Guild Wars 2

so i’m roaming on my thief. and i saw this chronomancer fighting some other guy in the distance and he kills him in less than like… half a second. really, it was like a blink of an eye.

the next second, he turns to face me, disappears, and kills me in the blink of an eye too and i COMPLETELY die just as fast. so i thought, i gotta check my combat log…. that’s insane.

and i see this. thats 20,944 damage in less than half a second. no matter how glassy i make myself, i can’t reach that much damage that fast on my thief. and it looked so effortless. not to mention, as soon as this guy kills me, he turns invisible and reappears off in the distance a few seconds later.

i dunno…. maybe i should switch to mesmer. at least they’re more useful in zergs, right??? and i definitely want to try that build, whatever it is. i mean, i could run venom share to help the zerg but at that point, then im sacrificing my own enjoyment JUST to be a utility for 5 people at a time….. on attacks that MIGHT proc because of all of the block and invulnerability….. every….. 32….. seconds…… it makes me sigh. it really does.

i’ve been running s/d for so long, because i like it. i do fine with d/p but thief in general, to me anyway, is getting harder and harder to play.

i know you guys have heard it all before already but i’ve been trying to stay optimistic. maybe i shouldn’t have calculated the damage but it really hit me hard realizing that when you guys say that the classes that CAN stealth do it better than us and out dps us by far, and that there’s almost no thieves in spvp meta, well, i dont know where i’m going with that.

would it be a good idea to just switch to mesmer? what classes do you think might be a good alternative? or rather, what other classes do you guys like, besides thief?

I’ve face a few of those mesmers. It’s a weird feeling knowing the time and effort you put into your build, no matter what, can be easily countered by another class/build. Maybe try it out and see if you like it? Stealth for thieves suck. It’s intermitted and short. Lots of classes have counters to stealth(Sic ‘em, ect.) where we don’t have any. I don’t count spamming cluster bombs in refuge a counter since no reveal.

As far as your venomshare comment, BV is unblockable.

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I’ve face a few of those mesmers. It’s a weird feeling knowing the time and effort you put into your build, no matter what, can be easily countered by another class/build. Maybe try it out and see if you like it? Stealth for thieves suck. It’s intermitted and short. Lots of classes have counters to stealth(Sic ‘em, ect.) where we don’t have any. I don’t count spamming cluster bombs in refuge a counter since no reveal.

As far as your venomshare comment, BV is unblockable.

BV is unblockable to some degree, because you can still resist it from invulnerability and some blocks. i spent a long time testing it in guild hall with a close friend. maybe i should record another session to prove it’s blockable.

but even then, there are A LOT of traits from other classes that can cleanse BV instantly. i’ll definately give that type of mesmer a shot. i have a lvl 80 mesmer already but i’ll have to do research and farm for the armor and trinkets.

No need to record. I believe you. BV is feels very unreliable and weak after all the power creep.

I’ve tried playing necro and rev and they are good. It’s just when I play them, I always want to go back to thief. Spent lots of tomes on 3 toons and even deleted one and releveled because I didn’t like the race animation.