Guild Wars 2

And what kind of build do they use? What kind of content do they play? I’m interested in seeing some more developer playthroughs with the thief!

Show ALL the developer playthroughs!

Nobody of them mains thief which wouldn’t be a problem. But nobody of them plays thief.
I still can’t figure out on which input they balance thief. Atm I think it has something to do with the position of traits in traitlines and the movement of the 8 planets through the zodiac signs. Makes the most sense. I only don’t know if they include Pluto.

They probably get input from “elite” players who loves their backstabbing DP build, and have no idea of game design. So, we have two options for why thief is so bad:

1. Designer doesn’t play it. We all saw how he knows all traits and styles ( chuckle ) – by my HO, game designer is not a good game designer if he doesn’t play his own game, and goes by theory crafting.
2. Players who give input aren’t knowledgeable in game design, and should NOT give input. So far one, maybe two builds are viable and ALL others are pretty much sub par.

Honestly, I think people are still complaining on other forums the fact that they get backstabbed too many times, and the devs listen to that.

GreenPhoenix.2943:

Honestly, I think people are still complaining on other forums the fact that they get backstabbed too many times, and the devs listen to that.

This. Cause lately it takes kitten load of backstabs to actually down someone.

based on poi and some statements from them in game i think i can summarize their experience on thief as following:
- generally they don’t pvp much as they do not have time
- camp downstate in pve content
- hit some golems in HotM with venoms

That is. Yep.

Dev responded in Warrior forum answering a silly question, but we’ve never seen a Dev here for months…and they are talking about Dual Wielding and a possible expansion of Dual Wielding for Warrior. All the while that Thief is the Dual Wield Profession.

From the wiki: “Thieves also have their own special weapon skill types; dual wield skills, Stealth Attacks and shadowstep skills.”

I guess that part of the Thief is no longer “special” seeing that Warrior is taking that away too.

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Dual-Wielding-1