dude, devs are writting like 1-2 forum posts per week, and you want to make them to do 1 balance per 2 weeks? no way jose, i dont know what they doing, but man, its not going to happen.
100% agree with OP. At first i was like : kitten IT IM GOING TO ROCK PVP WITH MY BIG kitten NORN WARRIOR – but then – kitten my sneaky preparations for buffs/ stun / burst are weaker than random spells spam on other professions. LOL.
Imo, Thief will always have a place in competitive PvP just because of their mobility and decap/+1 potential. With that said, heres what needs to change to make them( along with some other classes) more viable.
1) The CC has to be toned down. Holy kitten, it is not uncommon to go into a 3v3 and be stun/dazelocked for every bit of 6+ seconds at extremely rapid intervals. This kills damage classes and not just thief.
2) All this passive evade/block/immunity is lame as hell. When you want to initiate on a target, look at all this kitten keeping you from doing so-
-Revenant massive auto taunt once attacked
-Ranger Nature Magic trait that applies weakness for 6.
-Guardian initial block (not really complaining about this, they dont need the block to destroy you and I’m cool with it being a passive of the Virtue).
-Tempest- Frost Aura applied initially when attacking significantly slowing dps
-Reaper – attack them and get feared away which auto applies chill
What do all these have in common? The player can be afk and they all still trigger.
dude even Reaper F1 random buttons spam is more powerful on condi build than every warrior close combat rotation. Balance/pvp in this game is one big joke.
Today i created necro for first time and i used random meta build. Pressed random skills all game long = 1st place. Well kitten me. Im deleting my warrior.
