Guild Wars 2

stingz.2169:

Or a permastealth thief destroying all siege weapons one after the other beyond enemy lines during a stonemist siege. sarcasm mode on Sure that’s not a problem sarcasm mode off

Permastealthing doesn’t seem like it would be an issue at all in this situation. Siege equipment should be protected anyway, so if one person, permastealthing thief or not, manages to take out numerous siege weapons back to back by themselves then that sounds like a serious failure on the part of the assaulting server. I can see culling issues being a factor, but it shouldn’t be a deal breaker since siege should never be left undefended like that unless it’s no longer needed.

Also, from the OP

Cosec.9802:

If it just me or are there a Per stealth rouge at every dang supply now a days. I play a thief I do not perm stealth because I play the thief as its intended I don’t exploit. I believe this needs to be fixed asap. IMO this is ruining wvw. Not one of any profession should be capable of holding off an entire 20 man group of players from capping a point they fought hard to get. This will end up being a big game breaker for wvw if they don’t find a way to fix this. I for one can’t stand you types of thieves your weak players dependent on a defect of design and your never gonna convince me otherwise. Stop exploiting the game. Play with skill not cheap dirty tricks.

So yes, this thread is literally about the cap issue.

Psikerlord.2569:

For my money there are 2 main tweaks to PvP that will fix 90% of the QQ:
1. give steal a short casting time (to prevent CnD precast)

I’ve seen this suggested a number of times, but in reality it won’t change anything. If the current thief burst combo goes like this:

Steal(Mug) > CnD > Backstab

Then the thief burst combo after changing steal will go like this:

Infiltrator’s Signet > CnD > Backstab > Steal(Mug)

If venoms are involved, they’ll just hit on the CnD instead of the Steal. Thieves that aren’t running the current burst combo will actually be impacted more by a change to steal than thieves that are running the burst combo.

Then don’t play a backstab thief. Pistol/Dagger and Sword/Dagger are both stealth-based without being burst-centric.