Guild Wars 2

Who is actually happy with the current state of thieves?

Dev responses are irrelevant, because it’s apparent that you’re happy with it.

I’m mostly happy with the state of thieves. I’m much less happy with powercreep in general. There are now a lot of things which block or mitigate damage passively. This has required even more powercreep to counter (in the form of unblockable attacks or temporary unblockable skills). The “counter the counter” balance system is nice on paper but produces a lot of problems when some classes can’t counter and all the base abilities have been buffed to compensate for the counter-counters.

For example, I fought many guardians before HoT and was able to kill them. Sometimes a tough fight but I usually managed to handle them in a relatively reasonable period of time. DH is another issue. DH is not overpowered but it does over perform in this meta because it benefited from a lot of the powercreep.

Happy, no. Content, maybe.

My gripes center around stealth stacking cheese, over reliance on AA and the systematic dismantling of various weapon sets over the years.