Guild Wars 2

Example:

Double thief, great, I ask if the thief is good and get no reply, probably assuming I’m some elitist kitten or whatever. Ask if they can swap, “I have no other pvp character”

Ok. So I swap. Surely if this person exclusively plays thief, must be good, right? lolno

Thief 1v1’s, doesn’t decap, doesn’t +1, tries to team fight, gets downed repeatedly, etc. Probably doesn’t even know the mini map exists. Loves to solo pve on forest while ignoring a point. You know who you filthy mongrels are.

Protip: You should never stop moving as thief, your roll is not to 1v1 or team fight, it is to +1 fights and force rotation while decapping. A ranger sitting on their home point ? Why the kitten would you go 1v1 him, +1 somewhere !!!!

Thief can’t even die in this meta other than to another thief! How are you dying! DISENGAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I would expect this kind of play in bronze ffs!

/END NERD RAGE

tl;dr I am not swapping my thief out anymore, these scallywags cannot be trusted.

Without visible class specific mmr it is hard to tell if someone is better or worse with a class than you are.

If we could see the specific mmr and a volatility rating for that mmr it would go a long way to solving the “who should swap” question.

Look at it this way: every good thf started out as a bad thf. Just annoying when you get a bad one in ranked.

Thief is strong. Thief player bad. Its the way its been in every MMORPG I’ve ever played. Your average knob loves stealth classes.

A lot of bad people play thieves, because they are easy to play and almost forgiving every idiot move you make – in wvw.
The same people come into pvp missing the runes, the food and armor stats from wvw and fail because of that.

steelheart.7386:

Thief is strong. Thief player bad. Its the way its been in every MMORPG I’ve ever played. Your average knob loves stealth classes.

^ This. Your average MMO player loves the idea of a thief but is “below” average at actual pvp with it.