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Those are some great changes! Kinda like more grounded changes from my last post.
Anyway, receiving less damage from weakened foes has great synergy with deadly arts and sword auto attack and would allow thief to be bruiser it wasn’t for a long time. As for more conditions on weakened foes, how about burning? Someone already suggested burning weakness and it would help out with burst conditions pressure.
Also, why not both? 3 stack of burning for 5 seconds on 10 seconds cd with 15% damage reduction?
Animation update: All dodge animations are in the process of being iterated on. With that being said, in the next Beta weekend each custom dodge ability has had its animation replaced with what is called a ‘stub’, or a placeholder.
These stubs aren’t necessarily what the final animation will look like and may not even resemble the final product remotely (Huge disclaimer: Everything’s subject to change). However, we needed to replace the previously existing animations due to issues that couldn’t be resolved otherwise (i.e. Lag).
An idea, instead of custom animation for each dodge, why not use colors like blue with Unhindered Combatant with standard animations? Animations are subject to lag, colors maybe less so. Red for Lotus Training, blue for Unhindered Combatant and yellow/brown for Bounding Dodger.
That being said, animations for Daredevil are least of its problems.
Lets ignore few other mayor problems for a second and look at Daredevil from new player perspective. New player will have to invest incredible amount of time and hero points to unlock Daredevil potential, different dodge abilities unlike other elite specializations which get theirs simply by unlocking Minor Adept, in Daredevils case Enforcer Training.
Originally I wasn’t for this idea but as time passes and since we saw all elite professions idea grew on me. Moving dodges like shown in picture below (credits to Shalien.9018) and having that ability unlocked simply by unlocking Enforcer Training would fix few problems. Already mentioned new players having trouble unlocking it problem and Daredevil being underwhelming without real grand master traits problem.
If I may suggest new grand master traits I would go with,
1st 1 second of immunity to physical damage after dodge with having endure pain skill fact for 1 second on bar,
2nd 1 second of immunity to conditional damage after dodge with 1 second of resistance after dodge with having berserks stance skill fact on bar,
3rd 1 second of immunity to crowd control effects after dodge with getting 10 stack of stability for 1 second.
(We don’t need new art for endure pain/zerker stance, we are thieves, we steal. 
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Those maybe sound crazy but it would give thief something he horribly needs it this environment and everyone else has, sustain.
As for staff problem. Problem was with it being to slow, which seams to be worked on and on fact you couldn’t combo on it self to get into stealth. I know you wanna push for stealth-less weapon set, but that doesn’t work for thief in its current form. Even for s/d evade play-style you would still go in stealth with cloak and dagger for get bash on someone for 1.5 second daze and quick repositioning.
In short here is the problem, thief is stealth dependent even with evasion build/weapon and pure evasion weapon set doesn’t work well.
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While on subject of monkey king, I really wouldn’t mind having his outfit in gem store. His weapon skin too. Animation and skin assets are already there.
yes, because we have NO OTHER PROBLEMS with our class ^^
HEY! Baby steps now!
I like your ideas and have a few of mine. For venoms, on top of all yours, I only have one suggestion, Skelk Venom needs cd reduction to 25 sec. It is useless on 40 second.
Also I have idea how to make signet useful in pvp/wvw.
Signet of Malice could use Resistance just like warriors signet.
Assassin’s Signet imo needs some redoing. I would like to see him on 30 second cd with its active, your attacks are unblocable. Right now it’s just bad. You can use it kamikaze style and then what? Die? With it making your attacks unblocable it would give it a place vs block heavy classes like guard and engineer vs who we are already struggling.
Signet of Agility. Perfect.
Infiltrator’s Signet. Agreed. Passive should be 1 ini every 5 sec. 10 is bad.
Signet of Shadows. Honestly? 10 second cd with its current active is more than enough.
Now onto making signet build useful. Our signet trait Signets of Power is all around bad. Our signet build right now is pop signets, get 15 might, Cloak and Dagger, steal, backstab, try not to die…
I would like to see new aura called Blinding aura. It would last 2 seconds, pulsing 1 blind per second in its radius. You would get it by leaping dark field, instead what we have now, blind on strike. Blasting dark field would apply aoe Blinding aura, same as Chaos Armor.
Let’s be honest here, leaping, blasting dark field right now is almost pointless.
We have only 1 dark field on Shadow Refuge and we would get one more with your rebalanced of Devourer Venom. Getting one or 2 more on traps would be welcome change. In other words it’s not really spammable and would also bring new stuff to underplayed skills/specs.
Necros would also benefit with their Wells being dark fields, but they don’t have that many leap nor blast finishers.
How signets benefit from this new aura? Signets of Power would be changed to apply Blinding aura on activating signet.
All of sudden you stop being one trick pony and can sustain yourself in meele with signet build. Also there are aura runes for even more game play changes…
I know this is not thread about traits but I’m lazy to find it.
Shadow arts:
So while on subject of traits acrobatics is mess but one thing that always bugged me was Fleet Shadow. You trait in evasion trait line to move faster in stealth? While there is stealth trait line? Wut?
Proposed change, make it grant supers speed while in stealth and move it to grandmaster shadow arts instead of Cloaked in Shadow. You are fast and can reposition but lose sustain of Shadow’s Rejuvenation. Move fall dmg trait somewhere else and for blind on entering stealth part, give it to Cloak and Dagger instead of vulnerability since its uses mostly (90%) in off hand dagger builds, which are already underpowered. Easypeasy.
Also Shadow Protector should grant Regeneration and Protection. Gz you are useless in stealth here’s some protection since people can pull you out of it with random attack and negate your whole trait line.
Concealed Defeat, upon downed release blinding powder instead smoke screen since its only paints giant target. + reduce deception skills.
Last refuge, delete everything, use it as fall dmg trait.
Shadow’s Embrace, add burning, fear and taunt. Why was this even nerfed?? Like we had op condi removal to begin with.
Acrobatics :
Pain response: add torrent and confusion, make it 15 sec.
Guarded Initiation: without much fumbling around, remove health threshold and make it 2,3 sec Icd.
Swindler’s Equilibrium: add 1 initiative on successful evade too.
Assassin’s Reward: multiple healing by 2.5
Don’t Stop: Icd of 5 seconds instead of 10.
Upper Hand: merged with Swindler’s Equilibrium and replaced with Quick Pockets which refills your initiative bar. Seriously 3 ini on weapon switch for grandmaster is embracing.
Also, Trickster belongs to Acrobatics. Critical Strikes, Sundering Strikes 66% chance for 10 sec of vulnerability. Also critical strikes have few traits which only grant bonuses if your health is above 90%. That’s bad. We have low health pool and every fart can knock it down below 90. 50 is more reliable.
Deadly Arts:
Dagger Training and potent Poison are hilariously bad. Up everything I guess.
Trappers Respite: if trap would be dropped moment you start heal skill I would be so happy.
Improvisation: People are complaining about randomness of it. How about if last used skill category gets recharged? It might be op tho… 2 heals, full recharge on deception, then again elite spec are coming and reverent has 2 heals… I like it better than it being random al least this way you control what you want recharged.
About weapon skills, I really like you suggestions. Leap on Infiltrator’s Return caught me by surprise. I really like this solution.
I’m writing this on tablet so quoting, linking, copy pasting is crazy hard and I won’t do it
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1. make better report system and scan reports for keywords
(better report system is anyway needed)
2. make it priority for gm’s to check those reports and players, literally (10’s of) minutes
(this is hard but after few days after trolls get burned, active gm’s numbers could be reduced)
3. ban troll accounts and then try to find real accounts of same players and ban them too
(lots of dumb dumbs dont know nothing about ip structure)
4. post about it on forum so we can laugh too
lot of solutions i’m reading will just go against normal player behavior and there’s nothing worst than punishing normal players because few bads
(tho i like siege troll debuff
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/15 Videos plz.
Now, I haven’t been streaming a whole lot in the last couple of weeks that we were running this nonsense, but I do have one that made me laugh a lot.
http://www.twitch.tv/doyourbestbear/c/5079624
This video has everything: suspense, anger, joy, laughter. Watch, as none of us can play engi and Hman rages about how he can’t play the engi turret build. He swaps to ele at some point, but it doesn’t matter because he leaves every team fight as the battle gets underway. You can also tell he’s trying really hard because his accent comes out. Pay attention, because someone on the other team dies to chieftan and, no, Acandis was not in the game.
One of my favorite parts is me going to the team fight, dropping a crate to give them turrets, and walking away.
So what I’m seeing here, because of hman you won start to finish 4v5. That is some god tier comp right there
gold, man gold
