Guild Wars 2

I hate pve so I love this monthly, no fractals and no dungeons woot!

I find it amazing that bunker eles get nerfed, and in the same patch thieves get none, when there are so many more complaints about them. There is only one solution and thats to roll thieves too.

Lol with all the eles nerfs in this patch still complaints about them.

I could deal with the nerfs to eles a whole lot better if thieves got adjusted too. I can’t believe they got away untouched again. Sigh.

Agree with idea of buffing instead of nerfing.
Bunker eles a problem, buff the power traits so eles have a viable dps option. Noone playing engineers and thief stealth a problem, buff flamethrower to reveal stealth and put debuff on.

You got some balls playing staff ele in pvp good stuff

Thieves are annoying in spvp, maybe slightly OP. But wvw they are absolute bs. The insta kill, perma stealth, one thief holding up 5 people… Really encouraging for new people to try wvw.

What’s with all the ele hate? Its OP thieves that ruins pvp for everyone. Oh I get it, thieves have trouble killing d/d eles, yeh lets nerf em.

It’s absolutely ridiculous dueling wasn’t in at release, esp for a pvp game. Spvp is the only way to do it.

More people playing thieves since they are so blatantly OP and Anet refuses to balance them. Good time to roll thief as aoe in general and bunker eles going to get nerfed.

With all the complaints about thieves, why would eles get nerfed first? Don’t understand Anet sometimes.

Winner move up and loser down is a great idea. The current system means almost every week is same opponents and provides little motivation to avoid coming third.

Never knew there was a problem with aoe until Anet brought it up. Myself and many have complained for ages how OP thieves are in pvp. No mention of thieves, but in addition to aoe nerf Anet also say bunker eles are on their watchlist! Really? Why aren’t thieves on their watchlist.

I’d be very disappointed in Anet if eles got nerfed and thieves, which are so brokenly OP, were left as they are.

d/d eles have great mobility and escape skills but don’t have great burst. Thieves have all three!

Keep the stealth as is but lose the burst. Oh you want to keep the burst, then nerf stealth. Choose. Having amazing burst combined with stealth that doesnt break on damage or have cooldowns is OP and for non thieves is an extremely negative play experience.

Henrik.7560:

Thieves shouldn’t be able to move 50% faster in stealth as well as damage doesn’t break stealth, that just gives them a chance to run away miles down the road if things go bad for them.
They can’t have 50% speed in stealth combined with stealth that can’t be broken.

Exactly! I don’t understand the need for stealthed thieves to have 150% speed in combat. They already have that damage doesnt break stealth, and they can stealth whilst in combat. In that other game, rogues move slower in stealth and have to spec to move normal speed! I have a lot of respect for Anet devs as they have done so many great things in this game, but Blizzard and even Mythic implemented the stealth class much better than Anet. The way thieves are now is an extremely negative play experience for non thief players and will mean less people playing spvp and wvw as a result.

Here’s my Norn ele, just the winged set minus the shoulders

IMHO one change will balance thieves and reduce all the hate on them. Just make so that when a stealthed thief takes damage its puts them out of stealth, either by direct damage or aoe. They can keep all the damage and burst they have. WoW rogues have permanent stealth by default but are revealed when they are hit and WAR had the same mechanic. What were Anet devs thinking?