Guild Wars 2

I am a strictly WvW who plays non-daredevil thief regularly. I have been growing steadily more irate of the direction of our class ever since they started nerfing crit thieves ages ago. I chose to never play that build because I felt it was abused. In retrospect, I should have spent every waking moment sneaking up on other classes, insta-downing them, and spiking from stealth, because it was the only time thieves had a definite role in WvW. They kept non-thief roamers to a minimum and forced people to travel in groups. We could enforce the open fields while scouting for the zerg, and disrupt the supply line.

Now there is nothing that gives us distinction from other classes (except shortbow – joke intended). Half of them have stealth. Half of them can reveal stealth, but we can’t. Even when in stealth, a ranger’s bow can track us with the longest range in the game. We are mobile, but other classes are just as mobile. Is there still anything we can do that another class can’t do as well? Stealth is lengthier than other classes, but we have to come out of it to be effective. Taking camps is great, but everyone can do it. Running/killing yaks is great, but everyone can do it. Sentrying and running supply is great, but come on, we all need a break from that sometimes. Why would someone who is creating a new character choose thief?

It was obvious in the design of GW2 that they wanted less developer time spent in balancing classes. We no longer have hundreds of skills to choose from. We no longer have secondary profession/class to add variety to builds. Even since GW2 launch, they have given all classes less viable build options through the new trait system that only allows us to pick one of three choices at each level of each specialization. We can no longer partially use a specialization to add variety. It is all or nothing. Despite all these things that give us less variety and should make balancing the game easier for devs, the thief seems to constantly get screwed. I feel my existence has been reduced to trying to get 25 stacks so I can almost be viable again.

Yeah. I could do another class, but I should not feel this is necessary to hold my own. I wanted to specialize with thief so I have put endless hours into it, including legendaries and ascended sets for all kinds of stuff. I built up the other classes so I could tinker with them and understand them enough to excel as a thief.

Yeah. Frustrated. The game has some great points. I’m not here to say I don’t have fun regardless of my critique. It is not a QQ session. It is just how I see it.