Guild Wars 2

I have come back from almost 2 years of absent and I started to do my favorite thing again pvp. The thing is my main character is a Thief and almost every time I go to match my team asks me to switch off my character, if my team has 2 thieves someone usually goes AFK (shockingly more often someone goes AFK than does not) and very often someone starts swearing to me and another thief asking us to kill ourselves/delete game/etc. If I kill someone downed enemy states that I am playing cancer and usually very nicely asks the same thing my team mates do. I had to disable chat. So I would like to ask why there is such a huge hate for my profession of choice? Whose pet did I mutilate to deserve this kind of hate?

Those people are most likely stupid. Take a look at the profession they play. I get the same kind of behavior as a thief main and noticed a kind of ’’patern’’ trash talkers are usually not very skilled players playing the professions with the easiest learning curves like Guardian/warrior tied at 1rst place for most trash talker then comes Necros kinda far in 2nd place. I’m not telling you every guardian,warrior or necro are bad or trash talker. Its just that those professions have an easy learning curving making it appealing to new and bad players stomping new and bads playing other professions.

They think they are super good but then they reach a rating high enough where other professions a well represented by good players so as soon they are not easily winning they trash talk the thief for being smart and not capping home at start forcing the DH to do is own job and cap it or because your engi is smart and went home, the DH trash on the thief.

The good DH/warrior/necro wont trash talk. These players usually find a great way to ask the trash talker to shut is mouth.

Ive had 1 kill top kill twice. Obviously I lost both matches, I lost the first one +/-85 to 500 and the 2nd one was a 5-502 lost. I scored the only kill, I was the only one with a kill on the team, didnt go into downstate,didnt die. Everytime I looked at the team frame/map to chose a fight to +1, at least 3 where dead or in downstate. Ele was staff and engi was rifle. I cannot blame these players for using non meta builds because 5-502 isnt a lost given by builds, even with proper builds these players wouldnt have made it a win BUT……the DH called me out for going far at start even if I got the only kill and could have capped if someone would have +1 or swapped position when the enemy DH arrived on point. I scored the only points, I had absolutly no fights to +1 because every1 was always dead, especialy the DH. He said we lost because of me yet I was the only one to never die I tried as hard as I could to decap, I got many decaps but it only delayed the lost. However, the 2nd DH on my team asked him nicely to puck off and even said I was the strongest player on the team by far. Then 1rst DH flammed me in whispers and instant blocked me. 2nd DH added me as friend.

In the end its mostly clueless/stupid players on professions with easiest/fastest learning curves that will trash talk you. Right now, I have way more fun in unranked because when some1 starts trash talking (me or some1 else), I answer with : unranked is serious business, its where proleague and money is.

Two thieves can be devastating. Of course people will insist it can never work and force a thief to swap to a class they are less effective with.

So many losses that way.

saerni.2584:

Two thieves can be devastating. Of course people will insist it can never work and force a thief to swap to a class they are less effective with.

So many losses that way.

two thieves sucks. you sacrifice so much node pressure for a thief who will be sidelined in every encounter.

Dragonfeu.4356:

saerni.2584:

Two thieves can be devastating. Of course people will insist it can never work and force a thief to swap to a class they are less effective with.

So many losses that way.

two thieves sucks. you sacrifice so much node pressure for a thief who will be sidelined in every encounter.

I must concur…2 thieves running the same build is not as effective in PvP as 2 thieves with diff builds. My teef isn’t a decapper, but mainly the +1/duelist type, where as there may be one who excels at decapping. Have 2 teefs that can decap is a waste and easy to fend off of a node, same with 2 duelist builds…easy to back/side cap. 1 whose build focuses on capping and 1 on fighting is a deadly pair.

Dragonfeu.4356:

saerni.2584:

Two thieves can be devastating. Of course people will insist it can never work and force a thief to swap to a class they are less effective with.

So many losses that way.

two thieves sucks. you sacrifice so much node pressure for a thief who will be sidelined in every encounter.

“node pressure”

Depending on team comp 2 (good) thieves can neutralize important team oriented classes (like elementalist or necromancer) letting their team win every fight.

They only have to share a basilisk and open with the stealth combo at the same time.

Double Thief usually work if they do “thieves things”, roaming and +2 together, not with one decapping and one fighting.

You aren’t letting your team 3vs5 if you +2 and send a foe to the respawn every 20 second.

I’ve seen at least one double d/p duo in plat that focused on deathballing people the entire match. It worked too.
Double thief certainly isn’t optimal, but it’s no worse than double anything else.

Also the premise of this thread is quite ironic, considering that thieves are probably the most prolific trash talkers in the game.