Guild Wars 2

Vital Shot/All Pistol Skills now have a 0.54 recovery/activation.

1 Vital Shot (Initiative: 0)
Bleed your foe with a shot to the vitals.
Damage: 134
Bleeding: 3 s (128 damage)
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 900

2 Leg Shot (Initiative: 2)
Cripple and make your foe vulnerable by firing at his leg.
Damage: 168
Cripple: 2 s
5 Vulnerability: 6 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900

3 (1) Power Shot (Initiative: 2)
Fire with both pistols with a powerful attack, gain fury.
Damage: 398
Fury: 4 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900

3 (2) Unload (Initiative: 3)
Blast your foe repeatedly with both pistols, each shot can inflict a random damaging condition.
Damage: 101
Number of shots: 8
Bleeding: 3 s (128 damage)
Burning: 1 s (328 damage)
Poison: 2 s (168 damage)
Confusion: 5 s (130 damage on skill use)
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 900

4 (1) Headshot (Initiative: 4)
Daze your foe with a head shot.
Damage: 298
Daze: ¼ s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900

4 (2) Dirty Kick (Initiative: 2)
Kick your foe in the crotch, stunning them. (33% Chance to Knock them down.)
Damage: 302
Stun: 1 s
Knockdown: 2 s (33% Chance.)
Range: 130

5 Black Powder (Initiative: 5)
Fire a black powder shot, blinding nearby foes with the smoke cloud.
Damage: 84 (2.0)?
Duration: 6 s
Combo Field: Smoke
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900

Traits

Ricochet – Pistol shots have a 100% chance to bounce to 1 additional target, Conditions inflicted by pistol skills last 33% longer.

Gunslinger – Increases range of pistols, pistol attacks pierce. Critical hits with a pistol have a 60% chance to cripple and weaken foes for 3s. (Cooldown of 10 seconds).

Pistol Mastery – Increases critical chance and damage of all pistol based skills by 15%. (This includes dual skills using a pistol.)

This effectively turns P/P into a very deeply traited weapon that uses both conditions and power to damage the targets, however not too much of both, it is a vicious weapon.

I agree that something like this is needed to make P/P useful, but I think you need to reconsider some of the abilities. Due to the nature of initiative and the lack of cooldowns, having a headshot>dirty kick combo is incredibly OP. It would be more balanced and beneficial to the set to have the dirty kick leap backwards to gain some distance.

4 (2) Dirty Kick (Initiative: 2)
Use your opponent’s face as a springboard, making them look silly and evading backwards. (33% Chance to Knock them down.)
Damage: 302
Knockdown: 2 s (33% Chance.)
Evade: 1/2s
Range: 130

I would also adjust some numbers on Ricochet and Pistol Mastery. Ricochet at 100% is too strong, unless the second target takes less damage. Alternatively ricochet could have a chance to spread conditions. This could work with any conditions, not just those applied by the thief. Pistol Mastery is just too strong at 15% crit AND damage. Every pistol build would run this. Make it 10% damage only, and buff pistols in general.

I think Dirty Kick should turn into Drop Kick that knocks back instead of down. This should only work if your target is close.

Not everyone is a dude. Remember that.

Zacchary.6183:

Not everyone is a dude. Remember that.

We can’t even be certain that non-human anatomy works that way at all! However, getting kicked in the fork still hurts, regardless of who you are.

Kajiri.8215:

I agree that something like this is needed to make P/P useful, but I think you need to reconsider some of the abilities. Due to the nature of initiative and the lack of cooldowns, having a headshot>dirty kick combo is incredibly OP. It would be more balanced and beneficial to the set to have the dirty kick leap backwards to gain some distance.

4 (2) Dirty Kick (Initiative: 2)
Use your opponent’s face as a springboard, making them look silly and evading backwards. (33% Chance to Knock them down.)
Damage: 302
Knockdown: 2 s (33% Chance.)
Evade: 1/2s
Range: 130

I would also adjust some numbers on Ricochet and Pistol Mastery. Ricochet at 100% is too strong, unless the second target takes less damage. Alternatively ricochet could have a chance to spread conditions. This could work with any conditions, not just those applied by the thief. Pistol Mastery is just too strong at 15% crit AND damage. Every pistol build would run this. Make it 10% damage only, and buff pistols in general.

Tactical strike is a stun that is also spam-able and costs only ‘4’ initiative if you make the combo properly, this costs 6. Its not as OP as you would think. However good ideas.

You also would have to risk going into melee with the opponent to execute the attack.

It has its opportunity cost and works well with S/P as well as P/P.