Guild Wars 2

witcher.3197:

Bazeleel.8219:

I left GW2 about a year ago, wondering whats changed with the thief and how it does in PvP. What are some good builds that you can link? How should I play the theif now?

For build use this

Thief still fills an executioner role in teamfights and is awesome at decapping.

Thank you

I left GW2 about a year ago, wondering whats changed with the thief and how it does in PvP. What are some good builds that you can link? How should I play the theif now?

OP speaks the mighty truth. I messaged you btw OP got a WS beta key for ya if you want it.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Think that’s bad? Town Clothing was free to change before, now it costs a charge to use.

Oh and let’s not forget PvP gear. It was free to swap as well. Now you have to pay for that too. And now leveling characters have to pay three times what they paid before to change their gear.

Great system.

Town clothing costs now too….wtf!!! Nothing like nickel and diming your community.

Shirogatsu.3150:

TheDaiBish.9735:

wKmike.6318:

You have the option to use the skin immediately or store it in the bank. If you put it in the bank, you have to use charges to change it.

I used mine immediately without using any charges.

I’d actually say this is a valid complaint.

Before the new system, you didn’t need to use trans stones to apply the skin. I think these bought skins should have at least one use.

They has 1 free use. If you right click them you will see 2 options – use or store in wardrobe. And if you choose second options there will be a warning that you will lose this free transmute. If you use free transmute this armor will be automatically added to wardrobe.

Then it’s either a bug or something is not working correctly.

You should be as to use the skin you bought without any stone is my point. With the new system that’s not possible. At least with the old skins you have in your bank. Not sure what happens if you buy skins now after this patch. Would give them my money if you paid me.

Patch goes live, in skype chat with some guild mates and GL is pretty upset. She find out something that is….well just read.

“I bought the medium atherblade leather armor skin for one of my girls. I dont have the armor that I wanted on her yet so had it in the bank. The minute I try to use it I have to pay charges to put it on my armor.”

I thought she was joking. Turns out nope. They seriously want you to pay twice to use skins you have already bought…..

Great system Anet!!!

PS: great job on merging pvp and PvE together….we all love it. Best idea ever /sarcasm

Allie Murdock.8152:

In all seriousness… We DO listen to you guys. We can’t snap our fingers and have it all done. That’s just not how game development works, unfortunately.

The community as a whole is saying other wise and has been for the last 6 months….as have a lot of the top players, who have left your game as a direct result of that.

Anet seems to think they are some be all and end all of game developers. Yet this whole time the community as a whole is saying no…what are you doing that is a horrible idea. Yet Anet is like thank you for the feedback we really take that closely into consideration! Then it gets added anyway.

Anet will never give you good quest rewards they want you to buy them on the BLC. Its all random and the chance of getting something good even with max magic find is a joke. Even when people had 600+ MF nothing good was really found. Its how they run their game, poor, with out thought, and no care to what their community actually wants.

My normal classes are thief(power veno share) and full support staff ele. I like support builds or builds that give me control of the fight while giving me good damage. Merry Christmas and thank you for the help!

Dhampyr.2104:

With the IC change, I think this is a great idea. I think the build will also work decently with GS (instead of staff), given the bleeds that GS clones can stack. Will definitely give this a try in WvW!

The staff is the key part of this build imo. I would replace the sep/pistol before I got rid of the staff

I think I am close but I want to make sure.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAraWlwziqnVzoGb9IipHBHyBcoPcdlZgbXIA-TsAAzCpIaS1krJTTymsNN+Y9xMAA

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Computer specs:

I am not sure why or what happened but my FPS is going crazy after the last patch. Suddenly dropping to 4 for no reason.

100% agreed! The last patch seemed to have kill my FPS for some reason

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Kukchi.6173:

yes… mesmers need more clones

I know right?

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I am going to have to agree with everything here but the freecam. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN for the game to be viewable by anyone that wants to watch.

The main reason is this. You need good angles in order for someone who has never played the game to see what is happening.

Also please give everyone the ability to turn down the effects! Not just in PvP.

selan.8354:

Bazeleel.8219:

selan.8354:

Bazeleel.8219:

This thread makes me laugh so hard. Its amazing that when you guys actually start seeing your class balanced you instantly think, gosh we suck now. Try playing a warrior or a thief and get back to me. The amount of entitled QQ makes me laugh so hard.

Your confusion was nerfed for a reason….it was unbalanced as crap….learn to adapt and move on. Geeez.

erm rolled a thief , entered wvw with lvl 2, ran on the outside of the zerg and dowened people by spamming 2, rolled a warrior leveled up to 50, got a hold of hammer warrior fun, ran into zergs, hads always speed boosts and killed many people.the class got unbalanced as they took the only real condition we ever had and nerfed it to 50 percent. this affects a lot of builds, so we are loosing builds and all the invested gear.

let me give your permastealth heartseeker a staff instead of a dagger, how would that make u feel?

or a warrior can only use daggers?

so a mesmer should be able to have access to confusion that deals decent dmg like before.

glam mesmer chose to not deal much direct dmg in order to deal a lot of confusion dmg, which btw is avoidable by stopping to spam 1 or in your case 2 for heart seeker right?

I love the heartseaker spam comment. Those theifs have zero skill in this game at all. They wouldn’t know real combat if it slapped them on the face. If you are implying that spamming 2 is a legit spec then you clearly have a lot to learn about what actual thief players do.

yeah true the really good thieves i fought were not just spamming 2, they put up an awesome fight without permastealth or heartseeker and it felt chalenging and fun!

Thank you

Travlane.5948:

Bazeleel.8219:

Asomal.6453:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Bazeleel.8219:

According to arena net we are supposed to be the most mobile class in the game and yet we are the third most mobile class in the game behind ele’s and mes’s

Stop doing drugs. No class in the game even comes close to a Thief’s mobility, let alone a mesmer. Warriors and Eles can have similar “burst” mobility, but in sheer “warping all over the place” or long distance running, nothing beats a Thief.

I’m pretty sure OP is talking about in combat mobility. In that case, it stands truth for the mesmer, partially…

You are correct sir.

both wrong.

In-fight mobility = thief is champ
in run away race = warrior is champ

this is just not up for debate bc its obvious. if you can to challenge a race. bring 100g and we will bet who is best/faster i really hope somebody takes this bet!

Please tell me how we have mobility in combat? Shadowstep….thats it……

Asomal.6453:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Bazeleel.8219:

According to arena net we are supposed to be the most mobile class in the game and yet we are the third most mobile class in the game behind ele’s and mes’s

Stop doing drugs. No class in the game even comes close to a Thief’s mobility, let alone a mesmer. Warriors and Eles can have similar “burst” mobility, but in sheer “warping all over the place” or long distance running, nothing beats a Thief.

I’m pretty sure OP is talking about in combat mobility. In that case, it stands truth for the mesmer, partially…

You are correct sir.

ensoriki.5789:

This is how Shadowsteps have always worked. It’s like the difference between evade and block.
Shadowsteps require physical path, Teleports do not.

Yes but its so limited even for that. I cant cross gaps when I can jump over them? That is what needs to be change. I should be able to at least do that.

So right now shadowstep is just plan silly and doesnt work like it should. I would like to see us able to shadowstep up to keeps and things like like mesmers and guardians can.

If we truly are the most mobile class then please let me use shadowstep as a actual shadowstep.

Mathias.9657:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

The only trap that is worthy of the utility slot is Ambush. The rest should be F3-F4 so we can use them in conjunction with venom.

Example:
F1 – Steal
F2 – Needle Trap
F3 – Tripwire
F4 – Shadow Trap

Then we can get new Utility skills to fill the 3 spots.

That would be the day I started playing religiously again.

I honestly think this would be amazing. Change all the traps so none of them have a super long CC. Needle trap would just cripple, Tripwire would knock down for 1.3 seconds, and Shadow Trap would stay the same.

I still stand by the get rid of steal.

Farzo.8410:

Bazeleel.8219:

MaXi.3642:

i dont think we need free camera… static points on map are a bit limiting, thats true, but we can spectate specific player with free camera around him and that offers enough options to look at battle imo usually when you want to spectate, you want to know what specific player does and static points are ok for overall team fight view

Have you ever watched say an esport that has set cameras? No? Because no game in their right might, that wants to take eSports seriously will have set cameras. That not only limits the caster in what they can see but it also makes it terribly hard for the viewer to see whats going on in the “first person” mode.

GW2 needs set free camera.

Hello.

Just to inform you.

Even World of Warcraft became an Esport, and that game is heavily gear based, and even more unbalanced than Guild Wars 2. It doesn’t even have Custom Arenas, nor a Spectator/Observer Mode, still it became an Esport.

Just now Blizzard added a Spectator Mode, for Pet Battles.

So ‘’Taking Esport seriously’’ I think Guild Wars 2 got a far bigger chance because it even got Custom Arenas and Spectator Mode, even if you think Guild Wars 2 ’’needs’’ to have free camera.

But also, World of Warcraft is no longer an Esport, I think they removed the title from that game.

However, yes, a free camera would be nice to have, I wouldn’t say no to that.

There is a reason that WoW arena failed as a esport. Crappy cameras, almost no balance, and lack of actual support from blizzard.

I am not sure your point is a good one here. ANY game can be a esport, the difference is how the devs support the game and the community. That is what makes or breaks a game as a esport.

selan.8354:

Bazeleel.8219:

This thread makes me laugh so hard. Its amazing that when you guys actually start seeing your class balanced you instantly think, gosh we suck now. Try playing a warrior or a thief and get back to me. The amount of entitled QQ makes me laugh so hard.

Your confusion was nerfed for a reason….it was unbalanced as crap….learn to adapt and move on. Geeez.

erm rolled a thief , entered wvw with lvl 2, ran on the outside of the zerg and dowened people by spamming 2, rolled a warrior leveled up to 50, got a hold of hammer warrior fun, ran into zergs, hads always speed boosts and killed many people.the class got unbalanced as they took the only real condition we ever had and nerfed it to 50 percent. this affects a lot of builds, so we are loosing builds and all the invested gear.

let me give your permastealth heartseeker a staff instead of a dagger, how would that make u feel?

or a warrior can only use daggers?

so a mesmer should be able to have access to confusion that deals decent dmg like before.

glam mesmer chose to not deal much direct dmg in order to deal a lot of confusion dmg, which btw is avoidable by stopping to spam 1 or in your case 2 for heart seeker right?

I love the heartseaker spam comment. Those theifs have zero skill in this game at all. They wouldn’t know real combat if it slapped them on the face. If you are implying that spamming 2 is a legit spec then you clearly have a lot to learn about what actual thief players do.

kubetz.3058:

I somehow think (or hope?) those traps will are more of a anti-zerg weapon and not your personal anti-thief win button.

Also if thieves will be able to drop them down in stealth on key locations it will make us more useful.

It really depends on the implementation and it can add another dimension to WvW if done well.

This is true as well. It just sucks that its going to be even harder to get into a group and pick off targets.

I see the point of this, they are trying to get rid of zergs but going about it in the wrong way. They need to add objectives that forces big guilds to break up their groups and take different points.

Example: Make keeps have 4-5 towers around them, they HAVE to be taken before you are able to take the keep. Then also make the towers have NPC controlled siege that attacks people taking the towers and the keep it self needs more NPC controls siege to defend the keep if the towers are not taken. This way you are force to split your massive zerg up and actually think about tactics.

This thread makes me laugh so hard. Its amazing that when you guys actually start seeing your class balanced you instantly think, gosh we suck now. Try playing a warrior or a thief and get back to me. The amount of entitled QQ makes me laugh so hard.

Your confusion was nerfed for a reason….it was unbalanced as crap….learn to adapt and move on. Geeez.

Fuz.5621:

Every kittening patch there’s a kittening nerf on thieves.
EVERY
kittenING
PATCH
I’m so kittening tired of this crap.

Welcome to playing a class that takes skill. They are always the first to get nerfed and the ones that are unbalanced and OP get buffed to make them easier to play.

Least we can say we use skill when we play our class and not just faceroll the keyboard. cough mesmers cough

Wondering if Arena Net would comment on this? I think a lot of players would agree this needs to happen.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

The only trap that is worthy of the utility slot is Ambush. The rest should be F3-F4 so we can use them in conjunction with venom.

Example:
F1 – Steal
F2 – Needle Trap
F3 – Tripwire
F4 – Shadow Trap

Then we can get new Utility skills to fill the 3 spots.

I love this idea as well! Hell im all for putting ambush trap in replace of steal. I find it to be a silly mech anyway.

PearlGore.7419:

We have alot of traits that are just all over the place, many of them need to be combined and some buffed.

100% agree to this comment. It simply feels like they took a dart board and put traits where ever they landed.

ProxyDamage.9826:

Stop doing drugs. No class in the game even comes close to a Thief’s mobility, let alone a mesmer. Warriors and Eles can have similar “burst” mobility, but in sheer “warping all over the place” or long distance running, nothing beats a Thief.

First of all, great mature comment, really makes you look all grown up. Second the mesmer and ele are both way more mobile then the thief is currently. Any good mesmer or ele will just run circles around you and laugh.

ProxyDamage.9826:

Mostly overreacting and don’t know what you’re talking about.

Again such a mature and helpful comment. Stating comments like these and the one above just make you look foolish and no one will take you seriously.

MaXi.3642:

i dont think we need free camera… static points on map are a bit limiting, thats true, but we can spectate specific player with free camera around him and that offers enough options to look at battle imo usually when you want to spectate, you want to know what specific player does and static points are ok for overall team fight view

Have you ever watched say an esport that has set cameras? No? Because no game in their right might, that wants to take eSports seriously will have set cameras. That not only limits the caster in what they can see but it also makes it terribly hard for the viewer to see whats going on in the “first person” mode.

GW2 needs set free camera.

Fred Fargone.3127:

disabling skill queue would make the flow of combat digital, where it aims to be analog at the moment.

Digital is not an improvement, it’s downgrade.

Wha? Please explain what you mean by digital?

Right now skill Q is the reason I can not use heartseaker only twice when I quickly tap the key it will Q up 3-4 of them and just do it.

That is why its a bad thing. It completely takes away from the actual human part of combat, I don’t want the game to pick the moves I do because I am faster then the combat system. This system is 100% skill based and skill Q doesn’t fit at all.

stale.9785:

Agree with the OP. I should be able to cancel a skill that’s being used simply by using a different skill. Also, dodge should always always take priority over whatever is happening.

Yes that is another issue with this combat system. Dodging works about 70% of the time. Not to mention if you go into stealth as any class you still get hit with w/e spell they casted, meaning it doesn’t break the cast, like it does in every other mmo.

Saulius.8430:

from programmer’s standpoint that’s same as suggesting option to disable gravity in real world.

Ummm no its not actually….they simply take away the code that deals with skill Q or simply put in a sting of code that says “if enabled do X for X” I am not a coder but I do have friends that work for gaming company’s and such and they have said that it just a lot of work.

Which is a programmers job to recode and fix code. So I do not understand your point to this. Its arena nets job to make the game better for their players. Any mmo that wants to be good and not die the first year needs to listen to their community.

Why do you think games like SWTOR died so fast? They didn’t listen to their community and thought they new better. The player ALWAYS knows better because they have the most time to find bugs, exploits, and balance issues.

Malleus Maleficarum.2603:

I agree except for the traits part. You have 5 good and viable trait lines, maybe the only class that really does

The trait lines alone are good but the runes for the traits is what I am talking more about. Should have clarified that sorry.

A lot of them feel out of place and very random and most of them feel like they where made for PvE.

lupercaleb.6041:

where did they say it? anet mentioned they were looking at freecam but they were concerned about seeing weirdness outside of the map. maybe they’re working on it

I was not aware they said this, this is great news if this is true

Really love the new spec mode for this game! Very helpful tool, etc, etc….

Sadly there is one thing that is missing that needs to be added.

Free cam

This needs to be in a game like this. To see what is happening in the battle and get better angles that you cant get via the fixed cameras we currently have.

I am starting to cast games and it is very hard to see what is going in a lot of the map points due to the weird angles we get right now.

Like any game that has eSports in mind this is a must!

I love this class to death but I feel it still needs a ton of work to get it where it feels…more theif like.

Why do we even have traps? Scorpion Wire is still broken, most of our traits feel 100% randomly placed and the over all feel of the theif feels more like a ranger with out a pet then anything.

I really love the changes they made to the sword but why the heck make steal heal and not crt any more and honestly there are maybe 2-3 good build that we can even use.

P/P is like a confused monkey that cant pick either dot damage, direct damage, or defensive damage.

According to arena net we are supposed to be the most mobile class in the game and yet we are the third most mobile class in the game behind ele’s and mes’s

Condition damage builds are a joke because half the classes in the game just remove it in seconds anyway. Glass cannon builds are filled with spam and is not how a class should ever be designed around.

/end venting

Am I over reacting or do i bring up some good points?

Please put this into the game! This will improve the flow of combat so much if you do. Anyone else feel this way?

Chaos.3579:

The reason it is not in options is because of thieves and Mesmers. Mostly Mesmers

If you could have this “sticky targeting” Mesmers clones would be uselss

Other MMOs have classes that have stealth and copies of them self…they seem to have no issues with it.

Sadaxer.1023:

Signet of Malice does not trigger from the bleeds that Death Blossom does.

I get healed when the Death Blossom hits, but I get no heal from the bleed ticks that it does. It works fine with other conditions like poison and caltrops though.

That have never worked like that….

Please arena net make this a option to turn off and on!

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No, i get that, that is why you see almost no content for it anywhere. Foolish on their part.

Hope they understand that this is the main reason youtubers do not put content up as much as they should.

If blizzard and EA allows this arena net sure as hell better or they will not be able to compete with the other MMOs out there. They are the ONLY mmo that doesn’t allow this and this. Hell even SOE games are allowed to do this.

Its not worth the content producers time, its that simple. When PS2 has more youtube channels then GW2 there is a problem.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Perhaps, this will answer your question:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-content-terms-of-use/

Readily found at the bottom of the page, if you should need more clarifications. =)

So basically arena net doesn’t want people to advertise their game…got ya.

ShadyNZL.9018:

Well stated from official posts in the linksville forum:

“This forum is a place for everybody to show off the cool Guild Wars 2 related websites, tools, videos and other resources around the internet.”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/links/About-This-Forum/first#post19898

“Note: Gameplay videos, links to blogs and other such informative content should be posted in Linksville.”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/About-Fan-Generated-Content/first#post19929

So it’s suggesting you can make game playvideos…

Right I have seen this but can you monitize them? I haven’t seen any office yes or no on this.

Something like this http://www.valvesoftware.com/videopolicy.html would be amazing for those of us who put stuff on youtube.

I am starting to make videos for my guild and other videos. Does arena net allow us to do this?

EVERYOTHER mmo does this. I would really like to see this come to GW2. Putting the patch notes in threads that are from 1-2 months ago does not cut it.

Arena Please give us better patch notes and put them in a place where anyone can find them easily.

My only issues with rangers atm is that kitten root skill! Hate that bloody thing!