April 30th Patch Notes - Thief

April 30th Patch Notes - Thief

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Posted by: Auesis.7301

Auesis.7301

Thief

  • Skills that must be performed from stealth are now labeled as “Stealth Attack.”
  • Vigorous Recovery: Improved accuracy of description.
  • Cloak and Dagger skill: Now functions with the Hidden Killer trait.
  • Needle Trap skill: Removed the duration skill fact as being misleading.
  • Shadow Shot skill: The projectile portion is now unblockable.
  • Choking Gas skill: Added an Unblockable skill fact to reflect functionality.
  • Flanking Strike skill:
    * Now evades and delivers one strike instead of delivering two attacks.
    * Removed boon removal.
    * Reduced initiative cost from 4 to 3.
    * Now toggles for 5 seconds to a second skill, Larcenous Strike, if the attack hits an enemy.
    * Improved reliability of flanking strike.
  • Larcenous Strike: Deliver a quick strike that steals up to two boons from an enemy. Costs 1 initiative.
  • Larcenous Strike, Stab skills: Reduced aftercast by 0.5 seconds.
  • Mug trait: Can no longer critically hit. Now heals the thief from a range of 1980 health to 2700 health.
  • Leeching Venoms trait: Increased the damage scale from power by 33%. Increased range from 325-400 to 325-425.
  • Signet of Agility skill: Increased passive stat bonus by 100%.
  • Assassin’s Signet skill: Increased passive stat bonus by 100%.
  • Revealed effect: Reverted duration to 3 seconds in PvE.
  • Trick Shot skill: First arrow is no longer heat-seeking.
  • Smoke Screen skill: No longer destroys unblockable missiles.
  • Haste skill:
    * Increased duration by 1 second.
    * Players now regenerate endurance at 50% effectiveness (increased from 0%) when under the effects of this skill.

Too busy to comment for myself on the changes, but I’ll get around to it. What do you think?

Gnome Child [Gc]
Resident Thief

April 30th Patch Notes - Thief

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Posted by: Kallist.5917

Kallist.5917

We got one of these discussions going here already. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/4-30-Patch-Notes-up/page/2#post1930406
But Im loving the changes. We finally got our buff.

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Posted by: gon.6057

gon.6057

We got one of these discussions going here already. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/4-30-Patch-Notes-up/page/2#post1930406
But Im loving the changes. We finally got our buff.

are you sure its a buff? or nerf? my shortbow can missing enemy because the enemy wont be a stationary dummy…