Guild Wars 2

i guess using Headshot against defensive guardians might help abit, i’ve tried S/P ( not the burst-mode one) and it works quite good compared to other weapon choices.

Shomaruki.7395:

Kinda long I’m just posting what I’ve noticed on my end if you collected any information to see any of my errors please input is welcomed.

First of all, Before anyone goes “Hey just butthurt or he just baddie, ect ect…” I’m just going to say I’m not a thief player. Nor do I pretend like I know everything about them. But I can say one thing as playing as a mesmer as long as I have. A thief is literally, and I mean literally the ONLY class I’ve seen that’s been able to actually been able to burst me.

Mind you not every thief I have encountered has got the best of me. But the only time I’ve died is in this order of skill.
Double Strike>Wild Strike> Heart Seeker> so forth.

So far the only actual wave I’ve managed to kill a thief is
A)Turn him into a nice pink Chocobo(I just like calling them that) and face roll my keyboard
B)Apply never ending dazes. <- It worked for a brief moment
C) Say hell with it and just use a ballistic from a tower.

I’m not saying they are OP, Hell as a mesmer I’m one of the most annoying things in wvw to encounter. However when I compare a thief to almost any other class, I see the only effort I see is on my 1, 2 button. As oppose to some other classes where I would see them throw everything they got at me their helmet if they could.

Reading and reading I see people say about glass cannon thief crit hurts, and they squishy as hell.

Well if I’m not mistaken, they wear M.Armor not light armor. Which isn’t much more but if we did the math on the side, I’m sure they would have more def then me.

Again I just don’t see the effort in using a thief.

I RESPECT the thief players out there, not going to hate on none of you,….but I can’t respect the class.

Pro-tip: you might wanna change your build in order to counter some specific builds, you’re not supposed to be a God or something after choosing your traits.
Sidenote: a glass cannon thief has ~15k hp, you should be able to burn that much with 2-3 illusions OR if he’s spamming HS on you…retaliation.
i’m guessing your hp is more than 20k, am i Right?
Sidenote #2: using dodge-roll might help.

Shomaruki.7395:

Usually you just press 1 or 2 all game and that’s pretty much thief in a nutshell.

really lame how you complain about Thieves in a topic you’ve made yourself and then jump in here to say more of the same stories.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Just-my-personal-say/first#post184570

I’ve been playing S/P and D/D (would change to P/P sometimes) with a fully damage build(25/30/0/0/15) and didn’t have THAT much of problem until i faced CoF EM, or to be more accurate…the Legendary Effigy thingie… xD but yeah, have done storymodes and it’s been fair. just have to change my healing/utility/elite skills quite alot according to what is needed in fights.

The best way for a thief to interrupt is to use a pistol as off-hand. Also having 2 elementalists i really doubt that you should have any sort of problem, I mean, Just summon those bows and a burrow goes down in a jiffy using the 4th ability. We’ve even prevented a breeder from being summoned(on the 4th burrow) using some cooldowns.
But then again, There are other ways similar to how Kinto have done it aswell ofc. Finding one that fits your setup matters the most.

we’ve done it in a group of 2 Mesmers, 2 Elementalists and a Thief.
Using conjured weapons(Specially bows) to AoE down the burrows in groups of 2, and the Thief kept interrupting the breeders while helping with burrows aswell using Sword/Pistol as weapon combination.