Guild Wars 2

So with the announcement that AoE will be getting nerfed, does it make it even safer to be a thief now?

Also are we expecting the rendering issues to be 100% solved, if not, the thief will have received an indirect buff from AoE changes.

Just saying.

AoE has never truly been a threat to a thief. Main threats are knockdowns/pulls, roots and stuns.

For a staff wielding ele or bow holding ranger it was pretty much their only thing lol.

Thief Cluster Bomb was a pretty solid AoE, you know.

Because most d/d thief’s switch to their s/b for cluster bomb….. it has nothing to do with Infiltrator’s Arrow.

SoPP.7034:

Because most d/d thief’s switch to their s/b for cluster bomb….. it has nothing to do with Infiltrator’s Arrow.

lol your trying to be sarcastic but failing bad because most D/D thiefs just use heartseeker for travel and DO in fact switch to shortbow for aoe’s.

Forsaken.2167:

SoPP.7034:

Because most d/d thief’s switch to their s/b for cluster bomb….. it has nothing to do with Infiltrator’s Arrow.

lol your trying to be sarcastic but failing bad because most D/D thiefs just use heartseeker for travel and DO in fact switch to shortbow for aoe’s.

Would <3 to see where your ‘most’ statement on that is legitimised. Why would an invis rendering thief stick around in the middle of a mob after its dropped someone, they would be looking for a quick escape.

Stiv.1820:

AoE has never truly been a threat to a thief. Main threats are knockdowns/pulls, roots and stuns.

This is bang on.

SoPP.7034:

Would <3 to see where your ‘most’ statement on that is legitimised. Why would an invis rendering thief stick around in the middle of a mob after its dropped someone, they would be looking for a quick escape.

Who said anything about sticking around in a middle of a mob? I switch to shortbow often to use my aoe’s, especially clusterbomb, so to say an aoe nerf is a buff for thieves is just not correct.

Forsaken.2167:

SoPP.7034:

Would <3 to see where your ‘most’ statement on that is legitimised. Why would an invis rendering thief stick around in the middle of a mob after its dropped someone, they would be looking for a quick escape.

Who said anything about sticking around in a middle of a mob? I switch to shortbow often to use my aoe’s, especially clusterbomb, so to say an aoe nerf is a buff for thieves is just not correct.

Because theif’s spend most their time shooting from a distance, what are you even arguing? lol

Try reading:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Short-bow-almost-required/first#post333027

Darxio.5672:

Thief Cluster Bomb was a pretty solid AoE, you know.

Yea it was solid and didn’t it get nerf in damage already ?

SoPP.7034:

Because theif’s spend most their time shooting from a distance, what are you even arguing? lol

I’m arguing the main point of this thread you made, it is not an indirect buff to thieves… I never said thieves spend most of their time from range either, where are you coming up with this stuff?

Clusterbomb is a great aoe period. Everyone gets hit by aoe’s not just thieves and like another poster already said AoE abilities were never the bane of thieves, it has always been CC and still is.

It’s actually dangerous even for us (thieves) since our role in the zerg is to spam cluster bomb and combo blast..