Guild Wars 2

Penguin.5197:

Thieves just got two red threads.

QUICK! SOMEONE MAKE A THREAD ABOUT HOW THIEVES ARE THE DEVS SECOND FAVORITE CLASS! THIS MUST BE HOW THIEVES GOT BUFFED INTO ABSURDITY!1!!

They got 2 post of clarification. They did not get a post in which a developer gave them a buff because of reasons.

Fine thief got a red post, what about the other 6 classes. I guess they don’t count, right?

omg devs love teef so much time to quit engi and reroll teef cuz i wanna play a beloved class and why oh why were automated response and cloaking device deleted its like they dont even remember that engis have traits #teefoverlords #nokappa #whyyounerf #attentionkitten

the whole engineer trait system was redesigned and none of our old builds exist anymore. no idea how good the class is going to be. we had a lot of changes, but a lotof nerfs and deleted traits too.

warrior on the otherhand, oooohhhhhh babbby i can build a bumker that has 2k power + perma regn + AOE 370 power to allies. thats like 2400~ power with no might on a bunker. oh bbbby the warrior love is the realness.

anyone who is sensible knows that anet has no favourite class, they love all classes with relative equality- except necromancer.

Toxsa.2701:

PistolWhip.2697:

T raw.4658:

Engi is face roll.

As is D/P Carry thief, what is your point?

I played all classes, and honestly I’d have to tell you Engi is 10 times more faceroll than thief in general. A good thief is really strong but it’s much easier to suck at playing thief than suck at playing engi.

Because engi has a lower Skill floor. In terms of high level competitiveness, engi is one of the hardest with mesmer also up there.

Toxsa.2701:

PistolWhip.2697:

T raw.4658:

Engi is face roll.

As is D/P Carry thief, what is your point?

I played all classes, and honestly I’d have to tell you Engi is 10 times more faceroll than thief in general. A good thief is really strong but it’s much easier to suck at playing thief than suck at playing engi.

I have played all classes but ranger and I disagree. In fact, my firs ever class was Thief, so I have always found it easy from the get go so the bias is there. The hardest class I found to wrap my head around was a tie between Engineer and Mesmer.

Different strokes for different folks methinks.

T raw.4658:

So I’m interested as to what people believe makes the PS thief so face roll?

Please do tell

PS is very forgiving. The passive condi cleanse means you have to play less well to stop yourself getting overwhelmed by the other meta trifecta+the passivity of panic strike as a proc could be compared to how carry Incendiary Powder is atm for Engineer. A friend who is new to pvp went into thief to learn it, picked it up after 5-6 Duels. Plus, let us not forget the RNG BS that is Impro.

Now Crit Strikes, that is a build with a higher skill floor on thief, and the trade off is more damage/higher killing potential.

Quadox.7834:

Toxsa.2701:

PistolWhip.2697:

T raw.4658:

Engi is face roll.

As is D/P Carry thief, what is your point?

I played all classes, and honestly I’d have to tell you Engi is 10 times more faceroll than thief in general. A good thief is really strong but it’s much easier to suck at playing thief than suck at playing engi.

Because engi has a lower Skill floor. In terms of high level competitiveness, engi is one of the hardest with mesmer also up there.

Seems logical, +1

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Jeez. No one can get nice things without people crying and making it worse for everyone.

It’s difficult to keep an open mind when other classes receive weird and illogical changes and are met with silence, then a class loses a bit of uptime on a boon and a Red post swoops in to fix the “issue”.

Of course, this probably was something that wasn’t intended, and that made it really easy for them to both fix, and say they were going to fix. In the case of Consume Conditions for Necros, for example, it’s very intentional to receive 10 stacks of Vulnerability after using your heal and cleansing all of your conditions. If ANet is in no position to do anything about that design choice, they can’t really say anything.

But all of that logic aside, it’s actually pretty annoying. I don’t subscribe for one second to the idea that ANet plays favorites intentionally, but even for me, this particular example at this particular time is at least moderately irritating. I suppose that’s mostly because I want an explanation for the Necro CC change, as it doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m not even that worried about the effect it will have. I’m more worried about the logic behind it, because I don’t see any.