Guild Wars 2

The squeaky wheel get’s the grease. This means nerfs are early and often for professions which people get beat by often.

Certainly, depending on your play style, learning to play AS a thief can have either a low learning curve, or a high one. Same goes for learning to play AGAINST a thief.

I think it would be great if we thieves could compile a list of strategies to counter us. It would be even better if any of us running streams would be brave enough to point out good characters who beat us, and HOW.

Once that thread is compiled (from replies posted in this thread), we can link the info any time we see someone else calling for nerfs.

At the very least, it may steer these conversations towards being constructive.

To kill a thief:

Against all thieves- AOE, Stun, Daze, or Immobilize

Against X/D thieves- Blind, Daze

Against Class Cannon- Get toughness (seriously), Be ready with stun break/escapes, then see above.

Order of engagement against a thief with Cloak&Dagger, Blinding Powder, and Shadow Refuge

Glass Cannon opener
1. Basalisk Venom
2. CnD
2. Steal
(he will then attempt to dodge/turn & backstab OR he will pop quickness and autoattack/heart seeker)

Your counter to GC opener
1. If you are stunned, don’t wait for it to expire while you look around. Pop your stun break and gain distance
2. If you still see nothing, wait a second (he’s closing on you), DODGE
3. Thief attacks, you BLIND or DAZE them, try to burst them down
4. If thief survives, they either (a) run, (b) blinding powder
5. While AOEing, count to 2, 3, or 4 (depends on your thief, you will see a pattern), DODGE
6. Blind/Daze/Immobilize again

IF this is a GC, it’s dead or in shadow refuge and running away, if this is more survivable, congrats, you’re now in a duel, game the timers like every other class. May the best man win.

I doubt this will help/change anything. Anet must be ok with were the thief is because they haven’t nerfed it since november. None of the crazy suggestions by people are taken into consideration. When asked on the devchat live stream which characters they felt were not balanced thief was specifically included in the question. The devs said bunker eles and mesmer portals that was it those were the only 2 classes on their watchlist.

What you are writing is written in the feedback thread people are going to still whine.

If I was going to QQ this kind of thread would actually be ammo for my cause lol.

The devs are fine with it your just always are going to have people that QQ can’t police everyone.

This is a very long post that could be summed up by “L2P”.