Guild Wars 2

Found an interesting video…
It’s sodapoppin (not the presenter of the video, but the enemy guy with incinerator), the famous twitch streamer, learning to play thief – and I think he just started to play gw2 a week or so ago. I’ve only watched ~8 minutes, considering it’s 2 hours long (not going to watch all of it…). But in those 8 minutes it’s kind of interesting to see how a completely new player handles/starts learning a thief.

Mind you, and this maybe obvious, he’s not new to gaming and he has played other MMOs (say WoW) before – so he has the dexterity and the hand eye coordination that you typically acquire after gaming a lot (basically he knows how to use a keyboard and a mouse, and he knows not to click on skills….).

I feel thieves are fine as is, and I’m a mesmer main. It’s not like they’re sustainable beyond any DPS we can throw with irrational damage on top of it. They’re glass-cannon made, and mesmers have defenses against them[blocks the counter-attack, Chaos Armor, etc.]. And, to be honest, we’re a bit more on the “warrior” side of the spectrum, so we’re quite capable of surviving in a more “straight-up” style of fighting. In fact, it’s kinda fun in these fights, having the mesmer act as a “predictor” while the thief has to fight unpredictably in order to not be caught be the mesmer.

Well, that’s just my opinion, other mesmers will likely have different opinions on the matter.