Guild Wars 2

Now it’s not like I want to talk about the really obvious stuff like Rev getting this extremely cool sword3-skill that makes every thief going fangirl about it, or the unreasonable amount of quickness they get that would suit a thief maybe even better or the whole assassin stance in general, I’m over that. I’m really not mad about that anymore.
But-
Why exactly did Rev have to get Assassin’s Presence instead of thief?
It’s not like it would make thief OP again, but it would be reasonable. +150 Partywide Ferocity would be, er… atleast something. As always not what we asked for, but better than Pistol-Auto-Buff. Not that I’m mad or something (I maybe am a bit), but why did they even have to call it Assassin’s Presence and not like Presence of the Mists or something that would not make me feel like getting pranked.
I’m missing the reason behind that. Maybe you guys can help me.

Things haven’t really changed in PvE and they won’t till Halloween, we are waiting for the Daredevil. If you want to know about metabuilds, go to this page:
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DD needs more Conditionsupport to be even considered as replacement for Condition-thief.
Condi DD’s dps in PvE is something between worse-almost as good at compared to normal thief. It is a huge issue that you can only land one of Lotus Training's projectiles if you fight openfield since you have to dodge in a way that places you caltrops in your enemies. Atm, the specialization tree is a waste of damage since it has a single condition-skill that is unreliable.
Lotus Training's random projectiles also mean reveal 90% of the time if you dodge nearby foes, totally negating the function of dodges for thiefes especially in PvP.
If your enemy dodges the first of Impairing Daggers, the other two seem to miss him aswell most of the time.
I’d also like to see a duration buff to Bandit’s Defense's block aswell as an alternative skill you can use while the block is channeling like every other class has it.

I have to say that I’m really glad that DD got from “I’m really not going to play thief after HoT” to “Idk it seems to have potencial, I might stick with it for fun” since the last BWE.
Also the new Lotus Training Animation is awesome. I’d love to see something similiar for Death Blossom, but I can also live with what I got now.

Please keep doing your good work and don’t stop right now. I don’t know if I could stand another huge disappointment

IGN: Faye Azami (Alternate IGN: Kyle Deshain)
Thief type: Scholar
Server: Abaddon’s Mouth

Experience with thief:
550+ hours playtime
PvE: since the big balancing-patch I mainly played condi-thief with friends in dungeons etc. For speedclears I use my secondary zerk thief.
PvP: different Venomshare-builds (including 1 zerker build) in both ranked and unranked. Also experienced with d/p s/d old metas
WvW: almost no activity. Sometimes roaming with a bleeding-thief build.

I’d really like to come in contact with other thiefes, especially at times like this. I wish to improve my knowledge about the class by listening to other peoples’ oppinions.

Same reason as everyone else’s, I love the thief-concept in most MMOs, especially pared with conditions.
So I was totally freaking out about conditions becoming viable with the balancing-patch and enjoyed my new bleedingassassin happily ever after :>
I’ll just leave a link to my build here. Can’t wait for the daredevil-condi-dodge.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZUQNAoYVl0MhenYzTwtJQPHHUFl/CShSoHBBwBovxHYuA-TBTAABKcEAwWZW0nAAp1GAlSDrVXAgHAQHHCggUpZQdA9s/QbKBJEgi1A-e