Well P/P feels like it can actually work very nicely with the Daredevil : big damage on interrupt trait + leap finisher on dodge (aka stealth on demand)
I think it’s more like the shader and utility textures used to render a player are setup differently between light, medium and heavy. And a player is probably rendered as a single operation.
Seriously, it really doesn’t matter. I’m perfectly happy with getting a “weak” first minor trait in exchange to an awesome GM trait selection. There’s no need to compare each elite spec minor trait by minor trait. Look at the big picture.
This isn’t the pre specialisation remake patch. It doesn’t matter if a group of traits is GM or Adept really since you always get them all when you equip the trait line.
but other classes don’t give up a trait for it – they get it in their minor.
All the minor traits that apply to dodge either get a very small benefit or a rather long cooldown on it.
Compare for example the 2s swiftness on dodge thief can already get to the trait that replaces dodge with dash that gives you 8s swiftness and cures chill/cripple without cooldown.
And excuse me but, Leap finisher on dodge just plain rocks ! The only other trait in the game close to that power is the Engineer GM trait that makes the bombs they drop on dodge (with a 10s cooldown) count as blast finishers.
/P + leap finisher on dodge + 3 dodges + free dodge on steal. Think about it!
We could preview mix and match armor parts before. It caused the game sometimes to bug hard. It seems the way ANet made the different armor parts, they made them incompatible.
Moreover, dodge could be both a whirl and a leap finisher.
I don’t think it can. Look, there are 3 traits that say they replace dodge. Can’t you see it? I bet all three are on the same trait level and it’ll be your choice which kind of dodge you use.
Also, the whirl finisher projectiles might cause you reveal if the timing is wrong.
This is the same company that gave great swords to mesmers and necros. Giving thieves the staff seems totally reasonable compared to weapon choices for other classes.
One can even say it’s more reasonable than laser shooting greatsword or throwing hammers.
And the problem with the Design from Anet lies directly on the hand on first sight… They gave nothing the class, with that you become better to stand your ground and hold a point!!
Except for a lot more dodges, more endurance, more condition clear, more heals, more ways to refill endurance, a 8s cooldown stunbreak, a 8s cooldown channelled block and loads of control options.
Changes to the Healing, Utility and Elite Skills I’d do:
The Skirmisher receives not “Physicals”, he receives as Utility Skill Type “Initial Moves”, that are their own form of Physicals, which are based on martial artistic multi string skills all
What’s wrong with calling them “Physicals”? Is that a change for the sake of making a change?
Note that the elite will actually perma CC the target for the whole cast duration once the first attack lands, and this attack is rather quick. I don’t think it’ll be interrupted that often. It might miss though since the first CC seem to be only a daze :p
“The weapon is useless cause it does too much damage.” What ?
“The weapon has bad defense.” Yeah, it only includes one AoE blind skill. One AoE weakness. And one mini withdraw. Not to mention the possibilities of defensive Vault usage to get out of the way.
Can we please not make loads of long angry posts based on non tweaked damage coefficients on datamined not yeat announced skill tooltips?
Let me remind everyone of stuff that happens between BWE for example :
Rapid Swipe: Increased the damage by 30%.
Forceful Bash: Increased the damage by 36%.
Rejuvenating Assault: Increased the healing-power scaling by 50%.
Punishing Sweep: Increased the damage by 33%.
Debilitating Slam: Increased the damage by 100%.
Renewing Wave: Increased the healing-power scaling by 30%.
Surge of the Mists: Increased the damage by 11%.
Kind of funny that medium armor class that have more evade than other classes can’t stay alive couple sec without stealth. I think that this is just normal thief players learn to dodge issue.
Well the truth is that the thief doesn’t in any way have more evades than other classes since the Accrobatics nerf.
Pretty sure our “class mecanic” is actually the fact we can replace dodge with something else. It’s not done in the minor trait though because we need to chose which new dodge we take.
That was a question I had as well. Both my partner and myself wore pantsuits at our wedding and there was never any question of doing otherwise. With marriage equality being the law of the land where anet exists (and a few other countries as well) you would think they would assume there just MIGHT be some same sex weddings.
Is there some unwritten law that says all marriage ceremonies need someone in a tuxedo and another wearing a wedding dress? :p
Still. Makes the thief and ranger specializations feel less, well, special.
News at six : the two specialisations of the Thief and the Ranger that we objectively still don’t know about their talents, utilities, weapon skills, traits and new mechanics are less special cause their new weapon can use the same 3D model!
Or not really. At the minimum, wait for the Druid reveal please.
Just because you suggested it, Nike, doesn’t mean there aren’t flaws to it. You have yet to provide a good reason for the Weapons to be locked behind a Spec.
Weapons don’t need Elites and Utilities added to go with them. They do not need a new Specialization to use them. That is something else entirely.
And, yes, you were trying to prove something. I said that Anet has never even hinted at letting a single class use the same weapon, with two totally different sets of weapon skills. You claimed that it was said and the directed us to that CDI (where it still wasn’t said by Anet).
Well why would a weapon be unlocked but not utilities? Weapons are basically skills you equip.
I see no reason why elite utilities and weapons should be treated differently : either all alaways available or all locked behind the elite spec.
Also the reason was given : ANet doesn’t want to have to do exponentially more work to balance each new elite spec in the chance that someone will want a 3 elite spec build. And this is the same for the weapons.
Extremely feminine gear that can not be worn by male characters and vice versa. Most of the gear styles of today’s games spring from rather outdated ideals of how women and men should look and what they should wear. More important, the fact that it suggests that a man that wants to wear women clothing can not do so, and the other way around.
Oh do you think dress models grow on trees? Do you think any company such as ANet that has to make money would be like :
“Manager: Very nice dress you just modeled Jack. It’s very cute and will surely get lots of sales! Now get on to reskin and make that fit on a man. We need you to spend days basically staring at a burly man in a cute frilly dress for that one sale we’ll miss from Ovalkvadratcylinder if that version isn’t available”
Nope, this won’t happen. There just isn’t the demand to justify the work of basically doing two versions of all outfits/armors just for that.
While I disagree with you and others have pointed out why, I can give you another reason.
The range of weapons available to some classes (and the restriction of weapons available to others) is a part of class balance. If they were to add more and more weapons to all classes, the ones with the larger starting pool of weapons would soon run out of new weapons to gain, and then slowly lose that advantage as the other classes catch up to them. (And the more limited classes would slowly lose that disadvantage.)
By limiting the new weapons to being tied to an elite spec, they avoid this problem while still being able to bring new weapons to all of the classes. Engineers will never have all the weapons at once, they’ll have their current three picks plus one from the elite. The “plus one” can change, but they’ll never be on par with warriors or thieves.
Anet has stated that they’re working towards making sure all classes can use all weapons. Therefore, this reason is as flawed as your first. And, unlike Nike, I’ll actually give a direct source.
“What’s more is that the team is also working very kitten finding a way to make it so that every profession has access to every weapon and their own weapon skills for those previously locked weapons.”
That quote is actually from Anet and not some random player making suggestions on the forum.
But this quote is BS anyway. By the time the Engineer has all the weapons, the warrior will have had nearly twice the full weapon set in elite specs.
It is highly likely that sooner or later the warrior will receive an elite spec that actually changes the skills of an already existing weapon of his instead of adding a new one. Just cause that class is very close to have all the weapons in the first place.
It’s not about the damage a staff can do, it’s about the notion of a Thief with a staff. Why not give him an elephant companion. That should fit the role of a thief just as good as a staff.
Baseless assumption. I’m sure thief will be fine with a staff as a melee weapon. For sure it’ll be much better than an Hammer or Greatsword as our 2H melee. Now those are weapons that do not fit the thief role at all.
