Guild Wars 2

It was epic. We killed you before you saw us.

I don’t know that’s pretty close matchup. I’d say you got lucky

Evade Evade Evade Dazed Stealth Evade Evade Missed Dazed Evade Stealth Evade Missed Dazed Evade Evade

Fighting a Thief is more infuriating than Warrior. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 billion condis RIP

I would’ve cracked up rather than getting angry at this team

Though judging by the time, team and personal scores, I’d say you guys backcap them like fighting guerrilla warfare in Vietnam lol.

Let me guess… the thief with 115 points was responsible for capping, while the others did what thieves do best: decap and gank! Must have been fun indeed

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

I would’ve cracked up rather than getting angry at this team

Though judging by the time, team and personal scores, I’d say you guys backcap them like fighting guerrilla warfare in Vietnam lol.

Same thought
It was like guerrilla warfare because I had almost the same experience as enemy team had 3 thieves and a thumping good ones.
Though I was greatly annoyed by how they jumped around, disengaging on demand and those 2v1 insta kills were tiresome. Yet it still takes a great ammount of coordination and as much as I hate to admit, that was pretty dang good.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

I would’ve cracked up rather than getting angry at this team

Though judging by the time, team and personal scores, I’d say you guys backcap them like fighting guerrilla warfare in Vietnam lol.

That’s pretty much how it went. We tied them up off point alot while teammates got caps. We mostly played sides.

As happy as I am that thief is in a better place for S3, I’m not looking forward to queueing up for matches where 2-3 other teammates are also playing thief…

I anticipate queueing for games in S3 as thief, but then having to swap to an alt for most games due to getting paired with other thieves. =/

Dahkeus.8243:

As happy as I am that thief is in a better place for S3, I’m not looking forward to queueing up for matches where 2-3 other teammates are also playing thief…

I anticipate queueing for games in S3 as thief, but then having to swap to an alt for most games due to getting paired with other thieves. =/

From what i can tell, multiple thieves on a team in S3 will be a benefit. Here’s a fun trick for team fights: stand in the middle of a point, cast Shadow Refuge and blast area blindness while your fellow thieves burst the kitten out of the other team.

Ravenmoon.5318:

I don’t know that’s pretty close matchup. I’d say you got lucky

They got tranq and started making a comeback, so we had to switch to tryhard mode

R O C.6574:

Dahkeus.8243:

As happy as I am that thief is in a better place for S3, I’m not looking forward to queueing up for matches where 2-3 other teammates are also playing thief…

I anticipate queueing for games in S3 as thief, but then having to swap to an alt for most games due to getting paired with other thieves. =/

From what i can tell, multiple thieves on a team in S3 will be a benefit. Here’s a fun trick for team fights: stand in the middle of a point, cast Shadow Refuge and blast area blindness while your fellow thieves burst the kitten out of the other team.

Crap like that only works at low tiers.

Actually the OP has a really good idea. I’d like to expand on it.

For S3 matchmaking.
—If someone solo queues as a thief, group them with 4 other thieves
—If someone solo queues as a different class, group them with a random group of non-thieves.

Dahkeus.8243:

R O C.6574:

Dahkeus.8243:

As happy as I am that thief is in a better place for S3, I’m not looking forward to queueing up for matches where 2-3 other teammates are also playing thief…

I anticipate queueing for games in S3 as thief, but then having to swap to an alt for most games due to getting paired with other thieves. =/

From what i can tell, multiple thieves on a team in S3 will be a benefit. Here’s a fun trick for team fights: stand in the middle of a point, cast Shadow Refuge and blast area blindness while your fellow thieves burst the kitten out of the other team.

Crap like that only works at low tiers.

Why? Whenever you put down SR, everyone comes over to try and cleave you while you’re in stealth, but now they’re all blinded. just spam short bow #2 while the rest of your team AA. When is the last time you had 5 thieves on a team in the “upper” tiers? it’s kittening amazing how fast a focused target goes down with 3 or 4 thieves bursting

i dont hate thief just wish there was more good ones

R O C.6574:

Dahkeus.8243:

R O C.6574:

Dahkeus.8243:

As happy as I am that thief is in a better place for S3, I’m not looking forward to queueing up for matches where 2-3 other teammates are also playing thief…

I anticipate queueing for games in S3 as thief, but then having to swap to an alt for most games due to getting paired with other thieves. =/

From what i can tell, multiple thieves on a team in S3 will be a benefit. Here’s a fun trick for team fights: stand in the middle of a point, cast Shadow Refuge and blast area blindness while your fellow thieves burst the kitten out of the other team.

Crap like that only works at low tiers.

Why? Whenever you put down SR, everyone comes over to try and cleave you while you’re in stealth, but now they’re all blinded. just spam short bow #2 while the rest of your team AA. When is the last time you had 5 thieves on a team in the “upper” tiers? it’s kittening amazing how fast a focused target goes down with 3 or 4 thieves bursting

Lol, yea, I can see it now. The Abjured Astral Authority will now be running this comp and winning tourneys with this gimmick, I’m sure. I mean, there’s no possible way that couldn’t work out and if you burst one person, surely, you just won the game.

Dahkeus.8243:

R O C.6574:

Dahkeus.8243:

R O C.6574:

Dahkeus.8243:

As happy as I am that thief is in a better place for S3, I’m not looking forward to queueing up for matches where 2-3 other teammates are also playing thief…

I anticipate queueing for games in S3 as thief, but then having to swap to an alt for most games due to getting paired with other thieves. =/

From what i can tell, multiple thieves on a team in S3 will be a benefit. Here’s a fun trick for team fights: stand in the middle of a point, cast Shadow Refuge and blast area blindness while your fellow thieves burst the kitten out of the other team.

Crap like that only works at low tiers.

Why? Whenever you put down SR, everyone comes over to try and cleave you while you’re in stealth, but now they’re all blinded. just spam short bow #2 while the rest of your team AA. When is the last time you had 5 thieves on a team in the “upper” tiers? it’s kittening amazing how fast a focused target goes down with 3 or 4 thieves bursting

Lol, yea, I can see it now. The Abjured Astral Authority will now be running this comp and winning tourneys with this gimmick, I’m sure. I mean, there’s no possible way that couldn’t work out and if you burst one person, surely, you just won the game.

I’m sensing sarcasm

Thief is fairly hard to play and they are down toward the bottom on the power scale. Sure you can play one and be effective comparable to other people in a particular match. The problems starts when everyone is as good as you are or better in a match. Thats all that really matters is how you do against people your skill level or better. If your really good sure you can be better then a lot of people even of a thief but that’s not most people.

All thief team has to have a completely different strategy. You are at a huge disadvantage in the amount of damage you can sustain. But you dominate in mobility. If you are all disengaging instead of dying, the other team starts to get flustered that their points never stay capped for more than a couple seconds. And the insta-kills with 2 or 3 thieves are so kittening fast.

trunks.5249:

i dont hate thief just wish there was more good ones

OMG don’t i wish that also.

I had several games this week with 2 thieves on my team that couldn’t back cap if their lives depended on it. (yes they died a lot)

Spartacus.3192:

trunks.5249:

i dont hate thief just wish there was more good ones

OMG don’t i wish that also.

I had several games this week with 2 thieves on my team that couldn’t back cap if their lives depended on it. (yes they died a lot)

I had one that I never saw out of a teamfight.

What’s the likelihood of pulling this off in S3? I want to win a ranked match with this comp.

R O C.6574:

What’s the likelihood of pulling this off in S3? I want to win a ranked match with this comp.

Thieves in general are in a much better place for S3, particularly with the removal of the merc amulet. However, stacking thieves is still, as it always has been, a bad idea for team comp.

In lower tiers of matchmaking, you can abuse their burst to score kills and few players will be prepared/skilled enough to comeback after a single spike like this, but in higher tiers, downing a player fast still won’t often win a team fight since players will know how to revive effectively and will win the overall fight on attrition with cleave.

It’s the same basic reason why you can’t win high level games with the sort of Ranger Spike type strategy that teams used in the GW1 days of olde. There’s too many cleave and invuln skills and even when you get a big spike, the rally mechanics make it possible to overcome that advantage.