Guild Wars 2

The Flanking Strikes adept trait from the trickery specialization does not gain any of the intended cooldown reduction from the master trait, Trickster, of the same specialization. The tooltip indicates a change, however, anyone who spends 2mins trying it can see it does not. Additionally, a similar behavior is found with the Improvisation trait from the deadly arts specialization, in which it can no longer be refreshed, unlike the other skill usage traits like Trappers Respite and Last Refuge. I believe that both of these broken synergies come from the removal of the “trick” skill type that Flanking Strikes was originally contained under, as that would have been the easiest fix for the previous bug. In my opinion, it wasn’t that outlandish prenerf (1/6th uptime on haste) for what the combo has to compete with. At the very least, the trickster/flanking combo needs to be bug fixed, as without them working together, they both are rather lack luster.

TLDR: Flanking Strikes doesn’t get the cooldown reduction indicated when traited with trickster, nor does it work with improvisation.

Fix this please Anet, trickster and flanking already weren’t getting love.

Reposting, as this still is one of the blatant bugs in need of fixing.

Yeah but also it should be baseline 50s cd tops and roll for initiative too

For real, it is because they are stunbreaks, but with the introduction of your 15s stunbreak, it seems like a moot point.

Late answer but https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-October-23-2015/first#post5687595

“Flanking Strikes: This trait is no longer doubly reduced by Trickster.” so they probably forgot to make it right.

Yeah that is what I am referencing. When they did that fix, they did it the easiest way they could and simply removed the Trick type skill classification from Flanking Strikes, thinking it’d still get the effect on the activated haste, and by all means the tooltip does update, but no effect is seen when tested.

That is the only way I can see it breaking both Trickster’s and Improvisation’s synergies with the trait.