Guild Wars 2

Thief need a serious re~work !!
I’ve been trying to play thief in pvp lately.
Mesmer can do better than thief this is sad anet
And dont say its l2p issue im at dragon rank in pvp that mean i know what im doing
First the weapons

P/P OMG ! No life saving ability 900 range aa is worse and unload is terrible ! SB aa can do more dmg than unload

SB good over all

D/D dual skill terrible CnD is also not okay
1/4 dodge ! Really 4 initiative omg ! Dmg is terrible
CnD against good player NO WAY you can land it perfect

Other weapons is okay

Now the trait !
Deadly Arts not so deadly reveal training WTF!! 200 power for 3-4 sec give us something better than this reveal is a deadly debuff for us make it rewardable
Poison should move to this trait like before Trap is okay but should be circle aoe not in a a line aoe

Critical Strike this trait need serious re work
First the name > Assassination suit better than critical
Make this trait have more element of surprise like ex 70% more dmg while attack from stealth 10 sec cooldown

Shadow Art is beast but move poison trait to deadly and come up with something !

Acrobatic New Acrobatic is f** terrible old Acrobatic is awesome !

Trickery is good make caltrops as a trap its a f** trap

Sorry English is my second language

Now i only play thief for teammate trolling cause it weak in pvp

Shortbow in questing is great for poisoning things in Silverwaste (whenever it’s not bothering to auto disable shot a bug I reported awhile ago), getting close to tag things quickly with infiltrator’s, and good against groups for tagging. I Go dagger/dagger as a main for utility and damage.

Basilisk venom needs a serious fix, the charge time needs to be shorter without the stupid yell at the end and more time stunned to justify the cooldown.

Agree 100% that new acrobatics sucks. Even if we still had to pay gold to respec respeccing out of new acrobatics would have been worth every copper.

Don’t do that to yourself or teammates, engineer, mesmer, guardians, and warriors (especially hammer and rifle) bring great utility.

I was joking lol but i feel weak in pvp Thief doing okay in pve but pvp sigh i dont know if it other classes got buffed and thief stay behind or something

Jinx.4619:

And dont say its l2p issue im at dragon rank in pvp that mean i know what im doing

No one is going to take this post seriously now.

Bllade.1029:

Jinx.4619:

And dont say its l2p issue im at dragon rank in pvp that mean i know what im doing

No one is going to take this post seriously now.

I get the point of thread but mentioning dragon rank does take away attention…

Notso, I was going ask is this troll post or did you have like 12 beers before posting?

swinsk.6410:

Notso, I was going ask is this troll post or did you have like 12 beers before posting?

English isn’t his first language.

Well, despite the post being poorly worded, I kinda have to agree with this. I’m also at Dragon rank, few thousand hours on teef and high rankings on the old leaderboards, yet now after several nerfs and the specializations feeding on the power creep of certain classes, I feel like Thief has been kinda left behind. Of course this may be personal bias, since I am an S/D user, as D/P never really gelt right for me aside using it with/against certain comps… Right now, it feels like I’m actually accomplishing more as a Shatter Mesmer (less than 50 tournament wins, now ezpz with PU) and an Elementalist (don’t get me started how mindless Cele D/D ele is…).

Long story short; anything I can do on my Thief, on which I’m vastly superior in terms of experience and skill than on other classes, I can achieve with other classes with better gains. Is this balance? Because I hope it’s not. Right now Thief feels like only a decap/+1 bot, a role which can be fulfilled by any roamer class really, as long as you and your team has a brain. At least on my Mesmer I can also support the team better with Portals, Mass Invis, Distortion stomps, and not to mention being able to do same or more damage with the leisure of range..

Not meant to be just a whiny post, bit thief, especially S/D, was left behind when other classes gained great benefits from the specializations and condition changes (burning meta rip). At the point where one can do better with a class with less than 50h invested vs. a couple of thousand, this is ridiculous.

Fightslay.7402:

swinsk.6410:

Notso, I was going ask is this troll post or did you have like 12 beers before posting?

English isn’t his first language.

Pretty sure troll is his first language…

I agree with you on several points, but at this point I think we’re going to need to suck,it up, though. Thief already has the highest skill floor when it comes to doing well against the current meta, and I’m pretty sure every single class is going to cry if everyone and their mother can play thief and be decent with them.

Anet pretty much just role-reversed Mesmer and Thieves. The former went from “have to know what you’re doing to actually be decent” to “lmao mindless gank class” and the latter did the opposite.

I’m okay with that. Wish fighting wasnt borderline impossible but I’m okay with the perspective aspect of it.

We just don’t get to be good baseline. lmao.

First and formost, dragon rank in sPvP means as much as a paper bill from Canadian Tire. Often times truly great thieves will be dueling in 24/7 dueling arenas.

Could thief use a buff? Absolutely! Some of our trait lines are definitely not organized well. This being said, I’ve played thief since launch off and on, even now if I play the card correctly I can out match MLG FaceRoll builds.

If anet gives other classes cheese to throw at you, go farm some tomatoes and make pizza. Don’t give up, keep improving!

As long as devs believe and spread their propaganda about “+1 is OP” on stream there will no buffs. The impression i got so far from anet streams is that devs think this class is really strong because of +1. It is hopeless case.