you should be inside them or already behind them with a big smile on your face.

Zunhar.4079:

C&D is commonly joked about having to be in kissing range to land, and it’s been that way for quite some time. Maybe the fact that you took a break from Thief made you forget how close you had to be to land C&D?

Maybe, but I don’t think that’s the case. I play an asura, so my melee ranges have always been a little bit off, so I got really used to exactly how close I needed to be for C&D to work. I could tag someone with C&D without the target ring actually touching my character. Now I have to literally be standing directly on top of my target for it to work. That’s a pretty big difference.

When you go into stealth and it looks like it didn’t work, look at your 1 skill to see if it changed to the stealth skill. Other people see that we have gone into stealth, but it doesn’t show up on our screen (kinda like the opposite of the rendering issue).

Ah, maybe that’s it. I hadn’t considered that I might have gone into stealth without the game actually displaying it. Do other players view me as being in stealth, or can they keep targeting me when it does this?

I’m pretty sure other players view you as being in stealth.