Guild Wars 2

Whell its not a long story, but it came out quite interesting, since its not the first time i hear it from a thief, and more then hundreds agreed with it (from what i hear in game)

So the story is , that i met a Thief, we talked, and he sead he alredy had the mats to Legendary, but he is saving it for near future, when they propably get rifles.
I was no sure if he is joking, or trolling me, so i asked araund, and he is saving those mats for some time now and so are some other thief"s, and i started to wonder whats the origin of this all. But It became clear quite fast, and i realized, i would do the same (if i had a thief that lv).

So why?
1,If you want to play a class with decent range you play, ranger, or a caster.
What if oyu want to use Rifles?
You roll Engineer or Warrior…..
Engineer is a fun class, but its not a tipicall fighter class, more of a caster ish thing, that is using equipment. And most importantly it is using the rifle as a shotgun, that is totally not the way most ppl want to play a rifle. No wonder Engineer is a no go to many players.
Warrior? Yes it does have the skill theme for a sniper rifle, but its a Plate melee class mostly. You can play it range? Ofc you can, but thats not the point, the whole skill system and class is based araund melee, and only a minor part is available for a ranged build with rifles. Its more if an option, if you really need range. BAsically all you doo is “shoot shoot shoot shoot” , no real mechanic or build there. Besides a “ranged rifler” is not realyl fit for a plate class.

so there are only 2 classes that can use rifle and none of them represent the tipycal class the Predator was designed for….???

I understand that rangers are in a bit of Nature setting, but it does not mean they should not be able to use rifles, its an item like any other….
And thief can use pistols, why cant it use rifles?

Those 2 classes should be the ones, that should be able to use the rifles to full potentian and they cant equip it?
Ranges should have the tipical warrior ish skillset, and Thief should have a tipical sniping set, since his bow is mostly for aoe, and mid range.

So yes now i understand there resons, and if you ask me, i would roll a thief right now if i know they will get Rifle skills. But i dont trust Anet as moch as some others do here, so i cant decide now to roll Warrior or Engineer……
My friend coming next week and goingto play Engi, besides i dont like the shotgun set.
And warrior is just not for meh……

What you think ppl? Opinions? You ever encountered anything like this?
(sorry for bad english)

Ive wanted thieves and rifles since i started playing this game

Plenty of ‘bandit’ mobs in the game are snipers, assassin types as well. It probably wont happen until a later expansion, but I see no reason why we couldnt use rifles.

It sucks in WvW and in world bosses having no 1200 attack.