Guild Wars 2

I just feel that there’s a TON of dmg going on out there and Thief damage is only really good when you have all your cooldowns ready for your Black Powder > Heartseeker > Steal burst combo (or whatever one you like to use). In between these combos you’re just a sitting duck in a teamfight trying to escape the 834 condi’s accidentally applied to you through AOE or getting 100-0 hosed by rampaging warrior.

There are so many traits on other classes that are basically elites that I don’t think lowering the CD on the Haste buff from Flanking Strikes is too much to ask for since it’s pretty conditional to even get the buff.

Everyone knows once the Thief is out of stealth he’s the easiest target. Even a shadowstepped Thief is an easy kill. You could SR, but it’s not really stealth if you KNOW WHERE they stealthed (its confined – which is silly – I’d love a wall like Mesmers or even a decoy). I don’t mind change in meta/PVP in a game as long as classes aren’t completely left behind, but that’s the way it feels right now. Thieves are a one pump chump where you have to ask everyone nicely to hold off on fighting while you wait for your combo to come back up. Everyone has burst combos, but they still have damage in between burst combos. I’m not saying that spamming 1 isn’t dmg, but it’s awfully silly. Even with +200 power from revealed, you’re still a sitting duck.

Anyone? This isn’t a HUGE change, but it could help those in between periods a little bit.

Flanking strikes CD can be effected by the trick CD reduction trait if you don’t mind losing vigor on steal. I would like really like if the base CD was reduced though. Now that it doesn’t completely wipe your endurance, it is very fun to use. I think it’s just that high because they threw stun breaker on there for some reason. What I’d like to see is either the stun break removed and just make it like a 30 sec CD or seperate the skill Haste and Flanking Strikes and make the trait version 30 seconds without stun break.

Doesn’t really make sense to have a stun break on a trait that you need to attack the back/side of enemy to trigger.

the trait is currently bugged where the trickster trait gives it 40% cd reduction instead of 20%

Even without that, its VERY strong. I dunno what ur complaining about. Haste + shortbow is insane. it WRECKS people.

I do feel you though on how thief in general is burst, then leave and wait for cd’s. The onyl way around this right now is to sit and sb between melee bursts. and SB is insanely strong imo, but it doesnt FEEL like a thief/rogue class archetype. its not my preferred style of play, but im forced into spamming a lot of shortbow from necessity. and it DOES work amazingly well.