Guild Wars 2

According to the official Thief description:

“Thieves practice an agile, acrobatic fighting style, which can make them very hard to hit.”

Umm, what exactly is so agile and acrobatic about Thieves compared to any other profession?

The default Thief has the exact same speed as any other profession.
The default Thief has the exact same rate of dodging as any other profession.
The default Thief takes the exact same damage from getting struck as any other profession (based on armor).
The default Thief is exactly as visible and hittable as any other profession.

The only thing I’m aware of that the default Thief has compared to others that even comes close to meeting that definition is Steal’s shadowstep. Everything else must be traited for or relies on specific weapons or utilities…. that includes the ability to stealth.

Even our Acrobatics traitline doesn’t really help avoid getting hit directly, especially compared to pre-patch Acrobatics. Now, in order to gain more dodges, we are required to evade or heal. Hard to Catch and Don’t Stop are great, but that’s simply canceling out effects, not avoiding damage directly.

Why not give the default Thief some advantages over others? Between a 10-25% movement increase. 50-100% base Endurance regeneration.

In other words, GIVE THE THIEF SURVIVABILITY WITHOUT STEALTH. You know… since they are going to be visible 90% of the time, especially with all of the revealing skills coming.

Ps. This has nothing to do with Daredevil. This is all about the (baseline) Thief as a profession.

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

Shogun.7401:

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

Don’t point it out or he’ll get a 2 week ban because, apparently, having a sense of humor is against the TOS.

Thieves have survivability without stealth. Super Unicorns have always been rugged mostly visible bunkers.

Nike.2631:

Thieves have survivability without stealth.

Yeah, no.

Man, you’re my hero for wearing that signature. Had a good laugh, thanks.

As for the actual question(s), that’s just advertisement/pretty text to describe something. It’s needed in most things otherwise the world would look plain.

Shogun.7401:

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

“Raptors”
“Hundreds of them”

I lost it.

I’m pretty happy with the price point but that’s a kitten fine bit of memery sir.

Shogun.7401:

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

Why does everyone rip on Dragonhunter? Is it really that bad?

Thieves don’t have advantages. They got deleted or handled over to other classes.

Agemnon.4608:

Shogun.7401:

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

Why does everyone rip on Dragonhunter? Is it really that bad?

It really is that bad. It has issues down to its core and all of them have had constructive posts with ideas to fix them. However, Karl is in charge of dragonhunter and thinks that adjusting numbers will fix it. It really is no coincidence that Karl is the lead for tempest, dragonhunter, and daredevil.

There was a time when even on my toughest builds, thieves were fearsome. I was dueling a friend in WvW while he was testing a pure D/D backstab build and he couldn’t dent my warrior. Even when I let him chip me down to half health that build had no chance.

We moved onto finding a competitive P/D and D/P but none of them could cut it. Warriors can be dangerous in solo combat if you don’t know their timing but a quality thief should be able to carve up a lumbering warrior build and now I hardly notice when one is on top of me.

Drennon.7190:

Agemnon.4608:

Shogun.7401:

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

Why does everyone rip on Dragonhunter? Is it really that bad?

It really is that bad. It has issues down to its core and all of them have had constructive posts with ideas to fix them. However, Karl is in charge of dragonhunter and thinks that adjusting numbers will fix it. It really is no coincidence that Karl is the lead for tempest, dragonhunter, and daredevil.

I’m trying so very hard not to blame one person, or to put a dev down, but… it is a difficult-to-ignore pattern that the worst Elite Specializations are all led by the same person…

Shogun.7401:

LMAO!!!! your signature is crazy… lol

I was crying. Seriously crying. It was that kitten good.

Slowmelt.8547:

I’m trying so very hard not to blame one person, or to put a dev down, but… it is a difficult-to-ignore pattern that the worst Elite Specializations are all led by the same person…

Not sure if he actually led the the specializations or simply presented them on live stream…

Not sure what to think right now… I’ll be taking a forced brake soon, i hope when I come back in February things are at leat decent for us…

We have one inherent advantage: we die faster, which allows us to waypoint faster. Woot!

Black Frog.9274:

We have one inherent advantage: we die faster, which allows us to waypoint faster. Woot!

No……. our advantage is that we have infinite protection boon

Our three inherent advantage are:
1. The ability to quickly go between bank and the trading post.
2. Increased crafting speeds in stealth.
3. Pleasure from self inflicted suffering. (Masochism)

The only advantage to this profession is mobility. The other advantage other people claim we have are either flawed or simply inexistant.

I really think the Thief should have faster endurance regen. Make Feline Grace (the current nerf one) a passive.