Upcoming Updates for the week of May 29th

Source: http://www.guildwars.com/support/gam...s-05-30-06.php

Quote: * Way of the Empty Palm: reduced cast time to .25 seconds; reduced recharge time to 25 seconds.
* Locust's Fury: reduced cast time to 1 second.
* Siphon Strength: increased the damage reduction your target deals to 5..50.
* Palm Strike: reduced recharge time to 10 seconds; increased damage to 10..85.
* Enduring Toxin: reduced cast time to .25 seconds.
* Crippling Dagger: reduced recharge time to 5 seconds.
* Heart of Shadow: increased healing amount to 10..115 Health.
* Mirrored Stance: reduce recharge time to 15 seconds.
* Unseen Fury: increased duration to 15..60 seconds.
* Golden Phoenix Strike: increased Energy cost to 10.
* Aura of Displacement: increased recharge time to 20 seconds. My two cents on the updates:
Looks like AoD is going to take a bit of a hit in usefulness, and all of a sudden Palm Strike looks a lot better with a reduced recharge and more damage. GPS is also looking a bit less attractive with the increased cost. Siphon Strength gains some effectiveness, but I think it still costs way too much, and isn't worth the elite slot. Way of the Empty Palm still pointless, since all you can do with it is do one, maybe two combos worth of attacks before it runs out, and the benefit really isn't worth it with other, non-elite energy management available to Assassins.

Dude they are COMPLETELY nerfing Auspicious Parry. I really began to like that skill cause at like tactics 9 i got 4 adren back every sec. Now since i have to have 12 in tactics to get 4 adren with 2 sec recharge, it will be like 2 MAYBE 3 adren every 2 sec @ 9 tactics....

WOW, made that skill nearly useless... A faster attack rate skill will now be better. LAME! LAME! LAME!

so anet took a look at our wishes, and did exactly opposite of what we want done. beautiful...

assassins are not all that good at "assassinating" anymore, but is religated to a support role. it seems that anet is trying to mold the playerbase into playing a certain way with the assassin update. i wish they would stop doing that.

they didnt go anything with shadow refuge... nothing

ugg >_< my brain hurts so bad, not only is my favorite game, and class getting annoying but.. well.. rl issues too..

Well AoD is what preety much EVERY ASSASSIN who can get his/her hands on it now is using. I guess they're trying to get more players to use other builds. But from what I've dont and experimented with, nothing beats AoD-GPS-HoO-FS-TF. They are now forcing us out of that...Note the nerf on the two skills that are preety much key to this whole build:GPS and AoD. They seem to have buffed everything else in terms of effectiveness( especially the deadly arts, which i do like). Who knows, what I'm waiting to see is what the top teams start using with these updates( pride,WM and whatnot).

yeah, the up in energy and recharge time of Aod and GPS really makes the hut&run assassin useless. I can see why anet would do this if they would up the assassin armor, but if they are leaving it the same then what the hell?

So now once we AoD in and unleash our combo, we have to wait around getting the sh!t beat outa us or just shadow step out and sit around doing nothing for another 15 seconds. Well done Anet.

I don't comment very often. Plenty of other people do that just fine for me. If you know what I mean... But I just have to say something about Aura of Displacement...

Upping recharge to 20 seconds... I'm sorry, but that is just not going to make that big of a difference. Think about it... 5 seconds isn't a whole lot of time.

I was playing in Fort Aspenwood the other day... I Aura'd to someone, and I didn't find the need to remove it for like 4 minutes... More than enough time to recharge multiple times. Even in RA, when I've used it. 5 seconds is not a long time to wait... Really if you think about it. You 'port in, drop your combo, and kite if you have too, that's what I do. Only when I'm really getting pounded on do I port out, even then it's AFTER I've kited AWAY from my return spot.

I honestly don't think this 5 second increase is going to affect the effectiveness of AoD at all. I know it won't for me.

As for GPS, 10 energy? Thats fine with me, no biggie. Most people seem to wear shrouded armor. I myself do not, I stick with straight up Valk's(Though that's gonna change with GPS's energy cost going up).

So I'll say it one more time... A 5 second increase on AoD's recharge... NOT a big deal...

GPS going to 10 energy... A minor pain in the back side. they should have upped the damage along with the cost.

Why are people complaining so much about Aura of Displacement being nerfed?
Its only FIVE MORE SECONDS... jesus.

I mean really, maybe people will think of different builds to use, the assasin is still good at...well... assasinating things. Maybe Heart of Shadow will make it into a build now instead of being something just for an empty slot.

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Lord..


It's not that people don't think of other skills to use or other builds besides the FoTM, WE DO AND HAVE! the problem is that MOST of the other skills are weak and many expected the rebalance to actually MAKE OTHER SKILLS MORE ATTRACTIVE!, they didn't.

Shadow Stepping needed a tweak upwards in use (No not AoD) but the minior skills, Damage is fine for Assassins, we would just like a better choice.

Compare Palm Strike and Shove, warriors don't need another KD, Shove should have been what Palm Strike is.

problem is not that GPS gonna cost 10 or AoD 20recharge time... it's about the other classes... i mean were GPS and AoD too much powerfull when we compare some imbalanced other skills?
We'll continue to use this combo cause it's still one of the best for sins, so this is basicaly a nerf for us...
I wish they could explain and justify all updates... how do they see sins in GW?!

I see a possible combo involving BLS and the deadly arts. Anyone else think this has potent?

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Note to people yelling that a five-second increase on AoD is nothing and that GPD needed the nerf.

Okay, yeah, that's fine. Problem is, two of the Assassin's key skills were shat upon, to whatever extent, without any compensation. Were some of the sin's other, mostly totally useless skills ramped up? Aside from Deadly Arts, no. And even Deadly Arts got only minor boosts.

What has Assassin players up in arms is not the hit to effeciency, which is semi-minor, but the attitude which the nerfs make clear. ArenaNet's current attitude towards Assassins, in the form of this skills 'balance', is that the class is stagnating for reasons of overpowered skills. The hit to the AoD GPD spike is about as bald-faced a "stop using this" as I've ever seen Anet run, and the booster shots to Deadly Arts with just about nothing in Shadow, a tiny twinge inC ritical, and bupkis in Dagger is an obvious attempt to forb Assassins off as some kind of weird support caster with knives. Why, otherwise, would we get no boosts in Dagger to replace the GPD spike? Are we honestly supposed to run Palm Strike, Anet?

to everyone saying 5 second isnt a lot. 5 second is a lot in pvp, just so you know.
and the half radar range nerf is bullshit, why would u do that to the assassin :S

1/2 radar range is still 2x as far as the initial teleport.

The nerf to GPS is more pissy for me than the one to AoD.

But anyway, the problem stands. The Assassin cannot "assassinate". If you were working against dummies then, yes, you can assassinate. But when the blocking and the kiting start to happen, there is none of that.

Right now there are very few good reasons to take an Assassin over a warrior if you're trying to gank. An axe warrior can still do more damage, take more damage, they just lack the snap-damage skills of the assassin, which isn't missing out on much.

Assassins need buff on the skills that slow the opponent (a better siphon speed, 40/40 instead of 20/20), or make evades and blocks less likely (buff Way of the Fox, faster recharge).

This ENSURES the kill, which is something a lowly (I hate warriors) warrior can never do. It's okay if we can only gank 1 person every 30 secs as long as that person will definitely die.