Guild Wars 2

Yes, no, why

Yes, because (in the past) the insane mobility and stealth (superior capacity to disengage) created too many balance issues in conquest mode.

Revs are thieves 3.0

Yes. Their mobility is completely broken in conquest, it’s a breath of fresh air that they are gone.

Now we just have to get rid of the bunker meta.

no, its reduced the variety in teams… now all u see is Mesmers Elementalists Scrappers and Reapers with very little else really except the few oddballers who run with their mains no matter what Anet throws at them.

No

Thiefs high mobility and map control brings action in matches. They can turn a match with a few good moves. Now we have very boring matches and even most ESL matches are a pain to watch.

Rev has a lot of mobility. It’s better than a thief, and not as squishy.

So being forced to watch the map, gauge your rotations correctly, and balance your attention to side objectives (nothing more annoying than fighting mid in kyhlo and eating a surprise treb) is a bad thing? It sounds like you want to duel or a game mode centered around simply fighting (as do I and many others), but it’ll never happen.

thieves didn’t lost their mobility… they are only good to stealth and sneaky decap… or burst a ppl down and leave as quick as they can… or they will proly die.

Having a thief in his team (playing D/P) is frustrating … the staff is better with this meta.

Sunshine.5014:

Rev has a lot of mobility. It’s better than a thief, and not as squishy.

Thiefs mobility is unrivaled. The thief has dozens of shortcuts on each map he can use with SB5 which revs can’t because they need targets for their teleports.

I think that it’s more of a problem with Shortbow rather than Thief overall. If they could afford to swap Shortbow to another weapon set, switching from mainly decap role to more combat presence playstyle (I believe that was the idea of Daredevil) and remain viable that would be cool and maybe give them alternative role for the team Revenant now has as an exclusive.

As it is now, new stuff simply doesn’t compare to utility of SB #5 and doesn’t give anything super meaningful that could replace it. Not to mention, they’ve also chosen very dangerous direction for DD which is basically more evade spam without touching Thief’s lack of “sturdiness”. Yeah, that’s cool, but one day it might look underpowered, one small change later it suddenly becomes powerhouse. We’ve seen what adding tons of active defenses did with Revenant, Mesmer or other meta builds.