Guild Wars 2

It doesn’t work at all for me. Trying every possible combo with guildmates, nothing.

My point of view:

Culling is the only problem.

I am a condition thief, and I hope not a completely hopeless one. I played crit build some time ago. This build relies heavily on the Cloak and Dagger + Backstab. I could bring people down in two seconds. Slowly I realized, that there is simply no fun and no skill in such a playstyle, that’s why I respecced to condition bleed build. And I think I realized many things.

Right now, every class can be downed in a few seconds. I know thieves, that are able to down me in sPvP in under three seconds (and remember I am running high HP condition build). It does not matter if it is a thief with lots of stealth and backstab or a warrior spinning around. What’s more, dodging backsab is not very difficult. Even these Steal → Stealth → Backstab → death “combos” can be fully avoided. Therefore, there is no problem with stealth while the Thief is running a crit build. I’ve played it and I know very well that these builds can be countered quite easily by a good player (good is an important word here).

Right now, I am running a condition build. Condition build in essence means that you have to get conditions and survive long enough in order conditions to do their job. It is much more difficult in terms of motion, motion prediction and overall requirements for versatility. I am not running a buidl that would enable any kind of “permanent” stealth chains. However, I rely on stealth a lot even though I usually don’t deal much damage out of it. Thiefs can be downed in a matter of seconds when facing a player with approximately the same level of equipment. Tell me, what are we supposed to do except stealth? We can dodge – that’s right, we have to dodge in fact, but so can and should other classes. What can we do then when in 1vs1 combat? Nothing really comes to my mind. Every single class in this game has a specific ability that makes it special. Stealth can be quite easily countered. While battling another thief, I find myself running around, thinking about his next move. You have to predict what will the thief do, and if you don’t, you’ll die. Thief is a difficult class to play, and if you don’t think I am right, you have always been playing it wrong. In my opinion thief which delas 20k instantly isn’t really a thief (and can and should be killed instantly with his 14k HP).

tl;dr: Thief and his stealth are perfectly counterable. Stealth is not bugged (except for culling), it’s just the fact that player somehow deny to learn how to counter it properly.

Character Staxus
Code 42:5:7:878:101
Europe – Aurora Glade
Fireheart Rise, just doing quests

I can’t believe people are being so offensive. As a former game developer I know these things happen, so please be patient a support people who made this amazing game for you.

Same here. 15 characters.

These pictures describe it completely I believe. A very tiny bug, however still a bug.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2lmqx6q.jpg

Located here:

http://i49.tinypic.com/2hnp081.jpg