AsiraasiB.7165

Wouldn't increasing everyone's hit points solve half of the condi and power problems

I don't understand... Nerf after nerf after nerf after a buff nerf after nerf.. Anywho here's a list I tried to make, im sure I missed many...

September 2012:

• Heartseeker: Reduced damage of the 100%-50% threshold by 20%. Damage thresholds changed. Old: 100%-66%, 66%-33%, 33%-0%. New: 100%-50%, 50%-25%, 25%-0%.

• Descent of Shadows: This trait’s effect can now only trigger once every 8 seconds.

October 2012:

• Pistol Whip: Reduced damage by 15%.

• Assassin’s Signet: This skill has been updated to grant 15% damage for 5 attacks rather than 50% damage for one attack.

• Whirling Axe: This skill has had evasion removed from the ability and has a missile-reflection effect applied to the whirl effect.

November 2012:

• Dancing Dagger: This skill’s damage has been reduced by 50%.

• Cluster Shot: This skill’s damage is reduced by 15% in PvP.

• Cloak and Dagger: This skill’s damage has been reduced by 33% in PvP only.

December 2012:

• Fear (Stolen item— Skull): This skill now works like the warrior skill “Fear Me.” It will now actually hit its range, but also have a falloff on fear duration based on distance.

• Instinctual Response: Now triggers at 10% damage instead of 20%.(Can be either nerf or buff)

• Piercing Shot: This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.

January 2013:

• Leeching Venoms: This trait no longer affects gadgets.

• Smoke Screen: This skill’s blinding pulse no longer follows the thief.

March 2013:

• Caltrops: Reduced duration from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. Now indicates its radius.

• Basilisk Venom skill: No longer immobilizes targets in addition to stunning them.

April 2013:

• Mug trait: Can no longer critically hit. Now heals the thief from a range of 1980 health to 2700 health. (Buff or nerf depending on wether you think healing makes up for no crits)

• Smoke Screen skill: No longer destroys unblockable missiles.

• Trick Shot skill: First arrow is no longer heat-seeking.

May 2013:

• Black Powder skill: No longer fires its projectile backward while moving. The field can still be generated.

• Shadow Return skill: No longer has infinite range.

June 2013:

• Cluster Bomb: Decreased the range set from 1200 to 900.

• Larcenous Strike: Increased the initiative cost to 2.

• Nine Tailed Strike: Increased the initiative cost from 3 to 5.

• Shadow Assault: Increased the initiative cost from 5 to 7.

• Shadow Return (Infiltrator Strike Toggle): This skill is no longer a stun breaker.

July 2013:

• Shadow Trap: This skill now has a maximum duration of 120 seconds.

October 2013:

• Destroy Shadow Trap: This skill now has a 1.5-second cast time. It plays an effect on the thief and on the trap location when it is being cast. Added 5 seconds of regeneration.

• Larcenous Strike: This skill now steals only 1 boon.

• Basilisk Venom: Petrify is now removed on stun break.

December 2013:

• Shadow Return on Sword. Renamed to Infiltrator’s return. Added a 1/4s cast time.

• Critical Strikes 15 – Opportunist. Increased trigger chance to 50%. Increase cooldown from 1s to 5s.

• Critical Strikes VIII – Signet Use. Reduced initiative gain from 2 to 1.

• Shadow Arts V – Infusion of Shadow – This trait functionality has been changed to “Gain initiative when you enter stealth.” 2 init.

• Acrobatics III – Vigorous Recovery. Reduced Vigor duration to 5s from 8s.

• Acrobatics IX – Quick Recovery. Reduced initiative gain from 2 to 1.

• Trickery 5 – Kleptomaniac. Reduce initiative gain from 3 to 2.

• Trickery IV – Flanking Strikes. Move to Master tier. (since it might hinder some builds)

*Trickery VII – Bountiful Theft. Reduced vigor duration to from 15s to 10s.

April 2014:

• Pistol Whip has been split between PvP and PvE. It will now cost 6 initiative in PvP, while maintaining a 5 initiative cost in PvE.

• Disabling Shot (SB): Reduced the length of this skill’s evasion component from 100% of the skill’s duration to 64% of the skill’s duration—an overall reduction of .3 seconds.

• Choking Gas: Reduced the poison per pulse from 5 seconds to 3 seconds

MARCH 2015

•  Infiltrator's Arrow: This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target point cannot be found.

 Infiltrator's Signet: This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target cannot be found, except when acting as a stun break.

 Infiltrator's Strike: This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target cannot be found.

 Shadowstep: This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target point cannot be found, except when acting as a stun break.

 Shadow Escape: This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target point cannot be found.

 Steal: This skill will no longer activate if a valid path to the target cannot be found

June 2015

 Cloaked in Shadow: Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes for 5 seconds. Release a blinding powder when you take falling damage. You take 50% less damage from falling.(big one for me i dont remember all the bad decisions that were made but this one I Hated making this a GM)(ps isn't this when they killed acro too?)

December 2015

 Steal now requires a target. Cannot steal for boons only(why tho?)

July 2016

• Stealth Attacks: All stealth attack skills will now have a 1-second recharge between uses.

 Staff Strike: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 5%.

 Staff Bash: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 5%.

 Punishing Strikes: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 5%.

 Venomous Aura: The area-of-effect aspect of this trait has been merged into venoms as baseline. The radius has been reduced from 360 to 240. The recharge reduction has moved to Leeching Venoms.

 Leeching Venoms: This trait no longer grants might to allies it is applied to. This trait now reduces the recharge of venom abilities.

 Devourer Venom: The number of stacks that this skill applies has been reduced from 3 to 2.

 Basilisk Venom: The number of stacks that this skill applies has been reduced from 2 to 1. Stun duration has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds.

August 2016

 Infiltrator's Strike: Fixed a bug that prevented 

 Infiltrator's Return from becoming available when the skill was used in midair

(tho this was a bug it was a big 'you wish' to thieves face)

March 2017

Traps: All traps created by the thief will have a 1-second arm time before the trap can affect enemies.

 Needle Trap: This skill now delivers a strike.

 Tripwire: This skill now delivers a strike

September 2017

•  Panic Strike: Reduced the duration of poison applied by this trait from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP and WvW.

 Impaling Lotus: Reduced duration of conditions applied by this skill by 50% in PvP and WvW.

November 2017

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 Unhindered Combatant: Breaking inhibiting conditions with this trait now causes the thief to lose all endurance regeneration for 4 seconds. Direct endurance gains will still apply the full amount. Swiftness granted by this trait will now occur at the end of the dodge.

 Bandit's Defense: The recharge of this skill has been increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds

Not to mention all the reveals and stealth Ed passed around to other classes these days... Only revealing we can do is on our self

Then there's tracking in stealth.. To me those should be a 50% hits for realism, I'm in stealth and I get it you started to attack but how can you still see me

Any class who's sneezes in our direction can rekt a unskilled thief, heck I've been downed by cleave attacks not even directed at me, not to mention the lovely aoe condis.

Yet we keep getting nerf after nerf smh