This comes to me as quite a surprise, as a person who mains a mesmer and has never lost to a thief I don’t understand why mesmers would hate on this kind of an easy kill (warrior is definitely the easiest and probably every mesmer would agree with that). Thought I understand if they’d hate thieves for their easy access of leaving a fight, but focussed on the fighting aspect of both classes I cannot see why thieves would be seen as a threat to mesmers (This is all written from a 1 vs 1 perspective, in a 1 vs 2 or 2 vs 2 so many other aspects have to be taken into account that it pretty much doesn’t come down to mesmer vs thief, but more like which partner the thief has and which build that partner has etc etc.)
I guess in the end it all comes down to how experienced one is when it comes to their own class + predicting enemy movement. Obviously knowing your own class isn’t enough, many people forget to being able to predict your enemy’s movement is equally as important. For me I find it insanely easy to predict thief movement which is probably why I pretty much always block/dodge backstabs and steals.
So what I’m trying to say is, these classes don’t counter eachother (I always say that classes don’t counter eachother, only builds) and that it all boils down to how experienced the player is. Hate shouldn’t be directed at the class but more at how ‘bad’ you yourself are.
