Guild Wars 2

I stole this idea from WoW: cheat death used to be rather neat trait that would bring your HP to certain amount (say 10-25%) if you got hit by attack that otherwise would kill you. Ofc it had ICD.

I think, given the current meta and how Anet has 0 interest in changing anything (cough mesmers) that forces us into vamp runes in pvp, we really need that trait.

Right now it is run vamp runes in competitive pvp or just don’t pvp at all. I think it is wrong that we have to so heavily rely on one bonus from entire rune set that is actually not even so great for us. Besides i am sure it won’t take long and this rune will be nerfed since everyone runs it and we will probably just have to afk at spawn when it happens.
I also highgly doubt that Anet would nerf aspects of other classes that forced us into this rune set just so thief class didn’t have to rely on it.

Discuss.

Have you seen the Berserker notes? Warrior is going to get a trait that does almost exactly that, it might not even have an ICD if the tooltip screenshot is an indication.

The trait knocks the warrior out of the berserk mode though and drains all adrenaline I heard ANet say. So the ICD will be the time it’ll take the warrior to get back 30 adrenaline. And their F2 skill itself has like a 15s cooldown.

All that asside, it does feel very very short still. After all, their new elite gives them full adrenaline on a 20s cooldown.

roamzero.9486:

Have you seen the Berserker notes? Warrior is going to get a trait that does almost exactly that, it might not even have an ICD if the tooltip screenshot is an indication.

wait what?! how does warrior possibly warrant that?

Yeah Berserker has this trait man. I was always thinking about that too. traits to escape death. It is a lot more suitable for the Thief than the berserker in my opinion. but I guess the thrill of adrenaline could also help you completely negate pain.

They already have Endure Pain though.. That’s pretty solid death cheating mechanism to me.

OH WELL. We deal with things that’s what we do.

Kocoff.7582:

Yeah Berserker has this trait man. I was always thinking about that too. traits to escape death. It is a lot more suitable for the Thief than the berserker in my opinion. but I guess the thrill of adrenaline could also help you completely negate pain.

They already have Endure Pain though.. That’s pretty solid death cheating mechanism to me.

OH WELL. We deal with things that’s what we do.

endure pain and defiant stance, which not only negates damage but also turns it into healing (it’s pretty skill based though, the timing’s important)

Gray.9041:

Kocoff.7582:

Yeah Berserker has this trait man. I was always thinking about that too. traits to escape death. It is a lot more suitable for the Thief than the berserker in my opinion. but I guess the thrill of adrenaline could also help you completely negate pain.

They already have Endure Pain though.. That’s pretty solid death cheating mechanism to me.

OH WELL. We deal with things that’s what we do.

endure pain and defiant stance, which not only negates damage but also turns it into healing (it’s pretty skill based though, the timing’s important)

Endure Pain, Defy Pain, Defiant Stance/Resistance from Healing Signet, Berserker Stance, the new trait…
Yep, any one trick pony thief will cry, then add all the burning and voilà:
pulsing stab, no death if the warrior pays a little attention, high toughness and high burning uptime on a condi berserker