Guild Wars 2

imo glass cannon thief is a joke compared to some of the condition builds. glass cannon just stands out cuz it’s lots of damage quickly every 60sec. d/d with energy sigils, toughness/healing amulet, condition runes, signit of malice and init on weapon swap=near infinite evade and dodges while throwing caltrops everywhere. as far as i’m concerned, glass thief is only good for stealing kills and breaking trebs or keep doors fast. throw some bleeds on them and they die after a few ticks.

I don’t really see many burst thieves that often anymore, I thought people outgrew them by now.

i actually think scepter dagger is pretty beast. i sometimes run s/d with runes that increase buff duration and go 30 in arcane. always fun to run around with 25stacks of might, then lightning flash into a group with churning earth hitting everyone for 10k plus bleed. can’t do much for combo fields with d/d but s/d can do plenty via ring of fire.

ele can do 23k within a few seconds though. and yea it would have to be fiery sword then burning speed. I played that burst spec for a week or so for fun but if the target dodges or moves around then the ele has to run away and wait for cds.

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Well if you see a dev playing again make sure you pick a theaf and backstab them in stealth as many times as you can and run away like a coward and then we might see some changes

This is why I can’t use my ANet tag very much in-game X[

How about actually taking into consideration what he was implying. Backstab thieves are currently very broken, for example I have been 3 shotted instantly by one of them while in full exotics while playing a warrior in open WvW. When I say 3 shotted I mean I was dead in roughly a second, I checked out the combat log to see a 12k crit, and 2 6k crits.

by now most people should just be aware that most thieves in wvw are glass cannons. just pop endure pain as soon as the thief jumps in with steal and then smack them in the face 2 or 3 times and they are dead. plenty of other classes can do burst for 12k and 2 6k or more, just not as fast normally but when a thief does this and you counter it, they have no choice but to run away or stay and probably get squashed.

I’ve actually been playing around with this build and traits and the amount of morons that get killed by this combo is astonishing. I got quite a few whispers of people freaking out cuz they have never seen ele burst.

Stuck on loading screen again.

I thought there would be a thread about this already but I have to yet find one. Anyway, the scepter 1 ability Arc Lightning for elementalist while in air attunement almost never stops showing the animation of the lightning even after the target dies. Usually I stop it by doing a quick /dance. This isn’t a huge bug but it can be annoying in pvp because the giant nonstop lightning beam is like a giant indicator showing exactly where the ele is. I think the direction that the ele is facing while at the end of the channeled ability may have some influence as to whether or not the animation gets stuck, but I’m not certain.

This happens to me a few times a day now. Happening right now again. I might as well post here each time it happens.

Only thing I find annoying is after I get done with a good fight on a node or something and don’t have utilities up and endurance still isn’t high, some glass cannon runs up and kills me lol. Granted I’ve done this while playing glass cannon specs but well.. I certainly frown upon it.

it used to happen before the patch then it apparently was fixed. now it’s back. i’m actually stuck on loading screen right now. really annoying.

I don’t really think heartseeker is a one button spam to win. It’s a one button spam that wastes all initiative and usually thieves that do that are so bad anyway that they let themselves get one shot right afterword. I usually pick thieves out of groups just because they are so easy to kill in a few hits, even on my ele. What usually bugs me is warriors that hit like thieves but have 10k more hp than them.

not sure if i should say this but if the teams are not full and they are not an even total number, u can just join the other team before u get stomped and then instantly swap back to your team and than you will be downed but not dead at the waypoint

it’s gunna be right when i have to go to work lol

can ele get some downed skills? i don’t even play ele main but it’s kinda messed up how useless they are while downed. make their 2 move stun and give it a cd or lower cd on mist form.

Thieves can do some crazy crits in wvw since they are in pve gear and can get their crit damage over 100, unlike in spvp i think the most a thief can get is like 60somethin more crit damage

against high toughness characters. in spvp as full glass cannon build and only my self buffs, i have hit an ele that was all earth and toughness for about 8k multiple times. i only know he was full toughness cuz he whispered me after i killed him and was wanting to kinda know wtf just happened. aside from using 3 utilities and an elite skill to get crazy burst tho, i was hitting them for like half what i normally hit people.

yea im on fort aspenwood, i just needed 10 more tokens. bleh. been waiting a couple days now.

im 80 and melee is certainly viable.just spec 25 into acrobatics and you can dodge about everything while stacking might and when endurance is below full you will do 10% more damage. i run 30 in crit strikes, 25 acro, and 15 trickery and can hit really hard with daggers and dodge most things, if some big one shot is coming then i just dodge away and that gives swiftness and i can be a wuss with p/p until i go in d/d again.

spvp numbers arent that different. i hit a mesmer last night for an 18k backstab crit. almost 18k exact, i should have screen shotted it. the steal crit and cloak crit put them at under 50% hp then sig for 150% damage and backstabd crit with might stacks was super overkill.

getting downed =/= to dying. they do give a chance to learn.

Speccing for dungeons makes a big diff. First thing i did as a thief at 80 was throw away my glass cannon build for one with more health and buffs and dodging and also using signets that remove conditions. otherwise yea, you will die. lots.

Trait steal to give initiative to do more heartstrike spam. also you can hold onto what u stole even after steal is off of cd again so u can use the item, steal, then use another like all within a sec.

As support spec, staff 3 can also heal anyone that it touches cuz I think it is a symbol or whatever and a trait makes all symbols heal.

Same thing to my friend, hacker changed his e-mail so he gets an error when trying the account recovery thing.

Writing this for a friend that got hacked on Tuesday morning 9/4/12 and the ticket has been open since then.

Ticket:120904-005238

No response but I guess that is because the hacker changed his e-mail for which A-net sends e-mails. They still can’t log in and haven’t heard anything. Is there a number we should call or something? Not sure what else to do.

Since they ‘fixed’ the downed camera, I can’t zoom it out hardly at all now while downed and so I can’t really find a spot to teleport away to (thief) and so I just sit there and die because the camera is stuck 4 feet away from my character. Please tell me there is some way to fix this.

i loled. there are actually some games though where u can have 2 shields.