The cooldowns are on the thief abilities because thieves can easily and often do specc into precision giving them 60%+ crit chance. The cooldowns exist because thieves SYNERGIZE better with on crit effects.
First of, thats just not true. How do you get to the conclusion that other classes have a harder time getting crit chance?
Every class can trait for precision and get Berserker Gear. I really don’t get your point how Thieves have easier access.
And as we see, with the Thief having so few crit traits, and the few ones even having cooldowns, Thief is probably the class with the least synergy with crits.
Besides that, since when is synergy in a Profession a bad thing?
Daggers have a higher attack rate than Sword. Cooldowns on the crit procs seem like an attempt to balance the two weapons.
Also this has an effect on Pistol Whip and Unload.
This makes totally sense.. when we compare Pistol Whip and Unload with Hundred Blades then.. wait wut!?
And now don’t tell me it’s because of the Initative system.
Spamming abilities on a Thief is already extremely uneffective since it’s so easy to avoid.
One dodge and a spamming Thief has blown his whole Initative into the air, and all his abilities go on global Cool Down.
No offense, no defense, no escape.
There’s no need to “balance” that further by crippling the whole profession with cool downs everywhere.
Whats the point then of the Initative system? Just give the Thief Cool Downs directly then, seriously.
Make him just another “roll your head over the numbers one to five” class, no thinking needed, no complains given.
I’m sick of the Thief being crippled by every feature he has.
First the features make him actually harder to play or involving more thinking, and then other things are also tuned down to “prevent a exploitation” of the feature by spamming certain abilities (even tho the exploitation is less effective than playing right), which also effects people playing the Thief how he is supposed to be played – doing the right (most effective) thing, in the right moment.
And then, after all that, the idiots still cry that Thieves are to strong, just because stealthy glass cannons are pubstompers – provoking further nerfs.
Just give us Cool Downs, and buff our Traits to be on par with other Professions.
Further,
Remove “Pistol Whip” from the game, and reintroduce it as “Fifty Blades”.
Rename “Backstab” to “Surprise Tickle”, which gives the Enemy the Fury boon.
And last but not least, add an 3 second self Daze after casting “Leaping Death Blossom”, in which it plays a animation of the Thief puking all over the place.
//Edit:
I’m not exactly with the OP here.
You can’t compare stuff directly between classes, and it’s not about “fairness”, it’s about balance – and that is a greater picture.
But fact is, over all, the Thief is so incredible lackluster in playstyles and roles, it’s not even funny.
We have (had) 2 viable, even a little bit to strong specs, thats it.
One was already killed, not balanced, killed.
Now only the gimmick backstabber is left (and maybe the LDB spammer, but come on, that con Thieves are a joke against people who can press dodge).
Thieves don’t all play backstabber because it’s OP, they play it because it’s the only thing on par with other professions, but they love the Theme and core playstyle of the profession to much to change it, or got already to invested in their character.
//To clarify, not backstab is to strong, but all the amplyfiers for it combined are. Don’t again cripple all the Thieves playing normally by nerfing or changing the fine core skill (this time backstab, last time pistol whip), just because some people exploit it by sacrificing everything to get every single amplifier for it (in the latest case for one stupid hit every 45 – 60 seconds)//
Thieves are subpar, get it finally, and watch the whole picture, without all the bias of getting gibbed by one of these builds, just because it’s used by everybody since it’s everything they have.
And here i have to agree with the OP. Some of these cases are compareable, and they are ridiculous, even more so, with the whole balance picture in mind.
I’m sick of every profession having access to tons of buffs and debuffs (mostly thru on crit), while Thieves get access to nothing while being the archetype of crit synergy, which is probably the reason Scootabuser.4915, among many others, thought Thieves would have a easier time getting crit related stats, and having synergy with it.
Truth is, Thieves have to sacrifice everything to get these crit stats, just like any other profession too. Just that Thieves don’t really have another choice (but gimmicky con builds). That compared with 11k base health and medium armor leaves a weak class.
With, or without stealth.
