After playing thief ever since the beta, I have to say that the skills are boring and extremely flat compared to other classes.
First off, the weapon combinations are way too few
A thief is a thief, he’s a trickster, a shadow in the daylight, a assassin , a combat master in toe-to-toe fights.
Thief doesn’t feel like that to me, S/P feels slow, and slow isn’t good for a thief, thieves need to be quick.
way too many spells for the thief have really slow sluggish animations to them or it feels like that anyway.
ESPECIALLY the first skill for mainhand pistol, my god when I first equipt a pistol I thought It was going to be kitten like some wild west gunslinger, just shooting bullets at a high pace, never letting my oponent take a break.
But it’s not like that, instead I just stand there and slowly shoot “pang…..pang…..pang…pang…” instead of “PANG PANG PANG!” , and how can we possibly keep up the bleeding debuff to a usefull damage when the animation is so slow and quickness has a cooldown?
I love Shortbow first skill, it deals good damage in packs of enemies, and cluster bomb is good too – it just takes a lot of iniativ – but that can get fixed with the iniativ regen build. The 3rd skill is “Meh” , it’s just an escape mechanism to kite bosses or champions, or dodge warriors that are chaseing you in pvp.
the 4th skill – the poison debuff, shouldnt stack with my other poisons, like the Dagger poison attack or active poisons that deal dot damage, because they each deal different amounts of damage.
Sword/dagger looks fun, the 3rd skill is a bit broken in the positioning, i think it should always place you behind your target after every attack with it, but sometimes that doesn’t happen.
The sword mainhand 1st attack is slow in it’s animation, it needs to be faster, or be different. the damage is fine, the debuffs are fine I think. But the animation feels so slow, and it makes the experience really boring after the first few hours of gameplay.
And what I think would be a big plus in change for the thief is adding another weapon type or weapon combo, Sword/sword, axe/sword, sword/axe, Rifle?-sniper style,
and some more skills or changes to the 5 extra skills.
And the ultimates are really meh, the one that is most usefull and deals the most damage is “thieves guild” , which pretty much outshines the rest of the thief ultimates.
Basilik poison is crap! 1second stone? What a waste of a ultimate skill slot.
So that’s my thoughts on the thief class
Oh and one more thing.
Please Anet make a bigger variety of medium armor, Im so tired of trenchcoats and masks. Really, medium armor looks so freaking boring!
