Guild Wars 2

I am wondering if they made any good changes to thief build. I didn’t play for more than a year.

there some fun WvW builds if that what you are asking

it’s pretty fun right now man. Not enough variety, but so far it’s pretty fun.

its not super good but not any worse than its been before

Depends on what you played and what format you played in.

Since PvE balance doesn’t matter, I’m going to assume you’re looking to PvP/WvW.

If you don’t own HoT, don’t even bother.

D/D power – Worse
S/D – Worse
Anything Crit Strikes – Worse
Venomshare – Worse

D/D condi cheese – Strong
D/P – Unchanged
P/P – Buffed into insanity only countered by the gross amount of projectile hate in the game
S/P – Better with elite spec from innate stealth capability with OH pistol.

It’s not really much different than before. Thief (Daredevil) is just easier to play since the elite spec lowered the skill floor tremendously and made the profession way more forgiving.

But the powercreep from other professions is still real so it’s not like the thief got any better per se. There’s just less diversity.

I agree mostly with DeceiverX with some extra comments (IMO of course):

D/P Power – Some Good/Some Bad. Backstab has a cool down when it misses which hurt. The auto attack was buffed though so it evens out a bit.

P/P Power – Worse. Better single target DPS but now anything with a clone, pet, etc is effectively immune to it. Reflect, Evasion, Invuln and Blocks have all been buffed through the roof. This makes P/P weak against a good player in a meta build. About the only class afraid of it is other thieves.

P/P and D/P Condi – Strong with good play. Interrupt builds in the right hands are very dangerous.

Basically every other class got massive HoT buffs while thieves received some significant nerfs and only a minor-to-moderate buff from HoT. A handful of Ranger (Druid Elite) specs are now stronger in 1v1 than any thief build.

P/D gets stronger with every patch…

But no one plays it so…

oh wow!! thanks for the replies guys. I don’t see any good improvements for our class. I will check back again after 6 months.

I hope they fix our class