Guild Wars 2

Thieves right now are at a point even warriors are complaining they have on in their team.

Over the years thieves have slowly evoled from high single target damage high mobility to sit around in stealth till you find a point undefended so maybe you can decap it. Basicly all a thief can do right now is move around fast.
Is a druid/ele/mesmer/necro/guardian/engie/rev/warrior on a point? Forget about it, you’re not getting it. You may be able to kill them if they are the 1% not playing a meta bunker build. But it takes a couple of 100’s of games to learn the difficult mechanics thieves need to master if they want to make a kill.

So what I did was move back in time, grab ye olde vanilla build as good as I can with the new trait system. And give it a try. I was using d/d or d/p (depends on the map, some maps don’t need you to have perma stealth of d/p) Berserker amulet (the health on marauder is irrelevant) and Scholar runes. Just sacrifice anything that might give you a better chance of survival if you can substitute it for more damage.

The results were amazing
I was actually able to kill bunker mesmers, cele druids, guardians and even an ele, but i asume the ele was afk or something cus we all know that is imposible.

The downside ofcourse is… you get hit once you die. Good thing nobody is using aoe attacks and traps right? right?

LastHope.8127:

Thieves right now are at a point even warriors are complaining they have on in their team.

hmmmm

Juba.8406:

LastHope.8127:

Thieves right now are at a point even warriors are complaining they have on in their team.

hmmmm

Seriously, its happend 3 times in the last 2 games, a warrior was qqing I was playing thief. Altough 1 appolgized after the match because I carried the win.

So why are you running D/D? Assuming you aren’t camping stealth, D/P still has shadow shot and head shot which are both much better than dancing dagger and CnD. If you spam heartseeker as a gapcloser….

Also, this carries no weight vs players who know what they’re doing. IF you manage to instagib them, they’ll be more than prepared for your next assault. Then, judging from your ridiculous burst, they’ll know you’re squishy AF and would immediately have you begin a very intimate relationship with your spawn.

That being said, I sincerely doubt warriors are in any position to call ANYONE out on their class choice. At least thief can properly rotate :P.

what is this swarm of thieves believing d/d is decent? No just no..

Not sure where rumor thieves can’t 1v1 came from, I do it all the time and usually win. Exception are good DH obviously and good tempests who are just unkillable 1v1. Marauder gear, staff 2/5 + steal-fistflurry is all you need. Combine it with dash + signet and you can survive a long time. Don’t even use stealth. Don’t reccommd Zerker as you will get 1 shot by gunflame etc

SlayerSixx.5763:

So why are you running D/D? Assuming you aren’t camping stealth, D/P still has shadow shot and head shot which are both much better than dancing dagger and CnD. If you spam heartseeker as a gapcloser….

Also, this carries no weight vs players who know what they’re doing. IF you manage to instagib them, they’ll be more than prepared for your next assault. Then, judging from your ridiculous burst, they’ll know you’re squishy AF and would immediately have you begin a very intimate relationship with your spawn.

That being said, I sincerely doubt warriors are in any position to call ANYONE out on their class choice. At least thief can properly rotate :P.

Because CnD does more damage then heatshot into heartseeker for a backstab. D/P is great but simply lacks the damage potential you need to make a dent in the bullkitten builds everyone is running now cus they want legend so bad they just go with whats “meta”

You need to play this build as a point decapper and 1 upper. In teamfights just hang out at long distance, find somebody at half health and just drop them instantly, then gtfo cus for example 1 dh trap hit does 99,5% damage. (for real i got hit by one once and it set me at 14 health)

Headshot isn’t a DPS skill, though. Well, it can be with impacting disruption, but that’s assuming daredevil.

You literally have one shot to kill your target with steal+CnD+backstab and that’s assuming air/fire proc, all crits, etc. Once you kill them for the first time, they’ll simply dodge after 1-2 or spam aoe near themselves and you’ll drop dead asap. Assuming you don’t get the kill and don’t die, then you’re stuck spamming death blossom and running in circles trying not to die.

Sorry, if D/D were viable, you’d find more and more people using it.

bluri.2653:

what is this swarm of thieves believing d/d is decent? No just no..

This is a kittening troll posts… thieves are useless as kitten unless youve spend 1-2000 hours mastering it.

i love people who see a thief in enemy team and think it will be a easy match

LastHope.8127:

bluri.2653:

what is this swarm of thieves believing d/d is decent? No just no..

This is a kittening troll posts… thieves are useless as kitten unless youve spend 1-2000 hours mastering it.

Oh I can master after 1 hour?? :-O
I think I will try thief tonight. ;-)