Guild Wars 2

Man these topics are months late.

In 3 months from now, people will start crying at how S/P is broken but the actual thieves players will have moved on to something better way before that.

It feels weird to see all these threads, it’s like an afflux of new people to the forums only refilling the same old river of tears, countered by the same old unexperienced bad arguments.

I guess that’s WvW for you.

Im agree with you muscarine, I mean when people see something new and look strong, they dont try to find a strategy or the weak point of the class/build and start to complain and beg for a nerf

Im a D/D thief and for try something new I decided (2 days ago) to switch a S/P thief in WvW

so im usualy in the obsidian JP because its fun, and my build work great! I have almost no experience with S/P but I can kill easier some class I have trouble with my D/D (like zerk guard)
But I have also some problem with mobile class with condi (like ranger with shortbow, he put me lot of condi and always move so its hard to pistol whip him)

I need more training but I did some awsome kill and I was almost sure that some people was crying about S/P lol

I met lot of thieves all was D/D or D/P and I had 0 problems to kill them lol, and from today, 3 of this thief I met and beat with S/P (because we often met the same people in that JP :p) started to play the same weapon set ! normaly its extremly rare to see thieves play this weapons in WvW, I mean I think I encounter maybe 10+ in WvW and I play GW since the begin

So im sure if lot of thieves start to play S/P in WvW lot of people will find something new to complain about thieves because S/P dont use stealth

If you’re getting Backstabbed to death on a regular basis, you might very well have the downs.

The reason people complain about thief is because they don’t know how to counter it. Thief is pretty unique, so they just expect that if they complain, they will get thieves to be nerfed (which has happened) Thief is bottom tier. It’s incredibly hard to play. Unless you’re just strafing and not actively fighting the thief, you’ll get backstabbed over and over again. All it takes to fight a thief is common sense, really. The only thing thief is remotely good at is 1v1 fighting, but against a warrior of the same skill level, the warrior usually wins. Thief needs buffed, tbh. But I don’t think it needs buffed TOO much. I just think it needs more defense. I still want a bit of a challenge while playing thief, I want it to be a little difficult, but not this much. Where’s the fun in playing a class if all u have to do is 12345 switch 12345? :P

So no, thief does NOT need nerf. Good day. Learn to fight the class.