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I’ve been away from the game for about 6 months and would like to find an active and friendly guild to raid, fotm, and dunjun with. I’m experienced and enjoy every aspect of the game to varying degrees. I mainly play teef, but I have gear and experience with most other classes as well.
Unfortunately I’m also stuck on Darkhaven for the time being, but I would be willing to transfer to a better server for WvW if I find myself in a guild that would facilitate thiefy shenanigans in the mists!
As a since beta thief I’m obviously a little biased. However as a few have pointed out, I’d like to see you fight equally skilled players from the other meta builds using s/d. I admit its strong, that’s why I run it, but the no skill comment is simply ignorance. I admit I can catch a lot of people off guard with a burst but its relatively easy to take me once I’ve exhausted all my init. Now when it comes to dealing with Decap engi’s, turret engi’s, meta guards, d/d hybrid ele’s, skilled mesmer’s of several varieties, any other skilled thief, warriors who are smart enough not to run glass cannon and hundred blades a person for 10 minutes during a team fight, etc…the point is SKILLED players don’t have issues dealing with S/D and while I can win some fights I lose plenty too. So before you start crying OP OP OP NERF PLS OMG 2 FAST 2 STRONK, try playing one at a high lvl, not just terrorizing rabbits in hotjoins.
I do not think that the issue lies in “no skill” personally…
I know I did not say it as well so yea…
What I feel is that it peforms too well compared to other thief builds – they all have a gimmick to work around with to survive, something S/D misses… It gets carried hard by the sigils and it has been known for a while – even by some, if not most, thieves…
I know I am not the best guy to go around saying this since my experiences on thief have been rather low and I mostly played D/P and S/P, but it seems the sentiment is shared…
There are plenty of gaps in S/D’s perma evade. Although I run crit strikes instead of sizer’s Acrobatics. Even so I admit the build is built around not getting hit, but so is D/P and P/D and S/P and D/D and especially dual shortbows of energy…thats how the thief do, they just don’t get hit. The problem is that like someone else in thread mentioned that when people hit or don’t hit a thief in stealth they don’t realize it. people just get frustrated seeing the EVADES, but just like when people say HEARTSEEKER SPAMMER NOOB, only the worst S/D thieves camp their 3 button.
Also, skilled saying that S/D is definitively stronger than D/P is pure silliness, a good D/P thief would know how to wait out S/D’s evades and get stuns and blinds and stabs in. I enjoy S/D as well as D/P…..thing is…I’ve got Bolt and not Incin ;3
As a since beta thief I’m obviously a little biased. However as a few have pointed out, I’d like to see you fight equally skilled players from the other meta builds using s/d. I admit its strong, that’s why I run it, but the no skill comment is simply ignorance. I admit I can catch a lot of people off guard with a burst but its relatively easy to take me once I’ve exhausted all my init. Now when it comes to dealing with Decap engi’s, turret engi’s, meta guards, d/d hybrid ele’s, skilled mesmer’s of several varieties, any other skilled thief, warriors who are smart enough not to run glass cannon and hundred blades a person for 10 minutes during a team fight, etc…the point is SKILLED players don’t have issues dealing with S/D and while I can win some fights I lose plenty too. So before you start crying OP OP OP NERF PLS OMG 2 FAST 2 STRONK, try playing one at a high lvl, not just terrorizing rabbits in hotjoins.