Guild Wars 2

Simple question. Not sure how it is at endgame, but all I see early game are Warriors, Guardians and Thieves. W and G I understand…but why thieves?

Are they this common at the endgame?

Mostly people having seen videos of a good thief hunting down unorganized players in WvW and hotjoin spvp and deciding they want a piece of that action.

Later game there are a lot less, in PvE you’ll see about as many as any of the non big 3 and in high tier pvp you’ll probably see even less.

I see more thieves in WvW than PvE now, I do 2 FOTM dailies a night, most common are warriors, guardians and mesmers.

Ah, good to know. I tend to shy away from overpopulated classes

Because a part of the Thief’s mechanics are related to an assassin’s one. The crowds love assassins.

My 2 cents; yes they are over played. So was the assassin in gw1. A few nerfs and tweaks later with some buffs to others changed that. I’m also sure thieves will drop in numbers when new professions are released. But as it stands from a few sources I’ve used; gw2 census, a few large guilds and personal experience, thieves are roughly the forth most played overall profession. But higher in pvp. I also think that number will drop over the next few months. As the person above me said, it’s mostly the novelty of the thief that attracts new players so a) novelty wears off eventually and b) just because there are a lot of thieves in pvp situations doesn’t mean they are all good. Tbh most thieves I fight are easier to kill than the hotm thief npc… However there are those with notable skill other than doing the same thing over and over.

Tl; dr yes they are over played in pvp. Not so much in pve. A good portion of them wont stay as a thief because they rely on overused tactics. Good thieves are underplayed.

… I’ll take my leave for now….