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I was distracted, did they mention if Bound breaks stealth on hit when comboing? Or it will work like heartseeker? It looks great and the damage is solid, so I hope I can synergize it with my build.
It works the same as Heartseeker.
Wow a Dev Response in the Thief Forum! Keep it coming Karl, you just won the hearts of a lot of thieves!
Question my internet dropped for a second during the stream, did you mention when the CD for Disrupting Daggers starts?
Right after you activate the skill or after you consumed the last charge? (hope the latter as it would otherwise be a really bad mantra)
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ALSO for those who, like me, are seriously considering using this spec as main spec….
May I suggest this appetizer: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Evasion
What do you think? or is it too underwhelming?
I’m too obsessed with Traveler runes.
gottagofast
If you pick up Runes of Evasion+Dash dodge, you will get 11 seconds of swiftness on a dodge roll, plus Fury plus cripple an enemy every 10 seconds AND 175 Ferocity.
So that’s practically permanent swiftness if you’re using Thrill of the Crime.
You also have other swiftness rune options like Rune of the Pack and Centaur that increase your damage and also give you lots of swiftness. Save those Traveler runes for Necromancer or Mesmer, dude!
That’s a good a point. I would use Runes of Evasion to replace Impairing Daggers, in case i need to chase. Bound is too good to pass mate. especially WvW. The choices really compete against each other and they made good job.
I just wish, Escapist’s Absolution would change tiers or just simply be a minor.
Bound is good if you’re running off hand Pistol or Staff. I really don’t see it doing much for off hand dagger other than some nice dodge damage but it could potentially reveal you if you’re in stealth and you dodge to avoid an incoming hit. Plus you have to dodge into an enemy if you wanna hit them and you usually wanna evade away from an enemy.
That’s right. It could completely mess you up.
I think this right here will keep S/P from being as awesome as some people think it will be. Sure, you get stealth from offhand + dodge, but if you SR and then try to dodge a knockback, you’re likely to reveal yourself from the damage.
That’s also my concern, adding a CD on Bound won’t make it better though, don’t even think about it Anet!
Maybe what they could do is switch some effects between Bound and Dash, so that the leap-finisher-GM doesn’t deal dmg (better for /P specs) but I’m not quite sure how well balanced that would be or how many people would cry because they don’t see the possible upside of it.
Let’s see how it’s gonna work out in the BWE though, before that all is pure speculation.
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https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/meet-the-daredevil-thiefs-elite-specialization/
Looking at the notes for Daredevil, i can’t help but notice a pattern, it’s traits and utilities completely negate just about everything the reaper does. A utility which interrupts at range and increases the interrupted skill’s cooldown, perfect for insta-halting many necro and reaper attacks, heals and utilities. frequent dodges which include, essentially, immunity to chill. High damage AOE Leaps on weapons, perfect for swatting necros and reapers between slow attacks, especially with chill removal to get away afterwards, with the bonus of annihilating any minions in the process.
There are also descriptions of additional stuns mixed in with the lot, so they’ll be able to make sure that once they hit us (not hard with necro/reapers total lack of active defence), we absoutely cannot finish our slow attacks or chase after them.
Oh and the GM dodges have finishers built in. Because, why not salt the wound right?
Any thoughts? Does it look the all-in-one reaper shut-down machine to anyone other than me?
We have so much AoE even as base necro, and thieves are still squishy as heck, with the increased damage we’re getting, plus whatever other changes we are going to get between now and then, we should be fine.
Plus I know engi has a Similar trait and it has an ICD attached to it, so if this gets like a 5 second IcD I’m not really worried.
No ICD on the dodge-modifying traits for Daredevil.
Plus “remove a condition when you evade” (with a datamined 1 second ICD) on a spec that has, by design, a ton of evades. Necro’s won’t stand a chance.
The interrupt thing may actually see some use but Shadow Step, maybe Shadow Refuge, a Signet or the new 10s physical stun break are more likely… don’t forget about the trait that makes us deal 1.200 damage (no crit) after 2s when we interrupt someone though
Because of that, the condition removal on successful dodge may not be taken too often, also not the cripple/chill clear+20% range increase on dodge (as that competes with damage on dodge + leap finisher) so don’t worry too much about that…
Also, the staff seems more like a PvE/Zerg/Small Group fighting weapon, as things are looking now you shouldn’t see it too much on solo roamers (in the first few weeks maybe because everybody is gonna try it out)
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The mysterious 12th trait has been found – and I was right. It’s a 3rd type of dodge skill with power damage. Potential DPS increase for PvE use and just monstrous in general for anything else. This hits about as hard as a frontstab!
I’m wondering whether the damage happens before or after the blast… if it’s before the blast that could give S/P or P/P a new way to stealth, not stackable though if an opponent is near you…
It looks similar to a Greatsword Leap Finisher on a Guardian. So that would mean that you get the Combo from a Smoke Field but the stealth isnt applied until the animation is done…
So… YES! Sword+Pistol and Pistol+Pistol should have stealth access now
To all Daredevil naysayers… I have one thing to say…
Problem?
;D
No I meant whether the damage is applied after the blast finisher or before.
- after the blast finisher: gain stealth from dodging in Black Powder, then deal the damage and get revealed, yay!
- before the blast finisher: deal damage, then stealth when dodging in a smoke field
that could determine whether you could actually effectively stealth on S/P or P/P (at least with any kind of melee opponent)
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Also think that anet could use some of the traits/elites here as an idea, I doubt any of their debts now how to fix what thieves really lack
and your game, your rules man
would’ve done it without any offered reward as well, was fun to come up with some traits
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