Guild Wars 2

They just don’t feel very “visceral”.

I loved my Wow Rogue. Stacking some combo points for a big Eviscerate, bleeding them dry with Rupture, pounding them where it hurts with a Kidney shot and launching a Deadly Throw at a runner always felt GOOD.. Yes, sounds very familiar to what a GW2 thief could do, but I feel pretty disconnected doing it.

With Thief nearly all theirs skills feel very.. meh.

Sword is boring. I wish we were able to dual wield them. Its mostly just auto attacks and spamming Pistol Whip. An offhand dagger makes sword even more boring.

Dagger is the best of the sets when it comes to fun, but could be better.

Pistol.. while looking kind of cool, is somewhat monotonous. Dual wielding pistols is just spamming unload. A dagger in the offhand is pretty fun though.

Pistol.. while looking kind of cool, is somewhat monotonous. Dual wielding pistols is just spamming unload. A dagger in the offhand is pretty fun though.SB is dreadfully dull for my tastes too. Never felt excited to use it.

Pistol.. while looking kind of cool, is somewhat monotonous. Dual wielding pistols is just spamming unload. A dagger in the offhand is pretty fun though.SB is dreadfully dull for my tastes too. Never felt excited to use it.Anyways yeah.. just felt like venting a bit. I really hope A-net gives classes more weapons to use.. I feel like thieves need more the most.

Pistol.. while looking kind of cool, is somewhat monotonous. Dual wielding pistols is just spamming unload. A dagger in the offhand is pretty fun though.SB is dreadfully dull for my tastes too. Never felt excited to use it.Anyways yeah.. just felt like venting a bit. I really hope A-net gives classes more weapons to use.. I feel like thieves need more the most.Edit: I think the forums are bugged, it repeats one of my paragraphs over and over again and I can’t edit it out! o.o

Stop Saying the same thing over and over. Combine the last 4 ‘paragraphs’. And im gonna have to agree with you…

If yer Thief is borin’ yer playin’ it wrong an’ probably it isn’ the class for you. Nothin’ wrong with that, plenty ah other classes ta choose from.

Thief is fun, 400 hours of thief play.

I have an easy solution for you, if you don´t find playing the Thief fun, choose another class, very simple
I´m glad that Thief is not like WoW Rogue, I was playing Rogue back in the old days when WoW was actually a good game, and got sick of the 3 – button rotation in PvE/stupid stunlocking in PvP very quickly. Also I´m glad that Thief don´t have weapon sets like dual swords (It´s the weapon set for totally different class, not for Thief/Rogue, same with the axes or maces. These classes are just not light warriors, they´re cunning, agile and stealthy killers, the class with those wepon sets is more like Blademaster/Duelist etc…).

Totally agree with you Luna. My thoughts exactly.

Lvl 80 thief here,2100+ pvp games,pure fun.

I love playing my thief but I will just say that warriors have such a nice feeling of “flow” between their weapon sets and utilities. Everything just seems to work so nicely together for them, unlike the thief where your main weapon set and your secondary set have little to no synergy. Then again, warriors have such a huge selection of weapons to use while thieves are on the other end of the spectrum.

STRanger.5120:

I have an easy solution for you, if you don´t find playing the Thief fun, choose another class, very simple
I´m glad that Thief is not like WoW Rogue, I was playing Rogue back in the old days when WoW was actually a good game, and got sick of the 3 – button rotation in PvE/stupid stunlocking in PvP very quickly. Also I´m glad that Thief don´t have weapon sets like dual swords (It´s the weapon set for totally different class, not for Thief/Rogue, same with the axes or maces. These classes are just not light warriors, they´re cunning, agile and stealthy killers, the class with those wepon sets is more like Blademaster/Duelist etc…).

Shortbow, Pistol/pistol and Sword/pistol have no means to enter stealth, and stealth in GW2 is not really stealth in the general RPG sense but an enabler for special attacks.

The idea of sword/dagger as it is, is more of a light warrior than an assassin. In fact none of the stealth attacks but dagger and pistol really do anything at all.

Love my thief. I guess the profession just isn’t for you.

I love my Thief too, there are times that I just look at it with disqust because of the constant nerf with every patch but it’s also good for my creativity to come up with something new after.

I’ve also played WoW and mained a Rogue strictly in PvP, I usually don’t play PvE this is also the case in GW2.

I found the WoW Rogue to be vastly different from the GW2 Thief, the Rogue is ’’planning’’ based and Thief is more reflex based. Two entirely different classes although the archetype is the same.

I enjoy my bleed Thief alot atm, i’ve also started using the Shortbow to bring down enemies to <50% and then switch to D/D for a Backstab.

In both games and with both classes i’ve had great experiences, altough in the Rogue case some more ’’epic’’ moments when killing a flag carrier on the last second, but mind that GW2 just launched and will probably launch such modes in the future. Things might pick up for you then.

Played my Thief since 25th of August. My first and only level 80 char with R30 in sPvP.

Thieves are pretty fun, but they are lacking a bit too much in fun weapon set options. Many of their sets are a little boring and/or not very user friendly.

Servanin.5021:

The idea of sword/dagger as it is, is more of a light warrior than an assassin. In fact none of the stealth attacks but dagger and pistol really do anything at all.

Did you heard about the S/D pvp “Shutdown” build? It´s kinda like stunlocking someone to death —→ from stealth. But that is really similar to the Rogue i mentioned earlier (stunlock build) and doesn´t fit the class perfectly imho. But still much better than the “light warrior-dual swords/maces/axes wielding” idea, that should be just another class imho.

Based on my experience with a fiery greatsword…

Warrior’s look very fun to play.

For me Thief is the funniest class of all.
WoW Rogue isn’t reflex-based as our Thief, it’s more of a stunlocker/build-CP-and-unload class which honestly I find boring.

Try another class, maybe you’ll find what you like.

Thief is for ppl which like fast-paced and dynamic combat + stealthy classes. These ppl (including me) find it really fun, others have 7 more possibilities to chose from

^Indeed, yesterday I encountered a high ranked Thief (I think about rank 50 or so) she was using the D/P set and I just couldn’t kill her. She was so good jumping from one target to the next, it took a while but in the end 3 of us where sitting on the floor in downed state, I was pretty amazed.

Thief is my highest, but not yet 80 because i keep stopping and rolling alts to try to find what i am missing.

i love the idea of Thief, but i think the Initiative system is the problem. Because of it none of our attacks can be good because we could just spam them, so all our attacks are ok .

i love that Stealth a limited tool, but the issues with the servers or hardware of whatever make it not work correctly and those that abuse it are in Stealth longer than intended, causing fixes to other changeable areas.

i want to like Thief more, and for a moment i do, but it does not take long for me to be wishing it was something else and shelving her.

I love initiative ‘cause it lets us be more fluid in the way we play things … lets us bounce aroun’ when we need ta, massage right skills when we need ta, an’ get outta tight spaces real fast like. If we were on cool downs ya’d jus’ see people spamming the same set ah keys in the same order when they opened up … boring. Init is one ah the reasons I like the Thief so much, it’s a big part ah what makes us such ah frantic class ta play. (when we wanna be at least)

totally not boring to me.

" Its not your cup of tea. "

Try the other classes. I have a thief but i’m building a guardian. I know the cons of both and their advantages but that did not stop me from having fun in their own ways possible.

normally on mmo’s the “rogue” require huge tech skill either that or are just spammers plain and simple. i wish they were abit more towards the “tech skill” end here but i still enjoy pistol/dagger and shortbow.

900 hours theif <— still loving it

I’ve also played quite a few of the classes and so far Thief has been the most engaging to play thus far. I think the trick is to play it as a glass canon honestly. While other classes can basically sit there for extended periods of time with the occasional dodge roll, we have to be in constant movement.

I have tried several of the weapon sets and have finally decided that the Dagger/Dagger set is for me. The Sword/Pistol just did not have nearly as much mobility and I ended up getting bored with it. My off weapon set is Pistol/Pistol, not because it is better than Shortbow, but because I like the style. (i.e. exhaust your initiave in Melee, hit the skill Roll for Initiative, swap to P/P while in roll and start to strafe while Unloading … its quite epic)

Agree with you OP, compared to other proffs boring for sure but you mentioned the WoW rogue, I’ll inform you that rogues no longer have that “build up” they once did with epic finishers. They are like 70% passive damage from poisons and autoattack, Blizz essentially ruined the class. Both rogue and thief are about equal in boringness at the moment.

Once I switched to full condition damage, and learned to mix up my kiting, dodging with things such as teleports, thief became very fun. There is alot of functionality in thief abilities that is not immediately apparent.

Lots of fun taking on 3+ mobs via tactics, as opposed to the burst formula.

I play one just for the sake of having a decent chance to win in WvW roaming encounters, but I do agree, they are boring. While boring, they are by far the most lenient characters with a load of options that cannot be countered (i.e. shadow stepping, stealth and related culling issues, ambush, thieves guild, …), and compared to my other characters it’s just so easy to roflstomp around. Mostly against other thieves..