Guild Wars 2

Gw2 stealth mechanics are even more annoying that other previous mmorpg’s let me clarify:

in other games stealth is permanent till you are in combat, once in combat you cannot stealth at all or you have 1 emergency 5 second stealth.

in gw2 you can keep popping in and out of stealth at will every so many seconds
this stealth mechanic is even worse than permanent stealth not to mention that with the low CD and traits to extend it you could potentially remain in stealth almost indefinitely !

Yes it is very annoying fighting thieves who constantly pop into stealth but they can still be hit if you know where they are [behind you]
If they are a pistol stealther; just run away; honestly not worth your time.

Yep, is very annoying cause it keeps the thief balanced and useful. Take stealth from a thief and he will die like a mentally handicapped bug. Seriously less Q_Q people.

To be fair, the problem lies in rendering them as well. When stealth ends, they’re supposed to be in a “revealed” state (debuff) where they’re visible and cannot stealth again for 3 (I believe, may be wrong) seconds, even if their other stealth skills are off cooldown. This is to prevent them from chaining stealth forever.

However, especially in wvwvw, when they exit stealth, the game can be delayed in showing them again. So they’re not technically “Stealthed”, but you still can’t see them because the client sucks. Because of that, during this 3-second window where they shouldn’t be able to stealth, nobody can see them, and they can re-stealth when the debuff ends and it looks like they never were visible at all.

Thieves are still BS, don’t get me wrong. But the stealth mechanic isn’t fundamentally broken, they just need to correct the client not showing things it really should be showing.

Melee thieves aren’t hard to deal with if you have 1700 toughness and a mace+shield.
Block the initial barrage of attacks and use the mace’s counter skill then try to CC them.

I’ve started using this build yesterday and haven’t had any problems.

You guys realize you can kill a thief in like 2 auto-attacks, and you don’t even need to target him? If you see a thief targeting you just swing a few times then mash F to finish him.

Hell, you don’t even need to finish him really. What’s he gonna do, get up and die again?

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

You guys realize you can kill a thief in like 2 auto-attacks, and you don’t even need to target him? If you see a thief targeting you just swing a few times then mash F to finish him.

Hell, you don’t even need to finish him really. What’s he gonna do, get up and die again?

Lmfao! While grossly exaggerated, that last line made me LOL for realzies.