Guild Wars 2

Why play a thief, when rangers do whatever thieves can, just 190000000000000x better.. literally longbow does more damage, stack vulnerability, and bleeds.. Plus there so squishy yet there damage doesn’t make up for the squishiness.. Like honestly, being stealth for 2 seconds is nothing, things like rangers pets can still see you when you’re invisible.

What is the point of this thread, exactly?

The point of this thread is, why play a thief, when you could play a ranger. Rangers have survivability, thieves have non at all.. They nerfs made thieves even worst.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/I-m-done-playing-thief-How-about-you/page/4#post3128934

It would be a better world if every thief rerolled ranger. More free kills in WvW.

thieves…..i love killing rangers. please go play one.

Most rerolled warriors. More free kills for us. :D

dont know what your talking about, i just got to 80 on my thief (seriously just a minute ago) so im not expert but rangers have lot of issues. Yes rangers have survivability but is certain builds, maybe 1v1 with bunker conditions they can be good but the rest of the game we lack. I am not even going to start to mention the issues ranger face, go and read yourself but you are the first thief that i hear complaining about rangers lol seriously.

rangers are in majority easy kills as many have said. In fact i was in wvw with my lvl 79 at the time thief with lvl 60 gear and was doing better than with my ranger, lot more escape mechanism and stuff. I was even criting for 1.2k (not geared keep in mind) with my ranger even with full crit, power, prec, dmg % when flanking and all that i barely reach 1k

With P/P, I can gap-close and down almost any ranger I target (in WvW) in <5 seconds, and there’s VERY little they can do about it. I would never want to play that profession.

I don’t know where you got the idea that the Ranger is good, unless it is a condition/power tank (which has been nerfed, you know, BM was too strong or something) it will go about as quickly down as a thief. The damage is slightly better yes, assuming the stupid pet will hit something. Ultimately, the Ranger is lacking almost as much as the thief (save the good condition/spirit builds…).

Yeah, I mained a ranger before I started my thief.

I never looked back once. My thief is more “ranger-y” than my ranger ever was.

Survivability… are you kidding? I can count on no hands the number of times my ranger escaped a lop sided fight or being run over by a zerg, meanwhile my thief just lols it off and GTFO.

Thief class has a lot of problems atm, that’s granted.

But whining when playing thief and thinking that going ranger would be better, it’s a non-sense.

Especially in WvW, rangers are (sadly for them) the easiest class to kill for us thieves, hands down. I’d go as far as saying that Ranger is the worst class at the moment (except obv for the spirit build in tPvP, but that’s a specific single build for point holding and nothing more).

Rangers are free loot bags. On a very rare occasion a condi-bunker ranger will be annoying but not seriously dangerous. Dying to one has become sort of an inside guild joke. Even their steal is underwhelming and outside of a sword build they cannot run away.

Our favorite ranger move is when they barrage at the start of a fight. We call it the lean back… which is basically a sure fire ranger kill.