Here’s a quick summary of my thoughts on these specs:
Daredevil
1) The Daredevil dodges are cool, but they feel clunky. They feel no where near as smooth as the normal dodge. Also, it can be quite annoying when using Bound to gain stealth from a smoke field, as the damage it does often reveals.
2) Daredevil feels like it doesn’t have enough survivability (could just be how I was playing it) and doesn’t do enough damage to compensate. At first I thought that the enemies in the new zone were just really strong, but then I played Herald.
3) Staff felt slow for me, I think it would be a lot more thief-like if the attacks were faster. I think this could also compensate for the lack of damage I experienced (I main thief btw).
4) The elite is fun if you can pull it off in PvP.
5) I felt as though the physical skills in general could do more damage, as there’s not a lot of incentive to use most of them over current thief skills.
Herald
1) Brilliant. I found myself having a lot of fun with this spec, although I have to say it felt pretty overpowered in PvP.
2) The different facets work really well for different things. I enjoyed the fact that I could essentially go into ‘travel mode’ with the swiftness facet, and then activate it for the condis and go into ‘combat mode’ by activating the might and fury generating facets.
3) The Glint heal is amazing, I especially enjoyed getting low on health and then just standing still while my enemies did all the healing for me.
4) The skill 5 on the shield was also a lot of fun to use, I enjoyed waiting for an enemy to charge up a big attack, and then activate my shield for a nice block n’ heal.
5) The elite chaos facet had a very cool activate effect, although I didn’t really have any incentive to have it passively pumping out protection because the energy cost was so high that I could instead have regen, might AND fury on all at once for the same cost.
Overall, Herald felt very tanky while also providing awesome damage through some really cool skills. Unfortunately after playing Herald it made Daredevil feel pretty underpowered. Not only does herald do as much, if not more damage than the daredevil, but it can also survive a lot longer in battle without having to pull out.
I was running full zerk gear on both these specs.
