I’m not really sure how the devs decided that increasing the auto-attack dps was the way to buff thief – the damage of the autoattacks is fine at present.
What thieves really need is to be able to pump out their burst when needed. There is nothing more frustrating when playing thief than to have your perfectly timed burst trolled by some random CC.
So how about this suggestion (instead of the proposed increase in aa damage):
Sleight of hand: Steal now grants 2s of stability (5 stacks). This is in addition to the effects that the trait already provides.
This gives the thief a 2s window to land their burst without being CCd. The 2s duration means that they don’t have much uptime on stability (especially when compared to other classes), but gives them it when they need it. The burst can still be avoided by blocks/invuln, but that means that the thief still has to time their burst for when they know that the target won’t use one, rather than just bursting whenever.
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