Guild Wars 2

It really infuriates me, as a P/x enthusiast, that our weakest weapon set was glazed over in a patch that claimed to “increase build diversity”. What changes it did receive were an inadvertent nerf.

Moreover, how did you develop an interesting new condition that punishes movement and fail to fold it into our weapon set that would most appreciate it?! Three seconds of vulnerability? That’s the change MH Pistol gets? Not torment? Or a buffed vital shot?

What a difference it would have made if body shot was changed to apply torment. Anet really missed an enormous opportunity to excite thieves into trying a new playstyle.

I was incredibly excited for this patch and it turned out to be a complete and utter let down.

I totally agree, a friend and I were talking about bodyshot last night.

While I think P/x is helped by having another option for damaging condition, the buff to vuln is next to useless in this weapon set, since a condition build doesn’t need to decrease the enemies armor to be effective.

from what i gather we have about 90% of thieves mad and the other 10% like the patch and/or are posing as thieves. the patch is very mixed from other classes’ perceptions.

the only argument against thief is thakittens strong in raoming 1 v 1 scenarios but that has diddly kitten to do with anything relevant to gameplay/goals.

its like saying necros can stack to many aoes so for now on one will overide the other unless you put them so they are non overlapping. i think thats fair. who wants to walk into 8 marks :P

Actually I feel the same that they totally missed the opportunity with switching the vuln. on Body Shot to Torment… It would actually make 100% sense to switch out that poor excuise of skill to something useful… not that we could spam it non-stop, but it could give pistol a needed edge :/
Ah well… hopefully they realise that a 10x stack 3s duration vuln. is not that great… since it will override the condi specced ppl’s duration and we would be ini starved to keep it up constantly -_-

What a difference it would have made if body shot was changed to apply torment. Anet really missed an enormous opportunity to excite thieves into trying a new playstyle.

I was incredibly excited for this patch and it turned out to be a complete and utter let down.[/quote]

My feelings right now.
Still tormentin myself thinkin bout torment.