Guild Wars 2

“Also, pistol main hand may see one of its skills reworked to better support allies. We have multiple prototypes that we’re trying out, so we’ll have to see which we settle on by the next release.”

…support allies? So like, give allies boons? What the hell does this even mean? Pistol main hand is for damage, not a support weapon….?

What

In December John Peters said that P/P has a significant amount of support in Headshot, black powder and body shot.
By those words if taken today then body shot is a support skill. Which means they may likely be changing body shot again. That or they’re addressing Unload and pushing it out of a damage centric role to one supportive. Which may be fun for us who don’t play P/P much but may be alienating to those who committed significant amount of time to it already.

Don’t break my weapon set, Anet. You’ve already broken sPvP and WvW. -_-

I main P/P thief and pretty much that only when I’m out in WvW. I’m most likely going to quit this game if they do kitten up P/P.

They said Main Hand Pistol so they are clearly talking about Body Shot which at the moment is pretty much useless.

I main P/D and I never, ever, use Body Shot, it’s just a waste of initiative.

Sithaco.4673:

They said Main Hand Pistol so they are clearly talking about Body Shot which at the moment is pretty much useless.

I main P/D and I never, ever, use Body Shot, it’s just a waste of initiative.

WTF does ‘support allies’ mean? P/P is used for 1v1 dueling capability whether ANet likes it or not, and moving it even more towards a support weapon set is what worries me.

This is totally awesome, can’t wait. I hope it something really good cause pistol thieves are usually laughed at.

Lyndis.2584:

Sithaco.4673:

They said Main Hand Pistol so they are clearly talking about Body Shot which at the moment is pretty much useless.

I main P/D and I never, ever, use Body Shot, it’s just a waste of initiative.

WTF does ‘support allies’ mean? P/P is used for 1v1 dueling capability whether ANet likes it or not, and moving it even more towards a support weapon set is what worries me.

The thing with initiative is that if you have your dueling 3333333333 skill and your support skill on the same bar, you can chose to use always the same

Frankly if they rework Body Shot so it’s no longer a mathematical joke, and they do in a way that increases our ability to support allies, it can only be a good thing (it can’t be worse than it is anyway, so it won’t be hard to make it better than it is).

I hope the change isn’t changing the number of stacks and time active again.

Btw, what’s the source for this? Edit: Nevermind, I found it. Apparently they’re incresing Venomous Aura radious too, I hope aditionally they rework Ice Drake and Skale Venoms so they can be used.

I gave a feedback on that thread hoping that they will also fix the timing issues on pistols.

Hopefully bodyshot is being deleted and replaced with a totally different skill.

If they want to make P/P a support build then it needs to be AoE. Single target support doesn’t work.

Body shot simply doesn’t have the utility to function as a reliable skill. In fact, whenever I run Pistol Mainhand I unbind my 2 key to make sure I don’t accidently use the skill and waste initiative. That’s how bad the skill is. Anet should scrap Body Shot all together is make it some sort of blast finisher, so at the very least we have synchronization with the other P/P skills.

Keep in mind support for theif was sup to be carried out through debuffs. On these ground im not getting my hopes up on a makeover prolly just gonna add a secondery effect to the skill.

Could they put a blast finisher on body shot? That would be supportive and definitely not interact with anything else on P/P.

I use Body Shot a couple times right after I pull Thieves Guild out. xD