Guild Wars 2

Caosaur.3871:

FA continues to get it’s rear kicked every week and I’m surprised they still try considering they basically took SoS’s position.

We … We have to … T_T

Fell Arms.8320:

and there’s zero counterplay

I see …

/15chars

As a thief main :

A) Yes, they should change the tooltip, but the fact that you got confused over it shows that you don’t know thief as well as you might think.

B) The range on Weakening Charge is fine as is and it would only make the skill more difficult to fully utilise if the it was changed in either way.

C) Debilitating Arc is great as is.

What I want them to change is Dust Strike, which I’d prefer to be a field and to fix Vault so it can use it’s full range.

Now that gw2skills finally got an update, it’s time to figure out some builds.

So here’s what I’ve been running in PvE at the moment and it’s been quite fun.

I’ve been using Staff/SB with DA/CS/DrD and a mix of marauder and berserker stats just for a little extra comfort.

You can craft your own marauder insignias and inscriptions. Just buy the recipe from the crafting vendors.

As for the accessories, I think you can get some of them from HoT story achievements.

Alright, we all know that staff is underwhelming compared to our other weapon set, but I thought I’d give it a try.

So, here’s what I’ve been running so far.

Lots of damage, enough healing and perma -swiftness.

I’ve yet to check out the marauder stuff and the new infusions (or even get into the thief specs in terms of synergy), but so far I’m having fun with this.

I can’t afford it at the moment.

I will try to keep playing, but I know that after a while I’ll be playing solo and at a disadvantage without the elite specs, so I will either have to quit or at least take a long break.

Enjoy it while it lasts I guess.

Same thing for me since yesterday.

I only managed to properly load the forums an hour ago for the first time in two days.

From EU playing on NA btw.

Probably Vets coming back to the game and emptying their banks.

that baby stealing dingo.7216:

So our current role in the meta is to be a teleport monkey that decaps and stealth-rezzes downed allies?

….. Yes.

They brought them both back during the anniversary sale a month ago.

What am I rolling ? Nothing … Just a couple more weeks of patience and if nothing changes by then, I guess I’ll have to start looking for a different MMO.

yolo swaggins.2570:

Get more people on the profession so we can better influence anet’s descisions through statistics?

Is that moot ? I’m dying

Troncat.7051:

I really just feel like a handicap.

Yes, that’s our main mechanic.

To the person that mailed me today asking why I was “trying to WvW using S/D” …

May your class become as unwanted as Ranger (no offense) and your butterflies haunt you in your sleep.

Drow.2081:

Great. Now how about:

sw 3/4 50 j/l sadfwg

What the flip does that mean?

Silverwastes – 3/4 forts captured – 50% foothold progression – leave the party when you join the map !

Kocoff.7582:

10. this one is definitely nothing to be proud of but when a D/D celestial ele tries to kill you, but you barely make it out.

No, you have every reason to be proud.

Remember though Brothers and Sisters, the wise words of Disney :

Heave ho, thieves and beggars.
Never shall we die.

Was set on fire 6 times.

Tried to run away (see GTFO technique).

The clock ticked and ticked.

sad face

44 please

/15 chars and stuff

kornfanxxx.9143:

PopeUrban.2578:

no, there are logs that can prove if you cheated or not, anet doesn’t reflex ban over whiny babies.

i haven’t ever been accused of that before so it kinda worried me.

Lucky you ! .. Seriously don’t worry about it though.

Exxcalibur.6203:

A thief? Bwhahahahaha! I love standing on a point and watching thieves come in and die when im on my tank necro.

GO Necro, and you get reaper with patch for that big swing you desire.

As a thief I laughed as well.

(and cried at the same time)

Coronit.9432:

Kocoff.7582:

bliss.4305:

Yup… After playing Daredevil I concluded stealth would still be the mechanic that keeps Thieves competitive and finally made my “Quip”. Imagine my frustration after the Engineer Elite Specialization reveal…

Granting Reveal to all classes look nothing more than a VERY lazy attempt to help players deal with a class they don’t fully understand. Seeing as no Thief was given ANY help to counter other class mechanics, its just sad…

Reveal is just a very unfortunate, bad game design thrown around to avoid actual effort to address the real problems with the mechanic (not that it has many…).

A lot of truth this player just mentioned guys. Please read.

Reveal is badly thought out, and is lazy. I think the only countermeasure to this, is a serious surge in attack power, to the point where being reveal or not doesn’t complete negate your damage with Stealth Attacks.

What other counters to Reveal do you guys have in mind? PLease note: reveal wouldn’t be such an issue if our core traits were impeccable.

The nerf-hammer? Its quiet powerful I heard.
I just can’t understand why they implemented so many reveals as hardcounters, while they said some time ago that they “don’t want hardcounters”.
I’m not even interested anymore in trailers or “reveals” (conent-balance-wise)
Because it can turn out completely different at release. Don’t get me wrong, I know that changes happen and HAVE to happen all the time. But why we weren’t even told that the healbuff on withdraw got canceled? It got to a point where the class could be deleted tomorrow. Just that no one would be surprised :/

Well, maybe it’s better to delete it, remake it from scratch and bring it back with the next expansion…. What’s happening now is just sad.

Well … seems like I was wrong… (inb4 all these actually do get nerfed come next patch)

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

The funny thing about this is that, while Karl is concern about balance _(not letting Thief be overpowered — which I support)

Nail on the head, but you cant blame him, because the moment thief is competent people will start crying

just accept it. Maybe if we try hard enough we’ll get nerfed again.

What’s left for them to nerf ?

Well … Seems like we finally became obsolete.

Time to learn how to mesmer I guess.

BlackIDove.7510:

I also refuse to jump from map to map to map just to find some people to do events with. Keep the chest farming in, just limit it.

There’s your problem.

Twitch viewers ? I don’t know anyone who watches GW2 streams (at least regularly). I don’t think you can make any conclusions based on that number.

I will try and keep going with the thief for as long as I can and after that I’ll just quit the game. While I play most of the classes, there’s no one I enjoy as much as the thief or at least enough that I would consider maining.

IGN: Miss Dire
Playstyle: PvE/PvP
Server: Fort Aspenwood
Experience with thief:
I main thief since I joined the game about 4 months ago. Been playing mostly D/D(D/P) – SB berserker builds, but experimenting a bit with condies in PvP. I rarely face problems in PvE and while I only recently got into dungeons and fractals I believe (or i choose to believe) that I’m doing ok.