Guild Wars 2

I only play thief. I have only ever played thief. Thief is the only class in this game that I truly enjoy. As my class gets nerfed time and time again, I begin to wonder if I should jump ship and play a different class, but every time I try, I ALWAYS come back to thief. Am I crazy? Are there any other people out there that only play thief? With the newest round of nerfs and buffs to useless traits, I’m thinking of finally switching over to my elementalist, whose been shelved for quite a while.

I’ve actually been experimenting with a sf fresh air ele, and have been having lots of fun and success with it. You can carry teams sooo hard with it. Basically any unfavorable situation you alone can either solve or prevent. you can melt high priority targets in a matter of seconds, or counter a lich bomb with swirling winds and magnetic wave, or get the decap on far with fgs and lightning flash, or the invuln stomps/revives with mist form and obsidian flesh that can completely turn a game around. You also have multiple ways of avoiding focus fire thanks to both invulns, the reflects, and lightning flash. And the AoE healing, protection and aoe downed body cleave can completely turn team fights around. So yeah, try out ele. Its way fun :D

yeah i give up too….just lost like 10 games out of 11 as thief
sigh

Most players won’t admit it but thief has a high skill floor. Don’t feel too bad if you get killed.

Thief is my main and by far my favorite. I think it’s the amount of control during a fight that makes it so much fun. The mechanics are simple but the depth in which you can use them is so satisfying when it all comes together.

I’m quite confident that s/d d/p and s/p (even celestial p/d really) will be viable post patch. If you’re good at one of these sets currently then you still will be post patch.

Recently, half due to boredom and half due to reduced effectiveness on thief I finally figured engineer out. P/P rabid/balthezar or Rifle celestial/Strength with grenades/toolkit/elixer s keep a lot of control that I like as well as having a great balance of damage to defense. Engineer spams a lot more keys than thieves but it rewards quick reactions and allows you to adapt to the situation like the thief.

Moral of the story, if all you want to play is thief, then play thief. If not, I suggest trying one of the two builds on engineer that I suggested. Either way, melt face and have fun…

It’s always good to play multiple classes. Thief and ele are tied for fun for me, followed by mesmer, followed by a random grouping of of the rest.

D/F 6/0/2/0/6 is really fun as an ele.

In MMO, there is one kind of player who only play 1 toon per game.
If you are crazy… that make us both. lol I’m Beta player thief.

For 10 years I cant play Alt in any MMO. (my alt never get max lv if try)

btw nerfed after nerfed, I still feel effective.
Idk may be I just try to have fun, not try to conquer Tyria and win every battle with my toon.

Pinkcomet.2975:

In MMO, there is one kind of player who only play 1 toon per game.
If you are crazy… that make us both. lol I’m Beta player thief.

For 10 years I cant play Alt in any MMO. (my alt never get max lv if try)

btw nerfed after nerfed, I still feel effective.
Idk may be I just try to have fun, not try to conquer Tyria and win every battle with my toon.

I am an alt-maniac, have all classes except necro which I play maybe once in a month to test stuff out and then I go back to my thieves. Got eight of them.

CobOfCorn.6352:

I only play thief. I have only ever played thief. Thief is the only class in this game that I truly enjoy. As my class gets nerfed time and time again, I begin to wonder if I should jump ship and play a different class, but every time I try, I ALWAYS come back to thief. Am I crazy? Are there any other people out there that only play thief? With the newest round of nerfs and buffs to useless traits, I’m thinking of finally switching over to my elementalist, whose been shelved for quite a while.

I think I will switch to my triple tetra med guard for good. I really enjoyed the class and seeing that thief has nothing but (now mediocre) damage and the ability to run away (which will get nerfed into oblivion as well), there is really nothing left to the rotten carcass of a class. I really expected Anet to fix the class and while I was sure that certain areas needed to be toned down, I thought the developers were skilled enough to balance it out with intelligent redesigns of other stuff.
But we get a minicleave that is useless for anything other than tanking trashmobs and 1.5 seconds of stab that no build can ever use effectively.
I can only recommend ohers to switch as well. See how powerful classes are meant to be in this game and give Anet what they want: let the thief class die peacefully.

Jayden Ennok.3687:

I am an alt-maniac, have all classes except necro which I play maybe once in a month to test stuff out and then I go back to my thieves. Got eight of them.

I’m always envy. this way I would have a lot more fun out of the game.
but I just cant >.,<

IDK why every time I log in. I WANT TO PLAY THIS TOON.

It took me a year before I managed to keep an alt long enough to get it to Lv80, and I still barely play them. I’ve been playing and enjoying my ranger a lot recently, maybe it’s because things will actually try to fight me in WvW rather than just running away.

I love my thief to bits, but it is getting harder and harder to play it effectively when the other classes keep getting new stuff and we’re stuck with the same options we had a year ago. If it ever gets too much trouble, at least my ranger can use his ascended gear.

If you look at my pvp chart which shows which professions you have been playing was 99.99% Thief on my account.

But I recently started playing Mesmer and haven’t touched my Thief ever since.