Pot kettle. You said warriors can’t chain teleports in response to the person you quoted. I said they can’t teleport in response to you. If I was wrong to say it then so were you. Not every class’s mobility is teleporting. Stating that warrior’s can’t as if to suggest they have inferior mobility is wrong, because they have their own mobility skills.
The attack on me isn’t justified either. Assuming I use D/P and using that to attempt to weaken my points is flawed reasoning. You have no evidence that I use it, or that I don’t use it, or that I can’t use all weapons. Your straw person approach weakens your attack, and your arrogance is not appreciated.
The post you replied to concerned escaping a warrior, not catching one. If you take your own advice, and read the posts you reply to, you’ll see that I stated a thief’s mobility skills are designed to close gaps, not create them. You’ll also find that no where did I state a thief cannot create a significant gap, and that I did state a warrior can close that gap.
The ability to access stealth does not have a negative impact on your mobility, as you seem to have implied i.e you don’t have to sacrifice it for mobility. If you were referring utility skills rather than access to stealth itself, for example, shadow refuge, then yes, a movement skill would grant superior mobility. Once again however, the post you replied to concerned escaping, and Shadow refuge is an effective means of escape (albeit without risk, but then, those other skills have their own risk associated with their use in that manner). The decision would come down to what you want to gain from your utilities, and there would be no right answer overall.
You say "Try catching me" after listing a bunch of skills. There is so much I can pick at here.
First is the fact that you included Steal and Infiltrator’s Signet. These require targets, and cannot be used to freely move that distance in a direction of your choosing to put a gap between yourself and a pursuer. You can target something and use them, sure, but then you’ve either gone towards another enemy when you want to escape, or you’ve got lucky and found an NPC you can use. Then, your distance of travel is dependent on how far away that target is, not by the maximum range of the abilities. For steal, being out of range means you don’t go anywhere. So, requires a nearby target, dependent on the distance between you and that target... not very reliable, and certainly cannot have their maximum units considered in the theory because it will more than likely be different in practice. That shaves 2400 units off your "total range".
Second is that you wouldn’t save Roll for Initiative and Withdraw for escaping. Not if you’re half a decent player, anyway. You’d use them during the fight, to help you fight. Shadow Step might be off cool down, and Withdraw may have cooled down since it’s only 15 seconds, but the two combined is still only 2100 units. Again, note the "might be off cool down". It’s not a guarantee. You might have had to use it to escape a stun, or whatever reason before deciding to escape. A warrior’s long distance covering mobility skills which do not require a target, have much shorter cool downs.
Third, infiltrator’s arrow. You would be correct to point out that it can be used to put significant distance between you and a class that cannot scale terrain. However, the presence of such terrain cannot always be counted on. You counted this as 900 units, which is misleading. You’re running while you cast it, so distance is traveled during the cast time, and travel time of the projectile, reducing the distance that this skill actually takes you. Obviously, it shadow steps you fewer units the more ground you travel while casting/arrow travels, and with your swiftness (which a warrior will also have of course) the distance you gain from the skill is significantly less than 900 units. (Note that this is why I used "spam heart seeker" in my example for gap creation instead of infiltrator’s arrow)
Fourth, you listed skills which would use all of a player’s utility slots and their healing slot, and include the use of a trait which requires investing at least 10 trait points into Trickery. This is a very specific and restricting requirement for any player who wishes to maintain their own play style and/or build. While the high mobility warrior build is a reality, it’s bad practice to offer a whole build adjustment to handle one specific build available to one class as a solution.
