Guild Wars 2

I use a variation of this venomblind build I made a while back.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-c;4Vwkc0X53PFd0;9;4T-T-937B;145B;14;1N0;38aNX8aNXc-kvN616;3WV_WeXj2qZv41sVG-1T;9;9;9;9;9;9;14k3R

(I cant seem to edit it to add the changes)

Main thing is I use runes of svanir along with last refuge, this makes me stealth and invuln for 4 – 5 secs when I go under 20% health. I use full soldiers and run alongside our frontliners right in the thick of it, rotating 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1 with an AOE 5 person blind every 3 seconds + 3 second single target daze.

Usually the last man standing tbh. -condi duration food means I dont really need shadows embrace too. Also steal a nice 20ish seconds of prot from the first guardian I see. Not to mention the venoms are great to spread among the frontliners, and the damage aint half bad, 1kish on most, 2 – 3k a swing on glasscannons. Pretty bad for solo roaming though.

Edit: Btw if you find yourself with 15 stacks of bleed just hit infiltrators strike to remove.

Seth.4927:

Been using S/D for a long time now and I can say it just got a lot better! What was already an excellent weapon set for PvP/WvW just got even better.
Nothing like getting an Elementalist and stealing his 40 sec+ Regeneration or stealing from a Warrior just as he uses his signet!

On the topic of skins, I am trying to use a Fiery Sword+Incinerator for all the fiery fun :p

Already there Finally picked up my incinerator just as the reveal nerf hit, I’m literally over the moon that they reverted it Forum power!

<—- S/D fanatic since ~October ^^

Would make me sad to lose my last refuge/svanir rune combo, can’t count the amount of times it has saved me

This is my first post on these forums ever. Infact, it is the first time I have logged into them but I feel it is now necessary to voice opinion.

This nerf is so short sited. In the recent state of game you mentioned revealed regardless of attacking, this would have been fine. It seems like you came up with a last minute change without thinking it through.

Anet, PLEASE revert the revealed change and THINK about what this will do to the class. I have spent months saving for my appearance based around my sword dagger build, I spent £40 buying your GW1 and 4 days to get hall of monuments fiery dragon sword, I’ve just now finished my t3 cultural set AND tomorrow when I finish my world completion will have incinerator, all this work is ripped in half because of a short sighted nerf.

I wouldn’t mind it if the sword dagger set had ANYTHING to compensate for this. You nerfed dancing dagger, ok no problem it was kinda OP especially on pet classes. Flanking strike has been broken since the beginning and with one stone you killed cloak and dagger and my main source of damage (auto attack).

As it worked, auto attack has stealth attack + three strikes – the final being the main damage dealer. This timed perfectly with revealed, allowing me to chain 5/1/1/1/1/5/1/1/1/1.

With this nerf, I have an extra second of time where I have NOTHING I can do. Flanking strike is worthless, Infiltrators does nothing, dancing dagger is poor. The only thing I can do is first auto attack (which is bad damage) until revealed is up and I can cloak and dagger.

You have ripped this game from under my feet – I was having so much fun, I have found my non-cookie-cutter-glasscanon-hs spam build and built my appearance up from this.

To top it off you add WVW progression and then destroy it for me by making me want to stop playing my class.

And to the people who play other classes and don’t use this skill, DO NOT REPLY. You cannot understand how this has messed things up unless you actually play the class, this is ridiculous. I have tested this for the past hour or two and tried altering my build but it is dead.

Thanks for Reading, if you did. I would be more than happy to talk to a dev and walk through my build/playstyle and why I think this should be reverted if you would like.