Guild Wars 2

Yes yes, another thief spike damage topic. But here’s a thing that often doesn’t get mentioned about it much at all:

• Mug is more powerful than the thief’s sword combo ender,
• Stealing has no activation time or any follow through, and can be done during any other move (I’ve done it whilst using Dagger Storm without interrupting it, heck, I’ve done it flying through the air from being launched)
• Spiking thieves also have Serpent’s touch and lotus poison traits set automatically (Not really much of the issue though)
• Oh, and it steals an item too, again, unimportant.

It’s really the combination of the first two points, coupled with the big damage of backstab and then heartseeker/cloak and dagger that makes the spike so vicious and pushes it over the edge in terms of balance. A big single hit is fine, being able to do 3 big hits of comparable damage in less than a second is not.

5k with every buff on a squishy is big hit? My sword 3rd attack crits for 7k in those conditions