Guild Wars 2

Any change in the thief situation in WvW? Last time I logged the backstab thieves could kill three or four on one simply because they could stealth pretty much through the entire fight. Please don’t bother with the “just lay down AOE” comments since that doesn’t bring them out of stealth even though it should.

Sadly, the 1v5+ and win group is still just one class.

2 other threads running atm on same stuff

The conversations have evolved but thief’s remain the same. As I type this I’m aware of at least 2 thief threads on the front page with over 1000k views (even more on page 2).

Have a read of them at your leisure.

Altho tbh be honest, I think the WvW community is at the stage where they hope ANet will just do SOMETHING for WvW general.

Yes. Anet’s implementation of a stealth class is one of the worst ever still.

Luckily for Anet, culling is so bad, it is distracting most people from the problem with the thief class.

um how is it possible that a thief can kill 5ppl? u can down 1 but finishing its a bit hard after that.

the other day i saw a guild group of like 7 or something and i did the combo on the last dude and finished him… the next time i do that i manage to down 1, then all of them turn over in a second, and i had to shadowstep instantly, and i try once more they were less this time like 4 or something i jump on their glass thief down him and a guardian knocks me off and ress him and i shadowstep away.
I think ppl need to stop using glass cannon gear if they dont want to die instantly or use stun breaks becouse i think that 80% of the wvw population dont use em.
If your group is running like headless chickens of course the thief is going to win, a good thief feeds on the weak and run when he cant win.

And there you have it.
I run a thief too. But, more in a thief hunter role, than in a group killer way. The game’s mechanics in WvWvW are broken regarding thieves.
We can skip over the l2p issue.

MarMaster.6241:

And there you have it.
I run a thief too. But, more in a thief hunter role, than in a group killer way. The game’s mechanics in WvWvW are broken regarding thieves.
We can skip over the l2p issue.

Wow. It has only taken 7 months to get an honest response regarding these issues. Cheers.

2013
not playing thief
wat

Seriously, though, I think WvW is about 40% thief now. I finally gave up and made one myself and it IS fun. I have 3 ways to stealth at level 10. Really need traits to make it all good but I run around killing dolyaks and generally can’t be stopped. Stealth, switch to shortbow, teleport, teleport, stealth, teleport, run.

Can we please prepend (Thief Thread) in front of all Thief Threads so it is easier to tell when we are about to enter a QQ-heavy zone?

Juan Ignacio.8903:

um how is it possible that a thief can kill 5ppl? u can down 1 but finishing its a bit hard after that.

the other day i saw a guild group of like 7 or something and i did the combo on the last dude and finished him… the next time i do that i manage to down 1, then all of them turn over in a second, and i had to shadowstep instantly, and i try once more they were less this time like 4 or something i jump on their glass thief down him and a guardian knocks me off and ress him and i shadowstep away.
I think ppl need to stop using glass cannon gear if they dont want to die instantly or use stun breaks becouse i think that 80% of the wvw population dont use em.
If your group is running like headless chickens of course the thief is going to win, a good thief feeds on the weak and run when he cant win.

Thieves don’t feed on the weak, they openly attack groups and come away as the victors. In addition, finishing is easy for thieves. I think we have all been helping a downed opponent only to see a flag stuck in them from an invisible thief. They find finishing downed targets to be one of the easiest and safest things they do.