Pistol Whip Suggestion
Imo PW is quite good. The only think it needs is a bit more damage(15%?) to compensate for the root and so it hits harder than auto attack.
I find the skill great in pve with SoM and great in WvW against bad-to-meduim good thieves. I use s/d but when I see a roaming thief, coming my way I immediately switch the dagger for pistol, works wonders.
Going to keep it short, seen a few of them before but. My opinion however kitten y it is.
I would like two changes
Split the skill like Flanking Strike at 3/2
3 for the stun, 2 for the flurryUnroot the flurry so we can use it on the move, aka make it so we don’t plant our feet.
If we are not getting the damage back I feel some more flexibility with the skill would be nice.
I use S/P often, so here’s my opinion on the matter.
Pistolwhip is in an okay state right now. In my personal opinion, splitting the skill like flanking strike would be much too detrimental, leading to sub-par timed flurries and using more than intended stuns, or something of the sort. In short, it would just leave room for error instead of being practical, like the S/D combo. It dodges FIRST, so using the dodge is reactive and cool, and you can follow it up with a nice attack. But as far as the stun goes for S/P? If you’re stunning, 90% of the time you’ll be flurrying after, because otherwise you would have used the cheaper, faster, non-melee headshot. That’s just the way it is.
The only thing it really needs is a faster stun (the first part of the skill) and maybe a small damage boost, like 5-8%. More and it’s too strong. But as it is right now, the damage is a little poor.
Oh, and one more thing, but this really doesn’t have much to do with S/P. Make Retaliation have an ICD, but do more damage, maybe, to balance it out. Hate getting hit with 2-3k just for using PW.
Remember you can steal mid pistol whip to make up for being rooted. Also you can move while it’s activating. Get those two actions down and it’s hard to not hit them with the whole flurry.
Remember you can steal mid pistol whip to make up for being rooted. Also you can move while it’s activating. Get those two actions down and it’s hard to not hit them with the whole flurry.
Infiltrator signet also works if your steal is on cooldown. Typically I will lead with inf strike, wait for them to use stun break and/or dodge, then preload pistol whip and use either steal or inf signet to close the distance.