At the moment, not really. Having said this, I haven’t seen the +1 second increase to the Revealed debuff calming people down about stealth. Call me a cynic, but I don’t think that we’ve seen the last of the stealth nerfs. It may not happen any time soon, but it is coming.
If you’re planning on playing a Thief that is focused around going into and out of stealth, then I expect that you will get nerfed at some point in the coming months. Beyond that, it’s really hard to say since there are no other aspects of the Thief class that people are complaining about.
We are Test Group F. (Don’t ask about what happened to the previous Test Groups.)
I think there was a comment somewhere that devs wanted to nerf thieves damage and probably their stealth a bit more, so in general expect some form of nerf in the near future which will most likely effect most builds (like how the stealth nerf effected everyone but the intended)
Unfortunately thieves will always be complained about due to mechanics that are countered by thought rather than button pressing.
Tbh its hard to say, they do stuff like throw out a caltrops nerf out of no where so who knows what they’ll do, they seem to like nerfing thieves in silly ways so…
They said condition thieves are weak cause they only got bleeding and token poison. Which is too easy to cleanse and so too weak. And they were thinking of putting some burning somewhere.
They said condition thieves are weak cause they only got bleeding and token poison. Which is too easy to cleanse and so too weak. And they were thinking of putting some burning somewhere.
That’s actually what I thought when I saw they had no burning. However if they are going to introduce burning they are going to have to nerf stacking bleeds some how if you can easily stack 25 bleeds. The nice thing with have different conditons is it’s harder to remove them all. That’s why the Engineer is so effective I’ve noticed.
- Cluster bomb will cost 8 of ini
- Mug will aply 1 stack of bleed instead the damage.
- Blind will affect the targets only 50% of time
- A thief can not be in steal more than 6 seconds no matter how much you stack it
And finally:
- Steal will make thieves transparents, not invisibles.
(close sarcasm)
Probably someting to make pve thieves worst (<= no sarcasm at all, sadly)
That would be shadow return, which is a different skill, as its the same shadow return that is attached to shadowstep, though each has a different uptime on the return portion. However it should be noted that return has worked as such since beta, if anything, the tooltip is wrong. Its a takeoff of the tooltip from shadowstep, (which is 1200 range)
I’m hoping to run a condition Thief, should I be worried?
The only thing they said specifically in the SotG that I remember was Mug. However, I think they said they dont have any plans to change Backstab. Also, they talked about buffing Engi’s and Thieves when it comes to conditions. If anything, you will get a buff, where DPS thieves might get a nerf to Mug.
imo it’s not best to make thief and stick with it, since it is ALWAYS on the nerf train
ppl will never be happy, really.
a-net should put their foot in the ground at some point:
enough ! this class remains as it is ! no matter what.
no offence but that’s the worst advice you could give but sadly probably sound advice. Thief is the only class that I genuinely love playing. With all the nerfs, the things I love about the class are starting to feel (badly) different from what they were before. I’m looking at you 4s revealed! So dumb whoever thought that one up
They’ll nerf mug and probably add the intended stealth nerf on top of the last minute one. Black Powder will be nerfed. They’ll nerf heartseeker to nolonger move you forward. I foresee another Shortbow dmg nerf once Thief is nerfed enough that they basically become a 100% range class. Then they’ll nerf something random that’s already weak. Like Unload or Body Shot. Note: all these nerf will cause a random trait to bug out and stop working.
| Fort Aspenwood (NA): Sylvari Daredevil Thief Main: All Classes 80. | Please Remove/Fix Thief Trait: “Last Refuge.” “Hard to Catch” is a Horrible and Useless Trait. Fixed 6/23/15. Praise Dwayna.
I foresee a significant Mug nerf coming. In bygone days, I would’ve actually been okay with this, but given the pile of other nerfs we’ve taken, I hope it doesn’t happen.
However, it probably will. And they’ll also probably just remove Basilisk Venom from the game, since it’s pretty useless now anyways.
