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Housing and the ability to give other players a tour of your house, because I imagine that will help with gemstore sales.
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On 5/6/2024 at 9:05 AM, TheAgedGnome.7520 said:
I rarely see Daredevils in OW, and I can't recall the last time I saw another one using Bounding Dodger, which seems a shame, because I find it a rather fun build. In particular, I find it infinitely more fun that the condi D/D Daredevil.
I'm using a variant of Snowcrows OW power Daredevil build, with some Marauder pieces, P/P offhand set, sigil changes, and trait variations. [build - still being tweaked]
I find it most useful to think of the Endurance and Initiative systems as dual "energy" bars:
- While burning down my initiative with staff2 spam, endurance is refilling.
- While bounding until endurance is empty, initiative is refilling.
- So by managing these two alternating "energy" sources, its usually possible to keep up a good pace and rhythm of attack.
Never thought after 11 years that this would be the class I currently gravitate most toward.
I am rolling with a combination of Dragon and Marauder gear to achieve exactly 60% crit rate without infusion, which adds up to 100% after Critical Strike traitline and fury. I also use the relic that grants fury everytime I disable an opponent, which I can trigger reliably by Helmet Breaker to keep fury uptime 100%. Since this combo gives a more dodge iframe, I also choose Acrobatic to get vigor on evasion and might/condi cleanse on bouncing as well. DPS loss compared to full Berserker gear is like 15% when OW solo.
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The damage buff to sword is welcoming and warranted because that weapon has been lagging behind for almost a decade. However, venom rework is rather weak. They just make it stack more so having more than one venom-build thief in the party grants some dps buff, which is a bit of a rare occurence. If there is a need for utility skill rework, I would say the whole line of Preparation skills needs it. Did they fix the bug with Swindle's Equilibrium not reducing CD?
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11 hours ago, AikijinX.6258 said:
Inflation around the world going up, gas prices going up, and now even initiative costs in game (once again)
One thing that seldom goes up in tandem?
Quality of life and in Gw2's case Quality of Thief.
Unfortunate.
I don't like how Anet keeps nerfing thieves' numbers, but in terms of QoL, I would say they at least they gave us a couple of improvements: DE got walking and piece, DD got proactive reflect (which is a bit worse but gameplay wise it is more controllable).
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Initiative system is why I main a thief. I just hate looking at 4 different squares counting down and missing out more interesting things happening around me. Thief gameplay feels like total freedom - unbound by the old (almost outdated) CD skill system. I hope more future RPGs will be like this.
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Different skill effects for different game modes always feel kind of off-putting for me in terms of game design - It is unimmersive, which is self-defeating for RPGs. But it is too late for GW2 to restart balancing for every game mode to have the same skillset effects, so I guess I'll just stick with PvE only.
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24 minutes ago, Elxdark.9702 said:
eh, I don't like the changes to death detreat and advance either, they are for sure unnecessary, the rest of them are all good though.
"Unneccessary" is an understatement. You know other classes have separate CD on 4 weapon skills, and their shortest CD (skill 2) is usually 5-8s. Meaning, they can trigger their skills 4 consecutive times and then start spamming more onto you in 5-8s, while DE's 12 initiatives pool can do what? One high cost skill and one skill 2 and then what? Start switching to utilities? But other classes can do that too. You HAVE to take Trickery for the extra 3 initiatives, while other classes do not have to be obliged to anything to spam those skills.
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Maybe I have not been using it correctly, but after a couple of months of running daredevil, new Dust Strike feels worse than its old version:
- 4 initiatives for 1s reflect with internet latency of 70-200ms is too unreliable and too expensive.
- The loss of 600 range blind + vulnerability limits the number of approaches I can take in a fight.
- Trading the new initiative-costly Dust Strike for the loss of reflect on the old Punishing Strike (free reflect AA skill that lasts for 2/3 of the whole combo length while also does decent damage) significantly reduces survivability.
What are your thoughts on this now that you have played with it for sometime after the patch?
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3 hours ago, kash.9213 said:
If thieves are terrible in blob fights then there shouldn't be any reason for the other sides to focus me for keeping my team up and running interception.
I don't know if the other team thinks like me, but if there is a weak link in the chain, I'll try to break that first and then use my advantage in number to dominate the fight.
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Willbender or any Guardian espec. If you look at previous patch notes, you can see how often it has gotten buffed or skipped out when other classes get nerfed. This class is dev's favorite and will be more than just fine for years.
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I feared I was too optimistic about this patch because they finally gave daredevil a small buff, so I went to see what the rest of the balance patch for other classes, especially Willbender because this class is the closest one to Daredevil's identity (melee dps and mobility). It turns out they give Daredevil's evade frame on ultimate to Willbender's ultimate (which is extremely similar to Daredevil's ultimate, but has already dealt 2x damage and defiance break), on top of giving them more healing, condi cleanse and vigor generation. So now Willbender has endurance dodge, F2 dodge, ultimate dodge, shadow step with healing and condi cleanse, all from base skills and utilities without the need for any traitline - and all 3 dodge mechanics are on separate cooldowns. It is very balanced, isn't it?
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5 hours ago, HnRkLnXqZ.1870 said:
Guardian
- "Feel My Wrath!": This looks disturbing. I guess Guardian will get more sources of Superspeed in the near future.
- Redemption & Glacial Heart: Yep. Guardian is about to become the next Scrapper.
This is very disturbing. You will not allow both classes to have the same abilities. So you are going to remove them from Scrapper in favor of your beloved Guardian. I'm not surprised, we have reached the peak with Scrapper a few weeks ago and I am constantly waiting for the massive nerf-hammer (pun intended) to end our perfect run. The problem for me is, that you always used a nuke to balance us, when we became 'too strong'. It always ended in the total destruction of the spec. Rendering us weaker than common NPCs. Do you really want to go that path again?That is not all. Comparing Willbender's ultimate ( Heaven's Palm) with Daredevil' ultimate (Impact Strike) , we can see that not only Willbender's ult has shorter cooldown (20s compared to 25s), but also double the damage, double the defiance break on top of being instant damage in a single hit, but now they also give Willbender evade frame on during the attack (Daredevil only has 0.5s evade during the FIRST phase of ult). They take every class strong point, buff it and give it to Guardian.
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3 hours ago, hook.8479 said:
WVW answer only.
Regarding your balance philosophy ...Most of important spells have a reduced range between 'melee' and '300' , so it pushes players to stagnate, to not to move ...
is this really subtle ?
does it really tend towards a nice combat experience ??
does a wide range of playstyles or a broad set of combat strategies exist in melee ???Spam skill is the new mechanic to avoid time cooldown.
So it's true, the efficiency/mastery couple is restricted to reduce the ability difference between players.
Well, we have turn from skills levels to spamming war(hardware difference & server ping difference).
Here we are 🤮I did not realize it had been this bad for the last 3 years. Boy, noone even bothers to dodge anymore. Just boon spam and attack spam on top of one another. How about implementing Social Awkwardness but with half the radius to reduce this boon stacking situation?
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Deadeye changes look really good. Daredevil, however, still needs more work in the boon generation department and should have its animation locking removed - animation locking is the worst survivability debuff on a class with the lowest HP and its sole defensive mechanism revolving around dodging.
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On 2/9/2024 at 8:32 PM, CafPow.1542 said:
and no, no other class will be able to chase a thief (except maybe another thief or a willy.)
I don't know if they have nerfed Willbender's and Necro's mobility, but last year when I played against them, I, as a DE with superspeed from SA traitline amd extra initiative from Trickery traitline, could barely catch up to them after expending all my initiatives and utilities. And you know, DE without initiative is a sitting duck because its autoattack is the equivalence of mosquito's bite.
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Deadeye keeps getting nerfed despite having no benefit from being a single-target dps class with crippled mobility. Now they increase ini cost and make DE only able to dish out 1-2 skills before becoming completely vulnerable for the next 8s. I am at loss for words.
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I have read all that and I am not even an Anet's paid employee to do that. If someone is not doing their job right and the company is ok with it, then, I guess, as a customer, I should not be supporting them financially.
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On 12/21/2023 at 6:27 PM, Jugglemonkey.8741 said:
Think of it this way guys.
In a game where specs have different abilities depending on purpose, there will always be a "fastest", or most evasive, or easiest to run away with spec. If it wasnt thief, it would be mesmer, or willbender, or engineer, and you'd be complaining in their forums instead of here. So really, the root cause of the complaint is that thief is able to do something that other classes can't do.
Thief has been balanced around having to play with hit and run tactics to make up for the inherent mobility it has. They don't block, outsustain, or boon their way through fights like other classes can. Thief has also historically had zero teamplay options unlike every other class. The way we support the team in competitive modes is being the best at what we do.
The player behind the keyboard for a thief is the same type of player as any other class, they won't back off when they're winning a fight. When a deadeye backs off and goes OOC, that's because you have forced him to do so, and the way thief is designed means he either backs off or he dies.
So with this in mind: if you want to nerf thief stealth, mobility, evasion or whatever has annoyed you because it plays differently to other classes, okay. If that is how it is, thief mains want all the same toys you have, that sustain, higher damage, and team fight potential that has always been denied to thief for the exact same reasons you have historically been denied thief level mobility. What are you willing to buff on thief to make up for your nerf requests?
Because frankly, if you're not willing to take my question seriously, why on earth should a thief main take it seriously when the same tired complaints roll around year after year?
I nominate this for the Post of the Year award.
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After a couple of previous patches, they somehow managed to further nerf both Daredevil, an already underperforming espec, and Acrobatic, an almost dead traitline. I am impressed!
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Good news! We may have a dev reading through this thread, because there is someone "confused" at every post here 😂
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7 hours ago, Zacchary.6183 said:
While I was playing around with staff DE in Skywatch, I was trying to kill a bristleback that was near a pylon I was trying to CC and used Dust Strike to reflect its bristles back at it. It was pretty effective at it afaik. Did about as much damage as BONK.
For consecutive rapid low-damage shots, Dust Strike can reliably reflect some projectiles back because those shots spread over 5-6s duration. However, for hard-hitting shots that shoot out in less than 1s time frame, Dust Strike is not at all precise.
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The reflect window is so tiny that you most likely end up wasting your initiatives and eat those projectiles at the same time. Devs made this skill without taking into consideration the average latency of internet connection when playing MMO. In order to fix Dust Strike, it has to have 2 things:
1. Ability to animation-cancel over other weapon skills, even autoattacks, the same way as dodging does. Everytime I need Dust Strike, I am in the middle of another attack and the 1s Dust Strike queued after said attack animation just renders it useless.
2. Longer reflect window, even a 0.5s longer is better than this, considering an average MMO ping is around 70-100ms.
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I wonder if it is the clunky part of the skill or the short reflect frame (1s), but I tested it on skeleton archers in Dragonfall map and everytime I pressed Dust Strike right when the skeleton knelt down to prepare the shot, the shots just went through. The only way to reflect those shots for me was to start Dust Strike BEFORE the skeleton shooting telegraph begins. For a skill that only last 1s, and having to start before the oponent's attack telegraph, that is not very useful, is it? My ping is 70-100ms, which is about the average.
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1 hour ago, Zacchary.6183 said:
I am using scythe skins for my staff and the only issue I have with it is it goes thok when I want it to go SCHINK.
DD staff sound on hit has always been a buzzkill. They must have used a lightweight wooden staff when recording these sounds.
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I have suggested Sequence Skills for Thief before, so this is exactly what I was talking about back then. How good the implementation is remains to be seen, although I can't help but be a bit more optimistic for daredevil's future.