Guild Wars 2

if you want variety dont pick thief, they have the lowest amount of weapon combinations(before people say it keep in mind engineers kits and ele’s attunements give them more skill sets and variety) and also some of them are very similar, it just gets soooo repetitive , but in PVP they are tons of fun.

Also maybe try not basing your opinion on what people are saying on the forums, if you like the class play it, if people say its crap on the forums who cares make up your own mind

First off, hello to anyone taking the time to read and reply to this, I am just starting to get back into guild wars 2 after a two month break and I want to reroll a new profession. Basically my worry is are engineers interesting enough to keep you entertained up to lvl80, I found on my thief I eventually got very bored of him because to start with thieves have very few weapon sets and alot of them are too similar so It just felt like I was smashing the same skill all the way to 80, so do engineers have enough variety to keep you interested?

@Elle if you take into account an engineer’s arsenal of kit’s that will bring their total count higher then a thief, I wont count an ele’s summoned weapon arsenal because I believe you do a set number of attacks with each of these before they dissappear and go on cooldown

@MithranArkanere – Yeah i was thinking that aswell, heartseeker was this weapon combos’ only form of damage and we can get the blind/teleport effects from other weapon sets that can also dish out damage, so maybe buffing Shadow shot would be a way to go, in any case if nothing is done the weapon set will remain uesless I do hope Arenanet is aware of this.

First off, Im not here to whine about heartseeker being nerfed, I think its pretty fair what they did with it, but I dont think they took into account what it meant for the dagger/pistol combo which is now rendered useless as its only form of damage was heartseeker, sure it has a blind/teleport but we have other weapon combo’s which can do this and can also dish out “actual” damage, so in my opinion they have made Dagger/pistol setup useless, its bad enough thieve’s have the lowest number of weapon combinations to begin with, opinions?

it can be used as a gap closer and range is certainly not an issue when you are inches away from your target

yeah I know if you use it as a gap closer it tends to have low accuracy, but in pve face to face with a mob whenever i hit heartseeker it misses almost all the time this never happened before the re-work

okay first off I dont have an issue with how and why they did what they did to heartseeker, lets face it, any idiot with no knowledge of how to play thief could spam it and win, but since they re-worked it I find my heartseeker misses almost all the time its extremely frustrating and Im wondering have they accidentally broken the skill.
Lastly please dont go off-topic about how underpowered or OP heartseeker is now, but this thread is about the skills accuracy

okay first off I dont have an issue with how and why they did what they did to heartseeker, lets face it, any idiot with no knowledge of how to play thief could spam it and win, but since they re-worked it I find my heartseeker misses almost all the time its extremely frustrating and Im wondering have they accidentally broken the skill

Just in my opinion from playing the thief in pvp,pve and WvWvW, the thief has too few weapon combo’s compared to everyone else and as a result,especially in PVE thieves can become a bit stale and boring, I realise another one would take extensive testing etc. but even if you were to make the sword also usable in off-hand that would open up a variety of other combo’s and put the thief on parr with everyone else.