Guild Wars 2

So the thief is supposed to be this master of traveling through the mists, yet i feel the class is not exhibiting enough of that, well, not enough short duration short distance ones.

What i’m suggesting is either a baseline effect or a shadow/deadly arts master major trait, that shadowsteps you a small distance (like 100~150 units) when you auto attack your target while in combat under the condition that your last melee attack hits, so the description of such a trait would look like this:

“Landing a hit with your melee attacks causes your next melee auto attack to shadow step you a small distance to your target (combat only)”

While this will look cool as heck it will also help chasing down those pesky eles and mesmers, but at the same time not rendering their escape mechanisms useless, and will also make sticking to your target easier.

A potential drawback could be “you are revealed every time you shadowstep”, or it can have 1-2 second cooldown, just to balance out things a bit.

Not sure if this is a troll post…

Nop, serious post

You aren’t required to like my suggestion

o god i can just imagine the sound of this gameplay now. WaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaoosh

naw but seriously, i think swiftness would just work better

YOUNGaz.5690:

o god i can just imagine the sound of this gameplay now. WaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaooshWaoosh

naw but seriously, i think swiftness would just work better

It can have a dimmer or different sound effect, but in general, if you want to play thief it’s a prerequisite to have a high tolerance for “wooshing” sounds to begin with.

Hmm no thx. Oh and “you are revealed every time you shadowstep” – did you really think this through ?. New term boys and girls – “perma reveal” .

that would make a lot of gap closers useless and anet would have to redesign entire weapon sets, not to mention revealed issues
i don’t see it happening nor why it should on first place

what thief needs is atm bit better surivival, some buffing to weapon sets besides dp and few nerfs to other classes

We have plenty of ways to stay on target, nty. What we don’t have are strong ways to stay alive while chasing said target. cough condition removal cough viable non-stealth sustain cough

RapidSausage.4620:

So the thief is supposed to be this master of traveling through the mists

Pretty sure that’s the Revenant. Like the name suggest, the Thief is supposed to be the master of stealing. That’s it.

Come on man. I just read shadowstep on Cloak & Dagger, now this suggestion is Shadowstep on AA with 1 to 2 second reveal… ?

Not only it’s pretty ridiculous but it won’t even make the thief any more fun, or viable.
We need a lot of fixing or moderate suggestions. this is plainly outrageous and even if it was implemented, other professions will complain so much, we ll get hit by a harder nerf.

Just no. We have plenty of gap closers, make sure you use them efficiently. we steal. we don’t travel through the mist. that never happened.

Kocoff.7582:

RapidSausage.4620:

So the thief is supposed to be this master of traveling through the mists

Pretty sure that’s the Revenant. Like the name suggest, the Thief is supposed to be the master of stealing. That’s it.

Come on man. I just read shadowstep on Cloak & Dagger, now this suggestion is Shadowstep on AA with 1 to 2 second reveal… ?

Not only it’s pretty ridiculous but it won’t even make the thief any more fun, or viable.
We need a lot of fixing or moderate suggestions. this is plainly outrageous and even if it was implemented, other professions will complain so much, we ll get hit by a harder nerf.

Just no. We have plenty of gap closers, make sure you use them efficiently. we steal. we don’t travel through the mist. that never happened.

Shadowstepping IS traveling through the mists.

OP does realize that d/p has a skill called shadow shot right that does exactly what you are talking about…

RapidSausage.4620:

Kocoff.7582:

RapidSausage.4620:

So the thief is supposed to be this master of traveling through the mists

Pretty sure that’s the Revenant. Like the name suggest, the Thief is supposed to be the master of stealing. That’s it.

Come on man. I just read shadowstep on Cloak & Dagger, now this suggestion is Shadowstep on AA with 1 to 2 second reveal… ?

Not only it’s pretty ridiculous but it won’t even make the thief any more fun, or viable.
We need a lot of fixing or moderate suggestions. this is plainly outrageous and even if it was implemented, other professions will complain so much, we ll get hit by a harder nerf.

Just no. We have plenty of gap closers, make sure you use them efficiently. we steal. we don’t travel through the mist. that never happened.

Shadowstepping IS traveling through the mists.

Says who?

Last time I checked "Shadowstep"is a term used in a lot of video games and it’s just another term for teleportation. It just happens to fit the secretive and cunning playstyle of the thief.

Stepping through the shadows, literally.