Guild Wars 2

The new reaction that creatures have to ‘stealth’ invalidates the usefulness of Downed Skill #3 almost COMPLETELY for the Thief character. Since the creatures no longer stop chasing you, do not reset path and the stealth is only for 1 second, this skill offers absolutely no advantage to a downed thief except in PvP situations where there are multiple enemy targets for enemies to worry about.

The stealth does not stop the mobs from chasing you, does not reset them from attacking you, doesn’t help you escape foes at all.

haha, even before the stealth change this skill was and easily is the worst downed skill in the game as it literally does nothing. It last so short that even if it removed aggro the mob wouldn’t be far enough away when it wore off so they’d still turn back and attack you instantly.

Don’t get me wrong I love my thief but the downed #3 skill is just absolute crap either make the stealth longer and not break when you heal (to prevent unfairness have it break/end upon rally). Or flat out change it to something more useful altogehter.

Is this post a joke?

There is no bug here, it works as intented.

In the past, if you were swimming and suddenly found yourself surrounded by an angry mob and got downed, you could swim for the shore/water top. While doing so, using skill 3 would give you stealth as you swam away from the creatures, which would reset them and allow you to get away. This no longer occurs.

Works as intended? PvE thieves effectively only have 3 downed skills at the moment and one broken button that does a pointless stealth animation.