How are thieves in pve?
Its alright. You can do open world as you wish, maguuma meta maps you will have to learn to survive, but its possible.
Im perfectly fine running my thief in fractals. I dont die, I deal damage. And if we play a 94 cliffside suddenly stealth is a thing again.
For raids you migh not be the most wanted profession, but you still deal the second highest damage and are theoretically able to take the tank role for some fights without loosing too much personal dps.
They dont want you over anything else, but you will get a place if you ask nice enough.
All in all: You can play thief for every part of pve content.
Your ‘Dps rotation’ is a little one-sided tho.
Like a rev but much worse
Not very good. They never really have been. They can be effective with certain types of builds that are designed to exploit gimmicks, but generally they are punishing to play.
The biggest problem is that their Attrition is garbage and Stealth doesn’t really work as a defensive tool they way it should.
Nonsense. Utter garbage. We are the top second highest damage dealer, only below elementalist. I confirmed it personally with the damage golems.
As far as soloing in open world, I run a CS/Acro/DD build and there is nothing I can’t handle. I can solo most of the HoT champions and I play as a commander most of the time in the map metas, even leading the zerg in tower rotation in Dragon Stand, doing most of the runs with zero downs or deaths.
Most people underrate them based on bad personal experience, because their surviability is built into their dodges and evades and that is skill based. Acro + DD has a lot of potential, but if you don’t learn the mechanics of the mobs you are fighting, can’t read telegraphed attacks and can’t time your dodges, you won’t get far.
There is no class in this game I enjoy playing in PvE as much as I enjoy Daredevil, but it can be punishing as a new player. But to say the potential isn’t there or the class is bad on it’s own merits in PvE right now….it’s just not true.
Rehabilitated Elementalist. Now, trolling the Thief forums with my math.
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Nonsense. Utter garbage. We are the top second highest damage dealer, only below elementalist. I confirmed it personally with the damage golems.
As far as soloing in open world, I run a CS/Acro/DD build and there is nothing I can’t handle. I can solo most of the HoT champions and I play as a commander most of the time in the map metas, even leading the zerg in tower rotation in Dragon Stand, doing most of the runs with zero downs or deaths.
Most people underrate them based on bad personal experience, because their surviability is built into their dodges and evades and that is skill based. Acro + DD has a lot of potential, but if you don’t learn the mechanics of the mobs you are fighting, can’t read telegraphed attacks and can’t time your dodges, you won’t get far.
There is no class in this game I enjoy playing in PvE as much as I enjoy Daredevil, but it can be punishing as a new player. But to say the potential isn’t there or the class is bad on it’s own merits in PvE right now….it’s just not true.
I have to agree with this 100%. Thief is probably my most survivable class in open world. You’re just faster than everything else. You can avoid most incoming damage, never run out of endurance, and if things are looking ugly you can disengage and escape at will. Nothing can catch you.
Like a rev but much worse
There’s really not much similarity to revs in PvE, even if they share a similar role in PvP.
In PvP, revs are low dps boon-bots. Thieves are some of the highest pure DPS. The biggest thing they have in common is that they both can do a lot to a breakbar, but a thief won’t have to hurt their dps by weapon swapping for that.