http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_spite
I’m gonna leave that here.
God, you must have a hard time finding either :
1) your F1 key
2) Flesh Wurm key
3) the Spectral Walk key
or even 4) the Spectral Walk return because you planned that the thief would teleport.
Also you are probably glass if you take that much damage while running away, which means you still have over 20k hp. Could be worse, and you deal 4-5k with your #1 Death Shroud so I fail to see how you can complain either way (condi or glass).
Basically, my understanding of your thread is : please make my class more op so I don’t have to get better to fight other strong classes. Funny.
EDIT : I dug a little and found this :
Yay for passive op gameplay, right :’D. I fear my suspicions are confirmed.
No, no you’re not. The skill lasts 1.5s, the stun lasts 0.5s.
Signet of spite does only work squishies like thief and mesmer who doesn’t have a lot of condi removal, and if they have lyssa still up they get rid of everything.
You don’t get it, stunbreaks don’t really help that much against pistolwhip. So you just used spectralwalk or armor, what the thief does is just run up to you and pistolwhip again, or if you got too far away (f.e flesh wurm) he has has 4 teleports, 3 of them which are instant casts and he can start casting the pistol whip even before the teleport. And if he uses Infiltrator’s Strike as an opener with basi, or even without your stunbreak doesn’t do anything. You are still immobilized for 1 second. And does stability help you? No, good thieves (don’t really know if there are any out there anymore, since everyone is just spamming that 3 brainlessly) wait for your stability and then use their steal to take it away.
Try to even hit 1 of those Death Shroud #1’s to that 3 spammer, if the cast time would be instant you might have a chance, but there is simply too many evasion frames. What can slightly help you is that instant fear on death shroud, since you can time it just when the pistol whip ends, or just before the evasion frames start. But you hit 1 fear, what then? If the thief is fast enough, he ports to you before you get the next fear with your staff and you are already stunned.
Even if the stun lasts only 0.5seconds, you will soon enough run out of endurance and stunbreaks, since he can simply cast that 3 100 times in a row if he wants. So you are stunned for the 0.5 seconds and you don’t have endurance, even if you had swiftness you won’t be able to get away from the pistolwhip soon enough, so it will most likely hit for almost the full damage. And that is if you don’t have the immobilize, in which case you will eat the whole pistolwhip.
What the problem with the pistolwhip is the evasion frames and the low initiative cost. They need to reduce the evasion frames and increase the initiative cost. I’m not saying take the whole evasion away, just reduce it. It’s simply ridiculous that the thief has 4 ports, 3 which are instant and 2 doesn’t even need aiming, and he can’t use them even while casting pistolwhip.
It is just so sad that the game is full of these people who simply run the lowest skill required builds just to beat other people in the game. You simply can’t really find a team without a warrior nowadays, which is just a broken class. Usually 2 warriors, sometimes even 3. Then there is spirit ranger, which requires you to only use autoattack on your shortbow and sometimes faceroll on your keyboard so your spirits use their skills. And now the pistolwhippers are beginning to show up. There are already quite a few found in team arena, which really makes me not want to play the game at all with the warriors included. But have you ever been in soloq lately? I did a few matches and it was just full of these thieves. I had one match, where the enemy team had 3 pistolwhip thieves, and our team had 1.
But then again I don’t know why I’m writing this post, since even if the Anet would read it, it would seriously take more than 6 months to fix these little things. I just don’t get what Anet is doing. How long has it been since the last “huge” PvP patch? It was December the 10th, when they introduced the new healing skills and brought a few, mostly useless class changes, and I’m sure they referred that patch being a huge PvP patch. So it has been almost 3 months since the last patch, and we won’t be seeing a new balance patch in at least 2 months (let’s be serious here). And when it comes does it fix anything the community wanted? Doubt it. Ohh how I would want to write about warriors as well, but I just cba.
