Guild Wars 2

Wow ANET, spot on. This is fun to play and very thief like. It has some of the old Assassin in it too with the strikes that stack. I especially like [Bandit’s Defense] it makes sense and npc Bandits already use it. It is kinda Robin Hood, but that’s not a bad thing.

(though it makes me worry that I’ll see Rangers with Bonetti’s Defense all over PvP. That is also used by NPC bandits)

I spec’d as Daredevil with Unhindered Combatant, Impacting Disruption and Weakening strikes. Also set up as a venom share thief with potent poisons and venomous aura.

Venom Share is one of the least appreciated builds in the game, IMO.

It didn’t feel over powered though it could have, with unhindered combatant. GG and nice work.

It’s certainly very active play, needing constant attention and motion. I’ve spent most of today on it and hoo boy is my forearm tired from all the mouse work! While I still feel much stronger and tougher as a Reaper, I’m definitely turning my Thief into a Daredevil in HoT. It suits him so very much.

this elite spec is great!
high mobility, nice damage…
but I have a couple of problems with the dodges

-dash: it’s delayed. Instead of instantly dodging, it looks like the thief gets pulled back before dashing forward/left/right
-lotus training: same problem here… slightly delayed. When I press [direction key]+[dodge key] the thief just stands there for a moment before actually doing the dodge animation

so far, I found no problems other than these

There’s a growing thread in the Thief forum for feedback to Karl on all this. I’ll likely do a full form response there … on Monday, after I’ve beta’d my heart out and they shut it down!

Donari.5237:

There’s a growing thread in the Thief forum for feedback to Karl on all this. I’ll likely do a full form response there … on Monday, after I’ve beta’d my heart out and they shut it down!

Here’s the link for that:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Daredevil-Feedback

Hmm, very much disagree. I was super hyped…until I actually played it. There are too many strange after casts or just long cast times on everything. Maybe this is ok in PvE, but in PvP, it’s terrible. S/D daredevil is the only thing I’ve been able to make work.