Alacrity on Thief and Revenant

Do you think these two classes need to have an extra effect from Alacrity ?Something like :• Thief recover 1 initiative every 0.8 second, instead of every 1 second, while under alacrity boon• Revenant recover 1 extra point of energy every 1 second while under alacrity boon

Perhaps for thief, but revenant already benefits from alacrity since most skills have cooldowns. Additionally, condi renegade already does high damage it doesn’t need a buff.

Thief could benefit a bit from it.

There's a flip side. To balance things out, rev energy and thief initiative would also have to be reduced by chill, too. Personally I wouldn't mind the exchange, but you'll have to convince everyone else of that.

thief utilities benefit from it, dont they?

@RedShark.9548 said:thief utilities benefit from it, dont they?

They do. And only place where thief has this Buff almost permanently is in raids and fractals, and thief rotation doesent use other weapon skills than 1 and 2. So its not that needed Buff for thief.

Alacrity reduces cooldowns, initiative and energy have nothing to do with that. With that logic astral force, adrenaline, heat and life force should be affected by alacrity.

Thief already has plenty of ways to get initiative and rev skills are affected by alacrity anyways.

@sokeenoppa.5384 said:

@RedShark.9548 said:thief utilities benefit from it, dont they?

It's a needed buff for thief.

@Leo Schrodingers Cat.2497 said:

@sokeenoppa.5384 said:

@RedShark.9548 said:thief utilities benefit from it, dont they?

Agree that thief needs Buff, but that isnt it. Like i said Even if we had Buff that our ini would regenerate 500% faster our dps in raids would still be under others.

The "problem" with thief is that its not designed for high sustained DPS. Its a Burst damage class designed to setup and drop a lot of damage in one go, and overwhelming defenses in the process. Daredevil was designed to work around that by turning every action into damage, but largely gets ignored because the auto chain is more reliable in terms of sustainable damage. That got doubled down on with DE Malice rework, making it even more burst focused.

They can't fix this "problem" because its parts Thief's Core design. So the only option is to make a new Espec that focuses on sustain damage, while shutting down Stealth and disengage synergy so thief can't capitalize on both in PvP.