Guild Wars 2

I BET THEY’LL IGNORE US AND LET TIME SWIP THIS AWAY. I HATE YOU, PIERCED IDIOT.

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It wasn’t a nerf.

Paulie.6215:

It wasn’t a nerf.

Technically, no. It was a ‘bug fix.’ Yet, why did they suddenly fix it after three years? scratches head

I love how this thread is top thread in the thief subsection of every languages available in the forum xD
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AegisRunestone.8672:

Paulie.6215:

It wasn’t a nerf.

Technically, no. It was a ‘bug fix.’ Yet, why did they suddenly fix it after three years? scratches head

it wasn’t a bug fix either

if this is a bug fix then every single skill in game should require target

Paulie.6215:

It wasn’t a nerf.

Except that it was.

It was a nerf.

Steal is now less versatile with no upside other than an extremely minor “ease of use” change.

Can we stop with the knee jerk reactions? It was a buff much more than a nerf, since you can’t put steal on CD from out of range. When was the last time you intentionally used steal in combat without a target?

Only trait I can think it really affects is stealth on steal, and very few ppl use that.

They aren’t merging steal complain threads so that means a staff member has never checked this subforum.

woahhh

easy on the explode.

theyre humans.

Gallant Pigeon.5807:

Can we stop with the knee jerk reactions? It was a buff much more than a nerf, since you can’t put steal on CD from out of range. When was the last time you intentionally used steal in combat without a target?

Only trait I can think it really affects is stealth on steal, and very few ppl use that.

If the only trait you can think it really affects is stealth on steal, you’re not really qualified to talk about it, or thief in general.

Gallant Pigeon.5807:

When was the last time you intentionally used steal in combat without a target?

When was the last time you used anything else except 111111111111111111?

The “Bug Fixed” should works like that: If you have a target and it out of range, give you that warning. If you don’t have a target, let us use it like it was.

That out of range then do nothing should only be helper for new player and skilled played should prevent that by his own skill(not by program limits you). but really bad for creative playing, now I cannot use some movement skill to make a long jump because it is “out of range”…………………. So It should be an option which can be turn off.

It’s much better like this. No more wasted CDs.

Paulie.6215:

It’s much better like this. No more wasted CDs.

If you’re wasting CDs with Steal, I think the problem is with you, not Steal.

This^. I used steal for swiftness. I don’t think I’ve ever accidentally pressed steal and was then kittened because it when on CD.

“It was a broken mechanic and I’m glad it’s fixed. I’ve lost so many matches over Thieves being able to Steal without a target, so this is a welcome change”, nobody from the PvP community commented in a recent interview.

Paulie.6215:

It’s much better like this. No more wasted CDs.

The issue with this type of thinking is that if you apply this to too many skills across all classes in the game, you will eventually lower the skill ceiling of every class until the game becomes extremely dull.

Having different ways to use skills, such as steal, based on your traits and whether or not you drop a target, raises the skill ceiling and allows better players to take advantage of their skill, while giving new players, or players new to a class/concept, something to look forward to using with more practice.

All this change accomplishes, in my opinion, is lower the skill ceiling of a class that should have one of the highest skill ceilings in the game. Like others have said, if you’re a good thief you don’t waste your steal and miss targets out of range anyway, so all this does is help players that are new to thief, or just bad at thief, play with a small safeguard to their own lack of skill.

Hyde.6248:

This^. I used steal for swiftness. I don’t think I’ve ever accidentally pressed steal and was then kittened because it when on CD.

Never? Not a single time? Nah don’t believe you.

why isn’t this change in the patch notes????