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How, in my opinion, you can improve the pistol skills.

How, in my opinion, you can improve the pistol skills. "Unload". Replace the Might with a unique buff like "Lead Attacks" from the "Trickery" trait line. It wouldn't have much impact on damage in open world or in PvP. But it would increase damage in a group or raid, due to the buff from Might from other players. Since we easily support 25 stacks of Might with "Unload", the rest of the sources become useless. For example, in the trait lines like "Critical Strikes", "Trickery" or from other players. Which greatly limits the potential of this skill. "Shadow Strike". Remove teleport from "Shadow Strike" pistol/dagger. Instead, for example, give a buff of +10% damage from conditions for 5 seconds. Which will be refreshed due to the "Repeater" skill. This will allow you to comfortably use this skill in fractals or raids. "Bola Shot". Add a teleport from "Shadow Strike" to the "Bola Shot" skill. Or add a part like in "Debilitating Arc" with evasion and rollback. This will increase survivability when using a pistol. It will also create synergy with trait lines. We have many traits that work with teleporters. Added new traits that are activated from skills with movements. But unlike all other weapon sets, pistols lack any synergy with these traits. From the last update of the "Acrobatics" line, pistols generally received a nerf due to a decrease in stamina gain, a reduction in the duration of buffs. And the "Fluid Strikes" trait is generally useless for p/p.

Swindler's Equilibrium trait bugged and doesn't reduce recharge time of Steal. Checked on golem with arena damage on.

Swindler's Equilibrium trait bugged and doesn't reduce recharge time of Steal. Checked on golem with arena damage on.

As title said, revive was removed from Siphon with Shadestep trait. It was unique, useful and fun feature. Indispensable skill if you need to revive someone in AoE or hurting boss mechanic area. Now it's gone. Ricochet gone, Siphon revive gone. All fun deleted from thief one by one.

That change will bring more oneshot builds. People will start complaining, anet will nerf trait to the ground. Trait will become useless. Anet, is this your goal? Leave "Endless Stamina" as it is. It gives a unique playstyle for some core builds and Acrobatic line. Acrobatic line about surviveability without stealth, not about damage. If you want take away sword buff from this trait, then increase damage coefficients on skills. Sword already lowest dps weapon along with pistols. Why are you nerfing it more?

That change will bring more oneshot builds. People will start complaining, anet will nerf trait to the ground. Trait will become useless. Anet, is this your goal? Leave "Endless Stamina" as it is. It gives a unique playstyle for some core builds and Acrobatic line. Acrobatic line about surviveability without stealth, not about damage.

And why it shouldn't be available? People paid for it, people should be able to play. Your hints that the company should ban all Russians by IP, and the way you disrespectfully write the name of Russia, are contrary to the rule that you can not insult someone based on nationality, race, religion or gender. Think about your behavior. Don't spread your hatred here.

What is the meaning of sword skill changes? In any case, the sword is not a dps weapon and 5% won't change that. A staff is better than a sword for pve in every way. Although the sword is more interesting in terms of gameplay. And it would be interesting to see a sought-after build for raids and fractals.

For start they can increase dmg modifiers on autoattack and Unload. Make it so that Unload will share Might with allies. And after that, they can look at how to change the mechanics of these skills.

I was hoping to see improvements to the thief's pistol/pistol skills. Many choose a class based on RPG expectations and impressions of using weapons. And almost all new players choose 2 pistols to play as a thief. One of the most popular weapon sets for new players. Imagine their disappointment when it turns out that their favorite weapon set gets weaker as they level up and has no value at all at max level. You will not be welcome in fractals or raids with pistol/pistol. You yourself said that you want to make range weapons more powerful and popular, but for some reason you forgot about thief's pistols.

Scepter skills don't have a projectile's combo field finishers. They are useless with thief smoke field from pistol, dark field from wells, and don't count as a projectile's. But they get all the projectiles hate from reflects, absorb and etc. They can be reflected with thief daggers strom, engi shield 5, smoke screen and etc. Scepter skills should either be a complete projectiles with combo field finishers, or they shouldn't be reflected, absorbed by skills and fields.

Scepter/Pistol 3 skill second attack beam doesn't render when attacking non-living objects. For example Inquest Supply Crate or Inquest Rifle Turret in Sandswept Isles. And with many others. Scepter/Pistol 3 skill first attack have only aiming animation, when you raise hand with pistol, but not shooting animation. Looks weird.

Amplified Siphoning (middle master trait) doesn't increase barrier when targeting allies

Swindler's Equilibrium doesn't recharge Siphon. Steal related traits doesn't work when you use Siphon on ally. Siphon doesn't proc Thrill of the Crime when you cast it without target unlike the regular Steal or Swipe

Yes, this violet and blue color scheme does not suit a thief at all. My first thought was: "Is this a mesmer? Am I watching the right video for sure?"

The bullets should ricochet in narrow horizontal angle and wide vertical angle on line of fire. This will fix problem with firing to the sky if target taller than you and keep importance of positioning yourself in battle.

I think 4th trait line should be a weapon trait line. It can expand or change weapons skills if you take it. And current weapons traits should be removed from others traits lines. So if i like greatsword i can take a greatsword trait line and get more interesting/powerful skills.

I like idea of stances. But how they will work with all steal and stealth traits we have? And that about second weapon set? Will it have stances too? If you suggest to remove stealth than what about Shadow Art trait line? I think stances must have short cd, max 10 sec. But this will make all steal traits OP because you will be able to spam their procs.Cool idea but they will need to create not only new trait line but also change all existing one. I doubt Anet will do this.I want gs as weapon and also i want Anet to update all existing weapons set.

you forgot to add the massive condi spike plus fear which the unload/+traits deal.... Massive condi spike from unload? Unload can apply only 2-3 stack of poison if you take DA trait Deadly Ambition, Panic Strike and Potent Poison. And for fear you need to take SA and be in stealth. I doubt that anyone would use unload from stealth. You must mean something else. "P/P unload" is mostly power builds. And i dont know any thief condi builds that can kill in 2 secs.Can you show that build you mean and maybe some video?And as you see in video there is no massive condi spike. I really want to see how this is possible.

That's just not true. First he fight 1vs2 and 1vs1 vs different players but not at same time. And from 2:10 were was 2 thiefs. His friend came. After that he start to kite to res his friend. At the middle of video they fight 2vs3. At the end of video were was 4-5 vs 3 thief (another thief came) but they killed him quickly. So telling that thief fights 1vs5 skilled players this is a huge exaggeration.

I found this video P/P thief vs Guardian FB. Guardian has around 10k hp. Sneak Attack deals 1.7-3.3k damage. Unload 2.8-3.5k damage.How it's possible to die in 2 secs?

So you was standing still for 2 secs and watching how thief channelled Sneak Attack + Unload? Sneak Attack 1 sec + Unload 1.5 secs= 2.5 secs. How could you not press dodge during this time?In WvW Sneak Attack ~3-4k and Unload ~4-5k = ~7-9k for 2.5 secs. It's laughable damage. And it's projectiles and channeled skills.Was it 1v1 and you was full hp before fight or thief +1 while you fight with someone else?

+1. GS have best skins in the game. I want gs only because of this.

Quick pockets, Essential to trickery power p/p (Small buff would be still good) Quick pockets was nerfed due to staff/staff bunker on nodes. But since then staff get increased ini cost on skills, dmg also was nerfed and bug with jump with 3 skill was fixed. So i think they can revert nerf of this trait.