I would really like everyone against stealth (And mostly when you say stealth you say Thief, cause yes mesmers and ragers have it, but they don’t use it like Thieves do…so don’t hide behind the words here) to say what class they main and what’s the most powerfull skill/combo, how they win in WvW and PvP and you’ll see that every class has certain something like i said in my 4th post here.
I main ranger. I think mmo stealth is a generally atrocious mechanic due to its massively “unfun” nature to the opposition: can’t see it coming, can’t anticipate it, and can only guess react. But all game devs seem to feel compelled to put it in to ensure the ninja-fan crowd plays their game.
In the case of gw2, it’s only getting worse imho, as rather than either break it down (too late for that) or leave it at that (probably the only sensible option now), they actually give more of it…
As i said, i main a ranger, which means i was gifted stealth on LB3 for some reason. And later with the Superior Runes of the Trapper, i’ve got a not-permastealth-but-boy-does-it-feel-like-it build which, while hilarious for me, must be one of the most annoying fights ever for the people i encounter. Well, PU mesmer is probably worse, but stealth-trap ranger has got to be close. This on a class that didn’t have stealth in the first place. There were tons of alternative way to boost rangers and traps, yet they chose to gift us with the most annoying mechanic (for the enemy) in game.
Revealed skills are probably the only thing so far that went in the right direction, and they’re way too restricted (Sic’em on ranger, and the toolbelt skill on engie, or are there more?). Unless trap-stealthing myself, i never go out in wvw without my Sic’em slotted, but i have yet to be revealed even once while abusing the Trapper Runes.
