Staff Suggestion: Hook Strike Cleave
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hook_Strike
I was looking at making a daredevil build for wvw zerging and thought wow Hook Strike would be cool with Rending Shade boon stealing. Then I got into setting it up and saw it didn’t cleave.
Thinking this skill should be cleave regardless of game mode idk.
Yes staff works nice with SA and hook strike
. I too wished it cleaved given the fact you are not getting a whole lot of these off in combat , the times you do manage it should be rewarded. I personally think it should cleave three targets.
Put in SA with DrD and trickery using boon theft and rending. Trait up P/P off hand for an extra smokefield and or something like the overlooked smokescreen where you can blast and stack stealth. BT and RS with SOH traited with the on interrupt sigils.
When you pull off a steal (with interrupt proccing a PI) followed by an interrupt and knockdown with PI , you can do a heck of a lot of damage along with as many as 7 boons ripped. It fun but rare to get it all to work just right.
This much harder to pull off in a 1v1 but in group fights gets easier as the enemy not necessarily focused on what you are doing as you approach.
Give it a try in any case as I think the RS and BT combo is quite fun and more then just a little useful in the boon heavy WvW.