Guild Wars 2

Xystus.3241:

Do you need to be the Flavor of the Month (FOTM) build to have fun? If so, you’ll always be scared of the nerf bat.

Honestly, find a class that has a playstyle you like and work your way to perfecting it.

since when S/D is FoTM build? really? please do tell. the FoTM D/D is almost untouched. burst still as high as before.
thieves has very limited viable build, and now we are pretty much pidgeon-holed in 2 viable build. D/D or condition or GTFO.

so ladies and gentlemen, from this thread we can see how biased the GW2 community is. when warrior do this amount of burst in WvWvW, it’s fine. when thief do this amount of burst in WvWvW, it’s OP. lol.

PS. Nerf Thief!!!

snaplemouton.1294:

Is this a troll post or what? Lack of control?
Don’t make me laugh.

As a player who played every professions. Mainly elementalist. When I tried thief in sPvP I basically was playing my face on my desk wondering why I could kill people by playing with 1 finger and not even looking at my screen. Then the heartseeker nerf came. I tried thief again, just to ponder on why weapon skills deserved to have no CD at all on them, why the damage was so kitten high on all the attacks, how come I could play with no traits at all and still do fine, why can I be perma stealthed…
I’m sorry, but I don’t feel for thieves at all.
Out of the 8 professions I’ve played in sPvP, the thief is by VERY FAR the most faceroll, easy and OP profession of them all. It as the HIGHEST damage and the HIGHEST survivability. Even a mesmer can’t compete with that amount of stealth and rendering bugs. If you get kill in stealth it’s not because thief is bad, it’s because YOU are bad.

Out of every single MMO I ever played, this is the most broken stealth mechanism I ever saw.

All of the thieves here saying their profession is fine. I DARE YOU to play with maximum of 1 stealth and without using D/D at all. If you do so, you will be on par with other professions. A friendly tip : You have an ability called WEAPON SWAP and stats called THOUGHNESS and VITALITY. Berserker amulet isn’t the only amulet the vendor has.

When thief swap weapon, magically, their initiative is full and they can use every skill available. Seriously.
And yes, i don’t play with D/D either, and yes my thief is using power/vit/tough too. So your point is?

Sa Da Tay.6542:

semutant.2984:

video posted in April 2012. facts are facts. do i need to say more?

Published on Oct 30, 2012 by Krayoons kraysso

You must be watching the wrong video as well. Sorry. Not sure what the date has to do with anything anyways if anything over time things have gotten worse with the changes to venom.

ah you changed the video. sure, date has everything to do with anything. that was before the assassin signet was changed. it was a bit excessive. yes i agree. and i’m pretty sure most of us thieves are agree with the changes.

from the video you can see the backstab crit only up to 6k now. it’s not 12k anymore. is thieves still need some tweaking? maybe. we’ll just have to wait what Anet is gonna bring to us at 15nov. there is no point to make a new thread when you can just reply to tons of similar thread at first page.

video posted in April 2012. facts are facts. do i need to say more?

R E F L H E X.8413:

I’ve also seen the same guild in all matchups on opposing servers in the last three weeks, this week they are on tc. I’m pretty sure the one they were on last time is sos, and the week before that I think they were on IoJ. Pro Baddies [Bad]. There’s actually two other guilds I’ve seen two consecutive weeks in a row and just waiting for them to join this matchup or haven’t seen them yet.

I’m pretty sure probaddies [Pro] has been in TC from the last matchup. They never move to IoJ nor SoS.

Mrbig.8019:

S/D

This is my favourite set.

But there’s only ONE way to play it effectively ( maximizing everything), or rather power/crit 10-30-30-0-0 stealth bunker build, with runes of the mesmer/sigil of paralyzation.

S/D is my favourite set too, and I have been using it since day 1 I play my thief. But of course you don’t be mean it when you said 10/30/30/0/0 is the only way to play S/D effectively right? your build is a good build. if it fits your playstyle, and then all power to you, but there will always people play things differently, and achieve the same effectiveness. so yeah, S/D have more than only one build to be effective.

Here let me compile couple of S/D build:
Mrbig S/D with 10/30/30/0/0
I can see the good point of Auesis’s build with 0/30/20/20/0.
or maybe Kutsus’s build with 25/30/0/15/0.
or maybe Rainy’s build with 10/30/10/0/20
or maybe my current preferred build with 10/30/0/15/15.
or maybe 0/30/0/25/15

the only same point of all the above is 30 in critical strike, and that’s a staple traits for S/D. the rest, just play around and find what suits you the best.