Bully: it's really bad.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Morning! Sorry to make you all wait at the edges of your seats for what has been posted about Bully. Hope you all had a good labor day weekend.

Last week we added an effect to Bully that would make it easier to increase the effect of Treasure Hunter.

Based on feedback we received about this, we decided to go a different route and add an effect we felt would make you all a bit happier.

The changes to the effects are described below:

•Bully (THF lvl.93 Recast time: 3 minutes Effect Duration: 30 seconds)
Intimidates target
While under its effect: Possible to use Sneak Attack when not behind an enemy.

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My THIEF ("Guess what? You got it for free. Are you proud of yourself?") is only in the mid 40s, but is very, very happy to see this. Now it might be possible to use Sneak Attack while soloing without relying on Sleep Bolts!

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Originally Posted by Ophannus

Why is this so amazing? It's a 30 second duration and 3 min recast which means at best 1 free SA.

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Forced Crit on Rudra's Storm while THF Tanking says hello.

When I think about how the category III or whatnot merits will generally work, this sort of thing goes through my head:

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Originally Posted by Insaniac

I'm sure we will see merits/gear to either increase the duration or lower the recast. Hopefully not intimidation rate!

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Originally Posted by Insaniac

[SIZE="5"]Hopefully not intimidation rate![/SIZE]

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Originally Posted by Insaniac

[SIZE="7"]intimidation rate![/SIZE]

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Part of me is glad THF got SOMETHING even RELATIVELY useful.
The other part of me is ugh because of the recast.

Either way, I'd really like to see THF get something good enough to make me want to go THF to an event.
When I do go THF, it's for TH usually.
Otherwise, SE isn't giving THF anything to make me want to stray from DNC more than I have to.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Morning! Sorry to make you all wait at the edges of your seats for what has been posted about Bully. Hope you all had a good labor day weekend.

Last week we added an effect to Bully that would make it easier to increase the effect of Treasure Hunter.

Based on feedback we received about this, we decided to go a different route and add an effect we felt would make you all a bit happier.

The changes to the effects are described below:

•Bully (THF lvl.93 Recast time: 3 minutes Effect Duration: 30 seconds)
Intimidates target
While under its effect: Possible to use Sneak Attack when not behind an enemy.

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Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this :D!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Kari

The other part of me is ugh because of the recast.

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Its 3 bloody minutes....

Finally something useful :D

For too long Thief has been getting poor updates, seems like the devs are finally beginning to understand how people play Thief now.

Happy days!

Congrats THF :D

I don't mind the recast at all. 2 Min would be pretty powerful, every other SA being able to land even while solo. Anything less than that and you could just make SA itself not require being behind the enemy. I am pretty happy with 3 min.

I wouldn't be against sweetening the pot a bit, maybe something like while bully is in effect THF's critical attack bonus gets a boost or even critical hit rate?

I could think of a lot of things I would add to it but I don't think we should push our luck lol. Now that bully isn't garbage we should go back to complaining about the JAs that still are!