Guild Wars 2

I used to take more than three trait lines to be able to not only pick traits that I used regularly on my thief, but also to pick a few handy ones that regain initiative.

I’ve found after the new patch that not only can I not do this, but also initiative recovering traits seem less effective. As an example stealth skills used to recover initiative faster but this has been reduced, thus making essentially a DPS character run of it’s main skill cost resource after only a few attacks. Having skill 1 on autofire because it’s the only skill I have resources for isn’t as fun as previous to the patch where I could enjoy a variety of skills to take on PvE enemies.

I just wondered if anyone had any input on this as I loved my thief but it’s just not as effective anymore :(

Nope, I think its fine.

The Lines are specialized now, and they actually feel like it, I love the updates.

I cant wait till we get more Specs.

yes they are specialised (and don’t get me wrong, I love the new system), but most other professions seem to have ways of enhancing their resource, raise adrenaline etc except thieves can only increase their base initiative by 3, or recover 1 initiative in stealth (I find the cast time for stealth skills takes longer than just waiting for 1 more initiative to recharge) so this seems a bit daft in that we can no longer train thieves to sustain combat for longer with anything other than the initial 1 initiative skills.

RFI gets you 6 INI.

Quickpockets gets three Ini.

Kleptomaniac nets 2 ini (in theory 3 if traited for Shadows rejuv and hidden thief) . You do not trait stealth to garner ini on short term stealths. It does however lower the costs of your stealths from a CNd as example (If and when it fixed)

Upper hand nets one ini every 3 seconds when attack evaded. (In practice I still find hard to pull off on a consistent enough basis to warrant the trait being used over don’t stop)