Guild Wars 2

Except then you remove the versatility of stealth in the game and the unique playstyle on each weapon set. There is no unique playstyle after that as everyone would just play d/p for the blinds and no other set would ever be used.

Stealth could easily be balanced if they removed it from every class outside of thief. Then it’s easily balanced accordingly and it’s interaction with certain effects could be changed without risking it becoming op on another class. And if it was changed to be that way then what’s the use of having SA? You’d have to completely redesign the class which I don’t believe anet will do.

I’d be fine with removing a class mechanic I paid for via an expansion if every other elite spec had a mechanic removed as well.

The backlash on the forums would be worth the nerf.

(keep in mind people who get paid to develop this game sat in a room and determined this was balanced, and thief was still incredibly weak out of the gate when the patch dropped. )

I’m not saying the other classes are near balanced. Cause heaven knows they aren’t even close. What I’m looking at is returning thief to be balanced in itself. Right now if you were to only look at thief balance and ignore everything else d/p would be op. Only reason it isn’t is cause everything else is loaded with even more power creep.

So yes other things need major nerfs but that’s not my area of expertise so I’ll stick to thief and engi for now with these posts until I’m a little more comfortable speaking for other classes.