Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

I am a regular pvp player and I would share with the pvp community a few considerations about the new meta build for s/d thieves, i.e. the 10/0/0/30/30 spec.
Since Lyssa rune got nerfed, many thieves are complaining about the difficulty for them to stay in team fight without perishing for random conditions or hits noone cared about before because Lyssa rune did carried a lot thieves and warriors especially.
There are still some many brave thieves who put aside the ancient godmode style and dedicate themselves to the pure dps so now a s/p can hurt even more as well d/p does; basically the general rule is “kill the target fast before the target kills you later”.
And yet I saw all of a sudden a new, strange build who became quite used among the less brave thieves trying to remember of the old, good times: the 10/0/0/30/30 spec.
Since s/d spec is indeed the most tanky and the most adaptable one among all the thief’s spec but the less dps as well (a bit of justice in this cruel world), some people thought it could be great to have the godmode situation of s/d and the daze situation of d/p and s/p because if s/d disappeared for a little, we must be honest, it’s just because a s/d thief can’t interrupt anything important in team fight.

So, I wonder: is this new spec a failed try to remember the old times when thief was able to kill even engis? Is this new spec like a fat little boy trying to eat the entire cake instead of taking the only part he deserves? Because, let’s be honest once again, this spec is just not working: 30 in critics are too important and you can daze as much as you want but if you can’t kill target because your dps is low… Well, good luck in stacking might, in the meanwhile all other players will be to bed resting since a couple of hours.

You can like the build of course because it’s a free world, but let’s not pretend that this build will make s/d still viable because basic hit with it is just a joke.
The thing is that with Lssa rune s/d build was just overpowered and if you could manage it in a decent way, you would be able to have every 1 vs 1 positive for you. Now Lyssa rune is gone and I don’t understand why some thieves are thinking yet they can be tanky like before. You just don’t, let’s deal with it, enjoy the dps and just pay more attention in team fight. A thief jumping everywhere in a team fight was just an insane thing and I am glad Arenanet fixed it.

It can be the easiest one, I guess, if you amster it, but s/d is definitely the most cheese one, especially before the patch: all the mistakes you could afford yourself and despite that you could win was, well… Just amazing. With d/p or s/p no mistake is allowed, and it’s even more clear now.

I tried that build for a few matches and I hated it. I felt like a wet noodle spinning around doing pretty much nothing. Can’t decap far since there is now way this build can kill a bunker. Can’t push anyone off node to decap, can’t do anything but ripping boons from enemies. I have way more success with my d/p 6/6/0/0/10 build.

Hope people will realize what you just said because we finally could see a pvp without s/d spec (I have been always persuaded that this spec was incredibily unbalanced and cheated, even after the little nerfs) and now we must see this new spec, dealing 0 damage everywhere and bothering teamfights. It’s just annoying: you can’t kill him because, like the ancient spec, it has still tons of evades, and yet sometimes you are bothered by it because you realize your stab is missing and stuff like that. Thief is done to end last hp and finish a job somebody else started previously, don’t make it a fake-bunker class. It just doesn’t suit the class.