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Well just remember their metrics will show that x amount of thieves are no longer logging in or not even bothering to obtain their elite spec. So they can go from there to find the root cause of why and maybe fix it.
You know the lack of communication is bad when we’re discussing ways to get their attention to the current state of Thief like this.
but now that it has hit an all-time low, I feel like the only direction it can go is up.
Don’t worry. I’m sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see them do something wacky like even more stealth nerfs, increase the initiative cost of Short Bow 5, or make shadow’s embrace remove even less conditions.
After getting the nerf stick many times in a row, this Tuesday will make it or break it for Heart of Thorns for me.
After what they did to Thief in the specialization update, it’s become really unfun with the traits they took away. If I see nerfs or nothing remedying this, I’m dropping a ticket for a Heart of Thorns refund. Thief is my main and it’s what I play for most of the content and I don’t think I should pay for my own demise.
It’s really nice to hear from you, Karl. Looking forward to trying the dodges again.
The lack of communication or acknowledgement that Thief is in a pretty bad position is the worst part of it all. We took a lot of heavy hits during the specialization update like the loss of Power of Inertia and Hidden Assassin, the watering down of Resilience of Shadows by half its potency, and Shadow’s Embrace removing specific conditions instead of any conditions ( placing us in a weird point where anyone sneezing a burn at you is a death sentence ). At this point, it’s really difficult to hold faith any of these things will be addressed with the radio silence from the devs.
I feel the need to remind you guys that the Thief does not have cooldowns.
Initiative is a different kind of cooldown.
Staff 3 does pull you out of melee range, and if you then want back in quickly, you might have to Dodge, use one of Staff’s two built-in gap-closers, or Steal. This is not terrible
You seem to be under the impression that Steal won’t be on cooldown and Thieves have infinite initiative. Why should we have to waste initiative in order to compensate with an awkward move? S/D 3 doesn’t do this.
I might be a voice in the wilderness here, but when I heard of Bound being a Leap Finisher on dodge, I imagined the Daredevil diving forward as a dodge. Jumping into the air and slamming down as a Thief is kinda weird. I’d gladly swap diving forward with a leap finisher over stomping for damage on a dodge.
Even more reveal on a short CD? At least I haven’t woken up to hear Shortbow 5 was nerfed yet.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hidden_Assassin This trait would be pretty helpful and I can’t think of a single good reason why it vanished during the specialization update.
I’m probably going to try out Shiro Revenant with Sword/Axe or Sword/Sword. I think I’ll stick by Thief no matter how bad it gets since I like the profession thematically.
After playing on the beta events, I can’t help but feel as if though Revenant captures a lot of what I’ve originally liked about the Thief class. It’s going to be pretty difficult to drop Thief since I’ve been with it since I started playing and mained it through all of the nerfs, but I’ll probably wind up looking into Revenant a lot more, too.