Guild Wars 2

I think its funny how much people are comparing “NA meta vs. EU meta” and ignoring the fact that the best teams nowadays are teams of the best players. Could it be that the game is at a point where being a good player is more important than the class you play, and you can make many different comps work when you have good players?

Probably better to just focus on the classes…

Will this change include fixing decay? Decay should be permanent. There should be no reason that someone can come back after a month and play a match, Win or Lose, and jump back to top of the LBs.

Can a dev answer the decay issue?

I’d like to comment on the propose thief changes.

-Initiative gain should NOT require a slow regen. Thieves have 0 cd but our weapon skills cost initiative and are mostly offensive, what we have atm are a few traits that let us directly control that letting us land combos. Thief only has 1 gain from spending intiative, and the plan seems to be move that trait further away. Make more benefits to spending initiative, and maybe add a total cd to staying in stealth if resetting a fight is the issue. Don’t nerf our control over a resource.

-Thieves have very few boons. We have no protection, our regen is mediocre unless in stealth, no stability, no aegis. I see the issue that thieves may spend a lot of time dodging rather than fighting but keep in mind, dodging thief means no direct dmg to the enemy. If they can’t control someone who is dancing that’s a fault in player skill and not how thieves stay afloat. We have the lowest health pool, and by nature are quite squishy, so we rely on dodges. Although I never have, some people may only spend 10 into acrobatics for vigorous renewal, this would just ruin any chance of that staying, an indirect nerf at best.

-From what I see, there are just nerfs to this rather than an improvement to the class. Taking away more control over our builds, and dishing little to no incentives to try new things. Also, I saw no notes in improving venoms which still remain rather weak. I know all classes have some list of skills/traits that are useless but thief really needs more diversity. Just like the change to Larcenous strike, we had a control build. Maybe 2 boon stealing was too much, but it could of just been changed without completely removing the effectiveness of the build. A Couple ideas could be

_remove 1 boon on flanking strike, steal on LS
_Steal 2 boons but lower the duration of the stolen boons.
_steal 1 boon from the front, steal 2 boons from the back
_steal 1 boon and apply it to nearby allies (range 150?)

Instead we are left with 2 initiative to steal 1 boon, atleast change it to 1 initiative. I thought the goal was build diversity.