Guild Wars 2

Title says it all.

VOTE HERE: http://www.strawpoll.me/12569761
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I think it’s extremely unhealthy for WvW; I am seeing more of these pop up around the place especially thanks to sites like Metabattle advertising it plain as day.

The build has been around for a long time even dating back to 2014, but since post-HoT with conditions being ramped up along with powercreep in general this build, although gimmick in it’s own right, still poses a problem in WvW.

It’s unhealthy because the traps do not apply damage once triggered like every other trap utility in the game (which applies reveal, respectively) thus allowing the thief to stay permanently stealthed whilst dishing out these irritable traps and regarding some classes – there is absolutely little to no counter-play unless you drop a Stealth Trap and even then that entire animation alone is just begging for that trapper thief to vomit their condi’s on you whilst you’re stationary and you better hope you got condi removals or you know… blast dat light field boiz.

Source: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trap

Many reddit threads along with offical Gw2 forum threads sum up the frustrations trying to either fight or escape this build. Here’s just one example:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5m9efq/something_should_be_done_about_condi_trapper/

I’m not asking for a complete nerf; I’m merely asking for some counter-play to be added in the form of small damage on the traps once procced which should apply the reveal debuff thus allowing us to at least initiate combat with the thief (many attacks in this game require a target, after all).
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EDIT: I am sorry if I have caused confusion with the terms trapper thief and ghost thief. It was to my knowledge (from a year or so ago) that server mates generally called this build “trapper thief” and that’s stuck in my mind since then. For clarity – yes I am talking about ghost thief and I am still adamant in my belief that this build should have counter play added to it.

This is my first ever poll I’ve made on the site so I’m new with how that functions – the poll speaks for itself atm – 70% in favour. Thanks to those who have voted. I know ANet probably won’t acknowledge this plea but it helps to know quite a portion of players agree that the build in it’s current state is unhealthy for WvW and changes should be made to make counter play an option.