Guild Wars 2

Or at least un-nerf something

Patchnotes:
Thief: We found a bug that let players play this npc class for 3 years, thank god we removed it now.

We realized that Thief has two 1200 range abilities, and have thus decided to reduce them down to 900 range for clarity.

Scorpion Wire: Range reduced from 1200 to 900.
Steal: Range reduced from 1200 to 900.

God speed.

Serious Thought.5394:

We realized that Thief has two 1200 range abilities, and have thus decided to reduce them down to 900 range for clarity.

Scorpion Wire: Range reduced from 1200 to 900.
Steal: Range reduced from 1200 to 900.

God speed.

Yeah, it ruins the purity of the class. Good thing you pointed that out.

Guys, thief is fine. Devs are professionals and put a lot of effort and thought into class! It is CLEARLY player issue that thief is not taken by any tournament team and gets booted from almost every raid group.

I think staff thief is in a good spot but not amazing… Everything else is kind of sub par. Staff thief reminds me of s/d thief but with more evades and more aoe damage and not as cool animations…

Everything else is pretty much obsolete.

According to the pvp forums the problem isn’t our class, its us. Almost everyone that plays thief just sucks. The very few good ones that make it work prove the class is fine.

Yes I’ve seen this exact argument, no they weren’t joking.

Talking about the purity of the class, I’ve made myself a reaper alt, and it’s flat out outrageous compared to our class.

I managed to fight solo a champion while being 95% of the time in reaper’s shroud state.
With 15% attack speed trait, I could attack with the speed of a dagger auto-attack.

Then there’s this… that trait that apply burning (yeah burning… for the reaper master of the cold… purity of class gtfo) for every single auto-attack I land (The whole fight the mob has 15 stacks of fire on it… ).
Not only that but there’s also that trait that gives might every single auto attack too (so about 20-25 might all the fight).

Meanwhile, our dagger training gives us just 33% chance to land poison on dagger…
With my reaper with random rares and exotic on it and half the trinket slots empty (with barely 500 base condition damage), I felt more at ease and had better condi sustain than with my full equipped dagger viper condi Daredevil and his 10% condi damage bonus on lotus.

Nerf Thief though, is comparable.