Guild Wars 2

Great havoc group video that demonstrates how good thieves can be at group support.

It may sound new to you, but many players believe thieves aren’t a good choice for supporting people.

Also manners, get some.

Thanks for sharing OP.

Wolfheart.1938:

It may sound new to you, but many players believe thieves aren’t a good choice for supporting people.

Also manners, get some.

Thanks for sharing OP.

You are more than welcome.

Nice video [RIOT]. I don’t disagree that thieves can add a significant advantage to a 5 man. We used to run one as one of our 5 slots. The stealth rez is huge, along with the 3 shotting people using dagger dagger. They are not however super effective against other 5 mans who know what their doing. When we hit 10-20 mans the thief drops targets faster than anyone, but when focused by above good players gets rocked fast.

When relying on 5 people we cannot afford to have one of our slots be taken out so fast. And it isnt at all a reflection of our player maining thief, simply the classes lack of sustained condi/aoe dmg defense. For this reason we have switched from running a thief as one of our main 5 slots. Our thief roams as the 6th most times. The class is simply a better (roaming during the fight) class than any other class is. Our idea was to have our thief (in one of the 5 slots) at the time assist on main target but found targets running through aoe simply dont allow that to be functional. Since putting the thief on the outside of our main 6 (and 6 only)we have found that it is a much more natural position in a small man team to roam the outskirts of a fight than to be relied upon by 4 others for the majority of our encounters. Thanks for the video.

Nice vid.

@thiagoperne kitten you must be so pro, maybe post some vids of yours?

Personally I can always learn something, some nice stuff in here, not everyone is super pro reading these forums right? I appreciate it more that they include the voice and not some horrible music.

Nice video. Love seeing thief videos that aren’t just hey look how fast I kill people.

Now not trying to be a kitten here because you are clearly a much better thief then I will ever be, but as I watched I kept waiting for the big reveal. Haha! This is how we support! Moment. It never came.

Watching the video I got stealth people in, do what a thief does in larger fights, stealth people out. Tada! Support! Floating around the edges of combat looking for burst targets, stealth stomps, stealth res. I know these things help, but really that is what a thief is in group play, not because you are support, but because anything else gets you killed.

Now I’m sure an army of skilled thieves will descend and tell me how wrong I am. Hopefully they bring more good videos.