Guild Wars 2

The balance(LOL) patch that is going to hit the thief is…once again…nerfing infiltrator’s strike/shadow return.

Patch Preview:
“Shadow Return on Sword. Renamed to Infiltrator’s return. Added a 1/4s cast time.”

So basically, now if you are stunned you can no longer shadow return because there is a cast time.

It’s mind boggling to me how anet is going to continually nerf the one good non-stealth options from thieves that makes for an amazing action MMO playstyle.

The previous nerfs to IS/SR were the return distance, and stun break were removed.

What is next? Going to remove the condition cleanse on this set too?

Stop it anet.

Roll something else.

/problemsolved

this will be the final nerf to S/D because it will be dead with this.

Its a bit absurd to put a cast time on a stun breaker… I don’t understand their logic. If you don’t want us to spam this. Just increase Initiative cost and in turn increase to one more condition cleanse. So 3 To use and 3 to return and remove stun with two conditions. So that forces us to use it now more wisely. This is supposed to be special for main hand weapons…you cant treat this like its a shadow trap. At least shadow trap takes me 10,000 range back and regens. I can accept shadow trap cast time, but Sword main hand Infiltrator’s return change to a cast time? No this is lazy and absurd.

Drkxamas.6359:

Its a bit absurd to put a cast time on a stun breaker… I don’t understand their logic. If you don’t want us to spam this. Just increase Initiative cost and in turn increase to one more condition cleanse. So 3 To use and 3 to return and remove stun with two conditions. So that forces us to use it now more wisely. This is supposed to be special for main hand weapons…you cant treat this like its a shadow trap. At least shadow trap takes me 10,000 range back and regens. I can accept shadow trap cast time, but Sword main hand Infiltrator’s return change to a cast time? No this is lazy and absurd.

it won’t break stuns anymore.

Excalibur.9748:

Drkxamas.6359:

Its a bit absurd to put a cast time on a stun breaker… I don’t understand their logic. If you don’t want us to spam this. Just increase Initiative cost and in turn increase to one more condition cleanse. So 3 To use and 3 to return and remove stun with two conditions. So that forces us to use it now more wisely. This is supposed to be special for main hand weapons…you cant treat this like its a shadow trap. At least shadow trap takes me 10,000 range back and regens. I can accept shadow trap cast time, but Sword main hand Infiltrator’s return change to a cast time? No this is lazy and absurd.

it won’t break stuns anymore.

Your right it wont. It will be a waste of Initiative…

Words honestly can’t describe my feelings toward this…

Allow me to be dramatic and say I feel cornholed by A-Net for the time I spent getting my legendary sword. I have always loved sword. I hated when they took the stunbreaker off IS, but at least that made sense. This is absolutely ridiculous. If you can’t use IS to escape CC, then what is the point? Why even use a sword?

IS was the most entertaining skill on the sword bar, and now it is just ruined.

I guess I can transmute my legendary over to my warrior alt I’ll be leveling, since clearly A-Net wants everyone to play one.

Stx.4857:

Words honestly can’t describe my feelings toward this…

Allow me to be dramatic and say I feel cornholed by A-Net for the time I spent getting my legendary sword. I have always loved sword. I hated when they took the stunbreaker off IS, but at least that made sense. This is absolutely ridiculous. If you can’t use IS to escape CC, then what is the point? Why even use a sword?

IS was the most entertaining skill on the sword bar, and now it is just ruined.

I guess I can transmute my legendary over to my warrior alt I’ll be leveling, since clearly A-Net wants everyone to play one.

I feel your pain.. I have two legendarys Bolt and Incinerator… If i had the power to fight this change i surely would….ultimately my voice will never be heard.

I could live with this change if not for the fact they are basically halving our vigor up time aswell I feel this is going to be a make or break issue with alot of thief builds

Stx.4857:

Words honestly can’t describe my feelings toward this…

Allow me to be dramatic and say I feel cornholed by A-Net for the time I spent getting my legendary sword. I have always loved sword. I hated when they took the stunbreaker off IS, but at least that made sense. This is absolutely ridiculous. If you can’t use IS to escape CC, then what is the point? Why even use a sword?

IS was the most entertaining skill on the sword bar, and now it is just ruined.

I guess I can transmute my legendary over to my warrior alt I’ll be leveling, since clearly A-Net wants everyone to play one.

Yep, I feel your pain too. I already have an 80 warrior tho LOL.

This is why I stopped crafting my legendary, can never be sure what nerfs we’ll be getting. I don’t know how I feel about this patch because I may not fully understand all of the things going on so I think I’ll wait.

Invizible.2960:

This is why I stopped crafting my legendary, can never be sure what nerfs we’ll be getting. I don’t know how I feel about this patch because I may not fully understand all of the things going on so I think I’ll wait.

Right nothing is set in stone…so ill wait for now…