Guild Wars 2

I think the last change(Reduced the aftercast on the first half of this skill by .25 seconds )they did to pistol whip has made the skill quite decent and there is no longer a need to change this skill. Its really good in a group setting where you can have a team mate lock down you opponent. PW provides cleave dmg, an evade, and an interrupt(good solo aswell).
From what I have heard most players are happy with the current pw. May I suggest instead of going into the effort of changing this skill you can take what you are working on and put that towards a new main hand weapon for the thief instead.

I think leaping death blossom should be top priority instead of PW. Its damage is below terrible with power stats, and unlike flanking strike (which also does no damage) the evade is extremly unreliable. Similar thing with dancing dagger – wasted slot on action bar.

Quick solution: increase power damage on LDB and decrease bleeding, plus increase evade duration to 3/4 sec like shortbow #3. Later we can think about splitting the skill into two parts.

In other words – change priorities please.

are you rly that focused on such an expensive skill?

I mean, Splitting into 2 skills will give you more hit and run Options, it will also increase your Option to manage inititative bar when not having 15 init at all.
Also they said nothing about increasing aftercast times or else, but to get real they said something about increasing stun Duration on dec 10th patch notes.
It could also be very possible to simple double pushing 3,3 to gain same effect like the PW now.
I think many thiefs take these Change in wrong way, watch the INitiative changes on dec10th …. so many qq about, what?…. at last it was a buff for all builds which dont use init. traits and a justified Balance to all skill spamming builds that rely on init. traits.