Guild Wars 2

Mounts would make them money.

They’re a great cosmetic item for the gem store.

Some people, myself included, love to just have them. Especially if they look cool.

We know that mounts will make companies money. We have the sparkle pony of WoW as a great example.

This class is basically dead. Move along. You have NO survivability now.

And I’m speaking pve. It’s no fun now with this class.

pvp can suck it. And I say that as a horrible pvp player.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the build suggestions.

Been trying them, and all I can say is this class is not fun at all anymore.

This is why I keep a max level of each class. Being a game with pvp I figured that pve fun would get screwed over for pvp balance. Also figured they would pull a WoW with a class wheel of sorts. Every so often rotate the class wheel for which one gets to be on top.

Hate that thief is now on the bottom of the wheel.

Makes me hate pvp.

Yea . . . just tried mine out again. Sucks now.

They’ve destroyed my favorite character class. /tear

Whoever was in charge of these class changes (thief changes) should be fired.

Wow. You guys make it sound like if you roll a thief it’s basically, abandon all hope ye who enter here…

Looking like they’re leaving thief to die off . . .

Their elite spec. of DareDevil is amusing. They’re making them into a monk?!

Someone at Arenanet must have netflix.

That sounds rather disappointing . . .

So anyone have a good PvE build now?

I use to love ricochet with dual pistols, but now it’s looking like that dream is dead.

Did they move ricochet to a different class? Should I switch classes?

Any suggestions? My favorite class is a traditional rogue style. . .

Is it true that ricochet is just gone?!

That’s horrible if true!

It’s one of my personal favorite things of this class!

If it’s gone PLEASE bring it back!

Being over powered in low level zones with lowbie friends is a blast.

Thank you for your responses, and I suppose we’ll just stay in other online games that allow this then. Oh well.

I’ve probably not called it by the correct term, but I’m curious about the feature where you get lowered in level to match the area you’re in.

This feature is annoying. I was wondering if there’s a way to turn this off, or if there’s been any consideration of making this feature optional.

This does not help getting friends into the game. If they come to a title I’ve been in for a while they expect me, as a higher level character to aid them greatly. This is not possible with this current system. As such, we’ve ended up in a different game than here. They tried, bought GW2, and this single feature keeps them from returning.

Please consider changing this system.

Thank you.

Holy . . . I forgot about the Icy Wand …. That was epic . . .

Thank the Great Alchemy!!!! I finally did it!!!!

Thank you Aggrostemma.1703, that worked for me!

The build that was my awesome:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhcMqeW4wqBd0AVAC5ZlOJKQ5j/CC

The above is:

0
2 ( III )
0
6 ( III, IX, VI )
6 ( III, VI, XII )

Healing Signet, Conjure Frost Bow, Armor of Earth, Glyph of Lesser Elemental, Glyph of Elementals

I stayed in water, constant running, summoning elementals, and frost bows as I could. I can’t believe I finally did it. I’m SO THRILLED! Not giving up is a key indeed. Also some ‘cool down time’ after too many consecutive deaths.

As I said in the beginning I figured it was me. Elemental is just playing on hard mode I suppose.

Even with that small victory … I still in some small ways, miss my journeyman’s boots, and ice comet. /sigh …. I’m just an old finger wiggle I suppose …

Back in my day, we walked uphill, naked, in the snow, barefoot, for 30 minute full mana meditations, and we liked it too!

WTB SOW PST
WTB CLARITY PST

Porting to all Wiz Ports for donations PST

THAT’S IT!

Thank you Aggrostemma.1703 for the build to try. I hadn’t tried that one.

So I did. It didn’t help. Investigating Dry Top those Assassins will NOT DIE! They’re elites, there’s two, and you CANNOT pull just one. I cannot do enough damage! And I HAVE to solo it. The mission sends you in ALONE! This is SO NOT FUN! I am SO mad right now!

I’m sure it’s me.

I play a Wizard in every mmorpg I play, and normally I’m good at it normally.

Maybe I just am terrible at GW2….. so frustrating….. so mad….. so close to uninstalling for sanity sake…. must…. put…. down…. knife…..

I thought I had found the problem. I thought it was my gear being out of date. NOPE! I just bought new gear for every slot! Didn’t help.

Dry Top inquest, I’ve tried different builds. D/F, D/D, talent spec changes. Nothing. The story quest sends me alone against some elite mobs, who wipe the floor with me. Even when I’m in a group with other npcs, that are attacking, EVERYTHING agros on me.

I’m so ticked off right now. Glass cannon is one thing, this is just sadomasochistic to keep playing this class! I’m just going to go play something else, I won’t say the name of a different game on a games own forum, where I can play a caster, and not be first target, and dropped this easily. I feel powerless as an elmen!

Oh great Soluesk-Ro what every shall I do? (And NO EQ is not where I’m going. I’ve a laundry list of MAJOR issues with that game! )

Yup …. tried D/F …. some better but not really.

I think I hate this class now. Which is sad as I usually love being a wizard in mmorpgs.

This class is SO frustrating! And that’s coming from a EQ1 Erudite Wizard, I was lvl 55 when I quit back in the day… dang… When I wasn’t looking I got old…. shoot.

Thanks! I’ll give D/F a shot . . .

I know that the elem class is a ‘glass cannon’ of sorts, but I can’t keep mine alive for anything. I just die, die, die, oh, and die.

He’s got NO survivability! Meanwhile my necro doesn’t drop at all!

My current build on my elem is:
6 ( VI, VII, XI )
2 ( VI )
2 ( VI )
2 ( VI )
2 ( V )

I also currently use a Staff.

What am I missing? Or is this a class that just stays downed a lot?

I like my pve. Think I’ll just stick to that.

I don’t care for pvp.

Thanks for all the tips!

2/6/0/0/6 looks tempting! Might have to try that out!

When last I posted here I was displeased with the thief class.

Some responses were helpful while others just plan attacks.

I have since taken the helpful suggestions, and found a weapon pairing, and build, that make this class a blast!

I love P/P, and at my level 4,4,0,0,0. I hadn’t thought of using poisons with guns! I guess you can use poisoned bullets! It drops things! I love it!

I had to give up the old rogue mindset, forget about stealth, and just accept this as its very own class. A gunslinger of sorts.

Love it now!

(edited for spelling)

Thanks Thaddeus.4891!

“mess around with IP it’s a nice trait.”

What’s IP? Intellectual Properties?

I agree with either Rifle or melee-Staff.

Thank you guys for the advise!

Thanks Maugetarr.6823, that sounds good

You mean talent point distributions?

full zerk?

Pardon my ignorance…

I’m a pve player. Not into pvp personally. I made this topic to try to understand what I’m doing wrong. I’ve tried all of the weapon combos, and I’ve leveled every other class to 80. I’m an alt-o-holic, so I have to get this thief to 80 before I can start to work on the new class in the expansion. I just swapped all my gear, which was all + cond. dmg for +toughness gear, and so far it seems to have helped. I’m currently level 55, and my build is 2,1,2,0,0. The best weapon combo I can come up with so far is just D/D.

I know it’s me, I was just saying how it feels to play the class to me. Once I get him to 80, I will most likely move to a different class to play until the expansion is released.

I was hoping for tips, builds, techniques to try out…. from someone….

To me, stealth feels like a burden to try to use.

I love the rogue class in most mmorpgs. My first max level character in WoW was a rogue. It pains me to say that the GW2 Thief is very much NOT a rogue.

This class isn’t as much fun to me as the others to me. This is the last class I need to get to 80 before the expansion launch, and it feels so limited. All the other classes feel like they a bunch of options to pick from. This one does not. He dies rather easily also. It made sense for the elementalist to be squishy, but the thief doesn’t feel like he has the damage to back up his level of squishy. He also feels rather limited in weapon selection.

Am I doing something wrong? Can anyone tell me how to make this class as fun as a traditional rogue?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the class. I hated leveling the engineer, but the thief is just ‘meh’. It feels unfinished, and like an afterthought. It feels to me as if little to no work went into the class design at all.

I’m hoping that the expansion comes with an additional character slot. I currently have one of every class… so I will HAVE to have one of these too for my GW2 character line up.

Maybe as a pre-order bonus….. =)

I know it’s been asked for before, but I think it would be awesome if current players could grant something like three friends trial periods.

It could allow the recipient to play for a couple of days to check it out. Maybe even one day?

I know they do free weekends, but do to personal schedules none of the people I would like to check it out have been able to except one.

I think it would work well to only allow a current account to maybe send 3 or so one time only. So current accounts would then stop being able to do such after they’ve done it once.

For the time being I’ll just play something else. I don’t need additional stress.

I’m trying to get to the skill point in the cave with all those ettins, and it’s nigh impossible. I pull and kill 2, and while I’m working on the third the first two respawn. I’ve not even been able to attempt the elite in the cave.

I’m a mesmer, and technically higher level than the zone.

The respawn is just stupid.

Dwarves please!!!!!!

Almost every other fantasy mmo has them playable…. I want it here too!

I did the first battle and didn’t grab that POI. Now there’s no way to it. I guess this didn’t get addressed in a week from Sept. 18th.