Before I start my rant, I’d like to say that I’ve been playing Thief since the beta weekends and enjoyed them in sPvP so when the game was released, I made it my main. I’ve been putting down around 600 hours on my Thief, doing mostly dungeons/fractals and other PvE stuff. I haven’t been playing that much sPvP since I enjoy the PvE element more but sometimes I usually go on there to pew pew. Do WvW a couple of times a week when I’m bored.
Now, I’ve recently been starting to scrape together items for a legendary and I’ve encountered something I find bs: you need badges from WvW that rarely drops. Now, I don’t mind WvW, it can be quite funny sometimes when you’re not zerging around, but after switching back and forth between builds I’ve found that the thief doesn’t have much choice in builds if he wants to be successful in any PvP.
I really hate this. My usual build is 0/30/10/15/25 but I’ve been switching around, trying all sorts of builds to actually succeed in a 1v1 fight.
My gear is berserker mixed with valkyrie so I’m around 17k hp but that doesn’t stop a guardian wielding a 2-h to drop me in seconds! From what I’ve read, many are whining about thieves 2-shotting with backstab and such or been up against thieves with p/d just cheesing around, putting bleed on you and then disappears. I have tried both builds and yeah, they’re powerful and so boring! I don’t want do go cheese builds! I want ANet to cut the BS and fix balance the thief.
In dungeons, it doesn’t feel like we add that much to the group. There are so many better professions that actually does something for the group out there. Sure, we can stealth, apply poison/weakness and (if specced right) give poison to the group but tbh, who’d want to bring a squishy thief when you can for example get a guardian instead?
I mean, I enjoy the thief. It’s got real nice potential but it feels like they rushed with this profession. Swords are in need of some love, daggers are fine (maybe remove shadow shot, feels like a third wheel when you have heartseeker), pistols aren’t good and shortbow is a must have cause it’s pretty much our only aoe. Maybe add a few more weapons?
How about you? What do you feel about the thief? Am I only rambling like a mad man?