What's the point of being a stealth class?

[Aecheon]

It seems about 75% of the content in the KotFE and KotET ignores that stealth exists and all mobs detect and know where you are immediately.

 

Why are an entire FOURTH of classes' main defining trait (stealth) rendered useless during this content?

 

from 1-60 I stealth passed everything from darth jadus, skotia, even revan himself but now suddenly everything has god tier stealth detection? Its not like any of the skippable stuff is hardline story content. Its literally trash mobs.

[Damask_Rose]

The design philosophy for FE/ET seems to have been to make everything take as much time as possible to make the content feel longer. (For example, "Dragon's Maw" that makes you run from one end of the map to the other end and then back again, over and over.) Stealthing would have circumvented that and you could have completed chapters in a reasonable amount of time. Can't have that! The newer design team seems to understand that people who are playing stealth character want to actually stealth past mobs. Yay!

[Xina_LA]

In 6.0, Stealth works on fewer mobs than it used to.

 

Just look at the Star Fortress runs. It used to work on all but the elites.

Now it works on no one. Which means no backstabs and everything that follows.

[teclado]

There's a utility point that you have to take to increase your stealth effectiveness. Without it, yeah stealth is not so useful.

[sayNih]

In this game, stealth is not a defined role. All DPS stealth are full NIM Ops viable, putting out the same numbers as other DPS that have no focus breaker. There is no need to use stealth in PvE, therefore no need to design content for it. We can solo SF without stealth, solo the Eternal Championship arena, and solo MM-RR bosses.

 

In 5.0, stealth was buffed making stealth mechanics easier. We once had to be careful passing in front of a force-sensitive mob. Now that content is lost, and anyone can play the role without any skills.

[BelorfinSiana]

There's a utility point that you have to take to increase your stealth effectiveness. Without it, yeah stealth is not so useful.

I have that, but there's this one Republic heroic (the one with the mercs) on Corellia where the mobs can ALWAYS see through your stealth, even if you rez after getting killed and you get that "you have x seconds to get to safety" stealth. What's worse is that they respawn even though it's an instanced area. So the only way to get through is to just keep on killin'.