Guild Wars 2

So s/d larcenous strike was once cheaper in initiative. When they upped ini they added the dual boon steal , which makes sense. Now they reduced boon steal back to 1 without lowering initiative cost back down.

Sneaky nerf ?

Has this happened before? Am I getting this wrong ?

Yea you are wrong. They changed fs to fs+ls. Ls stole 2boons for 1ini…right after the buff. Then they increased the ini costs to 2. After that, they decreased the boons stolen to 1.
And of course thief gets nothing in return…its the stealth class.

Domey.9804:

Yea you are wrong. They changed fs to fs+ls. Ls stole 2boons for 1ini…right after the buff. Then they increased the ini costs to 2. After that, they decreased the boons stolen to 1.
And of course thief gets nothing in return…its the stealth class.

So I am right in saying they buffed nerfed buffed nerfed , which means they ended up doing a long term nerf lol

In the end FS gained an expensive and under powered LS. So….technically a buff cuz there’s a net gain but if the gain isn’t worth the cost to use it then I hesitate to call it a buff.

Well, act fs+ls is now weaker then ever before if you were able to land the second Hit via camera turn.
Oh yea…now it steals 1boon instead of just ripping…worth 1 extra ini? I dont think i nEED that retaliation that much and it seems its always the First i steal. You cant even Spam enough ls to get that tasty protection/stability

i agree. i quite s/d after the -1 boon nerf. most boons dont last long enough to really matter. thieves are dodging and backing up and evading so much that they really only get to use prolly about 15% effectivness from most boons. a fact that seems to evade the anet team bc they obv dont have any theif players. and i dont mean the 1 or 2 hour a week thieve players.