Guild Wars 2

Only way thief can win a fight like that is with p/p and even then it’s scatchy as hell. Best to just avoid the point or wait for support.

Some really nice ideas there, when I saw Debilitating Arc chaining with Dust Srike, it made me realize how much I would like that Just one question, why replace all the reflect with projectile destroy? Any particular reason for that?

Slowmelt.8547:

DenimChicken.8639:

Can anyone convince me that there is anything to be excited about for the thief

No.
I’m officially giving up as of yesterday. I don’t feel motivated to play anymore, because my class is dead.
I see my friends talking about Guild Wars and being excited for playing, but I don not feel it anymore. Thief just is not fun the way it once was.

I feel the same way. Atm I have no friends playing thief because they either changed their class or stopped playing altogether. The game would probably be a lot more fun if I changed too, but just out of principle I’m not going to. Probably gonna move into wildstar, where thieves don’t suck and pve is challenging and visit gw2 every now and then to see how much lower did thief get since my last visit.

aw, too bad I missed that. I send my condolences

You sir have won the internet today

aah okay tripwire makes sense then. Seems nice tho, will play around with it

very nice, just wanted to ask why torment on interrupt? I mean…do you even have anything that could interrupt on this build?

IGN: Dirkman
Playstyle: anything that goes, but mostly wvw atm
Server: Aurora Glade
Experience with thief: I played thief since launch and have experience with pretty much any build (experience not meaning I’m necessarily good with them). I used to run s/d most of the time, but since last patch I’m back where I started, at d/d. I have a wvw guild so I would love to join primarily for a chat, advices and kittening about nerfs and thief in general

Kury.8210:

Knighthonor.4061:

From appearance point of view, this staff is more monk like. Which fits. Monks fight with just this same weapon as well as the other weapons Thief can already use.
The look and style fits.

Something tells me you still don’t get it. If you mean the data mined image, then sure, looks fine (if it’s a staff). But what I’m saying is the glow rod skins we typically got for staff don’t fit thieves. Some even have massive staff toppers, or whatever you’d call the ornament. Imagine a thief with the Balthazar staff skin. It would look out of place as a necromancer with a rifle.

Well there are some wannabe quaterstaves already (or gargoyle scythe, that would be pretty cool on thief ) but if they would pull that off I’m pretty sure they would add some more fitting skins for close combat

nopoet.2960:

Ripkord.8567:

Thief IS going to become Monk melee specialisation. ….

Hope you’re right. It actually makes sense. One thing that thieves are lacking is aoe skills. If we get melee aoes then that will definitely fill in a gap for us.

I just….fail to see connection between thief and monk

Eh, can’t say I like the support stuff and thief is definitely not a monk so I wouldn’t want to see him throwing heals around with some kind of aura, but thieves having staves, whatever they would be has been my dream since begining of gw 2.

Instead of support, they should in my opinion be all about jumping around and some aoe attacks (because honestly, thief doesn’t really have many of those)

Also, leave ranged to rangers. True thieves like it close

I’m not one of those people who hates on rangers (altrough I’m rooting for the thieves, may the lords finally give them some buffs instead of nerfs) but let me share with you something, that might explain why other people do.

For about two year I play thief now and I got pretty decent in it, but I decided to give ranger a go. I went for classic burst lb/gs cause I thought it will be the best to learn the ropes. But what I saw quite surprised me.

Out of 20 games I played I won 18 (usually it’s like 15 with thief if I’m lucky) and in all of those games I had the highest score and had no real trouble with killing pretty much anything.

I never played ranger and I was learning the skills for like 10 minutes beforehead, so tell me how is this possible?

In my opinion with ranger (At least the lb one) there is just really high power level for really low skill needed. And even tho it can be countered by higher skilled players, it’s still not something easy to do and I would say that is the source of all this hatred.

So that’s that I don’t even want to imagine what is really possible to do when actually good at ranger. Even tho my thief probably does, since he looks like a hedgehog atm.