I really regret not just leveling a faceroll warrior if they’re just going to keep nerfing thieves every patch for every build (and not touch warrior at all).
3/3 of my friends are warriors, I’m a thief/elementalist/guardian and we all stack Power/Toughness/Vit gear. They have like twice my hp (30k+) and way more survivability, and better escape/chasing tools.
Good luck killing them with the double endure pain build (auto endure pain at 25% and another endure pain whenever they want), with their high power they’ll still kill almost everyone with a hasted 108 blades.
I don’t get why they even nerfed pistol whip when it did nowhere near as much damage as 108 blades. ANET’s balancing is scaring me since they’re pretty much touching every class but warrior.
I have a geared elementalist (tanky dps d/d) and guardian as well, and I would use them any day over my thief for dungeons. I just like playing assassin types but it’s sad when the squishiest class in the game (even when using all power/toughness/vit) gear has half the life of a tankier class and less DPS.
Warriors have better chasing tools too. Snare or root on their ranged rifle/bow and snare on greatsword, greatsword’s charge + whirlwind + bullrush + 30s swiftness elite all on short cooldowns.
I just feel that thief is just a worse version of warrior more and more, especially when they keep getting nerfed and warriors never get touched with their better abilities.
Even a glass cannon warrior has more hp than a thief stacking vit, get a warrior stacking power/toughness/vit with double endure pain build and they’ll still do massive dmg and have tons more survival.
@Vrak, double endure pain is the way to go. My friend can choose to even take all the hits, let endure pain activate automatically while waiting for a good chance to bullrush + frenzy + 108 blades to instantly 1 round the thief. If it doesn’t, just heal after and hit endure pain again then kill him.
My friend would never lose to a backstab thief. You can also endure pain manually the basilisk stun now, and keep the passive endure pain if he even gets you that low (doubtful since he’ll burn the openers already). Even if you’re slow, you can endure pain then heal to cleanse condition then reverse one combo him.
I also find it pretty ridiculous greatsword’s whirlwind attack hits like 4 times on the same target, as if it didn’t do enough damage and AOE already.
Even in my all power/toughness/vit exotics, I still get one combo’d (bullrush+hundred’s blade) by a power/toughness/vit stacking warrior as a thief if I get hit by the bullrush. A lot of times I roll half of it, but then I just get hit by whirlwind that hits me up to 4 times and die.
