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People are looking at it from a 1v1 perspective. When from the looks of it, the Deadeye is intended to abuse his range and damage advantage. But a number of classes have a number of abilities to close that gap and smash your face in.
But the counter argument is this.
Deadeye: This battle has been decided from the get-go! HIGH GROUND!
Fortunately, Thief is being given another mobility skill that is basically a shadow step and a condition placer. I have a feeling that Viper would be the go to combined with Shadow Arts to keep people from running away or dodging when you line up the kill shot.
I think the reason people are looking at it from a 1v1 perspective (and the reason I am) is because of deadeye’s mark. It’s very single target.
So sniper’s cover takes 0.5 seconds to cast. afterwords you can immediately cast an ability.
Sniper’s cover + Death’s judgement take a total of 1.25 seconds to cast, and I believe cover + any other rifle skill will never take longer than that. Further consider that you can still dodge in sniper’s cover, and chances are any damage you took because you didn’t/couldn’t dodge you probably would have received anyway, sure, you aint running away with cover, but it’s not designed for that part of combat, and thief has plenty of tools for that. Lastly, rifle four when you’re not kneeling is a shadowstep retreat which get’s distance in order to set up for kneel.
All of this is first impressions, but I’m it’s my opinion that the weapon won’t be garbage.
Seems like a really cool concept. Thieves are kind of like ninjas, so it makes sense.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infuse_Light
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defiant_Stance
I should remind you that defiant stance isn’t even meta on warriors, healing signet is much more used.
And yes I get, revs can have infuse light and another heal skill, but even if that is op, it’s related to the class in general, not infuse light specifically.