Guild Wars 2

What do you guys think about stealth being broken when your downed?

Personally getting tired of standing around waiting to see if I got you…

Didn’t you see the ‘FINISH HIM’?

It would completely invalidate some of the traits out there and no. Wait it out, heck the thiefs got some of the worst down abilities ever a short range teleport and and Cast timed stealth that some moron can easily counter just by attacking the spot he went invisable at not like he isn’t gonna be visable 2 seconds later.

Im not talking about stealth applied after your down. I don’t think having your stealth broken if you get downed while in stealth is unreasonable.

Are boons removed when you’re downed?

Don’t wait, assume you didn’t kill us because we’re OP and you’re about to get wtfpwnd with a backstab or two.

Wait…. Are you saying you can kill thieves? That ain’t right. What class are you? I need to go to your forum and complain.

You literally can’t wait 3 seconds?

Its not the wait its wondering if I got him or he made a run for it…

keadlaw.6350:

Its not the wait its wondering if I got him or he made a run for it…

Experience will tell you if you got him or not.

keadlaw.6350:

Its not the wait its wondering if I got him or he made a run for it…

Auto-attack, and watch your combat log.

Combat log doesn’t tell you his state. It just tells you that you’re hitting the thief or not.
If this thread is about sPvP/tPvP just check the kill history at the right side of your screen. If it’s about WvW then you have to guess. Figure out the thief’s build and gear and “guess” how much dmg he can take until he’s down.

Well if I’m about to get downed I usually throw Shadow Refuge under me. I don’t really see anything wrong with it, thieves are squishy and I’m still stuck in that same spot. Not my fault if they’re too dumb to notice. The game also tells you if you killed someone by awarding Kill points. ;/

Also as someone mentioned, the downed stealth skill is fricken horrible, and also totally useless and broken in PvE.

When I down a thief I spam AA, usually end up getting the kill unless the player was smart and stealth+teleport towards their allies where I’m in danger if I choose to finish them off.

Tip:
If your auto-attack chain progresses, you got him.
Try paying attention.

In PvP it’s as simple as looking to the right side and if your name (or the name of a close ally) appears as killing this Thief, he’s downed for sure.

Even in WvW the only situation where you will have problems with this would be a Thief casting Shadow Refuge just before receiving the downing hit, making him invisible for some time, but even then, if we’re talking about WvW if he was in a zergfest he will die because of AoEs and indirect hits, and if he was a roamer probably will be detected by other roamers. If he is lucky enough he might go unadverted, but careful players will detect downed Thieves soon enough (and the situation I described rarely happens, normally in 1 second he is visible again, if he was stealthed at all.

keadlaw.6350:

Im not talking about stealth applied after your down. I don’t think having your stealth broken if you get downed while in stealth is unreasonable.

Well it’s as much unreasonable as being downed due to a channeled skill (or pet) which goes on in hitting us after 2-3 seconds that we enter stealth.

How about that?

Galandil.9641:

Well it’s as much unreasonable as being downed due to a channeled skill (or pet) which goes on in hitting us after 2-3 seconds that we enter stealth.
How about that?

This.
A million Basilisk Venom vials for you, sir.