Staff Daredevil: 40k+ DPS, but at what cost?

[@Crone2816]

"You know that class that has the best auto attack chain? Well its still not doing well after we buffed the auto attack chain last time, what do you think we should do?"

[@SCP3RrY]

everytime anet touches thief it becomes a meme

[@Janitsu]

canceling autos is harder than pressing skills change my mind

[@RainingPigs13]

Balance is evolving, just backwards.

[@lemondealer7550]

Can't wait for next balance patch where you interrupt your weakening charge to do autos

[@ciriboom4709]

While a buff is a buff... I gotta say I'm really skeptical this time in terms of design... I agree an auto chain nerf + a WC buff sould be better for the assassin playstyle

[@JohnPaulRojas]

I’ll turn off autocast on aa for this, wont be able to properly cancel autos with my ping

[@NycroLP]

CMC UNCHAINED BABBBBBYYYY

[@MagicBot.1570]

I'm really getting sick of this trend of deleting burst from the game. Can someone explain to me why Soulbeast and Bladesworn are the only specs allowed to do burst? The refusal to buff the actually meaningful abilities is madness. They did the same for DH

[@corrinlex1359]

Lmao slb burst is a hollow image of what it used to be. We lost so much.

[@MagicBot.1570]

@@corrinlex1359 and everyone Lost twice as much

[@KipacWF]

Im not sure where do u see 40k?

[@VitarainLEFT]

You must have used a time machine to end up on this video! It's from 8 months ago, shortly after Anet released a patch preview where they said they were going to buff the first two hits of the staff auto chain. It only took the thief community a few minutes to do the math and find out that the rotation shown in this video would be the play post patch, which was pretty nonsensical. This rotation was done on the live game, but if you applied the coefficients from the patch preview, it ended up above 40k DPS. Fortunately, thanks to this video and similar feedback echoed by many other players, Anet adjusted the patch before it went live and moved some of the power back to Punishing Strikes. A great example of why patch previews and feedback are so important!

[@KipacWF]

​@@VitarainLEFT Hi, so should i use 2nd ability or not? (After a dodge)

[@zylle1993]

I really like the assassin/rogue kinda class style and fantasy, but thief in gw2 is just fucking weird to Play. Seriously needs a rework or something

[@Xialoh]

What isn't weird to play in GW2? Most of it feels awkward to me. I swear I spend 95% of my time trying to decide what I want to invest in every time I come back to this game.

[@AraKlet]

Is it the first rotation change in like 2 years for your DD benchmarks?

[@VitarainLEFT]

Aside from an extremely minor optimization that wasn't caused by an update, it's actually been over 4 years since we swapped from Staff Master to Havoc Specialist, which was a major change to the rotation. Every other benchmark I've done since then has been the result of indirect changes, such as removal of unique buffs, or very minor trait/coefficient changes. Meanwhile, most other DPS classes see major changes to their rotations on a yearly basis, more or less

[@AraKlet]

@@VitarainLEFT Oof

[@RaidillonGW2]

its really not so nice on the eyes is it :')

[@XmantiX]

Condi untamed looking real smooth tho ngl.

[@prudgw2792]

this actually looks rly fun

[@ColdMystery]

If you are into carpal tunnel, this build is indeed fun.

[@zylle1993]

You have to be joking

[@smallzan]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[@LuxroyLux]

Hi left im a huge fan can you sign my thief

[@steciottolo6794]

xd