Guild Wars 2

The thief class in WvW is a rather difficult class to play when you’re talking guild raids and zergs. A lot of guilds have already removed the class from raids and fights after HoT but some were still running it, because it was still viable in some way if you at least understood how to use the mechanics and had good teamwork from the rest of the group.

But with this latest “fix” I expect almost all guilds are gonna remove the class completely and that most players will not take the class to WvW unless it’s for roaming.

What am I talking about? I’m talking about the latest “fix” of a bug where you could activate Steal while not having an enemy targeted. This have been changed so you are no longer able to do so nor will it go off when you’re out of range. The thing about it not going on a short cooldown when out of range is good – but to have the thief class being viable in bigger group fights, they need to be able to activate the steal skill when not having something on target. The swiftness and few sec of stealth (if traited) is really important to us. Most players are playing so glassy builds and due to the weapons we have to go close to the fights. Activating Steal allowed us to take off some of the pressure in a fight or get away faster.

I really hope this will be changed back to how it was.

This change gutted Hidden Thief and on some level did in the entire Shadow Arts line. Either ANet are morons that don’t know how their own classes work or they are sadistic kittens that like to torture players.

Oke im on my phone so maybe typerrors incoming.

The “FIX” the steal or F1 skill is redicilous.
Why simply easy what goldi already say some times you need to gtfo from a spot and then you can use that f1 really effective.
So can we please get this back as it was bc there is no need for fixing this.

Also i stopped playing thief bc some other classes for example the dragonhunters skill true shot….. Unblockeble and unreectebpe seriously? Oh wait it crit 11k? Oh mmm thief is dead by that.

Then the ranger with his i call it pew pew pew pew skill real nmae rapid fire.
When the ranger target you and start casting the pew pew pew skill, you go in stealth and its still hitting ya bummer.

Imo thief getting more dead every patch.
Rip thief and hello revnant (almost new thief)

Thank you SO much for listening!

I tried it in PvP yesterday and could activate it to get my boons whenever I wanted. Maybe they ghost fixed it? I F1d right out of gate to get swiftness and the other boons to get our home point.

omgdracula.6345:

I tried it in PvP yesterday and could activate it to get my boons whenever I wanted. Maybe they ghost fixed it? I F1d right out of gate to get swiftness and the other boons to get our home point.

Wasn’t a ghost fix, they announced in patch notes that they ‘fixed’ it back to normal.

It is a great fix. Steal wasn’t meant for shadowstepping anywhere you want. There is already a skill for that.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

It is a great fix. Steal wasn’t meant for shadowstepping anywhere you want. There is already a skill for that.

It doesn’t.