Guild Wars 2

I was incredibly dissapointed when seeing the patch and when I tried my usual 25/30/0/0/15 build it went just … so…terrible…bad… Sure the damage was the same and spamming short bow 3 to troll a zerg worked just fine but death count increased.
So I tried this other build with d/p and changed my spec to be survival like 0/0/30/25/15

It’s just TOO FUN. Basically traits are aimed towards mobility and utility but I played with them to see what I liked most. It can stack might pretty easily, spam blind, recover ini and do all the fun things. It has less damage, of course. 7k backstab tops, with food. But it survives technically anything. D/D eles fall like flies.

So build worked wonders for me, I used to see videos of super surviving elementalist, now I feel like I’ve caught up or beaten them.

Now my real concern, if they’re going “buff mobility” that would either make this build god like or glass cannons would be just way too tough. Glass cannons, of any class, die easily, I don’t think thieves should be the difference, however, if they nerf damage it would make these type of builds just a trolling device…

TL:DR
I found a very fitting build and I fear anet’s way of thinking for possible changes/nerfs.

Oh no! Thieves have to actually pay attention to the screen a little bit now!

Bacon Please.8407:

Oh no! Thieves have to actually pay attention to the screen a little bit now!

It’s not a matter of paying attention. The lack of culling and invis time made a huge change which (I bet) nobody was expecting. When running GC not even having the almighty shadowstep would work much since stuns pop up so often and after using CDS everything was doomed. This other build, on the other hand….
For a melee class it’s quite punishing, y’know. :T

lol 25/30/0/0/15 complaining about dying.