Guild Wars 2

hey guys

well I’ve stopped playing GW2 around may last year [05/16] because i couldnt forget how life was with S/D before 23/05/15 and i’m considering to start playing again

so if you could give me a short insight into what has changed since may 2016 regarding PvP, thief & engi and their options in that game mode, that would be great!

thanks in advance

Assuming you have HoT (which you should if you want to compete). Engi got dumbed down extremely (first hand experience here), scrapper is by far way easier to play than core and way more efficient. Gyros saw few nerfs (bye bye dazes) as well as damage but nothing too drastic that would change engi role or their viability. Still a point holder/bunker/bruiser, avoid necros otherwise you are golden.

Thief is still same old +1/decap pet, just with more dodges and less stealth. Overall not much changed, you still can’t 1v1 most classes, still get flamed if more than 1 thief is on team etc. You will find that there is so much AoE on points that can potetially one shot you, that you probably won’t even bother engaging the fights. GL trying to steal boons from enemies as s/d – block block block blind CCs and just absurd amount of boon generation will make s/d look like a joke. You can play S/D if you are good but at higher ratings you will be basically useless. If you want to compete either run d/p or staff.

For s/d i think the most important things are:
- they “fixed” the sword 2 trick with jump so you can’t use it anymore <_<
- all stealth based attacks (backstab, tactical strike and co.) have 1 sec CD (+ aftercast) now

They messed around with dagger4, dagger 5 and sword 2 modifiers a bit but overall i don’t think you will notice much difference (someone correct me here, as i don’t main s/d).

Most importantly, revs got nerfed enough that thieves are actually back to being main roamers and revs need to watch out for thieves.

Thanks Cynz!

Just went through all the Game Update Notes since I left… a little bit more up to date now, think I’ll dump Engi though one character is enough especially if thats thief

of course i own HoT, and I didnt seriously try S/D since the nerf for more than a couple of games, D/P does at least a bit of its job reminding of the good old 60206 days

When I left thieves were probably/definitely the least liked PvP team mate, a short look at metabattle & their two thief builds did give me hope that there is a place for us right now though

again thanks! got at least some hope for thief/me enjoying the game