Changes to The Quiet Knife I'd like to see

[Pewpewmidget]

I am only experienced in The Quiet Knife (red) spec so I don't have much to offer regarding either The Gambler or The Mischief-maker.

I would like to see any of the following changes to The Quiet Knife and general Burglar skills:

• Change the trait "Back Stab" from +3/6/9/12/15% positional damage per rank to +2/4/6/8/10% damage increase across the board.
• Change the trait "Improved Hide in Plain Sight" to reduce the cooldown by 4/8/12/16/20 seconds.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Hide in Plain Sight" to 1 minute from 7 minutes.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Sneak" to 3 seconds from 10 seconds.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Touch and Go" to 1 minute from 5 minutes.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Ready and Able" to 1 minute from 5 minutes.
• Change the skill "Purge Corruption" from needing a critical response and Double-edged Strikes to being able to use whenever you want.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Surprise Strike" to 6 seconds from 10 seconds.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Coupe de Grace" to 20 seconds from 30 seconds.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Knives Out" to 5 seconds from 2 minutes/
• Change the skill "Knives Out" from being able to use whenever you want to needing a critical response and Double-edged Strikes.
• Allow either skill, "Flashing Blades" or "Knives Out", to be used after each other. (adding a 3rd critical chain skill would be ideal)
• Remove the 5-trait set bonus "Improved Knives out".
• Remove the +20% damage buff and 30% reflect that are currently on Knives Out and put it on some other skill. (maybe to Touch and Go?)
• Reduce the cooldown on "Trip" to 1 minute from 5 minutes.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Reveal Weakness" to 1 minute from 2 minutes
• Reduce the cooldown on "Stun Dust" to 10-15 seconds from 1 minute.
• Reduce the cooldown on "Riddle" to 15 seconds from 1 minute to match the cooldown of "Blinding Flash" for Lore-masters.
• Reduce the cooldown on Serrated Throwing Knife to 15 seconds from 1 minute
• Reduce the cooldown on Marbles to 45 seconds or 1 minute from 15 minutes.
• Remove the text "Note: this does not affect Feint attack or Improved Feint attack" on the 35-trait bonus "Improved Sneak".

 

[Laforza]

Reworking knives out into a crit chain ender would be good. Remove/reduce the reflect and make it buff parry/def moderately for a short duration. So you can choose to end your chain, depending on traiting with flashing blades for dmg, exposed throat(blue) for stun chance, or knives out for +parry/def at the cost of dmg. As in have it debuff dmg output for the same duration as the +parry/def to convey the idea of focusing on defense over offense.