Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played thief for a while, and I’m glad to be honest. I’ve leveled guardian and mesmer to 80 and have my ele at 53, and they are just so much more versatile.

I was actually astounded at the level of group support I could offer (I mainly PvE/WvW) while still doing really good dps. Having been something I have talked about with my mates since beta, I always felt thief was severely lacking in this department. It only has a few skills that can truly be called support, and less builds that can be run as support than any other class except ranger perhaps.

Also, initiative. While it is an awesome feature and makes it feel like a really fluid class, in the end it will lead to nerfing thief to the ground for PvP balance issues.

When you have skills and a mechanic that encourages to spam the skill which has the best dmg/initiative cost, those skills are going to have to be subpar when compared to other classes to make up for the fact that they have no cooldown.

I really don’t know what they can do with the class, and while I love its mobility I feel that it has much less versatility in its roles compared to other classes.

Just my opinion anyway .

you forgot Steal being horrible.

i’d really like people to understand the thief as you did, instead of saying “the theif iz fine” because it works ONLY for those (broken) aspects that are being nerfed over and over.

I’m just waiting for the nerf bat to hit the thief so hard the class will be totally useless, then maybe devs will start rebuilding the class from its ashes.

the problem is i’m stuck with the thief, and as long as, S/D+ SB is working decently, i will still remain a thief.

Actually I never had a problem with steal. When used appropriately it is one of the best group buffs we have actually! The only real problem is that is becomes pretty much useless when you have any kind of ranged combat, which is pretty sad IMO.

Karthaugh

Actually I never had a problem with steal. When used appropriately it is one of the best group buffs we have actually! The only real problem is that is becomes pretty much useless when you have any kind of ranged combat, which is pretty sad IMO.

This. Steal is an excellent class ability and can be traited to do a solid variety of things. Its major weakness as it stands is that steal lacks synergy with situations wherein you want to dictate range that isn’t right on top of your target. Having F2 pop up with shadow return for a few seconds after steal might be a viable option, but it probably shouldn’t have condition removal.