It’s not a bug.
Nevermore now summons ghostly ravens on crit (just like the sharks with the legendary spear – don’t make me spell its name 
).
It’s funny because I was just about to post about it in the feedback thread. People had been complaining about the lack of special effects with the new legendaries (starting with Nevermore), including, but not limited to, the short ghostly trail left behind when running. I, among others, had objected that was the very reason I had crafted this weapon (I find most of the other legendaries too flashy). IMHO, Anet has found the perfect middle ground between the particles-lovers and the particles-haters: they’ve added something for the eyes, but not too flashy as the 1st gen footpaths.
Now, of course, if you play as I do a DD with 90% crit chance and easy access to quickness, that’s A LOT of ravens, but it’s nothing compared to some of the 1st gen legendaries effects.
PS: while we’re talking about undocumented changes: is the fractal 3-like piranha effect new when you make a target bleed (not sure if that’s the reason) with the legendary spear? I don’t use it that often, and it’s the first time I notice.
This is a bigger issue in pvp modes. I die several times a day to invalid path sw2, infArrow, shadow return, obstructed steal or no line of sight shadow step etc…
Well I also kill several people a day, because they think I will get the error message if I try to steal (in my case) them where they are (hello rangers at refuge in WvW).
Thieves: very enjoyable and satisfying in pvp, you will suffer hell in pve. Perfect if you want to pvp. Very high single target dps, requires brain input.
They have one of the highest DPS in PVE (and possibly the highest against moving targets).
That being said, don’t try to go full zerk unless you’re a super pro player: use marauder armour instead (if you’ve specced in CS, it’s just a 4% DPS loss). The lack of AoE till you can use a staff can be a bit annoying against trash mobs, but Dagger / x and Pistol / Pistol can be pretty cool, even when leveling. And if you still have trouble surviving, you can take life stealing skills / trait / food (Signet of Malice / Invigorating Precision / Omnomberry Ghosts) that will pretty much provide all the healing you may ever need.
But as said earlier, everyone has a playstyle that suits him best. In my case, I find every class but thieves boring (except maybe elementalists and mesmers, despite the very low DPS in PvE).
anet removing good things
will this help the game??This will help WvW but will hurt all the PvE players who used WvW for quick crafting so we could return to PvE in the same place we left it.
Exactly……WVW is for WVW players, not a “quick crafting” stop for PVE players.
So basically, not having the 2 or 3 players we used to see around the crafting stations is gonna fix the queue issue? How exactly?
Purchasable DLC would go against a core design of their business model, B2P. Buy once, own forever (unless you are a jerk and get yourself banned, of course). There was plenty of furor over their even daring to make a paid expansion, and a super long thread of people complaining that “I bought this game three years ago so I shouldn’t have to pay for the expansion.”
Well… There are also many players coming from GW1 who loved the business model (extension / campaign based) and who have really mixed feelings (to be polite) about the gemstore… And in the meantime, the forum is swarmed with people begging for more items to buy for real money who would refuse to pay $30 for an expac (at least that’s what they say, because we all know they will buy the next one).
The bottom line is… You can’t please everyone. And I’m not sure trying to find some sort of middle ground as Anet does can work. At the end of the day, it’s their choice, not mine or anyone’s on the forum.
Maybe you’re just trying too hard…
I mean… You know, it’s like the last time I was showing someone how to Withdraw forward (by turning the camera backwards – I don’t use extra shortkeys): I’m so used to that trick my fingers move on their own and I perform it without thinking about it. But that time, I was trying to do it knowingly, and failed repetitively (that was pathetic).
Well karma will hit you back if you send salty PMs anyways. The last 2 guys I had really trouble with both sent me angry PMs at some point (the fights were unusually long, and they did reset them several times), and both died 10 sec later. Go figure.
My engineer is useless now, 100% useless in pvp and wvw. Why is this ok?
Because it’s YOUR engineer.
Ah, that must be it, thanks for clarifying.
We’re talking about DPS, not just Power
Right, which is why I used “effective power” which takes into account crit (try changing the crit values in the effective power calculator I linked). Since damage is based linearly on effective power, a percentage increase/decrease in effective power equates to the same percentage change in DPS.
Don’t misunderstand me though, I’d love to be proved wrong
OK, my bad.
I guess the difference in therms of DPS then comes from your build, and from how many Marauder pieces you were talking about (I wasn’t counting the trinkets).
I’ve done the same with another build similar to what I run, and here are the results:
Build:
4921 vs 4737 = + 3.8% in therms of DPS.
I wasn’t expecting to post such a topic one since I’m doing pretty well against every other classes (or at least I know my and their weaknesses) and because rangers are generally really bad in WvW and often mean “free kill”, but I came across 2 specific guys last few days I could hardly handle.
I play a Bound dodger Staff / double Pistols thief. The 2 guys had one thing in common: I could have ignored them – they wouldn’t have been able to kill me. Unfortunately, I couldn’t let them cap all our camps either, and since the BL update, the level on our server (and probably every server) has dropped drastically so I had to do the job myself (most of the players rather follow the zerg).
Guy 1: trap ranger wit trapper runes. His traps were easily avoided, and really, he couldn’t kill me. But I couldn’t kill him either. Too much stealth (yea, I know… it’s coming from a thief…), and a bunker build.
Guy 2: power longbow build with traps. That guy was different. He was pretty good. Going melee was hard due to the traps, and LB #3 + timed dodges made him almost impossible to kill. Since I couldn’t let him raid our camps, I decided to go P/P and hassle him, and the fight lasted 10 mins or so. He knew how to dodge my telegraphed attacks (Unload, Vault), so I had to outsmart him at some point and fake attacks till I could finally hit him with Basilisk Venom and finish him (I’m skipping the part where he sent me rude / racist PMs right before that). Still, that was probably the longest fight I’ve ever had, and I can’t help but thinking I could have made it easier.
Any advices from fellow thieves? How do you deal with that kind of guys? I have no issue with stealth classes in general and win the majority of my fights against other thieves (D/D or D/P). But stealth + long range + bunkerish build (at least for the 1st guy) – I’m not sure how to handle it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the AP system is working as intended.
If we agree that AP should reflect what you have achieved, then dailies should have never counted in the first place.
You’re right about the retired achievements, but how many AP would that be (honest question)? Can it even compare to the 15k (almost 5 years) from the dailies?
But really, I’m not trying to argue as I also believe the system is flawed to begin with. I just think none of the “fixes” I could imagine (remove the cap / take away the AP from the dailies / whatever) would do more good than bad.
Check Aether, and we’ll talk…
The sad thing is yes, people are very ignorant of how the thief is to be played (hence why we still get rage pm’s for ganking and running out of fights) but we can’t really change that view. What we CAN do is limit the powercreep from HoT by nerfing everything from it that is overperforming. But even if all that is done people will still complain about thief because #blamethethief is still a thing.
Ragers gonna rage… I run a Bound Staff / Double Pistol build (so stealth is really costly and I can hardly reset fights without Dash / SB) and I also get angry PM sometimes… The average level in WvW has sunk since the last updates (alpine BL and server merges) and half of the people don’t even know how to counter Vault (dudes, just move!) or Unload (sic). But they sure know how to complain about it.