Guild Wars 2

Not a buff, per se, just a rework. I love both of the offhand dagger skills, plus the AoE and debuffs on 1 are great, plus 2 is the best thing ever in WvW. The problems are 3 and stealth.

I think everyone agrees that 3 is just…bad. Unreliable as hell, subtracts from your DPS, and as a defensive tool it’s okay at best. Honestly, I’d like to just take pistol whip, remove the stun, remove the root, and use that as our 3. Gives you decent damage and is great for defense due to a full two or three seconds of evade. Obviously the initiative would have to be boosted so you can’t just spam that and be invulnerable, but I’d rather be able to use something like that once than use what we have ever.

The other issue is sword’s 1 being mediocre in stealth. Two seconds of daze is nice if you’re lucky enough to get it, but if you don’t you get one proc of blind and no damage boost whatsoever. I use sword for the multitarget damage it gives me. I say make its 1 fit the bill. A spin move, or a cone, or something like that. Remove the debuffs that you can’t reliably use anyway and just make it a nice AoE surprise attack. I’d love to be able to stealth, blink in, then 1 for a big burst of damage before anyone knows what’s happening.

If the stealth attack hit multiple targets instead of just one I would think the set is pretty decent. It works okay enough in PvE against one mob, since you can keep chaining CnD to daze and proccing blind each time with the “blind while stealthing” trait. But toss in multiple enemies and you just get rocked, which is something any offhand pistol set does not need to worry about. And D/D has evasion spam with death blossom.

The 3 is still pretty bad but with just that one change I think S/D would be worth using sometimes.

S/D would be perfectly fine if they fixed the pathing on skill 3. As it is right now it is completely unreliable. The other skills are fine.

Ouzhyr.2175:

S/D would be perfectly fine if they fixed the pathing on skill 3. As it is right now it is completely unreliable. The other skills are fine.

I agree with this, the biggest problem is the speed and pathing of Flanking Strike which just misses to often.

I also think Cloak and Dagger should be reworked, but that is another subject.