Of the classes that I have played extensively in sPvP so far (thief, necro, engi) only the thief has a set cycle of abilities that they use. I saw in WoW that people call this a “rotation” and I was originally glad when I thought GW2 had avoided this play style.
Having a rotation completely deskills a class. Most classes you need to do on the fly decision making to pick which skill to use, but thief just employs his BS chain or runs away until he can.
I’d really like to see this disappear altogether. I’m not talking about nerfing. I’m talking about changing thief skills so that they do not have such an obvious and rigid order.
It just creates a game where the class requiring least skill rises to the top, and who wants that???
Err, in my experience thieves are the profession least inclined to use a rotation. Every other profession actually has traditional MMO cooldown-based skill bars that lend themselves to using abilities in a certain order and then every time they pop back up.
TS, you should try playing a GS warrior and do the 100b rotation.
point is, it is not just thieves, some classes also have a “rotation” as you call it, to do maximum damage by chaining together weapon and utility skills.
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Your thief skills have an order? While playing as a Thief, I feel more open to skill choice mid-combat than any other profession. I never get tied in to an opening combo, or a “burst” or anything like that. Just don’t use a gimmicky backstab build. Problem solved.
