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This MUST be fixed before 28/3

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Posted by: Junkpile.7439

Junkpile.7439

I don’t have any lag.

Low quality trolling since launch
Seafarer’s Rest EotM grinch

This MUST be fixed before 28/3

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Posted by: Ikaros.7812

Ikaros.7812

I don’t have any lag.

+1

I haven’t seen a hacker in months, either.

Banana And Cookies [BC]
all is vain

Can anyone really see through the clutter?

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Posted by: Aza.2105

Aza.2105

Hey Colin,

I would like to see Anet address the insane particle effects.

I can never anticipate when to dodge the statue of dwayna attacks because of this. You can barely make out the enemy model. Particle effects are nice and all, but in gw2 they are overly done. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this issue in any mmorpg I’ve played.

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Re: Pistol Whip

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Posted by: Marlafox.8715

Marlafox.8715

Dear Arena Net,

This community hates thieves. So in order to fix all problems with the thief class you need to remove off hand weapons. Reduce auto attack damage, reduce total initiative to four, make sure thieves have chill and weakness constantly applied to them, Give the thief only five trait points, remove all teleports from the class, Make sure the only utilities the class has access to are traps, remove all forms of healing, make sure thieves have a constant target over their head, and remove the short bow from the list of thief weapons. If you do all of this then the community might not hate thieves as much.

Pistol Whip has a wind up. The wind up is hard to see at a distance or if the thief is an asura (this is a whole different can of wurms). This why most thieves use teleport skills to land a pistol whip. The stun portion of this skill is block able so you can just walk away from the thief. The thief is not evading when casting the stun or in the last few swings of the “whip” portion of the skill. Clone death + necromancer pet death still goes through the evade frames. The damage pistol whip does is hardly greater than one auto attack chain. Hundred Blades does more damage and can be used more often per minute then pistol whip.

People say its cheesy and skill less. These people are probably playing PU phantasm mesmers, MM necros, Sprit rangers, Hambow warriors, or any other type of passive play style. They have forgotten how to react to active play. People also seem to forget that all thief weapons share the same resource pool. A thief with no initiative swapping from S/P to D/D will not be able to perform cloak and dagger right away unlike a warrior going from spamming his hammer skills to then spamming his longbow skills then five seconds later switching back to his hammer.

They want the evade frames gone; the stun gone, Initiative increased, and the damage reduce even further. Without the evade frames the thief will die if they use this skill. The community basically wants free kills. The stun makes sure half the damage from pistol whip lands unless in a few cases you get lucky with RNG quickness or pop haste. Some guy wanted the initiative increased to eight, as a thief you only get twelve or fifteen initiative. So in order to use pistol whip you lose out on first strikes and a large part of lead attacks traits. It also leaves the thief with only four or seven initiative. PvE wise the weapon set is now garbage if that were to happen. The stun can only hit one person. If that person isn’t you take a step back. If that person is you, you will actually have to use a survival utility to live! Group retaliation or just retaliation will still wreck a pistol whip thief.

Arena net I beg you lock this forum. Do not change anything with pistol whip YET. Release the March 18th patch. See if the community can actually learn to counter pistol whip before you decide to gut this weapon set. Go after passive play first. Your game has a fun active combat system. Don’t wreck it because people refuse how to learn to play.

Re: Pistol Whip

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Posted by: shadowspaul.6485

shadowspaul.6485

First of all hello everyone,

I see a lot of people responding in a quite 1 sided way i.e. go play ele… OP pw stuns… I however decided to look into this skill in a more general manner. I have all classes except ranger at 80 and i have actively played thief, necro and warrior in sPvP while playing all classes in WvW. my opinion on pistolwhip is the following:

Pistol whip is OP vs some classes whilst being Balanced versus other classes. This is due to the amounts of stun breakers and access to stability varying alot between the different classes.

Classes against which pw is OP: Elementalist, Ranger and Necro this is due to their lack of stun breakers/stability and in a eles case the high cooldowns on skills.

Classes against which pw is balanced: Thiefs, Engineers, Mesmers This is because all these classes have quite a few relocation skills or other counters like stability,blinds and confusion.

Classes against which pw is weak (depending on the enemies build though): Warrior and Guardian. This is for the simple reason of them having massive accesibility to stability and retaliation. Especially retaliation rips pw thiefs to shreds.

Pistol Whip is a reasonable skill, Yes it stuns and does reasonable damage but it also locks the thief in place, besides this it doesn’t matter if he evades when u have 999 conditions on him especially confusion will teach the spammers to l2p (winks to the idiotic condition meta in wvw roaming) besides all this the animation is realy easily spotted, once you dodge a thiefs pw he just wasted 5 initiatve. Do this twice and he will have to fall back to utilities to prevent you from ripping him to shreds. Keep in mind though that the damage from a warrior eviscerate or gc guardian gs spin isn’t low either so i think the damage is more then reasonable and so is the evade since both just named classes have way more defensive stats and abilities.

I understand why some people really hate pistolwhip because there are quite a few thiefs out there spamming it with a initiative regen build. All i can say to you is Yes i feel sorry that you have a lack of stability/stun breakers but: once you learn the basics of the thief class you will spot the easy ways to anticipate when what is coming and you will easily dodge and counter 99.9% of all thiefs. The last 0.1% are the actual really good thiefs which you will only beat if you are a pro yourself. Besides that these thiefs wont be pw spammers in the first place.

I hope you guys can put my feedback to a good use

Greetings Smelly Stuff,

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Re: Pistol Whip

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Posted by: Zirith.6429

Zirith.6429

PW is really easy to avoid and interrupt because of the extremely long (.5-.666s windup) people make the mistake of trying to keep their distance on pw when they should really be camping their shadowstep return points. This is a player skill issue, not a balance problem, good players dont eat full pw.

Sure you are going to eat a pistol whip if they land basi or use 2 into steal daze during the windup but other than that it is very easy to avoid, and if they do a 2 3 combo to immob then just rupt them and laugh as they are dazed and eat a full damage burst.

Re: Pistol Whip

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Posted by: Bazzoong.7145

Bazzoong.7145

I wish to add one thing: If it comes to initiative recovery the latest changes to the recovery mechanics actually have weakend PW. Due to the fact that passive regeneration has been increased but recovery of initiative by crits has been drastically reduced, before the change PW was essentially free of inititive cost if you would land 2 or more crits since with this by the time it was over you`d have all of your initiative back.

Crit builds like the builds relying on PW effectively have less initiative now, while non crit builds have more now, this was one of the best changes made to the thief proffession so far the 1st step away from being pidgeonholed into crit strikes traits which made initiative management a no brainer.

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Another lesbian relationship?

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Posted by: Kalavier.1097

Kalavier.1097

I fail to see how it’s being a drama show at all with Marjory/Kasmeer.

Hit for 6k x 2 with a heartseeker.

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Posted by: Black Teagan.9215

Black Teagan.9215

If you want to summary the thiefclass in one sentence: “Kill them immediately or they kill you.”

…Or you stealth and disengage more like it.

I play complete without stealth, also if it much harder

Caleb Ferendir
-Charr Thief-
It’s good to be bad!

Hit for 6k x 2 with a heartseeker.

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Posted by: Aridia.3042

Aridia.3042

You need to try this elementalist exploit.

Taimi mini for Christina

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Posted by: fadeaway.2807

fadeaway.2807

Can I suggest a mini taimi available to all with a portion of profits going to a multiple sclerosis related charity?

Ranger skill Barrage overpowered?

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Posted by: Seigfried.5938

Seigfried.5938

Whoa did I just hear the two words ranger and OP in the same sentence without the word not?

Gandara → SoS → BG → Gandara → SFR

New bunker meta sux

Add Raid on the Capricorn to soloq!

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Posted by: DanyK.3842

DanyK.3842

+1000
Underwater combat is so much fun.
Signed, bunker ranger… :P

Sir Dany | Twitch
110k WvW kills | Champion Legionnaire, Paragon |

[Thief] stolen "Whirling Axe" is OP

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Posted by: Master of Timespace.2548

Master of Timespace.2548

I love it when thieves think they are smarter than me and try to reflect my kill shot. Aww… so cute.

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help my girlfriend with her warrior

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Posted by: Eiland.1405

Eiland.1405

All is vain?
/15

Dry Leaves

RE: "Leaked" patch notes

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Posted by: Doggie.3184

Doggie.3184

Can we have the real leaked patch notes then? XD

| Fort Aspenwood (NA): Sylvari Daredevil Thief Main: All Classes 80. |
Please Remove/Fix Thief Trait: “Last Refuge.”
“Hard to Catch” is a Horrible and Useless Trait. Fixed 6/23/15. Praise Dwayna.

[Thief] stolen "Whirling Axe" is OP

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Posted by: Imagi.4561

Imagi.4561

Thieves hard-counter Warriors now? When did that patch happen?

#ELEtism
By Ogden’s hammer, what savings!

Condition Damage and Stealth

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Posted by: Auesis.7301

Auesis.7301

If you die to Choking Gas and Caltrops, you should perhaps play a different game.

I recommend this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty:_Roller_Rescue

Gnome Child [Gc]
Resident Thief

Those jerks...

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Posted by: Wrei Mors Les.8406

Wrei Mors Les.8406

I say we slay those chickens and sell the feathers..

Ah the good old GW1 days. Feather farming tengus outside old LA.

Evon Gnashblade - Hero of Lion's Arch

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Posted by: SoPP.7034

SoPP.7034

I STILL HAVE MY SUPPORT BADGES!

A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”

Evon Gnashblade - Hero of Lion's Arch

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Posted by: Syrpharon.7491

Syrpharon.7491

Kiel is bad. The only reason she’s got votes is for the bonuses devs decided to give with her.

Evon is the right Charr. And again, I would laugh my kitten off if a Charr takes command and rules over what was a major human city.

ALL HEIL EVON!

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Evon Gnashblade - Hero of Lion's Arch

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Posted by: Smooth Penguin.5294

Smooth Penguin.5294

I spotted him in the video running for his live so I’m not sure if he gets such a role

You mean running to save an innocent civilian? It is as expected of a hero like him, always thinking of the people first.

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Evon Gnashblade - Hero of Lion's Arch

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Posted by: Marax.4938

Marax.4938

I spotted him in the video running for his live so I’m not sure if he gets such a role

Evon Gnashblade - Hero of Lion's Arch

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Posted by: Smooth Penguin.5294

Smooth Penguin.5294

With the upcoming battle at Lion’s Arch, we’re going to need a true leader! Evon Gnashblade has proven to everyone that he’s the true hero of LA, and I predict he’ll be saving the city for a second time. Councilwoman Kiel on the other hand will probably just ask our hero characters to do all her work, allowing her to plot her next evil moves. That said, it’s time for #Team Gnashblade to take up arms.

Also, please be sure to stop by the Black Lion Trading Post to pick up some new hardware for yourself. Boxes of Chocolates and the new Harp are available now!

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Supcutie's Comprehensive PvP Shatter Guide!

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Posted by: Ugruk.4069

Ugruk.4069

Thanks man, this guide inspired me to roll a warrior.

Definition of Blob

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Posted by: goldenwing.8473

goldenwing.8473

Why not call it a

L arge
E ffective
G roup
O ffensively

They tend to snap together pretty easily.

And we could just have fun playing.

BG: 52 alts, 29 lvl 80’s. They all look good, so I am done with the game: Oct 2014

The New CDI Topics

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Posted by: Doodakoff.5246

Doodakoff.5246

There are far more important issues than what we liked about EOTM. This sort of stuff is why the WvW community feels that they are totally ignored.

EOTM is also very new. Give it more time before implementing stuff from there into actual WvW.

This.

The New CDI Topics

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Posted by: Tekyn.5376

Tekyn.5376

WvW: What aspects of Edge of The Mists do you think could carry over to the rest of WvW and how? – Owner- Devon Carver

Is this a joke?

With all due respect Chris please re-read the first CDI thread before starting a new one. There are already SO MANY good ideas on these forums that it’s shocking that you would ask the community to provide additional feedback before the design team responds to what’s already out there. The level of communication the WvW community receives from you guys is horrible. If you don’t like what the community is suggesting then tell us that, and tell us why. Share with us what your vision is for the future of WvW so that we know what issues are still up for debate and what’s already been decided. Not everyone will like the end result but at least you’ll get some genuine feedback.

The more you keep the wvw community in the dark the more we feel that WvW is dying and that you guys have no idea how to fix it.

Sincerely,

-Tekyn

“I feel like I’m getting trolled here. Good day sir.”
- John Smith, ArenaNet in-house economist

The New CDI Topics

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Posted by: Aberrant.6749

Aberrant.6749

There are far more important issues than what we liked about EOTM. This sort of stuff is why the WvW community feels that they are totally ignored.

EOTM is also very new. Give it more time before implementing stuff from there into actual WvW.

Tarnished Coast
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