Why was Mastery of Stealth removed?

Assassins go where they please and they don't have to care because they have Vanish if things go south. Archers used to keep assassins in check, but the balance has been upset due to not having that extra stealth view range. Assassins get right up to your face, PA and before you realized it you woke up in relic town. Not to mention that vanish 1 has been boosted to 144% speed and 3 seconds super stealth.

I just don't understand the bias towards assassins being so strong in this game.

Mon 21 Jun 2021 6:43 PM by Siouxsie

Maybe this post should be in "Ask The Team"?

Mon 21 Jun 2021 6:50 PM by Xrystofer

Siouxsie wrote: ↑
Mon 21 Jun 2021 6:43 PM
Maybe this post should be in "Ask The Team"?

Perhaps you should read between the lines. I don't explicitly state it, but there's an implicit message that Mastery of stealth should be bought back.

Mon 21 Jun 2021 7:38 PM by inoeth

well it was never there on phoenix so bringing it "back" is kind of the wrong word for that.
and as much as i agree that mos is a good tool to keep assassins in check, it also is a curse for all solo stealthers (archer and assassin) to get away from stealth grps.
if that was introduced here, archers for sure need camuflage!

btw i have the strange feeling that one of the devs is in fact playing an assassin

so much in favor of them.

still a good archer can for sure beat an assassin

Mon 21 Jun 2021 8:16 PM by easytoremember

Xrystofer wrote: ↑
Mon 21 Jun 2021 6:50 PM
Siouxsie wrote: ↑
Mon 21 Jun 2021 6:43 PM
Maybe this post should be in "Ask The Team"?
Perhaps you should read between the lines. I don't explicitly state it, but there's an implicit message that Mastery of stealth should be bought back.

In current year if you don't provide explicit labels of one or the other they read humor literally and serious statements jokingly. There is no effort to make sense of something presented, no interpretation, no contemplation,
no examining context; cynicism is lunatic hysterics, satire
is incredulous misconstuencies, implication is simply unseen or ignored. Hypotheticals elicit a 'that didn't happen'. Postulations 'I'm not saying that'. Metaphors, analogies, similes... critical thought is dead.

MoS incentivises grouping (visibles) an MoS user to pop stealths and encourages grouping (stealths) to do the same if it's exclusive to 1 or the other archtype. It makes stealth grouping easier too thanks to the range you can see each other, and solo stealth becomes more difficult as the likelihood of being unexpectedly uncovered shoots up.