Wild Strike Useful Now?

Bowstring Badass

Bowstring Badass

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Character selection screen figuring what I want to play...

Purple Lingerie - :D

Wild Strike is now unblockable no longer need to use expose on stances for sins. Just put your input.

Edit: Fixed my stupid mistake.

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Is it?

New change today or something?
I was unaware of it being so..... Guess I'll have to check later when I can access the updates page from home.

But this will certainly make fighting rangers easier. Good stuff.

Utaku

Utaku

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

Paris, France

We eat pancakes [Yumy]

Me/

any enchant + [skill]golden fox strike[/skill][skill]wild strike[/skill] is now very nice !

Golden Fox is now 4s recharge, I like!

Effendi Westland

Effendi Westland

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Isle of the dead

[DVDF][LDS]

P/W

Yes, from the update yesterday. Brilliant, but a bit late. Great recharge on such an attack too. But lead attacks got buffs all around (one causes 5..20 sec bleeding now).

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Could someone inform me of all the Assassin buffs (and nerfs) here?
I can't access the Guild Wars site from work to see them myself.

Cathode_Reborn

Cathode_Reborn

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Assassin
Dark Apostasy: reduced casting time to .25 seconds.
Fox Fangs: reduced activation time to .5 seconds.
Golden Fox Strike: reduced recharge time to 4 seconds.
Iron Palm: reduced Energy cost to 5.
Jagged Strike: increased Bleed duration to 5..20 seconds.
Jungle Strike: reduced activation time to .5 seconds.
Locust's Fury: reduced recharge time to 10 seconds.
Palm Strike: reduced Energy cost to 5.
Unsuspecting Strike: reduced recharge time to 2 seconds.
Way of Perfection: increased duration to 60 seconds; decreased casting time to .25 seconds.
Way of the Empty Palm: reduced recharge time to 10 seconds.
Wild Strike: this Skill is now unblockable Unsuspecting strike could use a better buff. Way of the Empty palm looks really good now.

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

I lol'ed at unsuspecting strike.

It implies you switch target because if you use it once on a target, he will be <90%, and losing your bonus damage. It recharges in 2 seconds so you should have switch targets by then! For a whopping 10 energy!

glountz

glountz

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Utaku
any enchant + [skill]golden fox strike[/skill][skill]wild strike[/skill] is now very nice !

Golden Fox is now 4s recharge, I like! I had some success toying with builds like this
[skill]golden fox strike[/skill][skill]wild strike[/skill][skill]shattering assault[/skill][skill]way of perfection[/skill]
I added critical eye for energy, rush and caltrops but could have use anything else.
It is interesting, but still lack the ganking powa of the SP sin IMO. Maybe could see use for enchant-bane in spikes.

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

[skill]Fox Fangs[/skill] is now utterly worthless... yay

BlackSephir

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

Way of Perfection (or any other enchant, mending anybody? ~~), Golden Fox Strike, Wild Strike vs Rangers? Epic win full of lulz

matti90

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

ym

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackSephir
Way of Perfection (or any other enchant, mending anybody? ~~), Golden Fox Strike, Wild Strike vs Rangers? Epic win full of lulz Yes, if the ranger is totally bad and has never heard of distracting shot.

Sqube

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Behind you...

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by matti90
Yes, if the ranger is totally bad and has never heard of distracting shot. Way of Perfection now has a .25 second cast time and lasts 60 seconds. That doesn't provide the aforementioned ranger with much opportunity to interrupt the cast.

moko

moko

??uo??o??

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sqube
Way of Perfection now has a .25 second cast time and lasts 60 seconds. That doesn't provide the aforementioned ranger with much opportunity to interrupt the cast.
there's something called interrupting the chain.

Quote:
Yes, if the ranger is totally bad

Narayanese

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sqube
Way of Perfection now has a .25 second cast time and lasts 60 seconds. That doesn't provide the aforementioned ranger with much opportunity to interrupt the cast. You D-shot one of the attack skills.

BlackSephir

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

Oh yeah, dis shot on totally unexpecting sin- must be pretty stu, erm, the kind of sin that mindlessly hits Falling Spider even though HoTO didn't KD >_>.
Are we in the 'nuh-huh, because ranger could, like, go and dis shot him' and 'nuh-huh, because A would be running Crit Defenses!' territory?

Anyway, Golden Fox Strike > Wild Strike > Shattering Assault - lil' Grenth? ~~

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

I really like how sins got extremely buffed after this update. Even when adding in the previous "nerfs" (which aren't even nerfs...all they did was make SP less overpowered), 99% of PvE sins are better off now. Good direction anet is going towards.

craigrs84

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2007

A/

i agree with what others said, the unsuspecting strike buff is retarded... why would you hit & switch targets as a sin? it defeats the whole purpose of a sin. Anyways, leave the recharge at 4 secs. 2 secs seems worthless since there are no 2 sec offhands. If they want to buff it they should make it cost 5 energy instead of 10.

ensoriki

ensoriki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Canada bro.

A/D

fox fangs is useless now but other than that Wild Strike isnt that big a deal -_-.

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Kournan Bowmen will at last feel my daggery wrath!

lazyrussian

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

D/

I've had a lot of success with the following Build
[skill]Golden Fox Strike[/skill][skill]Wild Strike[/skill][skill]Death Blossom[/skill][skill]Moebius Strike[/skill][skill]"Go For The Eyes"[/skill][skill]Critical Eye[/skill][skill]Critical Agility[/skill][skill]Critical Defenses[/skill]

Remember GFS has a recast time of 4, and WS is unblockable. Guru should really update their database.