Guild Wars 2

If thief goes into stealth and use whirlwind right before the stealth ends the opponent wont see any animation.

for me its like the thief is just walking..
Fix it pls because whirlwind also reflect arrows, now there is no counter to it if you don’t see it.

mhmmh id much rather put it into the bug section

balance issue sounds like its allowed and just a nice trick you can pull off..^^

Its just a L2P case when you see that your ranged attacks get reflected, that you immetedly change your weapon …

Its not a bug, its just the normal functionating gameplay and as long you don’t hit nobody with the stolen whirlwind skill, you stay under steath.
However, if you reflect with whirlwind a projectile attack and that one hits you, there i think it should end your stealth and if this doesn’t happen, then I think that could be some kind of bug.

Also a thief that uses this skill is easy to kite, cause whirlwind massively reduces the movement speed of the thief and makes them vulnerable to AoE skills plus unable to use other skillls while the animation is running, escept usign Steal for a one time teleport to the target if that tries to kite you around to try to land some hits more, before the animation is over

If the animation isn’t being shown when they exit stealth during the channel its a bug not a l2p issue. If they havn’t technically hit anyone in whirlwind and are managing to refelect projectiles then the thief is smart at blocking their ally and then it is a slight l2p issue but nothing serious. Just gata pay attention to those missles’ path.

NinjaEd.3946:

If the animation isn’t being shown when they exit stealth during the channel its a bug not a l2p issue. If they havn’t technically hit anyone in whirlwind and are managing to refelect projectiles then the thief is smart at blocking their ally and then it is a slight l2p issue but nothing serious. Just gata pay attention to those missles’ path.

this… its not about a l2p issue.. ofc I stop shooting if I see my arrows getting reflected.
the problem is you don’t see any animation.. so you don’t know they are using whirlwind.. thiefs doing this more and more from stealth, it is a bug