Guild Wars 2

Thief:

Shadow Refuge: This skill now functions with the Meld in Shadows trait.

Shadow Pursuit:This skill now functions with the Meld in Shadows trait.

Blinding Powder: Stealth duration has been decreased from 5 to 4 seconds when traited with Meld in Shadows. Skill remains at 3 seconds base.This skill is now a blast finisher.

Merciful Ambush: This skill now functions with the Meld in Shadows trait for the recipient of stealth.

Fixed a bug where some skills would remove the visual effect of stealth from the player

Destroy Shadow Trap: This skill now has a 1.5s cast time. It plays an effect at the thief and the trap location when it is being cast. Added 5 seconds of regeneration.

Meld with Shadows now only increases Blinding Power stealth by 1 second so it is consistent with the traits functionality.

Venomous Aura: Increased the venom share radius to 360.

Features:
Added new condition damage floaters: An option to use the more iconic damage floaters.
New Fact System: Added trait facts. Showing linked skills in traits. Traits and skills update facts when affects by other traits.
General:
Aoe spells with that have a maximum number of targets will now count combatants that block or evade the attack towards that maximum
Fixed a bug where some 0 damage spells (Tainted shackles among others) did not place their casters in combat.
Fixed a bug that disabled utility skill swapping while transformed
Stun breakers now break blowouts and launch as well
Tab targeting now prioritizes players over npcs (including minions)(mesmer clones are an exception)
Made adjustments to click targeting to make it more precise
Fixed a bug that caused extra “Miss” floaters to display whenever an attack was dodged, evaded, or missed due to blind
Fixed a bug that made F1-F4 skills display the wrong amount of damage (too little if your weapon was better than common rarity)
Weapon skills that hide your weapon no longer hide your back item
Engineer turrets will now target whatever enemy was last hit by their owner whenever possible
Runes of lyssa now work properly on all elites
Fixed a bug where stuns would always round up their duration to the nearest second if you had extra stun duration from items or trait
All duration stacking boons(Aegis, Fury, protection, Regeneration, Retaliation, Swiftness, and Vigor) and conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times.
All player controlled minions. excluding Mesmer phantasm and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in a PvE map.
Dark Projectile Combo: The damage portion of the life siphon bolt now slightly scales off power.
Dark Whirl Combo: The damage portion of the life siphon bolt now slightly scales off power.
Made it a bit easier to retarget channeled skills (now if you try to recast them on a separate target, it will cancel your current instance of the skill and start casting it again on the other target)
Made it harder to accidentally waste your downed 2 skill when you get downed while trying to use your weapon 2 skill
Skills that buff allies in an aoe now prioritize party members

Looks like shadow trap and blinding powder will be nerfed. Good buff for venom share thieves.

No big changes this time around.

faaaaaaaaaaaaaart

Next Thief updates:

Immobilize to death.

Yeah, I really wished we got something like a sword speed increase or something that would make our pve a little more easy and viable.

This was already posted and locked, fyi.

Also, the nerf to Blinding Powder is actually a buff, giving it a blast finisher is great.

Sigil of paralyzation means much less than 2 seconds daze now on 30 trickery sleight of hand……

.15 second = no one ever using this i would think.

Funny thing is, today I was using blinding powder, and was wondering why it wasnt a blast finisher since it comes out rather forcefully

Incurafy.6329:

This was already posted and locked, fyi.

Also, the nerf to Blinding Powder is actually a buff, giving it a blast finisher is great.

And where are we gonna use it, anyway?

Asomal.6453:

Incurafy.6329:

This was already posted and locked, fyi.

Also, the nerf to Blinding Powder is actually a buff, giving it a blast finisher is great.

And where are we gonna use it, anyway?

With stacking blindness throw down a blinding powder in the middle of a shadow refuge to stack 2 stacks of blindness. If you are traited for causing blindness when going into stealth that’s 3 stacks of blind right there. Not to mention how great it would be in water fields if you are nearby someone who can cast one/steal from an ele.

or use it in the shortbow 4 skill for aoe weakness.

Stun breakers now break blowouts and launch as well

Took them kittening long enough. I always wondered why some classes got plain old stuns, and some got stun +.

Zacchary.6183:

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No nerfs is surprising turn of events, considering we’re thieves.

I like the fact immobilize stacks now. Makes one venom useful.

At first I thought it was “Black Powder” is now a blast finisher, which would have been kind of awesome if it comboed into it’s own field. But I guess that would have been pretty crazy…

Nothing major other than the addition of a blast finisher from what I see.

we wanted at least 450 range on the kitten venom share, why it’s so complicated to undertand ?
600 would be ideal, to be on par with the banner range (untraited)

the OMG the venom share is OP … well…. it is strenghtening the party, but YOU are weak alone, sacrificing at least 3 traits (one beeing grandmaster)
zerg warfare, they are anyway 500 / sq meter, so range is not an issue there, but in PVE partys….oh boy…
not even mentioning that you have to give up the 30 in CS to get the lol venom share

objects are still immune to conditions, so .give me 1 solid reason to take it
(hint: the Lotus Poison nerf made the venom share more crappy than it was already, and the 5max debuff stacks, make things even worse, you think adding 60 more range after all this nerfs will change my option from pure dps build ??? hell no)

let me give you an example:
All duration stacking boons(Aegis, Fury, protection, Regeneration, Retaliation, Swiftness, and Vigor) and conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times.

you activate “Spider Venom” via venom share, all 5 players are melee. The boss gets 5 stacks of poison, rest is wasted. (same as the other venoms)
1.either you guys are clueless how skills/traits/durations influence each other or 2.you want to heavly nerf a practically non-existant pve build

Okay, do I read this correctly:
*… conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times. *

This means that if you take something like http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sneak_Attack and combo it through a dark field, you could apply 5 stacks of blindness to someone?

Unless they cleanse it, that’s a heckuvalot more blind, and should significantly improve the small skirmish value of p/X?

Kincaidia.3192:

Okay, do I read this correctly:
*… conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times. *

This means that if you take something like http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sneak_Attack and combo it through a dark field, you could apply 5 stacks of blindness to someone?

Unless they cleanse it, that’s a heckuvalot more blind, and should significantly improve the small skirmish value of p/X?

The maximum stack of durations is 5 so you can only stack 5X2 seconds of poison for a maximum of 10 seconds.

Firstly im going to ask if this is real or troll. Secondly if this is true isnt regneeration aegis protection stacking horribly OP in some classes?

@Kincaidia.3192: 5 stacks of blindness =/= 5 miss atks. It is still one blind but with longer in Duration.

@Eodwen.2613: We can not say this is troll nor we can rule out that this is not true.
Secondly, I believe regneeration aegis protection are stacking more than 5 times, right now. So this is more like a nerf to those. I hope I am not far too off.

I think that is “general” part of these notes is really close to what it would be on release date, at least i’m very happy to believein that, but as for “balance” part, it seems very illogical to me and kind of foolish. Even though, it sill has it chance for life.

if i understood correctly then aegis will stacks 5 times which would mean 5 attacks will be blocked in the duration you have the buff minus the ones that their duration is up. If this is so the poison will be having added % heal reduced regeneration will have added healing in shorter interval and protection will have added % reduced dmg in shorter interval. Atleast regeneration stacks will be burst healing and stacking healing power might be OP. Maybe it puts pvp on a more strategical level using poison and weakness stacking to offset might stacking and healing stacking protection vs tags and aegis vs mindless aoe spamming. However i am worried about necro condition builds and engii boon builds being OP after patch in pvp.

evilapprentice.6379:

Zacchary.6183:

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No nerfs is surprising turn of events, considering we’re thieves.

Jesus saves. Everyone else, roll for damage.

Eodwen.2613:

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Duration stacking buffs only stacking 5 times probably works different. Aegis will still only block one attack (since it is duration stacking). The only difference is that you can’t stack the duration to infinity anymore (same for all other duration buffs).
Let’s say you’re applying 5x aegis with a duration of 2 seconds. That will give you a total duration of 10 seconds. It will still only block one attack.
With this patch you can’t stack another aegis on top of that until the first “stack” of aegis ran out of time.

Eodwen.2613:

if i understood correctly then aegis will stacks 5 times which would mean 5 attacks will be blocked in the duration you have the buff minus the ones that their duration is up. If this is so the poison will be having added % heal reduced regeneration will have added healing in shorter interval and protection will have added % reduced dmg in shorter interval. Atleast regeneration stacks will be burst healing and stacking healing power might be OP. Maybe it puts pvp on a more strategical level using poison and weakness stacking to offset might stacking and healing stacking protection vs tags and aegis vs mindless aoe spamming. However i am worried about necro condition builds and engii boon builds being OP after patch in pvp.

Boons like Aegis, Fury, Protection, Regeneration, Retaliation, Stability, Swiftness, Vigor stack in DURATION not INTENSITY. Same for conditions like Blind, Burning, Chilled, Crippled, Fear, Poison, Weakness and Immobilized.

/Edit: Got ninja’d

So they didnt change it to intensity tacking five times just nerfed durations tacking then? Thats kinda relieving.

TundraQualle.8204:

/Edit: Got ninja’d

By a Mesmer. Eat that, thieves

WyldKat.4712:

evilapprentice.6379:

Zacchary.6183:

Next Thief updates:

No nerfs is surprising turn of events, considering we’re thieves.

Jesus saves. Everyone else, roll for damage.

You rang for me? xD

Finally the fix the stealth bugs and make us a little (more) useful. About time too! =)