Anet, why does thief get an entire update?
Mesmer buffs dont make up for the Quickness nerf at all.
mesmer did not benefit from TW as much as zerkers warriors did on CoF P1, when they said that quickness was being used to skip over content, pretty sure they meant skill bosses in few seconds, which is only possible with zerker warrios on CoF and no other place
This is at least the third time we’ve seen a hot-fix update for a specific class. But I admit the other times were a much bigger deal… this one thing being busted certainly wasn’t coming even close to breaking the thief class.
Ultimately, all classes were nerfed with the Quickness reduction. However, Mesmer is still the only profession capable of producing area quickness and for twice as long as any other profession.
As far the Thief thing goes, the update was to fix client crashes. It’s likely that the Thief fix thrown on because some designer completed that fix in the two days since the big patch and there was no reason to not include it with the patch.