So here I am having fun in sPvP, Raid on the Capricorn map fighting thief until she went underwater and then my worst experience in spvp happened.
She just spammed that skill endlessly while I couldn’t even scratch her…
What does the thief community says about this horrible unbalance skill ?
How come Anet didnt notice this and fixed it?
Shadow Assault:
“Strike your foe repeatedly with a shadowy assault. Evades while active.”
Damage: 269
Number of attacks: 3
Evade: 4 s
Range: 200
Activation time: 2.5 s
Initiative cost: 5
Desolation ~ Human Elementalist.
“One does not simply fight Jackie Chan in a room full of forniture”
It’s broken. That being said, it’s still more balanced than a mesmer underwater.
My advice would be to simply skip this map as underwater combat is just a mess in term of balance right now (ranger downed state, engi nades, thief shadow assault, mesmer as a whole). Even if underwater combat was fixed i would still not play it regulary simply because the map itself is small as can be.
It’s broken. That being said, it’s still more balanced than a mesmer underwater.
My advice would be to simply skip this map as underwater combat is just a mess in term of balance right now (ranger downed state, engi nades, thief shadow assault, mesmer as a whole). Even if underwater combat was fixed i would still not play it regulary simply because the map itself is small as can be.
I see. Thats what I did after she killed me – stayed away from the water like there’s a shar….o_o’…
Anyhow, thanks for replaying.
Desolation ~ Human Elementalist.
“One does not simply fight Jackie Chan in a room full of forniture”
And as soon as you try to use the block against a group of mobs they all hit through you during the block response and take you down, even with signet of malice. So yes the spear is a broken weapon as it is too good in single combat and not good enough for group fighting.
It only blocks one attack, it’s best used when your getting attacked but not focused, it really strong when used properly. If you are getting focused, #5 is what you want, you will not die underwater as a thief.
Spamming #2 works great too with the spear, evade plus a pretty strong attack. Path goes far so works against ppl swimming in circles (ruins at the capricorn map).
skill #4 on the other hand is as useless as typing /dance in a fight
I don’t like fighting underwater because of my lack of mobility and plays terrible in group play (spamming #5 only hits 1 person). But yeah, in a 1v1 underwater thief aren’t rly balanced. Easy way to beat them is to just ignore them (#5 and #3). #2 takes a while to start the evade, so they’ll still get dmg nonetheless
Luckily there is no full-water-map or we’ll have even more hate on us
Spamming SA may delay your dead but it won’t kill anyone who knows how to play underwater. Ranger, Mesmer, Guardian, Warrior and Engi are far more broken in underwater.
That skill is broken. Being able to spam it with perma-evade the whole time is not fun to fight against or play. You can just stay outside the range of the skill and wait for the thief to run out of initiative and there are a few underwater skills that seem to ignore the evade too.
It is broken but it’s not ridiculously OP either. The thief’s underwater skills I find lacking otherwise though, but then it is underwater combat so who really cares?
LOL. Never thought this day will come. Thief underwatter is OP? Allmost every single class gets into watter when they see that they cant beat thief in land. Thief is completally harmless in watter.
You can evade attacks but you won’t actually kill anyone with it unless they are noob enough to stand still. Can’t believe you would complain about this skill.
I believe it had already recieved a nerf a few patches ago.
Shadow Assault suffers from the inability to move around while it’s being cast. Move away and swap to your underwater ranged weapon until the thief runs out of initiative.
Floats and sinks still go through the evade. Worst underwater for pvp is warrior and ranger though by far. They can lose the fight but since you can’t possibly finish underwater, there’s no killing the warrior. It will vengeance, kill a shark (you can stop him unless you have 2 eles or 3+ people), then rally and go back to fighting. The ranger will just pop the pet then start spam attacking you. It doesn’t matter if the pet dies, it will continue to heal the ranger. That being said, why are you complaining about underwater? Me thinks this is a troll thread.
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