Guild Wars 2

AcidicVision.5498:

- You can trait to blind people when entering stealth, that puts you at an advantage.
- You can trait to move faster in stealth.
- You can trait to get a 100% crit chance coming out of stealth That trait and assassins signet + heartseeker is plus TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY percent damage. …out of stealth.
- You can trait to heal while in stealth, along with shadow refuge this is akin to having a second healing skill. Which puts you at an advantage.
- You can trait to regain initiative in stealth which, allowing instance access to weapon skills while a target’s are probably still in cool down. This is an advantage.
- Weapon skills can be completely safe on whiff by triggering stealth + granting stealth bonuses. See: cloak & dagger for a hit confirmed guaranteed crit on heartseeker or pistol whip. Why? Because it put you in stealth.

At this point I’m just pretty sure you haven’t spent any time getting familiar with the class and finding it’s strengths and utilities and are just mad it doesn’t work the way you want. So it’s impossible for you to see any of the advantages or possibilities. They are there. And most people in WvW and sPvP alike are of the opinion thief stealth and trait combinations are too strong.

Even the thief players can sometimes admit the stuff we can do to people just isnt right.

Edit: Also, I can survive WvW encounters I might otherwise lose because I can turn freaking invisible. If you can’t escape combat using stealth, you are doing it wrong. Plain and simple. If you ARE escaping combat and situations where other classes would otherwise be stomped…congratulations, you saved yourself having to do the ten minute run of shame back from your base. And that also is a pretty kitten big advantage.

Others may not agree with you, but I sure do.

WvWvW for thief 80% of the time is running and/or watching a keep get hit. The other 20% I’m with the zerg trying to clean up people who stuck around.

It’s just simply boring and other professions are 100x more useful in wuv.