Guild Wars 2

The minor traits in acrobatics went from very strong (borderline op) to complete and utter trash.

The adept level minor trait is unchanged and is as good as beforehand, useful in giving you extra swiftness to stick to your target. However the other minor impact the effectiveness of this trait, making it less useful as you have less dodges overall and thus less swiftness from this trait.

Feline grace was the reason to go in to acrobatics before patch, giving players free dodges and promoting spamming with little thought. I agree that it had to be changed but what anet did to this is taking a industrial chainsaw and dismembering it.

This trait with its 1 sec icd is heavily tailored to s/d, since it is the weapon set with the most spamable and reliable evade (also shortbow), but s/p d/d get the short end of the stick as their evade skills have a longer animation or a shorter evade time and are not meant to be spamed like flanking strike is.
(side note: you change a trait because it promotes evade spaming, but then tailor the new trait to a skill and make it so that now to get the most out of the new trait you evade spam via said skill?)
Also the vigor you get is so short that you barely notice its effects even tho you have improved vigor.

Endless stamina this trait does not make up for the feline grace massacre, or rather it would have if vigor did not get nerfed by 50% (with the new vigor and this trait you have a whooping 75% endurance regen with vigor on you).
So my suggestion to remedy this is make endless stamina increase vigor effectiveness by 200% (then vigor will increase endurance regeneration by 150%), BUT make it affect only vigor you give to yourself and not any you get from outside sources.

TLDR: lots of thief builds rely on evasion to stay alive and sustain themselves and the new versions of acrobatics minor traits with the vigor nerf just do not do much to help you with that, they need to bee looked at and adjusted.

Also english is not my native language so forgive any horid grammar mistakes

This is sad that they balanced entire trait line for one weapon set making it usless to others

Awaltir.5302:

This is sad that they balanced entire trait line for one weapon set making it usless to others

It feels that way to me, too, like they just want thieves to be d/d.

It’s like Arenanet is uninspired and the only MMO to employ only idiots for balance changes who don’t even care about their job, it’s just a paycheck to them.

Seriously, “Build Diversity”

lololol

What a joke. So much of a joke I might as well write about the kitten that was part of that joke. And not a cuddly cute and or sweet kitten. A really nasty flea ridden mangy kitten with diseases, just waiting to die that would hiss and scratch you when offering assistance.