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Fun duels, but What will thievs do IF pi gets gutted? Seems that nearly all d/p thives do no is keep range and head shot.

good job, but thats no thief its daredevil. try thief.

Cake vids are usually interesting. This one is seriously boring. Thiefs have interesting gameplay vids.

Also, 50% of video is just backpedalling.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Fun duels, but What will thievs do IF pi gets gutted? Seems that nearly all d/p thives do no is keep range and head shot.

Unfortunately, yeah, that seems to be the playstyle now. Don’t get me wrong, good skills shown by both players here, it’s just not amazingly interesting to watch someone stay at range and pepper headshots and stolen items, especially when I don’t think I saw a single backstab attempt (correct me if I’m wrong there).

I mean, I play for interrupts as well, but I play S/P so it’s kinda my build concept, not just something I can do as well as my usual stuff. Makes me wonder if it would be so even if rev had a heal skill that’s viable vs thief on it’s meta build.

Jugglemonkey.8741:

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Fun duels, but What will thievs do IF pi gets gutted? Seems that nearly all d/p thives do no is keep range and head shot.

Makes me wonder if it would be so even if rev had a heal skill that’s viable vs thief on it’s meta build.

That is the big thing, thief can kite other full melee builds such as various warrior builds even more easily than rev and pepper them with head shots. However they won’t be able to out dps healing signet with such a strategy. So they need to play more aggressively if they wish to get a kill instead of this super boring passive play style. The extreme strength of essence sap exacerbates this further dealing a ton of ranged damage with minimal telegraph.

If hammer was a competent weapon things would make a bit more sense

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Fun duels, but What will thievs do IF pi gets gutted? Seems that nearly all d/p thives do no is keep range and head shot.

Still wipe the floor with Revs., Probably. I don’t use PI and the only time I ever lose to a rev is when all escapes are down and I miss a dodge and get hit by staff5

So yes i use headshot a lot and also i tried to keep distance up. And i did not one backstab during this duels.

If you go full agressiv, melee range, and the rev land one sword 2 and legendswap, 70% of your life is gone. And you cant outdamage him with your AA’s because of Protection and 10% dmg reduc from buffood.
So he will take 43% less dmg. Dont forget he have easy access to quickness and can cleave you with Sword AA.
The point with backstab, if i dont have fury or critluck i wont hit him hard, bc no crit and 43% dmg reduc.

Painkiller.4361:

So yes i use headshot a lot and also i tried to keep distance up. And i did not one backstab during this duels.

If you go full agressiv, melee range, and the rev land one sword 2 and legendswap, 70% of your life is gone. And you cant outdamage him with your AA’s because of Protection and 10% dmg reduc from buffood.
So he will take 43% less dmg. Dont forget he have easy access to quickness and can cleave you with Sword AA.
The point with backstab, if i dont have fury or critluck i wont hit him hard, bc no crit and 43% dmg reduc.

Well this just answered our question of whether or not if you were a good thief. Thief hard counters the hell out of revs. With or without PI…

Anyways I didn’t watch the video at all. Kind of knew it would be bad. And the comments just confirmed it. Apparently you just backpedal and headshot. If I were the rev and you just spammed headshot, I would have just stood there and gone “Ok, cool story bro”.