Guild Wars 2

My first and still main character is my Venom Share Thief.

I make a daily habit of running Cad’s Manor.

The regular LFG posts that include some variation of “80’s only” annoy me. So, I’ve made it my policy to take anyone who wants to go.

The teaching is fun and it exposes new-ish players to dungeons. My friends list is populated with many past students. More than once, I’ve held informal classes in the dungeon for new thieves, teaching some stealth basics.

Tonight, I returned from the hospital to find that not only am I revealed upon stealthing, the stealth is far shorter and more fragile. In addition to that any interaction using the “f” button removes stealth.

( Yes, ANET, I still managed to solo the P1 basement )

This change to stealth and the dungeon is incredibly cheesy even by ANET standards.

It will have a more important effect though. I was already part of a fairly small group of people willing to take relatively new and/or non 80 characters through the dungeon. I have been able to do that because stealth and venom share enabled me to either skip fights or add enough bonus dps to get the group through.

With this cheap new trick added… I predict that the number of non “zerk 80’s” running CM will drop to nearly none. If it is ANET’s intention to discourage new players being allowed in dungeon groups, I’d say they’ve succeeded admirably.

Quite sure this is a bug and it has already been reported and confirmed by multiple sources. Check out the Bugs board.

Before you assume a change is intended and make a long post about it, why not check the game update notes to see if it’s in there?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-May-19-2015/first#post5082315

No mention of it. A good indication that it’s a bug.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Before you assume a change is intended and make a long post about it, why not check the game update notes to see if it’s in there?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-May-19-2015/first#post5082315

No mention of it. A good indication that it’s a bug.

Checking update notes is a terrible way for telling whether something is a bug. There are TONS of stealth changes in every update that are intended and not bugs. That said, this stealth issue is a bug.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Before you assume a change is intended and make a long post about it, why not check the game update notes to see if it’s in there?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-May-19-2015/first#post5082315

No mention of it. A good indication that it’s a bug.

Checking update notes is a terrible way for telling whether something is a bug. There are TONS of stealth changes in every update that are intended and not bugs. That said, this stealth issue is a bug.

True there are stealth changes, but it’s perfectly reasonable to tell someone to check to see if a major change like this was listed.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Revealed-bug-introduced-with-patch-3/5082137
guess we will get a response today or tomorrow depending on your timezone ;-)

Wow is this just in CM? Or will my thief not be able to rez downed/dead players while stealthed? Wow there’d be a lot of things crippled by this change if my Thief can’t interact with stuff in open world while stealth! Not even anymore stealing skill point communes! Really hope it’s a bug.

Noticed the same with Harpy Feathers and Order of Whispers Spy Kit yesterday on CoE trying to pass through the undead after blowing the door in P2 while playing on my Guard. So the bug (or nerf) is not to thief but to stealth.