Thief
The Daredevil staff functions as a fairly strong AoE weapon, but core thief lacks good ways to deal with large groups, so in this update we’re tuning up the short bow to be a stronger ranged AoE weapon. Additionally, we’re making a small change to Unload to make it more effective as a damage tool when you can ensure that your target will stand still. Finally, we’re also looking at updates to the Deadly Arts line that emphasize poison use to help establish more defined ways to play based on the traits that you select.
Pulmonary Impact: The damage of this effect has been reduced by 15% in PvP only.
Channeled Vigor: Endurance per tick has been reduced from 20 to 15 in PvP only.
Endurance Thief: Endurance gained has been reduced from 50 to 25 in PvP only.
Palm Strike: This skill now applies two instances of Pulmonary Impact on a successful hit.
Vault: The initiative of this skill has been increased from 5 to 6 in PvP only.
Bound (PvP Only): The damage of this ability has been reduced by 24% in PvP only.
Body Shot: This skill has been unsplit and now applies immobilize for 1.5 seconds in all game modes.
Unload: This skill now refunds 2 initiative if all attacks hit.
Trick Shot: Increased number of bounces to 3. Now deals 25% increased damage to poisoned foes.
Detonate Cluster: Increased number of bombs to 4.
Choking Gas: Increased damage by 200%. This skill now briefly dazes foes with 5 or more stacks of poison every pulse. The same foe cannot be dazed more than once every second.
Potent Poison: In addition to its previous effect, this trait now increases the number of stacks of poison applied by other Deadly Arts traits.
Panic Strike: In addition to its previous effect, this trait now causes you to apply 1 stack of poison for 4 seconds to foes that you immobilize.
Panic Strike: Immobilize duration has been reduced from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
Trapper’s Respite: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to display an incorrect poison duration.
“Consumables:”
The line of foods that provided bonus damage while moving has been dominating consumable use for all power-based builds. In addition to being significantly more powerful than other foods designed to boost power damage, the “wiggle” strategy to maintain uptime on its effect has a negative impact on the health of the game (and its players). For these reasons, food that increases outgoing damage while moving has had its efficacy reduced by 50%. This affects the following items and their respective feasts:
Bowl of Seaweed Salad (10% -> 5%)
Bowl of Winterberry Seaweed Salad (10% -> 5%)
Swiftly Scrambled Eggs (10% -> 5%)
Bowl of Asparagus and Sage Salad (8% -> 4%)
Can of Asparagus and Sage Salad (8% -> 4%)
Experimental Remnant (8% -> 4%)
Cabbage and Chickpea Salad (6% -> 3%)
Bowl of Coleslaw (4% -> 2%)
“Dragon hunter”
Spear of Justice: This skill now applies 6 seconds of Revealed on the initial impact.