Guild Wars 2

The Sword/Pistol #3 skill was nerfed because people complained it was too overpowered, so Anet nerfed it by a 15% damage reduction.

Haste is now nerfed, and the instantaneous burst damage cannot be attained such as before. Can we get a revert of this skill? It was such a wonderful skill, especially in PvE. Sad to see that it was even considered for a nerf.

No.

More nerfs to come please

tagnut.8621:

No.

More nerfs to come please

Observe the clueless whiner in his natural habitat.

On-topic: Yes, I don’t use S/P much anymore, but it makes sense – nerfing the wrong thing altogether, then nerfing what was supposed to be nerfed without re-buffing the original. Needs a reversal.

Okay lets be positive about PW: If you ever need a stun you can use /P #4 and then continue autoattacking. You don’t get rooted and you never need to worry about managing 5 skills because on S/P on is useless.

/sarcasm off

I know /P #4 dazes and does not actually stun but in PvE whats the difference anyway…

They said they were changing 100b, perhaps they are also changing this ability.

Daecollo.9578:

They said they were changing 100b, perhaps they are also changing this ability.

When/where did they say that?

John Sharp mentions it in here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/The-main-warrior-questions/page/2

Alex.6940:

John Sharp mentions it in here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/The-main-warrior-questions/page/2

I completely stopped following that thread, thanks. He doesn’t say they’re changing Hundred Blades, though. He just said he agrees that something needs to be done about the said skill. Boon-hate will probably be the first buff to warriors, they sound pretty clear on that. They are considering everything else.

At bare minimum it needs to do more damage than the auto attack. As of now I can’t tell a difference and I usually take more damage using it despite the evade because you are rooted, and drop back down into the center of the pile of mobs I am attacking.

If the attack did not root or evade, and even kept the same damage, I would be OK with it if I could remain mobile while using it. Using it as another interrupt that did auto attack level damage while moving would be fine. We need more mobility!

LordSlack.4685:

At bare minimum it needs to do more damage than the auto attack. As of now I can’t tell a difference and I usually take more damage using it despite the evade because you are rooted, and drop back down into the center of the pile of mobs I am attacking.

If the attack did not root or evade, and even kept the same damage, I would be OK with it if I could remain mobile while using it. Using it as another interrupt that did auto attack level damage while moving would be fine. We need more mobility!

I like the evades though…

I would love to see the damage brought back up on PW as well.

Burst to strong – Nerf PW 15%
Burst to strong – Nerf Quickness 50%
Buff PW – +50% Damage? (ok we all had a laugh now, but really buff PW pls)

Daecollo.9578:

They said they were changing 100b, perhaps they are also changing this ability.

I just find it extremely disconcerting that Jon Sharp spent so much time coddling Warrior’s frail egos, but for us we got a singular post from Jon Peters saying “sorry we didn’t give you the change you needed, we felt like it was too logically sound. instead, here’s one that is universally stupid.”

I paraphrase, of course…

Rome.3192:

I completely stopped following that thread, thanks. He doesn’t say they’re changing Hundred Blades, though. He just said he agrees that something needs to be done about the said skill. Boon-hate will probably be the first buff to warriors, they sound pretty clear on that. They are considering everything else.

He says that it ‘needs’ to change, so i think it’s quite likely we’ll see some change to the skill or at least some change of its effectiveness relative to the other warrior skills in the future.

The situation with 100b is quite different to pistol whip though; 100b makes all other weapons sets inferior in terms of dps while pistol whip just means pistol whip is lacklustre. I doubt it’s very high of their list of things to do, if at all, but i can’t think of a good reason not to buff it.

Yes bring back 15% on PW.
The set still needs some QoL improvements (thief in general does, wtf is with AR?) but it be a good step to going where you need it to go.
Initial design had it 15% stronger than it is, and haste screwed it up.

Lol so they don’t nerf 100b but they do nerf pistol wipe logic..

100b was hit by the same way PW was last patch…

Hmm I dunno I could swear a warrior hit me with 16k with 100b recently when I wasn’t paying attention. PW dooes not hit for 16K. It barely hits for more than the autoattack. Just..so.slow…

S/P is by far the weakest of the weapon sets for a thief. Let’s look at the set over time.

1: Nerf PW by 15%
2. Nerf the food for health regen on crit
3. Nerf haste

Pistol whip does need a buff at this point. The 15% nerf should be reverted and it should receive an additional 10% damage on top of that.

style.6173:

S/P is by far the weakest of the weapon sets for a thief. Let’s look at the set over time.

1: Nerf PW by 15%
2. Nerf the food for health regen on crit
3. Nerf haste

Pistol whip does need a buff at this point. The 15% nerf should be reverted and it should receive an additional 10% damage on top of that.

SoM deserves a buff to healing as well. Probably up to 80% like it used to be in beta. (180 healing every hit.)

Signed. PW needs a full-on redesign.