Guild Wars 2

JonPeters.5630:

Let’s break down this thief change a bit more so we can dispel any notions that this is going to ruin thieves.

I don’t think that this is going to ruin thieves. Plenty of people after this patch will continue to play their thief. In fact, you are right. This is a nice buff to our skills. Maybe it will lead to more build diversity, maybe it won’t. I’m not a game developer. I barely know any game theory. And I do appreciate the fact that you are trying something new and are trying to evolve the class into something better.

That being said.

It doesn’t matter how much gas you give us if you are going to slash our tires. It’s great that you give us more initiative, but if the nerf to S/D goes through all the initiative in the world won’t save it. It will simply be another sub par skill. I understand that you are trying to create build diversity, but I feel like you aren’t making other builds look better; it simply seems the current builds are just becoming worse.

The thing is, I think a lot of us aren’t made about the this nerf. Ok, yeah, no one wants to be nerfed and there is always going to be negative feedback on that. But it isn’t just this nerf we are mad about. We are mad about the series of nerfs that we have had to deal with since the game launched with so little in return. It’s not this nerf in particular that has made us angry. It’s the pattern that we have seen.