Guild Wars 2

You said boon stacking was too strong, so you gave all the boons to thieves. Now thieves have the boon stacking.

You said you nerfed confusion, but there is confuse in my head!

That sounds dirty. I’m in.

This is boon redistribution, not boon stacking. Thieves can’t share boons, they can’t keep them up 100% and they can’t choose which boons they get.

there are 2 broken classes Beyond human comprehension
War in PvE
Thieves in WWW

They got buffed…..AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN…..they had to be slightly nerfed…
They changed their minds….they put a minor nerf on thieves and are thinking of removing it.

What do you learn by that?

Well, it’s easy to remove a Thief boons : just don’t use any yourself

I fail to see how thieves are overpowered in WvW. Perhaps overpowered against the class you play. But hardly overpowered. Especially when you consider 90% of WvW is zerg on zerg and thieves play no functional role in that at all.

And on the plus side Mug can’t crit anymore so it only hits for about 1.5-2k. Reasonable hit to their burst considering it crit for a ton with a 100% chance to crit with traits.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

This is boon redistribution, not boon stacking. Thieves can’t share boons, they can’t keep them up 100% and they can’t choose which boons they get.

Thieves are boon commies.

stof.9341:

Well, it’s easy to remove a Thief boons : just don’t use any yourself

Tell that to a Guardian.

Edit: Oh and Theives are great in WvW when you’re trying to escape or sneak up on others. They play a great support role in those situations.

Having a class able to more easily counter a difficult class isn’t really a bad thing. My guardian was able to shrug off zerk thieves while still wearing greens and rares. They can only steal two boons, which will be random, every five seconds. They’re able to steal 4, but that requires a trait that’s locked inside of a pretty unused tree iirc.

Guardians who don’t like this change come off to me as people afraid of needing to put thought in to a fight instead of just slapping on a kittenton of boons and calling it a day.

Another point worth mentioning is this is an extremely specific type of counter. Warriors also got the “Boon Hate Trait” deep in to a tree. Aside from guardians and a certain build of engineers, it just won’t be very effective unless you only ever go for those specific types of enemies.