Now I’m really getting sick of how Anet devs destroy us bit by bit. Every single patch we have been hit hard by the nerf bat. Those few so called buffs we get are the ones we never have asked for or buffs that’s just pure bullkitten (just look at body shot). We got larcenous strike, which we never asked for. We just wanted the animation on flanking strike to be more accurate.
What happened to short bow? When did players complain about it? It’s our only ranged weapon that was viable. I have never heard a single player cry about it being OP, what they cry about is stealth – and we, the thief community, have had tons of viable ideas of how to fix this. If only a dev would show up and have a discussion with us and hear us this could have been fixed months ago. But the short bow; first you mess up trick shot, and now you completely destroy our only ability to participate in Zergs and sieges by messing with cluster bomb.
You wanted to add torment to our skills, but you put it on a venom – that nobody uses. You didn’t change our condition builds one bit. Even mesmers got a much more deadly implementation of torment than we did! And again, nobody ever asked for this.
Sword/Dagger. In an earlier patch you have us larcenous strike, which nobody asked for. The result – tons of S/D boon stealers that again make people cry. Instead of understanding that you made a mistake by adding this ability you just nerfed it. What about just make flanking strike what it once was, just keep the new and reliable animation – which was exactly what we wanted – not larcenous strike.
Death Blossom. What’s the logic? The only place I’ve seen this ability used for conditions is in sPvP hot joins. The use? Just to troll people. It was weak and nobody used it. Why make it even more useless?
What I’m really saying is this. I’m sick of getting hit by the nerf bat for no reason. You just smack us and then give us no reason for why you did it. How about show up here and actually listen to the more experienced thieves and take their ideas to the drawing board? They have lots of experience and lots of good ideas on how to improve the class without making it stronger. I’ve seen ideas to fix the stealth QQ that was amazing and would heighten the thief skill level. Please try to have an honest discussion with us and at least give us some sort of reasoning for why you’re messing with things no one wanted or ever complained about.
Melder – Thief