Guild Wars 2

Thief getting Physicals and Staff.

This seem pretty cool. I wonder if it will get an Elite transformation physical like Warriors have.

Pretty excited now.

Honestly I don’t think physical skills will be that great on their own. (Assuming we do get them)

The physical skills will most likely be offensive, however a thief should usually equip defensive utilities due to their innate lack of survivability.

Then again, if traits link up well and synergize, and staff (assuming we get it) has some defensive abilities of its own, then maybe it will work out. I’m just not getting my hopes up really.

came across this, pretty sure what the op discussing.
http://i.imgur.com/EKtgtgJ.png

I know the pro rifle camp will hate me but I’m excited about the idea of an acrobatic melee staff thief. I have visions in my head of smacking people with a stick all Donatello style. Whether or not that brings anything to the table that thieves were lacking remains to be seen but the way my imagination takes it, perhaps we might see a couple staff skills (like twirling the staff around us defensively) that may provide us with a bit of stability and help us hold a point better. In my minds eye I see staff as being both acrobatic and providing some degree of stability but less access to stealth. Who knows what we’ll really end up seeing but this where my mind goes with the thought of thief staff.

Knighthonor.4061:

Thief getting Physicals and Staff.

Source?

Why would anyone be excited about this?

Basically if this is true we had one of our defensive trait lines gutted just to become our new elite spec….w t f

T raw.4658:

Why would anyone be excited about this?

Basically if this is true we had one of our defensive trait lines gutted just to become our new elite spec….w t f

Then don’t get the elite spec.

Anyone forget that thief dies from “physical” encounters most of the time? In what world would you want to be up front with your thief using utilities like this?

Pretty sure the name of the trait suggests warrior anyways but people already had this discussion. Endurance gain on skill/action isn’t a thief only thing :/

NinjaEd.3946:

Anyone forget that thief dies from “physical” encounters most of the time? In what world would you want to be up front with your thief using utilities like this?

Pretty sure the name of the trait suggests warrior anyways but people already had this discussion. Endurance gain on skill/action isn’t a thief only thing :/

it’s entirely possible that it’s a warrior trait. it’s also the case that – in my experience – elite specs don’t add traits centered around core skills. that being said, all we have is an image and the dataminer’s word that it’s from thief. either could easily be fake.

With the recent berserker reveal, it’s pretty much confirmed that this trait is for the berserk trait line.

“Like all other elite specializations, the Berserker will come complete with a full line of traits. While we were not told any of the specifics, the traits fall into three categories to buff different aspects of the berserker. The first is focused on brawling by providing benefits for going berserk and to help gather up enemies.”

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36349

Tabootrinket.2631:

With the recent berserker reveal, it’s pretty much confirmed that this trait is for the berserk trait line.

“Like all other elite specializations, the Berserker will come complete with a full line of traits. While we were not told any of the specifics, the traits fall into three categories to buff different aspects of the berserker. The first is focused on brawling by providing benefits for going berserk and to help gather up enemies.”

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36349

Unless the trait is wrongly worded Berserker doesn’t use physical skills they use rage skills so thief still could get it. I hope it’s wrongly worded.

I wanted double shields to augment dodging. Or a scepter for the new weapon so the elite specialization would be shadow psychic with the idea of being an excellent sPvP support with boons, party stealth, and with enough stacks even obtain reveal immunity. It would still have some PvE utility but thief was designed mostly as a PvP specialists.

Sagat.3285:

Tabootrinket.2631:

With the recent berserker reveal, it’s pretty much confirmed that this trait is for the berserk trait line.

“Like all other elite specializations, the Berserker will come complete with a full line of traits. While we were not told any of the specifics, the traits fall into three categories to buff different aspects of the berserker. The first is focused on brawling by providing benefits for going berserk and to help gather up enemies.”

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36349

Unless the trait is wrongly worded Berserker doesn’t use physical skills they use rage skills so thief still could get it. I hope it’s wrongly worded.

The preview article directly compares Rage skills to Physical skills, which makes matters even more confusing. Could Rage skills end up counting as Physical skills or something weird like that?

The Brawler tag points to Berzerker, but the Endurance gain is a very Thiefy thing. At the moment, I suspect that it is indeed a Thief trait, that Dare Devils are getting Physical skills, and the name of the trait on the data-mined tooltip is wrong.

tobascodagama.2961:

Sagat.3285:

Tabootrinket.2631:

With the recent berserker reveal, it’s pretty much confirmed that this trait is for the berserk trait line.

“Like all other elite specializations, the Berserker will come complete with a full line of traits. While we were not told any of the specifics, the traits fall into three categories to buff different aspects of the berserker. The first is focused on brawling by providing benefits for going berserk and to help gather up enemies.”

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36349

Unless the trait is wrongly worded Berserker doesn’t use physical skills they use rage skills so thief still could get it. I hope it’s wrongly worded.

The preview article directly compares Rage skills to Physical skills, which makes matters even more confusing. Could Rage skills end up counting as Physical skills or something weird like that?

The Brawler tag points to Berzerker, but the Endurance gain is a very Thiefy thing. At the moment, I suspect that it is indeed a Thief trait, that Dare Devils are getting Physical skills, and the name of the trait on the data-mined tooltip is wrong.

Anet should drop a blogpost… tomorrow? friday? between that and the PoI, we should see if it’s a Berserker trait or not.

and if not, then it’s either thief or fake.

I dont get it

Engi gonna get hammer,Ranger gonna get staff and thief gonna get….nerfed?
ANET REVEAL OUR WEAPONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

A two shield thief would be great. The mainhand shield would be a weapon whereas the offhand shield could be thrown like a boomerang to inflict daze. A possible elite skill with two shields equipped could be shield pummel, which ignores defense and is a high damage rapid fire melee attack.

It’s still not entirely clear if Thief is getting physicals or not. They went more into the Warrior Elite Spec today, and it has rage attacks that are “like physicals” according to the article… guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

with physical skills we will be dead even closer to the enemy

Thief is a profession in vital need of higher base Vitality and Toughness.