Guild Wars 2

New changes made to the Rev were just released.
This is just the changes made to the Sword .

Preparation Thrust: Increased the damage by 6%.
Brutal Blade: Increased the damage by 5%.
Rift Slash: Increased the initial strike damage by 11%.
Precision Strike: Increased the chill from 1 second to 2 seconds and increased the damage by 34%.
Unrelenting Assault: Increased the damage by 30%. This skill will now evade while your character is preforming this attack.
Duelist’s Preparation: Fixed an issue causing this skill to not block for the intended duration. Decreased the recharge from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
Grasping Shadow: Decreased the recharge from 20 seconds to 15 seconds and increased the damage by 75%.

Next Beta weekend is gonna be intense.

You know i was reading all that and have to say this. I like the way they are updating what they try to do for each spec and while I got a gut feel these specs will be made too powerful when compared to the other traitlines feel this the kind of thing that shoul dbe done for each and every class on an ongoing basis and not just for the new spec release.

I don’t think Revenants are hard to kill, they are shifting more towards a heavy armour class now, so I am predicting the next set of posts will be about reducing the duration of Rev cc and toning down some of the power damage. But this post is way too early, it needs to come after the next beta and it needs to be in Rev forums really (unless you’re assuming thiefs should be able to instakill everything :P).

Revenants also now have a close range reveal for 5 seconds that also blinds.

With the lack of Anet’s attention to thieves for such an extended period of time, I’m not expecting much for the thief’s elite specialization. Meanwhile, Revenant and Mesmer seems to be overshadowing thieves in many ways via damage, cc, stealth, and evades.

I sincerely hope there is something exciting for a thief player on the horizon, because recently I find myself without much reason to log in.

If you thought revenant were hard to kill… Well they’re definitely harder to kill now. Unrelenting assault evades and gain might while we use Death Blossom… Karl, Please give us the old Feline Grace back and change Potent Poison if you’re reading this. Please with cherry/blue berry toppings.

Devs and Karl in particular doesn’t read this forum, or even play his thief. Prepare to be underwhelmed and majorly disappointed with the thief elite.

Unrelenting assault needed to have an evade though it felt weird. Also revenants were really squishy during beta weekend it was like playing a thief except you had zero stealth.