Hmm, I called my friend crazy and that he was seeing things. Guess he wasn’t. Yeah. Fix this.
I thought I was crazy too when I constantly heard mesmer sounds stalking me everywhere across the BLs until I realized it was the sound the Bloodstone Skin weapons when you stow them…
Thanks WvW Team for this, hope we keep getting more updates like this in WvW.
Yes cause we want changes that the majority of players will immediately turn off and not use.
Signed on, saw it, slew vulgarities at my screen, salted at my guild leader on how to change it as soon as possible. Now, all’s right with the world again. Nameplates lasted a total of 20 seconds for me.
I want to know immediately the servers and ranks I come across. It’s not hard to guess what blobs are fighting either. Zergs are like a Venn Diagram, not a feeding frenzy. It’s one blob pushing into another blob with the overlaps in the middle. Takes 2 seconds to identify which server is which in a 3 way. Nameclutter? In a 40v95, I won’t be stopping to admire the reflections of the sparkling river, the splintered gate of the tower or the hem on the Mithril Invader’s skirt.
This being a toggleable option, I’m fine with that. But I wish more beneficial WvW updates would be worked on instead.
Thank you for bringing back to Thieves what you have taken from them recently. I appreciate either you hearing our voices and acting, or even if it was just a mistake and you corrected it yourselves. Either way, thank you for reverting the changes. You’ve made a lot of us much more happier than we were. I am grateful of your decision.
How many times have you accidentally used steal on a target that went into stealth almost at the same time.
Maybe 1 time for every 100times i used it for the buffs?
Yea it is not common but you know what should be even less common? needing to use steal ooc when you can run into an opponent at anytime, needing to use steal ooc when many other classes already do that and needing to use steal ooc if you run SB
steal w/o target had it uses with hidden thief combo when you needed to get away from being spiked w/o landing in massive aoe cluster spam on point
i used steal ooc a lot for decapping, now it is worthless as well
Is that the reason why people are complaining? there are 101 ways to get out of that situation without needing to waste steal.
101 ways? amuse me
Port? with the countless options you have on the class? Evade? steal from a distant target? since stealing on a spot to avoid AoE really doesnt help you unless you evade or port which defeats the purpose of wasting steal in the first place. The numerous stealth options?
Steal can heal ,do damage, rip boons, grant boons, recharge skills, stealth for backstab, daze, apply conditions, grant endurance and probably more i have missed, but you decide to give up all that just for stealth that doesnt block damage and that you can get in other ways?
You know what else steal does? Blocks a zerg taking you from 15k hp to 0 in 2 seconds. Go ahead and rip protection and every other boon in the game and daze that ONE guy of the zerg, divebombing yourself into that zerg. Hell, even heal yourself for 10k and gain 500% endurance and still get trampled to tell me it was more worth it than gaining stealth to simply flutter in another direction out of harm.
Wow Anet you truly don’t care about keeping your customers. I never thought bankruptcy could ever be a good thing. Never known a bunch of try-hards whose goal was to find more ways to destroy a game with every update to a game that was once considered “good”. Seriously, what “good” did you see in this change? The new skilless players that joined this game won’t blow their steal by accident? Thieves too slippery for zergs? Tell that to the revenant and it’s infinite evades. I have a fantastic idea Anet! How about you require autoattack to have a target too? This way, the noobs in stealth won’t cry to you when they get damaged in stealth. Or God forbid downed in stealth. “But I’m not supposed to be seen in stealth! How did he hit me? Boo hoo, help me Anet!” I expect an employment request by the end of the night because that idea is golden.
Completely agree with everyone complaining about the WvW experience nonsense. I saved over 700 of them thinking oh, they’ll be fine, I earned them. They won’t get taken away. Clearly, Anet can do whatever they want except change our ranks to what they should be. (I emailed them and was told to post on forums.) (Aka, shrugged off) I think it’s stupid that all that time I spent getting that experience was just taken away without even a proper warning. I’m sorry that I don’t read every forum post. They should send ingame mail for something like this. I could also do without the loot. It would just be nice to be a Gold instead of a Silver, showing the hard work I actually accomplished. Not playing everyday knowing that I was ripped off by the game’s own creators that don’t seem to care about player loyalty.
I’m done with this game if they don’t do something about the useless, pointless boosters I have sitting in my inventory waiting to be used to regain the same experience I had to begin with. I have 2 other close friends that would have bought the expansion with me, had I bought it. So that’s minus 3 HoT purchases. I hope Anet does well keeping thier current customers. And God forbid if they decide to make a new currency other than gold. Everyone will wake up to “Increased Anet Wampum From Kills” banners in their inventory one day without a single piece of copper in their wallet. Because that’s the logic I see used here.
Ahh, so specific condition duration and overall condition duration cannot exceed 100%. That explains it. I thought just the condition duration under the Hero menu was capped at 100%. Thank you very much!
Runes of tormenting adds a total of 45% increase in duration. The thief’s Skale Venom has a base duration of 5 seconds. I have a Condition Duration bonus of 80%. The 45% from the runes should give a 2.25 second boost. The 80% Condition Duration should give a 4 second boost. Together, the total boost on Torment should be 6.25 seconds or 6 seconds being generous. Add that to the Skale Venom skill of 5 seconds, the total duration should be at least 11. My applied Torment only lasts 9 seconds. I am aware the tooltip is unaffected by certain runes but when attacking a monster, the duration is still 9 seconds. I tested different scenarios, one being with the armor on with NO Condition Duration bonus from food (40% bonus) and then WITH the 40% bonus. Both times Torment’s duration from my skills were 9 seconds. I know Torment itself does not have a cap because using the #6 rune’s skill, my heal applied torment for over 9 seconds. Is there a cap on my skills or is my math wrong? : \
