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[Fade_Guin]

I was testing a few things and noticed that caltrops only stacks up to 6 and won't go over that by itself. Has it always been this way? I never really used it all that much before.

Edit: I am referring to the utility Caltrops, not the trait

Edited by Fade_Guin, 16 November 2012 - 07:24 PM.

[Lalnuir]

Strange I was sure that caltrops was a ~5 second bleed with 25 points in deadly arts. It's now 3 and 3/4 seconds. I could be wrong thou as I never really used them.

[owly]

I use it, but never really payed attention to the specifics.  I'm sure it has been nerfed though, anets plan is to obliterate the whole thief profession.

I don't even want to login anymore to play/test this.  They ruined most builds that rely on dagger offhand.

[Invoky]

owly, on 16 November 2012 - 07:27 PM, said:

I use it, but never really payed attention to the specifics.  I'm sure it has been nerfed though, anets plan is to obliterate the whole thief profession.

I don't even want to login anymore to play/test this.  They ruined most builds that rely on dagger offhand.

d/d and p/d are still fine, only build hit the nerf hard is s/d

[owly]

You must be missing a couple of neurons.  The 2 Dagger Offhand skills got nerfed.  -50% dancing dagger, -33% cloak and dagger.  This affects every build that uses Dagger Offhand.

[Invoky]

Like I said they are still fine.

[Dairuiner]

Fade_Guin, on 16 November 2012 - 06:39 PM, said:

I was testing a few things and noticed that caltrops only stacks up to 6 and won't go over that by itself. Has it always been this way? I never really used it all that much before.

Edit: I am referring to the utility Caltrops, not the trait

It was always a 3 second bleed, untraited.  Trick was to get yourself 34%+ condition duration to get the extra tic out of it to make it a 4 second bleed, which makes it stack up to 8-10 at once. Usually 10% or 20% from 10/20 points in deadly arts, plus +15%/+25% bleed duration on certain weapon or armor mods.

Edited by Dairuiner, 17 November 2012 - 05:45 PM.

[Dairuiner]

owly, on 17 November 2012 - 02:19 AM, said:

You must be missing a couple of neurons.  The 2 Dagger Offhand skills got nerfed.  -50% dancing dagger, -33% cloak and dagger.  This affects every build that uses Dagger Offhand.

true, but s/d got the 3rd nerf on tactical strike's daze, which is the bread and butter ability of the setup.

Basically, with s/d, 3 out of the 4 abilities you use regularly in pvp got nerfed.

Edited by Dairuiner, 17 November 2012 - 06:19 PM.

[realmisr]

^yup, and the +10% dmg is just like adding salt to our wounds...+10% tactical strike dmg (which still hits like a baby) but -33% dmg on c+d and 50% on dd....Anet has a way of balancing things...

wtf is 10% dmg going to do when it does little to no dmg anyway...

Edited by realmisr, 17 November 2012 - 06:37 PM.