Guild Wars 2

Well my thief is now not viable in a group and should be only used to roam and gank noobs?
WTF is going on here

If you want to cluster bomb someone at 1200 range, you just gotta scorpion wire their kitten first lol!

Yeah this is a really silly change. It just pushes Thieves further into solo roaming and ganking people. It’s funny because I thought that’s what they’d be nerfing.

Seven Dreamsong.9802:

Crawford.4135:

A BOW is not a main viable weapon for Thieves. If you, like so many I kill, use it as a main weapon you seriously need help, in the head.

who said we’re using it as a main weapon?

shouldn’t you be allowed at times when you’re low on health, go on range?
shouldn’t you be allowed to go on range on say.. walls?
since every other classes classes have 1200 ranged weaps?

so you’re saying that a specific class should only go melee all time, while
others can switch as the situation suits it?

and since you’re so already good killing thieves,
even with this already weak weapon that got nerfed yet again,
why should you get your panties in a bunch?
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I fight countless Thieves in this game using Bow as their main weapon all the time. My point I was making is that most of the players complaining are those types of players.

I don’t use bows, at all. I have never relied on the ability as a ranged ability or a get-away ability, either. I find Bows to be useless in many aspects of the game. For PVE it has horrible damage for single targets over duel pistols. And anyone running from me in PVP is going to take far more damage with Duel pistols vs. a tiny Bow.

99% of you players are D/D & Short Bow (offset). If I had relied on a bow since launch and these changes took effect, sure they would probably bother me more. Instead I took the tougher less traveled road and went S/P & P/P and learned how to get out of bad situations without the need for a Bow.

I am the 1% spec in this game and I realize that. But to literally fight a Thief that’s using his/her Bow on me the entire fight? That’s just ridiculous and pathetic.

Crawford.4135:

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I fight countless Thieves in this game using Bow as their main weapon all the time. My point I was making is that most of the players complaining are those types of players.

I don’t use bows, at all. I have never relied on the ability as a ranged ability or a get-away ability, either. I find Bows to be useless in many aspects of the game. For PVE it has horrible damage for single targets over duel pistols. And anyone running from me in PVP is going to take far more damage with Duel pistols vs. a tiny Bow.

99% of you players are D/D & Short Bow (offset). If I had relied on a bow since launch and these changes took effect, sure they would probably bother me more. Instead I took the tougher less traveled road and went S/P & P/P and learned how to get out of bad situations without the need for a Bow.

I am the 1% spec in this game and I realize that. But to literally fight a Thief that’s using his/her Bow on me the entire fight? That’s just ridiculous and pathetic.

The people in this thread are almost all complaining about how this changes their role in WvW, not PvP and PvE which is what you are talking about. Have you read all the posts? The people who are complaining are not the “shortbow only” types you speak of. (Honestly I don’t know if there are many shortbow only thieves and even shortbow D/D is not as popular as you may think. S/D was popular before this patch and so was D/P.) This is a huge blow to WvW for us. The people in this thread know the class well and that is why they are upset.

Crawford.4135:

Seven Dreamsong.9802:

Crawford.4135:

A BOW is not a main viable weapon for Thieves. If you, like so many I kill, use it as a main weapon you seriously need help, in the head.

who said we’re using it as a main weapon?

shouldn’t you be allowed at times when you’re low on health, go on range?
shouldn’t you be allowed to go on range on say.. walls?
since every other classes classes have 1200 ranged weaps?

so you’re saying that a specific class should only go melee all time, while
others can switch as the situation suits it?

and since you’re so already good killing thieves,
even with this already weak weapon that got nerfed yet again,
why should you get your panties in a bunch?
.

I fight countless Thieves in this game using Bow as their main weapon all the time. My point I was making is that most of the players complaining are those types of players.

I don’t use bows, at all. I have never relied on the ability as a ranged ability or a get-away ability, either. I find Bows to be useless in many aspects of the game. For PVE it has horrible damage for single targets over duel pistols. And anyone running from me in PVP is going to take far more damage with Duel pistols vs. a tiny Bow.

99% of you players are D/D & Short Bow (offset). If I had relied on a bow since launch and these changes took effect, sure they would probably bother me more. Instead I took the tougher less traveled road and went S/P & P/P and learned how to get out of bad situations without the need for a Bow.

I am the 1% spec in this game and I realize that. But to literally fight a Thief that’s using his/her Bow on me the entire fight? That’s just ridiculous and pathetic.

The point of this thread is because Thieves have horrible time in groups. This ranges from having to get closer than everyone to do a large event such as jormag or a straight up WvW fight. (I am not talking about PvP at all I could care less about that). In WvW if you are defending/assaulting a tower you need 1200 range skill to hit people from/on walls.

Shortbow thief no longer fun now especially in WvW… yeah i agree it’s practically useless defending siege…Why demoralize us by nerfing it so much especially when culling is fixed… think the patch is forcing us to use the stealth ability more often. But guess i will take a break…