Guild Wars 2

In all honesty, based on what i’ve been seeing with thief, and playing it in ruby and diamond almost 100%.. if they just increased short bow damage by about 30%, I think thief would be perfectly balanced.

I would prefer 30% base damage for bigger burst, but I wouldn’t be disappointed with 30% attack speed/travel velocity or reduction in initiative amounts or a combination of the above.

I think it’s the only thing were missing to compete with the top tier classes and to give rev a run for their money.

Just a note, i think its totally okay for classes to have “soft” counters, and I think increased shortbow damage would be one way to make the “hard” counter classes more of a soft counter.. although not completely, but its a start.

Yea, I think a buff to short bow damage would be a good change. Something like this would give thieves a bit more team fight potential so that we have a bit more to contribute outside of +1 and decap.

It would either be that or more buffs to a dodge spec in hopes that we can get another build like the S/D of the old days (back when Jumper played).

Or could just nerf revs~

Shortbow’s cluster bomb was nerfed by like 20% or more near the beginning of the game. This was done because of the amount of on point AoE damage was deemed too much.

Now look at today lol

buff autoatacks by another 50%

add smoke field and blast or jump finisher to every weapon set :^)

Its very simple – remove the thieves and poof insta balance

Thief will never make it back into the meta until Shiro is nerfed – which is sad. Although it could be worse – Warriors won’t make in back into the meta until Scrapper, Revenant and Druid are nerfed.

Simonoly.4352:

Thief will never make it back into the meta until Shiro is nerfed – which is sad. Although it could be worse – Warriors won’t make in back into the meta until Scrapper, Revenant and Druid are nerfed.

Actually there was a complete upgrade in mobility to many different classes.

Thief will become meta when a generalized nerf to all HoT specs is done.

Thief is fine honestly. we either don’t need much, or we have to wait for a real Shiro nerf.
I’d be happy if they would increase our survability in fights just a tad, but otherwise its okay.

Shortbow buffs would be nice tho, won’t lie. Shortbow 4 is very lacking since the change to Poison stacking, shortbow 2 has always been very clunky for damage due to its speed and flip skill, and some of the nerfs to shortbow 3 could be undone.

But you can actually play thief this season, which wasn’t really the case the last one, so heh, improvement !