Guild Wars 2

Guys, please don’t take this offensive. I’m just a scrub, young thief with lots to learn. I returned to the game recently. I read over the thief forum because I’m attracted to more agile, stealth classes in most games.

I don’t have the time most of you have invested in my thief. I don’t have the knowledge of the class, the builds, and such as most of you do. I’ll be the first to admit, I’m a “noob” at the class. But I like the class, my thief is only 22, but he’s fun.

I just can not figure out why you guys are against each other. I’ve seen comments today like “Let me guess, you are an evade spammer”, or “Stealth spamming thief, learn to play”, or “Guys, look, another stealth spamming thief”.

Why are you guys against each other, you play the same class. You should be united.

I mean yes some thieves obviously play stealth based builds, some play evade based builds, but what are the other options? A thief can’t exactly take hits very well right? Isn’t the point of the class to either dodge attacks, or stealth to avoid damage?

You guys are brothers and sisters of the same class. Stop fighting amongst yourselves.

It would be nice but unfortunately that will not be the case! I would love to play nice but there are some ppl who really get on my nerves regardless of my patience and understanding. The ppl who go on with “learn to play n00b (directed at ppl that complain about the nerfs), thief is so eazy, facerolling permastealth, need challenge lolz, perma stealth scrub, etc” because i’ve been through the same situation twice already with the ele and to a lesser extent with the mesmer balance patches.

The history repeats itself exactly, eles got nerfed into oblivion patch after patch after patch, all the while a rather vocal minority flooding the forums and telling everyone to learn to play better cause eles are okay, etkittenil the june update hit and we all know how that ended. It ended with the last tournament not having a single team using an elementalist in the end.
And guess what? Thief is next in line since there’s just too much qq about them and their stealth.

Also ppl forget that when Anet starts nerfing a profession they continously nerf it in the next subsequent patches regardless if the overall meta changed or not since the last one. This still happens with the ele d/d bunker which was starting to loose viability even before the june patch, let alone the fact it’s trash now. Guess what? It got nerfed even in the current update after 5 months of continous nerfs to it and not being viable anyways.

In the upcoming balance patches they’ll continously nerf the thief until they manage to break the class just like they did with eles and i would really love to see all those high end players “looking for a challenge” how they’ll react when they’ll be kittened into the ground as well. Maybe then they’ll get some perspective then and we all will get along in our communal misery.

Very well said, im with you

You will see a lot of argument on the forums because
- some people just troll the forums looking for arguments
- people always use worse language than they should and it aggravates things
- people keep making stupid class suggestions that really do deserve to be put down
- non-thieves keep making stupid thief class suggestions and they are even worse
- people who demand class buffs/nerfs will argue with anyone who disagrees
- people disagree on play styles and what should be considered exploiting and trolling
- it’s the internet and people behave badly on the internet