Hey thanks for reading,
I was just reading over the upcoming changes and I’m just speculating on the upcoming changes to thief next season.
From what I can tell rev might be getting pushed out of the meta.
With less burst damage overall and the new ammy and rune, necro should be getting back in on the action because they will be able to hold conditions better with more vitality and they might be able to drop warhorn which was originally mandatory as a counter to bunker mesmer’s shied 4 which is getting another nerf.
Is engi getting another buff to pistol? I spent a whole night of dueling to kill one of those as a thief last week.
Buff to scepter ele, burn guard and mallyx rev (will this come back with herald getting gutted?) will probably saturate pvp with another flood of condi builds moreso than we have now.
Condi warrior splashing around in honey when the deadshot ammy comes out.
Guards spamming aoe slow instead of daze is a harder counter to rev and thief, with it getting spammed everywhere do you think thief will be buffed so that slow is cleanseable. Currently Dash, Withdraw and Dont Stop are still missing the ‘slow’ condition cleanse they probably should be updated to have.
Where does this put me on my thief?
Am I going to be using acro now for better condi cleanse?
Will escapists absolution be chosen instead of PI for meta?
Or will I just have to leave my thief out of ranked pvp for another year?
power revs in lower tiers wont notice nerfs because they werent able to land a proper precision strike or SotM anyway
power revs in higher tiers have ton of other ways to abuse the strength of the class even without broken SotM burst, precision strike nerf will hurt them though
more condis is bad for thief because anything what can create an extended pressure hurts thief, especially long condis which delay the ability to reset the HP bar but it wont be enough to make d/p meta thief swap to EA instead of ID simply because of how broken those interrupts are
everything else stays the same i guess unless patch notes will be extended which we should know soon