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1 hour ago, Micah.3789 said:
My suggestion is to change the heal to a flat base amount with additional healing power scaling
I really Like that Suggestion. Because as I demonstrated Here:
The current Handling of the healing is lackluster. I would even suggest a fixed amount of base healing (ofc influenced by healing Power). this would encourage staying in shroud even If damage deplenishes your shroud health. If that is to passive (I am well aware that Devs got rid of Most of the passive traits) you could build the mechanic in a way that only If you Exit shroud yourself you gain the healing and you will gain nothing If your shroud ends because your shroud health is Zero.
This would lead to a Playstyle in which you can stay in shroud as Long as you want before activating the healing by leaving shroud. On the other Hand If you mess Up and shroud ends due to Lack of shroud health you gain nothing. To make the shroud health maintaining easier I also Like the Idea of shroud skills giving barrier to the specter.
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Also scepter on deadeye or daredevil offer clear benefits over the Vice versa combinations. The weapon trait from specter for scepter ist only minor and therefore quite neglectable. Also you benefit from more Initiative Baseline and additional Initiative traits Like Maleficent seven. Therefore the combination is better.
However, in Order to offer real build variety in all combinations imho there needs to be certain adjustments:
- Specter needs to get rid of the Initiative reduction. Maybe while toning down scepter.
- The weapon improvement traits need to be incorporated into the weapon itself. E.g. raising the damage of staff instead of giving extra Power to daredevil builds or placing the stat buffs on other traitlines.
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The core Problem why you cannot use staff and rilfe efficiently on other specializations is that you Miss Out the specific weapon traits. If you Take rilfe without deadeye you Miss Out 240 precision and stealth on Dodge. If you Take staff without daredevil you Miss Out 240 Power and endurance on Initiative. This alone makes the weapons way worse without their specialization and very hard to get Something useful Out of it.
I Had high hopes that they would adjust the weapons specific traits in Order to make the weapons more useful without them but also to make Elite specializations useful without the specific weapon. However, sadly they did nothing to Change that.
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On 7/23/2023 at 7:29 PM, Jormin.2761 said:
As probably the only DaggerDagger DD, I approve this message, especially for WvW. But srsly that would make Cloak and Dagger absolutely bonkers.
You are Not the only one! 🤗
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On 7/6/2023 at 7:37 AM, Impling.4170 said:
Consume Shadows feels like it acts as more of a detriment than a benefit in any of the builds I run in PvP/WvW.
Totally agree there. After they introduced the stack mechanic in combination with the reduced health to shroud scaling of 0.69 this trait has become nearly useless in wvw and PvP.
If you calculate generously with 20k health your shroud ist only 13.8k. For 5 stacks of consume shadows you already lose 5x4% totaling to 20% in wvw and PvP. Considering you are not attacked once (which is in a Combat scenario Not realistic) you remain with 11.040 shroud health. Now 32.5% gets transfered to healing by consume shadows resulting in an amazingly Low heal of 3.588 for losing 11k shroud health.
If you calculate realisticly (17k health, being Hit for 2k within the 5 Seconds) you end Up with a heal of only 2.399,8. Which throws the question why the hell WE would need the overheal mechanic with these small numbers.
Just as a comparison a single measured Shot traited with traversing dusk and Shadow savior heals 3.392 for your primary target and 2.316,5 for the Rest. Not calculating any healing Power.
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4 hours ago, Nomad.4301 said:
It's interesting to note that in WvW/PvP the ally support only suffers a 25% effectiveness drop-off instead of the 50% in PvE, one of the few times where the competitive version is actually better. I think One of the biggest problems I had was the boons/healing from shroud applying around your "shrouded ally" instead of around you, which means if that player runs out of stack and you don't notice and swap your siphon, then you stop doing much of anything for your group.
34 minutes ago, Zilel.4190 said:Wow.. I genuinely did not expect that. Yeah the 50% thing is painful. Especially given that all other supports always just do 5 allies.
But you have to keep in mind that the heal and boon duration ist Generally shorter in wvw.
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I agree. Although we have to keep in mind that thieves did Not participate in many previous buff rounds. Therefore, IT might be justified that we did Not Receive a Nerf hammer this time.
Overall I am quite Happy with the new Balance Route. For a Long time there was No theory crafting possible, because the balance Patches Had No real Impact. But this Changed for the better.
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For the new weapon / specialization combinations I do See some use cases also for daredevil. Imagine a condi scepter daredevil making use of measured Shot/endless night and Lotus Training. But No doubt you have to become creative in Order to geht Something useful Out of it. The specialization are so strongly tied top the weapons.
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Did a short Test Run Yesterday and quickness ist really easy to maintain. There should be a Lot of Options to combine the quickness Generation for the Party with meaningful damage choices.
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I also wondered why they did Not use the existing quickness trait. But in the other Hand the combination of constant quickness uptime and the stat bonuses would have been too much. Now you have to make a tough choice. Either constant quickness for you and your Party or an occasionally buffed quickness solely for you.
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If you want to command a real Zerg and lead your people you have to beef up by a lot as a Thief. Something like sentinels gear is well advised. You should Not rely on shadowsteps,otherwise you will lose people with every shadowstep you do. In my opinion you have two Options. Either daredevil with Blocks, dodges and stunbreaks or specter with shroud as a second Life bar.
Overall I would Not recommend to command a Zerg as a Thief. Because you have to sacrifize so much of your Power and useful traits in Order to survive Standing and leading the Squad under damage pressure that you do Not Bring anything Else to the Party besides your lead.
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7 hours ago, Alcatraznc.3869 said:
I dont know what shield you are talking about but on pretty much all classes, shield are solid defensive option.
Shieldless Thief is sad.
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Especially since critical strikes is meant for crit and damage builds an focus in benefits for crit and damage would make huge sense. Using a general approach with initiative regain is just nonsense, because not a single condition build would chose critical strikes.
A general approach Like Initiative on Dodge would have been a great path for the hard to catch trait from acrobatics which is meant for condition as well.
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On 2/4/2023 at 11:22 PM, Mivikon.2701 said:
If a thief can outrun a warclaw you know its not right.
As a Thief Main who made a build with the sole purpose to be faster than a warclaw Rider i can tell you: on the long distance no thief is faster than a warclaw. You are only faster if you switch between warclaw and your Thief shadowsteps constantly.
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With the Changes to Thief tricks. Has lesser haste ( https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lesser_Haste#WvW,PvP ) from burst of agility been forgotten in the cooldown reduction?
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This goes for many steal traits which become useless with being used on an ally. There would bei imho so many possibilities to make use of these traits to grant boons to allies you siphon from or cleanse conditions, but instead they are just useless when used with Ally Siphon.
And this fact confuses me, because the balance team clearly stated in their Balance philosophy that they want to Cut out obvious useless / bad choices in the traits and skills. But nearly all steal traits are a useless choice of you Plan to use Siphon on allies.
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The problem is there is a difference in PvP and WvW/PvE Mobility. The Wells offer great Mobility in PvP shadowstepping Back and forth. But in WvW they just fail as a Mobility Tool to Cover long distances. You are better Off with your mount.
That's why I do not underatstand the Intention of pushing PvP Mobility and nerfing Long distances Mobility.
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Mobility?
We should raise Infiltrators Arrow's Initiative Cost! I think 13 Initiative would perform best!
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It has always been this way and it always will be. For those of you who do not know it yet I advise the following instructional Video for thief:
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Do not forget attackspeed which is faster with dagger comparing the base attack chains between dagger and staff or even backstab compared to weakening charge.
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Traversing Dusk was a no brainer. I never understood why traversing dusk had a range of 240 while Shadow savior had a range of 360 despite both having the function of group heal after a shadow step.
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On 7/26/2022 at 2:49 AM, AikijinX.6258 said:
Scepter auto attack needs increased range
I do not think that additional range is needed. Specter is not a ranged class like Deadeye.On 7/26/2022 at 2:49 AM, AikijinX.6258 said:Siphon should be instant
I do not agree with that either. Siphon unlike Steal or Swipe is a special skill just like Deadeyes Mark. Due to its ongoing effect the cast time is justified.On 7/26/2022 at 2:49 AM, AikijinX.6258 said:Give us more access to quickness
I do not think that self quickness is really necessary. However I do think that healing should be aligned. Especially due to shadow savior in many cases I heal others a lot more than I heal myself and end up dying although my healed ally is still at good health.
On 7/26/2022 at 2:49 AM, AikijinX.6258 said:Twilight combo needs to be able to pierce enemies or hit multiple enemies in a cone.
I am of the oppinion that it should work with the Deadly Aim trait on allies as well. This goes for all specter ally skills. However, I do not think that Pierce should be baseline. Otherwise you would heal on a decent spec 2k for the whole team due to the shot and another 2k due to the shadowstep.
On 7/26/2022 at 2:49 AM, AikijinX.6258 said:Shroud 3 needs increased range for the leap AND initial evasion frame in the beginning of the leap (1s)---( Too many times I leap, and get CC'd before getting in the air.)
I Think it is fine as it is, due to it being a very powerful group cc and leap finisher.
On 7/26/2022 at 2:49 AM, AikijinX.6258 said:Shroud 5 should give 1s stability
Not needed imo, since noone reacts to the cast animation.
Most of the other points I agree with. Especially the things that were mentioned in the bug thread as well.
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The scepter Auto Attack chain prevents you from mounting up. When you are using the scepter Auto Attack (1) on an ally out of combat you are not able to mount up unless you turn away from your ally or stop the Auto Attack or use another skill with enough cast time for your mounting to come through.
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On 8/1/2022 at 12:35 PM, Sahne.6950 said:
you can literally be invulnerable thanks to a bug on thiefsword
I am quite curious about that one. Never heard about it nor encountered it myself.
On topic: Interesting fact although you still lose a bit of your shroud due to mounting same way as you lose Initiative while mounting with trickery.
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[BUG] Malicious Shadowsquall
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I just noticed that the allied Malicious Shadowsquall is single target although all other ally scepter skills are 5 targets. Even the regular Shadowsquall is 5 targets. I guess the skill was forgotten...