Guild Wars 2

is that why thiefs have been getting nerf after nerf after nerf?
just recently they removed the stunbreak from mainhand sword #2
heck i see much less thiefs around, all i say are warriors and guardians now

those are from particle effects generated by your gear.
cant do much about it

heck i dont know, im not from anet, all i know is corrupt data → reinstall

no, i’m pointing out the obvious, you said it’s corrupt data, errors say it’s corrupt data, so it must be corrupt data. and to fix that you need to re-install with a new .exe

“corrupted data.”

idk sounds like corrupt data to me.
re-install

every thief looks the same anyway, so i tried something else for a change

Fancypants
Solid Snake
Hokage

Why would they nerf something that doesnt show up in structured PvP anyway?

there is hardly any balance in WvW

absolutely nobody has a headband, nobody.

MakubeC.3026:

Haha, I’m actually surprised by the lack of imagination on this thread. Woa…Greatswords? Really?!

It’s not about the lack of imagination you nitwit, it’s about getting a weapon in the current lore/game, and not to create ANOTHER weapon because Anet would not do such a thing in the foreseeable future.
Edit: some rumors about a pole-arm?

Please read my previous post, you probably missed it.

Guys, you cant have any special weapons. you have to chose already existing weapons.
The most applicable weapons are Rifle and Melee staff.
And i love the idea of melee staff, because that would something unique only to thief.

Thief is unique for its interchangeable 1handed weapons, but i dont think anet would bother balancing this, and there is a big difference between 1 handed and 2 handed for a thief (5 skills vs potentially 12+)

Another thing is, you have to think about how this weapon would fill a role. A melee staff wouldn’t fill anything other than CC, but we already have lots of CC available.

So the role would be the deciding factor of such weapon.

They should have just called the proffesion ‘Shinobi’ instead of thief.

I, for one, am all in. A staff as a martial staff sounds fantastic.

What i think a staff should enable thieves to do:
A 360 Move
A stunning move
A (outside melee) range move (not necessarily a gap closer)
A defensive/parry move
Things that do come into mind:
Overhead skull smacking
Leg sweeping 360
Pole vault gap closer

OP means that the sounds are weak and forgettable, and i agree. When i swing my dagger around the sounds feel as blunt as the weapon. cling cling, thud… thud.

The music is also not really interesting, and not very engaging in combat either.

I’m sorry for wanting to go something else other than a GC… that’s why i’m asking for a buff in the first place. Because right now you either go GC or GG.

And what the hell are you doing solo in WvW? and why fight a thief knowing its the king of 1v1? why not try to anticipate his attacks? why not try to lead aoe his stealth? why not try to dry his initiative/cooldowns out before attacking full on? why not try to actually EVADE his attacks? why go full glass cannon and cry about getting defeated by a better glass cannon?

I enjoy fighting other thieves, yet i cant find any because they all migrated to another profession. I don’t PvP and when i WvW i feel so useless as a thief. it’s ridiculous.

We have only 1 strength. (almost) Only 1 way of doing things.
Burst? BS or HS
Cond removal? [Shadow’s Embrace]
AoE? [Cluster Bomb]
Survivabilty? [Feline Grace] and dodge like a maniac.

Right now i’m sticking with a DB condition build, but every other class has so much condition removal that it doesn’t even matter. And our potential is wasted when somebody else with bleeds comes along in a PvE party.

How the hell do i escape with C&D? that gives 3 (max 4) seconds stealth?
[Cluster Bomb] is useless if you want to spam it since you need to be close range to do it. better off using [Death Blossom].
[Unload] and [Dancing Daggers] have been nerfed to the ground.
Most skills are so situational that the moment you want to use it you’re too late.

We only get this kittenstorm because some kittenheads went into pvp and died without a heads up, and went on the forum to cry about it. Instead of trying to figure out a counter. Same kittenstorm the mesmers get because people cant figure out which one of the illusions is the real person.

Daecollo.9578:

This is all true, unless you are fighting an idiot.

If you are fighting an idiot, this following is true:
Low Health Pool
Best Condition Removal. (your targets letting you CnD him over and over, a BIG mistake…)
Best Direct Damage. (your target is not moving around and you can get his back easilly.)
Low AOEs.

See thats the point, unless you are traited for cond removal on stealth, you don’t have cond removal. which is ironic actually, seeing as i run a cond build.

I have never had 1 moment in all my thief life that i would WANT to use disabling shot. EVER.

I main a thief, and i can easily say we are like one of the weakest classes right now.

Everywhere i go i feel so insignificant.
Low health pool
Low condition removal
Low direct damage
Low AoEs

Other than our 2 attacks (backstab, heartseeker).
There is not one class out there that can’t out-perform us.
Yet we get all off the kittenstorm because we have one OP combo that apparently kitten everyone, everytime.
Since release it’s been downhill for the thief. Nerf after nerf after nerf. And i chose this class because i was sick of my ele being squishy as hell.

Now i could be going around and giving suggestions, but i have never noticed any suggestion put into the game at all. I’m not even going to put effort into it.

Everyone is probably going to try proving me otherwise and tell me to L2P, but i’m not giving up on thief, i’m just saying to lay down the kittenstorm.

cross-class comparison… level them to 80 first, and research their limits and potentials.

Why wont people get that Steal is just the tip of the iceberg. Our strengths lie in initiative.

Steal is just a nice ability to have, and a strong one when traited. it’s as class defining as engineers having turrets. Just because it’s on your F1 doesn’t mean it has to do something spectacular.

You do know that steal has many applications right? And we have initiative instead of cooldowns which is also our special ability.