Guild Wars 2

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

Hm, and how often does this happen to you? I’m really curious right now.

Stability is your friend, have that and just kite away. Plus if the target is not already down, it’s hard for the thief to time when to do it for the quick kill. I’ve manage it a few times. But doesn’t happen all the time.

You don’t get to use an elite in combat if you go for this as a stomp. Sounds fair in the complete scope of a fight.

I’ve had it happen to me quite a few times now actually, where i’m dead almost as soon as the invuln frames pop from being downed, it’s insane, definitely takes skill and timing to pull off, but at the same time it feels incredibly cheap because it pretty much removes the downed state component of the game.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

Doesn’t it only stomp you if the final hit would have downed you anyway? It’s not like I can use this on someone with full health and stomp them if all hits connect.

RedSpectrum.1975:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

Doesn’t it only stomp you if the final hit would have downed you anyway? It’s not like I can use this on someone with full health and stomp them if all hits connect.

Correct – you have to be extremely lucky to land this combo properly.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

…definitely takes skill and timing to pull off…

There you go, you answered your own question.

Silverbolt.2301:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

…definitely takes skill and timing to pull off…

There you go, you answered your own question.

But is it fair that they’re more skilled and are able to pull the timings off?

(I think that’s the main question)

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

If the guy is skilled enough to pull this off (and yes it does take skill and timing) than he would have been skilled enough to stomp you anyway.

babazhook.6805:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

If the guy is skilled enough to pull this off (and yes it does take skill and timing) than he would have been skilled enough to stomp you anyway.

Not true.

Certain classes downstates can buy them precious time, the elite locks them out of being able to do anything.

They had to get you in to the downed state in the first place. The fight was already lost, so the Thief gets to finish it quicker before moving on. Why would that be immensely unfair?

Impact Strike – yet an other skill that will be hard to balance. Devs put them-self in bad situation one more time. I’ve done some instant kill combo doing IS + steal dealing:
-2K steal
-2K IS
-5K uppercut
-4K pulmonary
-5K finish blow + insta stomp

Now the second and third follow up of ImpStrike are so hard to land making the skill miss almost 80% of the time, so I’m wondering sometime if it’s even useful…

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Would you say this ability is fair?

Knowing that any any minute a thief can stomp me and i have absolutely zero ways of countering/fighting against it, really infuriates me.

a thief is sacrificing their elite slot for it, and the combo can be interrupted at any moment through evasion, stability, aegis, blind, or interrupts.

i think it’s a high risk, high reward skill. it’s pretty hard to pull it off perfectly, but inrcedibly satisfying to do so.

Saku Joe.2857:

Impact Strike – yet an other skill that will be hard to balance. Devs put them-self in bad situation one more time. I’ve done some instant kill combo doing IS + steal dealing:
-2K steal
-2K IS
-5K uppercut
-4K pulmonary
-5K finish blow + insta stomp

Now the second and third follow up of ImpStrike are so hard to land making the skill miss almost 80% of the time, so I’m wondering sometime if it’s even useful…

What are these? Fights against an imaginary enemy?…or…upleveled people?

Silverbolt.2301:

Saku Joe.2857:

Impact Strike – yet an other skill that will be hard to balance. Devs put them-self in bad situation one more time. I’ve done some instant kill combo doing IS + steal dealing:
-2K steal
-2K IS
-5K uppercut
-4K pulmonary
-5K finish blow + insta stomp

Now the second and third follow up of ImpStrike are so hard to land making the skill miss almost 80% of the time, so I’m wondering sometime if it’s even useful…

What are these? Fights against an imaginary enemy?…or…upleveled people?

Just hitting a zerker as a zerker (almost) my self in WvW..