The Spy Addon Needs to Go

I posted in that thread!

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Spy pops up as a Radar even in your Hiding in a tower waiting for Alliance / Horde to pass by. All the sudden they stop and now enter the tower.

This addon is cancer

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Not if you are stealthed, be a better rogue.

If you are so good at pvp, why are you here crying about it?

Seems legit.

Nope, Was in a tower Burning Steps stealthed Horde new I was in the tower. Addon is pure cancer.

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Well I dont very much agree with that opinion. I think a better way to put it Is if you don’t have the Spy addon you are at a serious disadvantage to others.

I disagree.

I 100% agree. Everyone is now a hunter who can track the enemy faction. Stealth classes had one huge advantage, that was the element of surprise. Which is completely neutered with the spy addon. I play a priest and I feel bad for any stealth classes in Classic. I actually really want this addon to be broken. Stealth classes should be able to surprise you with attacks. People should be able to hide behind walls or hide in houses and hearth away from raids.

This addon really is broken.

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Ya I think I figured out which comment hehe. As I read it I actually thought it would be something you would say. :slight_smile:

Agreed this needs to be fixed. It completely removes the human element from world PVP. If you play a high priority target like a healer, players don’t even have to look at their screen anymore, just the bars and you’ll get warrior charged through a hill. It’s such a joke. Totally killed my interest in world PVP tbh.

Spy is the cancer that’s going to kill classic.

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[quote=“Tornos-spirestone, post:152, topic:331496”]
Stealth classes had one huge advantage, that was the element of surprise.
[/quote] They still have it, all this add-on tells you is that someone went into stealth within 200 yards. You don’t get their location, it could be 1 yard or 100 from you.

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The Addon had nothing to do with it.

You can blame everything you want to on it. But that won’t help you get better.

Sure buddy, they just happened to ride by jump off there mounts and enter the tower run up to the top where I was?

Sure…

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Face-palm.

If you got a warning that someone went stealth. THEN THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE IS GONE!!!

Oh my goodness you can’t honestly be this stupid?!

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This is plain wrong. I hate that this add-on exists, and I hate that I feel like I need it because everyone else is using it. If I see “player has stealthed near you” I know to either keep moving because stealth toons are slow, or set myself up for an ambush.

The element of surprise is completely gone because I know that a rogue just went stealth near me.

And not just rogues, any class. I can tell if a town has been overrun before I get there and avoid it. I can tell if toon is nearby so I can find them and kill them.

This add-on gives way too many advantages, and no one should be playing on a PVP server without it. This is the biggest problem with it, it feels like it is required. That, and the sound effects sound like they are from star trek.

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Silly question, perhaps, but doesn’t going into stealth make a sound - such that the “element of surprise” could be lost anyway without the rogue / druid being aware they gave themselves away? (Hear the sound, check the combat log, no addon needed.)

Heck, isn’t that “element of surprise” potentially lost any number of ways, including being seen by someone before they went into stealth or spotted while moving, and that person warning with name and general location?

Not to mention … WHAT “element of surprise” on a PvP realm where you pretty much should pretty much always act as though there’s stealthed enemies about?

Spoken like someone truly clueless about pvp/world pvp