Guild Wars 2

Coolguy.8702:

d/p is weak tbh, d/d is way better… free access to stealth with… What more could u want?

All I see in the mesmer forums are the esports chrono bunkers saying how “anet deleted mesmer”. The satisfaction is unreal.

It’s kittening hilarious. People cry in PvP when they see a thief on their team and now with this balance update preview they are getting salty because “THIEF IS GOD MODE” now?

Too much seasoning for my steak

Jugglemonkey.8741:

I was primarily annoyed with the change because it was stealth nerfed, no patch note to even try to justify it. That shows a complete lack of balls on the devs part imo, and frankly was far more infuriating than the change itself.

This. It’s funny how they’re using our one and only mechanic that defines our profession against us.

Kittening bravo anet.

I don’t use thrill of the crime so the “nerf” didn’t really hit me as hard as the others who use it. The amount of times I hit steal right after a target stealths was quite annoying (l2p issue on my part) so I actually preferred the “nerf” overall.

Yes, it’s another rant. But holy kitten, I thought someone would’ve posted this by now. With the latest game update notes, there were cries from chronomancers about the continuum shift bug right after it’s previous bug was fixed. So it takes less than a day for anet to fix it but it takes them a whole kittening month or so to “acknowledge” our withdraw issue? Yes… the continuum shift duration would have been game changing for chronomancers but isn’t withdraw just the same? If the changes are just nerfs this upcoming “big” patch, then it’s safe to say that I can finally quit the game.

This guy has a pretty good idea imo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vlolr/an_attempt_at_making_the_thief_profession_fun/

BFMV.3198:

I use action camera and it is kitten amazing. You are actually more responsive because you do not have to hold down a button to rotate, meaning it is one less thing to worry about.

Also the targeting is so good and it makes auto attacks even easier.

I’ve tried it, loved it at first but when my sword 2 kept “missing” and just animated in place because I wasn’t aiming at my target, kinda sucked for me. I feel like it restricts to the target you are facing whereas with click-holding, I’m able to have more awareness on the side and behind me. Please correct me if I’m wrong though, if any of the things I said can be managed through action cam because I do in fact want to use it since my right-click on my mouse is worn out.

Zero Day.2594:

AlCojester.4316:

IchigoHatake.5098:

yep I’m completely leaving my thief class, playing dragon hunter now, kitten my level of skill just increased by over 9000

I’ve lost more brain cells playing pew pew ranger than sniffing concentrated petrol.

You must have had a lot of brain cells at one point in time…

Not sure what you mean, I have no brain cells :/

IchigoHatake.5098:

yep I’m completely leaving my thief class, playing dragon hunter now, kitten my level of skill just increased by over 9000

I’ve lost more brain cells playing pew pew ranger than sniffing concentrated petrol.

Allow me to correct your title:

Anet doesn’t care about their thief players

IchigoHatake.5098:

When is the patch comming?

A few hours from now

I will not give up

Taobella.6597:

i think backstab should become like ragnarok ice pick an scale in dmg based on your target armor.

I love that game!

Silverbolt.2301:

Is this a serious post?

Vault takes a lot more effort and skill to land than backstab anyday.

If you want to make D/D better though, what you should fix is C&D.

Staff has A LOT of problems as is.

This guy…

REGGADO.1237:

plus vault has leap.

And an evade

doblev.2701:

The thief delivers superior to other DPS classes in the game do not understand what the hatred expressed in previous comments in this forum .

The thief is in a tough situation right now that people are still trying to complete the raid , and a meta are totally damaging the sense of play.

I have seen the thief doing 80 k damage seems like a very good way to contribute to a raid do not understand if there are 9 people providing useful and damage not exceeding the thief and the thief made ??every 48 seconds, a 80 k dps then there I do understand.

IGN: Ressuscité
Thief Type: Scholar
Server: Yak’s Bend
Experience with thief: 1000 hours

Mops.5316:

AlCojester.4316:

infinityandbeyond.9652:

lets hope the devs bring you back up to your former glory !

Never gonna happen. They don’t care.

No thief/warrior in ESL league so far. Thiefs mostly unwanted in raids.
Sooner or later we will get a buff since thief is currently inferior in every gamemode
to almost all other classes.

Want support? Well ours is garbage.
Want CC? Plenty provided by others.
Want damage? Others have more.
Want condi damage? We no good either.
All this bundled with medium armor and a low healthpool.

Don’t get me wrong well played the thief is strong, the problem is that other classes can provide what we do better and/or with much less effort.

Tick
Tick
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Aaaaaaand Tick.

infinityandbeyond.9652:

lets hope the devs bring you back up to your former glory !

Never gonna happen. They don’t care.

Honestly, the frog show is really nice to watch but I almost feel bad for taking a dump on your face afterwards. I have yet to find a staff user who has not flip flopped on the spot hoping to land cheap kills. Please for the love of god stop embarrassing yourselves.

Just one thing I’d change:

I will not quietly stealth run away into the night.

Since we’re no longer “masters of stealth”. This has got to be one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. I lost it at “DragonHunter Burger Delux”… bloody brilliant.

On behalf of zdenny:

Hey there, I see lots of you think the thief is underpowered all the time and I got tired of this. Thief is still one of the best run away class in entire game.
He is not though designed to be fighter anymore, ironically its presented as a running away.People are crying everytime about it. I started to play a thief recently and i think is too strong and valueble in pvp. If you would like to get fighting potential and survivability, Anet should reduce his running away ability in the meaning that thiefs will not began OP again. During the last years, the thief are one of the well balanced run away class in the game. They are not designed to fight long duration fights. Its designed to run away. Well played thief is hard to kill because of his running away. If you are complainig about your insta death in pvp, then you just suck and run away wrong. Its like the todays Druid thing… he is good bunker its hard to kill him, but hey.. on other hand he can 1v10.. Just like thief.. They are not OP, its balanced.
Moving around the map quickly can win the game. So please stop saying that thief are dead, thiefs are so underpowered, thief cant do kittens. Thiefs are designed to run away with high mobility and hard to kill still.So stick with it or play another class if you want fights where you could win.
I would like to know if any others has similar opinion about thiefs nowadays.

My experience so far when fighting in WvW and sPvP:

1. non-DD vs standard vanilla specialisations = nothing too hard (but screw rangers)
2. non-DD vs other elite specs = re-roll
3. DD vs standard vanilla specialisations = nothing too hard (but screw rangers)
4. DD vs other elite specs = re-roll

Wait a minute…

The one to Rule.2593:

yeah having a 5 move knockdown spam perma invis to reset fights and 3 dodges is underwealming……k…. would u like a move that insta wins the game for you?

Typical ranger

@Doggie
Really? kitten … I was in HotM just then testing on dummies and 10/10 times on normal camera is just a 5 sec cooldown for out of range steal for me. I think I’ll be using normal camera until they’ll fix these issues.

There’s also a also problem with steal, it goes on full cooldown when you’re out of range and infiltrator’s strike does not work most of the time (to clarify, when you target someone, it conducts the skill as if you had no target so it’s just an awkward stationary infiltrator’s strike) even if you’re in line of sight.

Roarkin.1068:

The idea behind this build is super evasive,

Yes.

Roarkin.1068:

and strong steady damage.

Not really.

Roarkin.1068:

You are always using sword 3/3 and dodge.

To run away…

Roarkin.1068:

Your survivability will be tremendously high even in heavy team fights.

But then a wild ranger appears!

Roarkin.1068:

If you can master balancing your energy and initiative you will be very untouchable in the 1v1

Gotta love stale fights.

Roarkin.1068:

Very fast paced and has a high skill ceiling.

Yes and no.

Overall I’ve been running this build in the BWE’s and truly had some fun with it but it’s merely just for trolling IMHO. The damage is just isn’t enough to fight anything unless against afk’ers. I’ve subbed in DA for Acro and have seen a very noticeable DPS improvement, you should try it!

thegreatbronk.6890:

Hi, as someone who has run S/D forever, I could not disagree with the post above more. SA is NOT greater than Acro for defense at all. Especially for S/D. SA offers very little in-fact. Adds a bit of stealth time, cures some condis, and you regain health in stealth which is not needed. SA hinders more than it helps a good thief. Acro is way better and I’m glad you realize this as you want to build your S/D thief around said traitline. Conditions are not an issue with my build as long as you use SS, HiS and Infil Return correctly. If the opponent is full blown condi then well…skip them…they’re not even worth the time.

Acro by all means offers MORE in it’s current state than the previous version ever did. You now have a stunbreaker with Hard To Catch (Plus 100% Endurance Refill) and are basically immune to Chill/Cripple with Don’t Stop. These things will kill a thief more often than condi’s from my experience so it’s such a plus to have traits that counter this. The old Acro sucked, simple as that. Feline Grace was nerfed, but if you only ran Acro for that reason alone…it’s likely you were bad at dodging…just saying…. the current Feline Grace is JUST fine and in some cases it needed a nerf because the dodges were ridiculous. With vigorous recovery and dodging well, you have enough endurance for any fight.

Dare Devil is meh…pretty lame imo. Not viable with S/D really. I see S/P and P/P having a good chance with it though. But I see no reason to use DD over the other much better traitlines unless you’re looking to add some stealth game to your S/P or P/P action.

My build is focused on Stunbreaks and Stuns. I can lock people down if I want with 4/5 stuns, and I can escape pretty much anything with my 3 stunbreaks. It is a very good roaming build as you will see. It is built for sustain. Damage over time. Valk Armor/Zerk everything else with pack runes. Sustain for the longer tanky fights, plenty of burst to take down people quickly. Especially those that are squishy

By all means, check out my Build on YouTube as well as my roaming videos using it. I posted it the day of the June 23rd Patch when everyone said Acro was no longer good and how I was dumb for making my build Acro based. Almost anyone who has watched my video and tried my build for themselves have changed their mind. Let me know what you think

Build;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkfvePTjBjI

Roaming;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULl62omaHw

^100% this although I will be running DD as well as acro once HoT hits. Just for lols.

Oh I totally get what you mean! I’ll admit I spam it too… the panic is real :P

‘Bout time someone posted a S/D vid! Cheers for the video! Always nice to see another S/D teef in WvW. There were some occasions where you didn’t need to activate signet of agility as the extra crit chance is helpful for dps.

I was screaming at my screen for you spam /laugh at that warrior…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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:’(

Before seeing scrapper specialization:

“Able to run away really really well”

After:

lordhelmos.7623:

This thing is ridiculously overpowered from a mechanics standpoint.

I remember the nightmarish days of S/D thieves going through entire matches with perma-dodge and never getting hit while demolishing fights. I was so happy when feline grace and that troll build died.

Now they are coming back with a vengeance to bring Ragnarok to this game. This will usher in a new generation of troll players abusing the mechanics of this class. 1v1s will be completely dominated by zerker DDs with instakill combos that don’t even require a stomp.

I regret preordering.

The tears are already coming…

I like it.

To everyone who actually thought we were getting rifle GIVEN the data mined image before hand:

Peow peow! It’s been a while! Didn’t think you’d come back but here you are! Missed ya buddy

Svarty.8019:

Because there is no counterplay to stealth.

Yes. 100% agree with you. Putting down AoE is too kitten hard.

thief definitely needs a nerf. my elite wvw skills from max lvl all chars are just not enough to kill thieves. i say the profession should just get deleted so my elite skills can shine. i really hope this makes sense and ppl agree with me lol hahahaha

100% agree with you here. Rifle on thieves is just asking all the other professions to QQ more. Plus IMO it would be a boring as hell weapon set… Props to the guys who attempted to come up with some nice ideas for it, but honestly, NO.

Narkodx.1472:

I know right! It’s almost as if they should run entire zergs of Thieves since they are so OP

All that AoE damage – All those invulnerabilities – All that stability

Chances that you actually play thief is very close to 0%
Chances that you are a new player who constantly rages because thieves own you on a daily basis is very close to 100%
Chances that this thread actually goes anywhere is in fact 0%

hello i am tiif playter from area-net~

the r34$0n y tiif h1t u wit 29k backstep iz beecoz rager is stoopid class. y kitten they always 420 sweg 222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 wit LB fom far awey? why rager always 222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 fom 16k range wen uther ppl fite?

yes, also dis moi 1st comment wit gud reezon fom pro tiif so plez no haterino, fanks

I love beef with a touch of salt

Can I vote ranger again?

Rangers.

kitten the lot of them. Longbow ranger is OP. All day they just 222222222 and kill 10 people with one rapid fire, OP. They can stand back and do nothing and press one button to win everything with pew pew, OP. Every time I have fight, always kittening ranger coming with 222222 when I’m low and dance on my body, OP. Always when I’m running around WvW, ranger come from across the map and knock me down and pew pew me, I can’t do anything, OP. Every time I hear pew pew I cry and want to flip table because the noise hurt me, OP. kittening ranger should be called rager class coz they’re OP.

On a serious note, ragers are only good for killing afk’s and interrupting duels in WvW.

Tbh I’m not that excited about rifle thief either. Sorry…

Can this be sticky’d already…

Thanks for all the replies guys, all very much appreciated

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