your favorite stealth class?

hallucigenocide

what's your favorite sneaky class?

i tend to gravitate towards stealth classes when i'm new to a game since it mostly means i can decide when to fight and not to.. and it makes exploring a little easier when you can sneak around looking at things without getting aggroed all the time.

anyway the latest one i tried was Thief in GW2  wich is a pretty fun one but not being able to stay in stealth until engaged made me feel "meh"

 

nariusseldon

If i want stealth gameplay, i would much rather play the real stealth games like Deus Ex HE, Dishonored, and the likes. No MMO has done stealth gameplay well, compared to those. May be they should learn.

 

OhhPaigey

WoW Druid/Rogue

SavageHorizon

EQ rogue and lotro burglar.

CalmOceans

EQ rogue for me too. SoS (Shroud of Stealth) made us the primary corpse dragger because we could drag corpses right from under a mob's nose without detection.

And even the few mobs that could see through our SoS, rogues wouldn't get detected if we were outside the mob's viewing frustum.

Other players couldn't detect you either under SoS, which was helpful during some expansions where mobs were contested, being able to quickly scout out if untrackable mobs were up or not and what guilds were doing.

YashaX

GW2 thief; not being able to stealth around permanently is a downside, but the way stealth works in combat and the overall playstyle is amazing. First time I have really felt like some kind of ninja/shadow rogue, you have to think tricky to play it well.

Kaneth

Nightshade in DAoC. The Perforate Artery move that requires you to face your enemy to stab them and not be detected added a bunch of risk.

Burgler LotRO/Rogue/Druid in WoW, mostly because of their unique systems they each offered.

GW2 Thief. High skill cap in pvp to be effective, and the lack of permanent stealth and high mobility lets you feel like you are flying around the map moving in and out of the shadows.

 

I also enjoyed playing thief/rogue classes in PnP games. There was a lot of risk vs. reward with a proper GM, not to mention the utility of the rogue was more important than the overall DPS output, again with a proper GM.

Axehilt

WOW Rogue for MMORPGs.  But as noted earlier, non-MMORPGs offer dramatically better stealth gameplay:

• Planetside 2 infiltrator (~5th best worldwide kills/hour on my TR main with Hailstorm)
• TF2 spy (great timing to how much cloak juice you had; fun disguises)
• Natural Selection 2 (when the alien commander gives the team cloak first and the early game becomes 2-8 minutes of intense ambushes where you don't have the speed or armor to stand up in fair fights and you must ambush or die.)
• Several PVE FPSes (Dishonored, Deus Ex:HR, Sniper Elite)
• World of Warships (while World of Tank's line of sight was reasonably realistic, Warships went overboard on line of sight with destroyers having smoke which sort of unbelievably causes them to disappear before your eyes -- good for gameplay, but not quite as believable as WoT.)
• Batman: Arkham Asylum had solid stealth gameplay.
• Metal Gear Solid has long been the standard, though admittedly I haven't even tried one since MGS3.

 

hallucigenocide

Originally posted by YashaX
GW2 thief; not being able to stealth around permanently is a downside, but the way stealth works in combat and the overall playstyle is amazing. First time I have really felt like some kind of ninja/shadow rogue, you have to think tricky to play it well.

yes the combat is pretty damn sweet.. i like the whole weapon swap thing they got going in GW2 it fits the thief perfectly. (felt more awkard on the other classes i tried)

Wargfoot

Favorite Class: LOTRO Warg.
The ability to basically disappear in any battle was magical.

Favorite Target: LOTRO Burglar
Had a sneaky little devil with a 200:1 kill death ratio that stopped playing because I made sure my pack was on his biscuits any time he entered the zone.  When he stopped getting away, he stopped coming out.

Scot

Wargfoot said:

Favorite Class: LOTRO Warg.
The ability to basically disappear in any battle was magical.

Favorite Target: LOTRO Burglar
Had a sneaky little devil with a 200:1 kill death ratio that stopped playing because I made sure my pack was on his biscuits any time he entered the zone.  When he stopped getting away, he stopped coming out.

Same here Warg was my favorite shadow class. But not many MMOs allow classes to be as distinct as that, though differentiation was more likely in old MMOs. The move to uniformity of classes has been with us for more than a decade, part of the easy mode philosophy. Real shame.

Wargfoot

Scot said:

Wargfoot said:

Favorite Class: LOTRO Warg.
The ability to basically disappear in any battle was magical.

Favorite Target: LOTRO Burglar
Had a sneaky little devil with a 200:1 kill death ratio that stopped playing because I made sure my pack was on his biscuits any time he entered the zone.  When he stopped getting away, he stopped coming out.

Same here Warg was my favorite shadow class. But not many MMOs allow classes to be as distinct as that, though differentiation was more likely in old MMOs. The move to uniformity of classes has been with us for more than a decade, part of the easy mode philosophy. Real shame.

It was a very distinct class.
I've not seen anything like it anywhere else.

Angrakhan

DAoC Hunter for me back in Vanilla. It, of course, had the shit nerfed out of it because being able to essentially backstab from range was very deadly especially when you paired up with another hunter. A stealth squad of a couple of hunters backed up with a couple of Shadowblades could absolutely wreck a siege attempt as you flank and cut down the enemy's back line. Good times. 

Theocritus

The best ones I ever saw were the stealth classes in DAoC...I dont know how many times I got one shot by a stealther in DAoC. In fact, it ruined the game for me.