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Is the Weapon Mastery Heroic Feat even needed for TRs anymore?

jnmlvnjnmlvn Member Posts: 71
edited March 2015 in The Thieves' Den
[Weapon Mastery] (Heroic Feat) - Increase your Critical Chance by 1/2/3%

From Patch Notes: NW.35.20141104a.7

Stealth: Now also grants 100% Critical Chance in addition to Combat Advantage and using At Wills while Stealthed now drains 15% of your Stealth Meter per attack.

Considering that Stealth gives 100% Critical Chance anyways... is even worth it to put points in Weapon Mastery?

What are the pros of actually putting points in this feat (because right now I don't see any practicality to it)?
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  • abaddon523abaddon523 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Not everyone uses permastealth builds. There are PvE executioner builds, for example, that primarily use stealth to trigger Shadow of Demise then while not in stealth deal as much damage as possible before the SoD damage hits. For those more crit can up DPS.
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  • ibench200ibench200 Member Posts: 169 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    jnmlvn wrote: »
    [Weapon Mastery] (Heroic Feat) - Increase your Critical Chance by 1/2/3%

    From Patch Notes: NW.35.20141104a.7

    Stealth: Now also grants 100% Critical Chance in addition to Combat Advantage and using At Wills while Stealthed now drains 15% of your Stealth Meter per attack.

    Considering that Stealth gives 100% Critical Chance anyways... is even worth it to put points in Weapon Mastery?

    What are the pros of actually putting points in this feat (because right now I don't see any practicality to it)?
    i think you still need crit outside of stealth, crit makes duellist flurry do alot of damage too!
  • jnmlvnjnmlvn Member Posts: 71
    edited March 2015
    abaddon523 wrote: »
    Not everyone uses permastealth builds. There are PvE executioner builds, for example, that primarily use stealth to trigger Shadow of Demise then while not in stealth deal as much damage as possible before the SoD damage hits. For those more crit can up DPS.

    But what about for PvP TRs whose primary goal is consistent burst damage (going in and out of stealth throughout the whole match)? Is it worth it? Plus, with Shadow Strike those burst damage TRs will likely spend the bigger percentage of the entire match in Stealth rather than out of it anyways.
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  • jnmlvnjnmlvn Member Posts: 71
    edited March 2015
    ibench200 wrote: »
    i think you still need crit outside of stealth, crit makes duellist flurry do alot of damage too!

    Right now my Crit Chance is around 35.7% with the Weapon Mastery specced. Without the feat I would be at 32.7%. If you have a TR, how much did you stack your Crit Chance until?

    Personally, I didn't really see much difference when I went from 30% - 35% Crit Chance as I was levelling up... :/
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  • onegaki101onegaki101 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 327 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    My exec TR is close to 50% crit chance. Because of stealth depletion, you only stay in stealth for a few hits. To get the most benefit for the stealth crit chance, you would have to be using feated glooming cut. It does great damage, but boring to play.
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