Rifle or staff, I think which ever we’ll get, it’ll be more of a bruiser style weapon. I doubt thieves would get sniper rifle or meteor shower type skills on staff :P
FYI every thief/Staff forum thread has been deleted. This hasn’t been the trend for rifle threads. Your thoughts?
My thoughts? They’ve decided on Staff, and don’t want to “ruin the surprise?” Go figure, right when Thief players grow … accustomed to the idea of Rifle, right? :P
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I’d be happy with either rifle or staff (or off hand sword). I’d been theorycrafting about the 3 of them sinze release and want to know if a-net was close to my ideas about them on a Thief :P
I was really hoping for a sniper like set up to give thieves a ranged option seeing how dual pistols blows and shortbow is more utility but the leaked picture was a thief wearing parts of the sneakthief set, most notably the shoulders while holding a staff.
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Yeah. But that thing around his head looks much more like a blindfold than a headband. And the colors really aren’t completely off for Revenant. Revenant is Red Black and White.
Yeah. But that thing around his head looks much more like a blindfold than a headband. And the colors really aren’t completely off for Revenant. Revenant is Red Black and White.
It’s the Sneakthief helm (and shoulders, and chestpiece).
Those Revenant pictures are blue/violet/red. The thief ones are red/gray/black.
Yup it really looks like a Thief, so we’re getting the “martial artists” instead of the “guerrilla” specialization then.
Would’ve like the second one more but I’m fine with it and I’ve been a supporter of the “melee staff” idea since the beginning anyway, but because of my build I think for now I will stay a “regular” Thief so I can keep 3 core specializations.
Now if the Thief takes some sort of “shaolin” approach, I think his new utility line will be Mantras (like Guardians borrowed traps and Mesmers borrowed wells).
They made the spec art of Thief holding a staff so pretty much what we’re getting. It may of been Rifle but they did say they’d change it if they decided something better.
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They made the spec art of Thief holding a staff so pretty much what we’re getting. It may of been Rifle but they did say they’d change it if they decided something better.
An interesting note. During the Revenant Ventari stream, the devs stated that the staff was originally an offensive melee weapon rather the supportive version. Call me crazy, but I bet they recycle what ever the offensive abilities were and give those to the thief.
I have no clue what they’re going to do for Thief ranged though. With the P/P nerfs, and the lack of trait support for Shortbow, it’s like they want thief be a purely melee class. And that’s stupid when other classes get to have options for both playstyles.
Judging by the datamined pic, it looks like we will be some kind of shadow monk type martial artist, wielding a staff. If this is the case, which I really hope it is, what I think would be more interesting is if our staff was a hybrid ranged AND melee weapon.
As we have initiative, which I really hope we do not lose with our elite spec, I can easily see the staff skills 1-3 being melee, with skills 4-5 being some kind of long range attacks. Or maybe skill 1, and its stealth version, could change depending on the range of the target.
Just throwing some ideas out there.
Personally, I would prefer staff, thematically, but would also be happy if we got a 1200+ range rifle option.
Simplicity is complex.
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, If I could get that rifle though I might consider it
. otherwise gimme a staff :P
