Guild Wars 2

I don’t care about “build viability”.
I don’t care about DPS performance or the “current meta” or any such concepts.
All I care about is having fun.

And one of the few fun things remaining for me in this game was to run around as my dual pistols thief, blasting everything in sight, watching bullets ricochet off every target. And now I can’t do that. Now one of the last remaining fun things is dead, for no comprehensible reason whatsoever. What point could it possibly serve to neuter the build by removing Ricochet like this?

Before I moved to Thief, I used to play Warrior mainly. Back then, the most fun thing for me to do was run around, chaining adrenaline bursts from group to group. The pacing of world PVE spawns is such that it’s very likely you’ll annihilate a group before getting to use a full adrenaline bar, which means it was a lot of fun to be able to jump onto the next group with a burst. That was killed too. Oh, sure, warrior is still strong, and adrenaline/burst skills are still great against bosses. But a very important subtle bit of the fun factor was lost. It just isn’t fun to roam around openly as warrior anymore. So I moved to thief. And now the thing that drew me to that class is gone.

This isn’t “I quit.” I WANT to keep enjoying this game, I WANT to keep playing, and I WANT to spend a truckload of realmoney on gems to feed into the economy, but I can’t do the first thing and I’m left with no reason to do the latter two if changes in the name of class “balance” or build redesign really intend to be this deadset on neutering the most fun and enjoyable aspects of the classes I like to play.

Would really appreciate some sort of clarification over whether this was a bug or oversight, and ricochet was never intended to be removed and will be fixed soon. Ideally within the next day or so, so I know whether to buy gems or not.

I expect the Specialization to bring back Ricochet and all that stuff for the gun lovers amongst us.
So you’ll probably have to adapt for now, or come back when we know we’ll have Ricochet back. I’m quite confident in that this wasn’t an oversight and that we’ll have it back in some form or shape later.

It was intentional. It’s ‘too hard to balance’ ‘too random’ and ‘hurts the purity of pistols’. I’m just as frustrated.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Looking-for-Dev-commentary-on-Ricochet-please/first#post5194621

it’s a good thing. p/p is stupid and kitten it doesn’t need to occupy a trait slot which can be used better

Too bad, I loved my dual pistols. :’-(

didnt read but im guessing you’re talking about pp thief from the other comments. i’m glad they’re bad now

Duo-pistol was my first thing Loved it. Then several months into the game I realized that it wasn’t meant to be an ACTUAL game-playable build.
If something gets done about p/p i’ll come back to p/p thief, but for now, last day as a thief main, first day as a guardian main :P