Guild Wars 2

tluv.5821:

Here is the thing though, me, playing a necro, once your high damage outputs our down, before I could even hit my healing skill, I’m dead. That shouldn’t happen. Not at all. It shouldn’t be, before I even get a chance to heal, when I got the drop on him, that I’m dead. So I have to start my healing casting time BEFORE he even attacks?

I can’t really understand how you manage to die that fast as a necro. It sounds like you’re not taking advantage of necro’s strengths at all, you have the highest health pool in the game + a profession mechanic that literally acts as an extra health bar. If you go all out glass cannon, of course you’re probably gonna get wrecked by someone who picks the stealthy assassin burst class and builds them in a way that specifically takes advantage of glass cannons, although I’m struggling to think of just how or why you would be THAT glass cannon on a necro.

tluv.5821:

@Devolution

That’s not my issues. MY issue is that they are able to 2v1 people and do a total over 40k + in 4 seconds. That is a DPS of 10k. That is absurd. Yeah, some other characters do high damage. But it is usually burst damage. That is what the thief is supposed to specialize in. Burts high damage. Not CONSTANT high damage.

Thieves are inherently bursty, 10k dps over 4 seconds (I really doubt this actually happened btw, even if yall both just stood in pistol whips for the whole quickness period) sounds like quickness, which is on a 60s cooldown i.e. is a burst skill. Once we run our initiative and damage cooldowns down, our damage plummets.

So warriors hitting 10k on a 10s cooldown by pressing one button is ok, but thieves potentially hitting 10k IF they can get behind someone properly in a 3 second window and pop 1-2 40+ second cooldowns is not okay, and deserves 4 pages of kittening.

I seriously have to authorize every single time I log in now, despite the fact that it’s pretty much all coming from the exact same IP.

I don’t understand how people haven’t figured out that all they need to do is start dodging as soon as the thief enters stealth. There’s very little you can do to catch up to someone before you run out of time without breaking stealth as a thief.