Guild Wars 2

Stealth.9324:

This suggestion is made with sPvP in mind, I decide to put it here, so I can have more opinion on this suggestion, whether it is from PvE or PvP player or WvW. This is not a QQ, please not,it is simply just a suggestion. Any ill intention post, unconstructive post is not welcomed in here. Please discuss in the peaceful manner. Thanks for reading.

Here is my suggestion:

People complain a lot about Thief S/D in tPvP due to his cheesy skill and brainless to use by spamming S#2 and S#3 skill. While I am not complete disagree with this to some extent but in my opinion any Thief spam any Skill is NOT a Pro thief. I also play Thief myself, so I know it requires some skill to stay alive in the heat of the battle. However,any Thief that spam these two skills can still be deadly in PvP in 1v1 or for harassing purposes. Ok enough with all the intros, here is what I think:

-Make Shadow Return cost Innitiative on activating, start with 2 (debatable)
-In return, make Shadow Return be activated on will, not in a time frame like at the moment,use it or waste it.
-Inflirator Strike will be blocked out until Shadow Return being activated

Pros and Cons of this change:

Pros:
You have full control of when you want to use Shadow Return, no more wasting.
Less look at your tiny duration time to time your return.
Distinguish between a Pro and a Spammer.
Less reposition control is required.
Put and End to all OPThief post out there.
Higher Survivability thanks to less reposition required and activate at will.

Cons:
Higher Innitiative manage skill required.

I think I am being biased here since I listed so many Pros but only 1 Con. People feel free to add more when see fit.

As a conclusion, a friendly remind that please keep this post as constructive as possible.

Thank for reading.

I don’t understand =)
1)Shadow return already cost 2 int.
2)Inflirator Strike is already blocket when the Shadow Return being activated

NvM LoL, Why I thought shadow return cost 0 Innitiative =)) My bad.

Infil strike/return a skill as a whole is 5 initiative (that’s a lot). Shadow Return is the 2nd part of infil strike and it DOES activate on will (with a duration). Spamming it would utterly destroy the thief itself. It’s about being efficient with it. Because the infil strike is a minor CC skill w/ below dps. What makes it shine is the teleportation on demand, return option, and break stun -1 condition removal. Shortening the duration on the timer would actually buff the infil strike (since the range on it has been fixed). It’ll give us more reasons to spam it even harder.

spamming is what makes the thief unique from other classes. If you have the initiatives, go for it! It’s how you efficiently and strategically use your skills w/ inits.

I’m not going to talk about #3 since you’ve talked about only infil strike.