Firstly, this is not bashing. I’m not bashing the people who bash thieves, I’m not bashing anyone. I really don’t want anyone to come in here and bash anyone else for any reason at all. I’m just a bit disappointed and maybe a little sad.
It seems any time I come on these forums, I constantly see people posting how certain thief builds are OP – and why anet should nerf this and that. I’m not going to go into all the builds or how there are only a couple or what not.
It just disappoints me a bit because Thief has been nerfed already, quite a bit. Then again, so has a lot of things since the game went out. I was one of the earliest people playing the game after the betas, took a few months off when I got bored, made a friend try it and now I’m back into it.
Now, I’m a casual player. I have, at this point in time, zero interest in WvW and PvP, nor have I ever cared to play either – and this may change once I actually try it and figure out what the heck I’m doing with it, I know. I’m actually not a hugely social person, and I don’t really play multiplayer games. I’m a huge gamer out of GW and even on the rest of my games, I don’t play with other people. Heck, I don’t think I’m even in any real, active guilds (I made one just to throw friends into, but shortly realized I have no friends and just kinda left it at that). This is why I like GW2 so much – I can solo everything, but people are still everywhere, which means for huge meta events or even small daily events if I’m finding it a bit tricky I can just wait for more people to show up, or come back later, or heck – if I’m feeling particularly extroverted, I can even pop a waypoint on the chat and say “Champ up” or what have you and get at least a couple strangers to help me. And right now I’m having tons of fun at the Crown Pavilion. No one really cares that I play a thief because it doesn’t effect them – but a lot of these nerfs have effected my thief, made her so this or that was a bit trickier to do. The only problem I have (right now, as I may want to try PVP at some point) is when I want to do dungeons. It’s a group event, I’m not a group sort of person normally, so finding out how many people are basically just “thanks but no thanks” because I play a thief, regardless of my playstyle (which admittedly is far from the “ideal”, I’d imagine – I’m only just shy of 70 right now, hoping to hit 80 by next weekend since I work m-f 9-6+2 hours commute total. I run Superior Mad King because it amuses me to no end to see birds mauling my enemy every time I pop Thieves Guild, even though I know Zerk is considered “ideal”). It sure doesn’t help my social anxiety.
Then again, I’m playing for fun, not dos loot. It seems that most people doing dungeons and all that these days are running and farming them – which I get. Doubtless I’ll be doing the same soon enough. Maybe. If I can find anyone to run with that understands no, I don’t have any clue what I’m doing because no, I haven’t done this before because no, people don’t like partying with thieves (even though it’s so much easier to rez as a thief – pop a TG, especially effective with full Mad Gear set birds elite, or Ambush to draw aggro and if you need it, Shadow Refuge and/or Blinding Powder).
Oh well. People will always complain about something after all, and while the majority of the Thief complaints are PvP, some of it extends into survivability and thus dungeons (at least in my experience). But I love my thief, and I have no plans to stop using her.
TL;DR lots of thief hate, mostly pvp stuff that I don’t play probably because of thief hate but mostly social anxiety, but what if I want to do a dungeon, huh? A lot has been nerfed but that’s what things do, they get nerfed. It’s just that some of the thief nerf has made certain thief playstyles less effective compared to others for us introverts who have to gather up ten minutes of courage to even consider asking to maybe possibly join a dungeon run and how dare we not run zerker gear to make up for our squishy lil selves! The scandal!
I know not everyone is all about the fastest CoF1 run possible, or whatever people are doing these days. The first time I did ask a group running the first game dungeon on story mode, I did go with them – but I felt way less effective compared to the rest of them. They were all really nice. But that doesn’t seem very common, sadly. Maybe it’s my server? I’m on Kaineng, because that’s which server a friend was on who doesn’t even play anymore. But sometimes it sure feels like “dos loot asap” is what most people are all about these days.
Aaanyway. Just a random opinion from a random nobody who needed to vent a touch. Have a nice day.
:)