Guild Wars 2

I have to say that I can relate to everybody who posted in this thread. I play a thief myself and really love it. But…it is definitly not the best PVE class (but of course also not the worst). We do lack some powerful support skills. And half of our Slot skills are not worth picking…Like Tricks or Poison…yes they are useful in some situations but generally they are not worth it.
On the other hand we have some nice Melee!!!-DPS… our single target range dps is not worth mentioning.
The rest is “okay”. Nothing that you would pick a thief over any other class. SB blast finisher is nice… but overall nothing special, because:
In PVE you want to keep the whole team alive. Everybody who contributes to this goal is “good” in PVE. A lot of damage reduces the fight time, which results in less chances to wipe. And a lot of support increases the time the group stays alive.
A squishy class with moderate support and good damage( good damage only in a melee situation where getting downed happens really fast even if you are a good player) is not as good as a class with good survivability, good damage and good support… And these classes do exist. Mesmer, Guradian, Warrior are really superior. If you would value any stuff they bring to a PVE group they will get higher values then a thief… but i still love the playstyle of D/D and D/P so ill try to do my best and hope for some improvements on venoms. Cause venomshare could be really awesome…