Guild Wars 2

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Terrorsquad.2349:

• Any other class can +1, but can’t deliver burst on demand => resulting in being slow in rotations and being outnumbered/outrotated later on (assuming enemy team has a Thief)

Burst is worthless. I’ve seen bunker Engi doesn’t even care about damage or burst as long as they can launch you out of the node so they can bunker down and cap it.

Like I said, if you can defend the node, no need to rotate. In a 3-1-1 split, even if you outnumber 3v5, they will only lose one node that they can retake on respawn.

And if it takes your whole team to take a node…I don’t believe you don’t see a problem there.

• If you’re going to replace Thief for a Warrior (assuming you don’t have a warrior yet), you’re in for an outrotation. Warriors are slow, despite their leap/swiftness (if we’re talking about the Meta).

As I said. Effectively defending a node requires less for rotation. If you can force the other team to always outnumber your team, that’s a win because they will always be outnumbered somewhere else.

• Shoutwarrs weak spot is burst. Your enemy thief is in for a free kill on your warrior once he’s outnumbered for few seconds.

Seeing that the Warrior is keeping the Thief and another enemy in a node means that the enemy team is outnumbered in other nodes.

My point is, every time the Thief leaves to outnumber a fight, they are weakening a node somewhere. I’ve seen this every time. Whenever a Thief helps to outnumber a fight, his team loses 1-2 nodes.

FYI;

• Any other class can take a node.. Ok.. But what environment of PvP are we talking about? Beginners, average or experienced?

Does it really matter? Even watching the ESL shows that a Thief in a team is the weakest link.

Because afaik a d/d cele ele should not try to decap from another d/d cele ele over a point.. In an average/experience environment. Basically, you don’t try to decap a point unless its big in your favor (free or the one you counter; Ele vs Engi)

That’s exactly my point. Thief doesn’t counter anyone, but everyone counters Thief.

My advise to you is to keep playing PvP. Once you get more experienced and start playing against more skilled opponents you’ll begin to see why thieves are so good in PvP, at least in my opinion.

Name: Joris The Devine
Server: Gandara (EU)
Gametype: PvE atm because i just started saving for a legendary, though I am having a hard time finding groups who take rangers on dungeon runs. I like sPvP alot as well, WvW I don’t play very often.

IGN: Minion Vll
Role: Scholar
Server: Gandara (EU)
Playstyle: PvP and PvE
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