Guild Wars 2

This sigil is a low effort counter to stealth and I agree, having an add on ability (from gears) that negates a class utility is bad game design in my opinion. Usually in order to stealth you need to use up your resources, ei. Initiative, CDs and Endurance. With this sigil all you have to do is weapon swap at melee range which doesn’t use up any cooldowns on any given class. I can also see this being abusable, being able to stack the reveal debuff with certain classes like Revenant’s Gaze of Darkness + Sigil of Revelation which basically takes away one of thief’s major defence for a longer period of time.
This sigil doesn’t have any valid reason to be implemented in pvp, we actually get punished for stealthing since we cant cap points or channel objectives.

Now those who argue “Thieves can perma stealth and reset any fight” Thats true, but please don’t forget we only have on average of 12-17k HP with no toughness or healing power built into our meta builds.

This whole post is incredibly wrong. “Every meta build in the game that does any kind of damage can beat it” That’s a load of bull, either you don’t know how to kite or you’re not utilizing the full potential of the build. S/F Eles HARD counters warriors, revs, and possibly engineers. The only thing that hard counters you is thief(due to stealth, evades and gap closures) which is why you’re trying to make it sound op. Even then thieves has to be careful due to how much INSTANT bursts and defense eles has (acrane shield x2, shocking aura, invulnerability, mistform, reflects, projectile block). Every class has a counter and this post is purely trying to get rid of every counter s/f eles has with these absurd buffs.

Now you can argue “oh but thieves has no cooldowns, unlimited evades, can perma stealth” Well you can shut up and sit down because eles has tons of defenses(as listed above), 20 abilities with lots of AoE from their weapons with tons of great traits to help either burst down someone or survive.

These are terrible changes, SB is all about utility and mobility. You’re trying to make it into more of a 1v1 or combat orientated weapon which we already have enough options for. Also changing D/P because “its been too good for too long” doesn’t warrant a nerf.

Yea i can see the reasoning behind it, plenty of people fell victim to trolls or toxic people. Especially now that we are getting a ton more players.