Guild Wars 2

Seems we are getting a lot of attention? or maybe not. Though, what we do have is another Thief discussion forum outside of this one in the sPVP forum so that people bash qq and talk about thieves.

So how do you guys feel about having the limelight on your main (if its your main) avatar? Do you expect another round of nerfs. We have been nerfed quit a bit these last few patches while other classes (warrior, guardian, mesmer) have been getting buffs.

The answer is that it sucks and is scary. Just like in WoW when you spent 6 months getting great gear, only to find out there’s about to be a patch which invalidates all your hard work, any changes to a class in GW2 is the same effect. You will have to re-learn a play style you worked hard to perfect if they make any changes. So I dread reading patch notes where there is any change to any class. Change will happen, but the light being shined upon us might cause it to happen sooner than later. We’d prefer to remain out of the highlights and just be hidden in the background. Fortunately, a lot of skilled players pick the Thief because it’s made to shine with skill – like every class, but moreso with the Thief because of a large lack of AOE damage – and so there is a disproportionate number of awesome Thieves running around stirring up trouble.

A: as a stealthy fast and hard hitting class I always expect a nerf^^
guardians seems to be the only prof that can nuke a whole team, heal full up three times and support in every aspect without ppl QQ

Also most mmoes seems to make warriors the most balanced prof/class/role/job, I mean as prof/class/role/job, not compared to others:) just my opinion though xD still dull xD
Love my thief and iniative + steal, just wish for a permanent mug>:D

Thieves are always a topic of much discussion in my MMO experience.

The Thief isn’t OP. The Thief is just a counter to how people are building their classes right now. Everyone is building a glass cannon and trying to focus on beating people in 1v1, especially in sPVP. No one is building tanky or focusing on playing with their team. Because a class is better at something than theirs is, they claim that class is OP rather than trying to find a counter to it.

People don’t realize that thief really lacks a lot of Break Stuns that other classes have. Thief really only has stealth to save it, and if you’re building like what a lot of thieves seem to be doing (Basilisk Venom, Assassin’s Signet, Shadow Refuge, the Venom that immobilizes, and Hide in Shadows), you basically forego any chance to survive CC for a better initial burst. This kills very squishy, glass cannon builds, but if you can’t kill someone with your initial burst, they can rarely (since not many people build for it) heal, then chain CC you to death. Of course, there’s ways to get around this and a lot of other classes aren’t building for CC either, so they claim thief is OP rather than try to find a counter to it.

Thief has the lowest HP and medium armor, so we’re given stealth and high damage potential to counter it. This is just like how Guardian has the same HP as thief, but has high defense, heals, boons and damage to compensate.

All classes excel in something, and people just don’t realize that they may have chosen the wrong class for what they want to do. Elementalist, for example, is considered to be UP in sPVP. However, I notice a lot of Elementalists use the Staff, which is absolutely terrible in 1v1. It excels in PVE and WvW, however, due to its insane AoE and nuke damage. It has cast times, so if you try to use it in 1v1, you’re just going to get yourself killed. Dagger/Dagger (for Elementalist) has high burst damage but low survivability, which makes it more ideal for 1v1. Scepter/Dagger is also a good choice.

I could go into more detail, but I feel this post is already too long.

The other classes had bugs fixed….that’s not the same as an all out buff.

Pistol whip could be nerfed and i wouldn’t care, as long as pistols in general (unload) were buffed.

I’ve already pretty much scrapped my thief and moved on to a warrior, because they get to have the same or better damage with better defenses and no nerfs

IIIIIIIIIIII haven’t seen any real buffs for mesmers/guardians. And the only thing that got nerfed for thieves was the stupid Heartseekerx10000 build. That’s not that big a deal.

My problem with my thief main isn’t that it might get nerfed (that’s stupid, and imo thieves are probably in need of some balance adjustments), it’s that the thief playstyle isn’t what I hoped for. Many of the skills feel awkward or stilted, while WvW and sPVP seem to be “Switch to Shortbow or die.” I’ll probably quit for those reasons.