Guild Wars 2

Priceless is all I can say…

Hello, I`m one of the few thiefs that actually don`t want to give up their class just cus the meta is dumpstering us. That said, in my opinion, you have 2 choices:

1. Play thief and master it (considering the current meta it is probably the hardest class to play in the game just because you literally cannot do anything in a 1v1 situation unless your oponent is below you in terms of skill – thus you need to either DECAP or +1 Fights)

2. Choose another class, as people have said there are alot of classes who are more user friendly and, 95% of the time do a better job than the thief can. Revenant is the star player of this list but you can also try a ranger(druid build) or an engineer (scrapper build). Other strong classes are auramancer – elementalist and chrono bunker – mesmer. For detailed builds check www.metabattle.com

Hope this helps you on your quest. And if you love your thief then screw the meta, hopefully when the balance patch hits on the 26 of january we won`t be left behind.

Hello guys,

The first part of my post is mostly directed towards Anet. Now I know that devs don`t give a rat`s kitten about what we write on these forums and nobody will ever answer in this thread from the devs but still, I feel the need to vent.

How can you kitten up so bad the ONE thing that your game(s) were known for – PVP?

Now I remember when I first heard about GW2 that I was so hyped up that I saw it as the holy grail of PvP games(and to this day I strongly feel that it has the best combat out of any MMO I have played). Also the fact that you can go into PvP and the only thing that separates the good players from the bad players is skill (no farm, no grind just pure skill) is the single best thing about your PvP in comparison to other games (heck even counterstrike is less fair, if one team wins they get $ advantage).

Now all this being said and praised I can not, for the love of god, understand how you went from THE PvP game (GW1) to this mess of unbalance and, frankly, boring design that is the current GW2 and its bunker meta. I mean it is not like you guys are inexperienced at designing PvP.

To the community> Am I the only one that is at a loss for words when trying to explain how someone with a reputation for designing PvP designs such a huge mess?

Aidenwolf.5964:

From the screen shot I take 3 things away.

1. You keybound your skills GG.
2. You played thief and won and drove an oponent mad Very GG.
3. Your use of logic and reason caused him to block you Very Very GG.

Thank you very much for the compliments.

In regards to other previously written posts I think we can all agree that any other class(except war perhaps) outshines the thief. However I think that if everyone would strive more to play what they like and enjoy instead of going metabattle.com builds it would be a lot better. But maybe this is just my wishful thinking.

Interesting, I will try your build out tomorrow and see how I get along with it.

Terrorsquad.4802:

I see alot of people here saying thief can’t 1v1 currently but it actually can.

If you go DA/Trick/DD with Staff, I have no issues beating DS Auramancers, Bunker Mesmers 1v1 within 20s, honestly.

Maybe i`m too much into the D/P – SB weapon setup but i really don`t like the staff on thief. Sure you have a good amount of burst with it but it still feels a bit clunky to me.

Also, as the meta is currently I for one see no point in 1 v 1, I would rather send a brawler from my team as 1 v 1 against the enemy point holder and go there to +1 the fight than to go myself and fulfill the role of the brawler. Of course there are times when you have to hold your own but the most you can expect (if the enemy is equally skilled) is to delay that guy until reinforcements arrive – this in my opinion is the saddest part about thief in the current playstyle.

Like many have posted in the current meta thief is hard to play into a 1 v 1, and from a team play standpoint you are only as good as your team is/allows you to be. But when you have a good team you really shine, at least that is how I feel about it.

I would like to thank everyone who replied for their support. It`s always nice to see there are good natured people out there:)

Today i had the most awesome experience playing ranked spvp, I am baffled by how poorly people know their roles.

I play thief in like 95% of my games, it is arguably the worst class in the game right now but I still love it.

This is my point of view so feel free to correct me but:
As a thief nowadays your role is even more pushed down the lines of decap/cap and +1 fights because you simply can not 1v1 another class unless the other player is less skilled than you are. So I do my job, we end up winning by ~20 pts and:

Entering the story: the enemy DH who presses 3 skills and lays down his awesomely traps and says > “never seen such a coward, impressive”. And i`m like whoa, I played my class, when people have bad thieves on their team they complain that the class is freeloss, but when they play against someone who tries to play the class and manages to do so decently they flame… Worst part is they don`t even flame properly, the guy said “you were in the most 2v1 fights of your team by far” ofc i was, that is MY job.

Please understand that not all classes are meant to stay on point and take a kitten ton of dmg and go 1v1. 1v2 1vWorld
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Heya, I would love to join your guild if possible. I am a PvP oriented player and would love to find some mates to share time with. My IGN is deputatu.5620 and am currently on the underworld server.