Guild Wars 2

I also hear that some of the legendary weapons effects (such as Incinerator) don’t go away.

That is very interesting, never thought of it that way, although it would cause a lot of balance issues which might not be able to be wheedled out. Hehehe, thinking of spamming like 5 caltrops over and over!

Yeah I have been having these same thoughts, at first when I saw blind, I thought by stacking it meant like having 5 blinds on you (next 5 outgoing attacks miss) but the whole duration thing is pointless. What is the difference between a 3 second blind and a 10 second blind, who takes more then 3 seconds between each attack? <- Rhetorical question, don’t bombard me with situations which take more then 3 seconds between each attack.

meld with shadows works

Coming from a P/D thief who uses Condition Damage – CnD > Stealth Attack I would feel pretty vulnerable unless they boosted us up with something else.

Also, that would mean taking away Shadow Refuge which cannot happen cause the skill is too awesome.

You could buy a Gift of Ascalon and use it to create a Gift of Light so you can create Aether.

I would recommend posting this in the Game Bugs sub-forum.

Keep with shortbow, try placing your Poison Field in front of your allies projectiles and take out the smaller creatures all around you.

Shadow Refuge.
Cluster Bomb + Your teammates AoE
Lots of revives (I make myself dedicated to reviving (due to stealths))

^^^Team Player.

You know what the real problem with these builds that people aren’t properly explaining. It isn’t the damage it causes, because that is countered by the low health/armor the glass cannon has. It is the fact that some of these builds are nearly impossible to counter.

This is the problem, people don’t seem to realize that the thief isn’t the only class capable of high end glass cannon burst damage.

I know warriors have their bulls charge + frenzy + 100b combo as well as some rifle burst build I saw a while back (someone said it was a bug or something, not sure though)

And now this.

I am going to assume you are talking about P/D because shortbow isn’t great as a main weapon and P/P is very uncommon. I have been using P/D for like over 400 hours now, and I will give some tips as to how I would counter myself.

Well, where to begin. I would suggest trying to stay ranged and defeat us before we can really start stacking bleeds like crazy, whilst our auto attack has bleeds, our main source of damage comes from CnD>Auto Attack. This applies a lot of bleeds. To use CnD though, we need to get into melee range, and this is quite easy for us due to shadowstep, steal and infiltrator’s arrow.

The things I find that annoy me is being pinned, what I mean by this is knockdowns or immobilizes because they annoy the crap out of me. I cannot get into the correct positioning to continue my kiting assault on the enemy which allows them to deal serious damage, for most of my survival comes from stealth + healing traits when stealth.

Here he is, I am pretty happy with where he is at right now.

Name is Sithaco, on the Ehmry Bay server.

garethh.3518:

Lordryux.9785:

so ur basically saying glass cannon thiefs should instantly die with no survivability? hmm verry selfish thier while mesmers can pretty much be the same way uncatchable. and half of them are glass cannons too so that means ur saying they should instantly die aswell !

Your ability to infer is terrible.

Mate, it ain’t OP.

Hopefully they will keep this up, so people who enjoy PvE don’t get their builds unnecessarily nerfed because of things going on in PvP and vice versa.

Thoughts?

hahaha, maybe a bug? NERF NERF NERF FIX FIX PATCH. I gotta check this out lmao.

I don’t think they were specifically targeting S/D thiefs. The big hit on CnD had a big part in the whole BS build. Meh, arenanet know what they’re doing. In my opinion, they need to make it so that u can’t use steal halfway through precasting another skill, so that other players get a tad bit more time to react before being stunned and BS’d.

I don’t know why CB was nerfed, I mean, it did do pretty high damage, maybe it was to stop CB spamming on control points, I dunno.

I have faith that Arenanet will take the thief in the right direction. If they feel something needs a change, it will happen.

My guess why CB was nerfed in PvP was because of people spamming 2 on capture points + condition damage. Don’t quote me on it though.

Just wondering if anyone else has this problem, but when I set a nickname to one of my friends, it will reset after like a day or whatever.

Wow, to think that people are complaining this much about a new tier or armor, what about when they raise the level cap and you gotta get it all again. Hahaha, it’s a game, deal with it. Arenanet aren’t stupid, and I like this idea.

/ilovethisgame.

“arenanet aren’t going to nerf the crap out of the thief”

Runcore.5107:

Dear Arena, isnt easier remove complete thief class than still nerfing this nice class? You can completely remove it because after all these kids-cry-based nerfes thief will be useless with both: less HP and no damage. No more glass cannon class, only glass class.

I really dont understand why you made this game with thief on begin if you are now only ruining this class. Remove thief class! Its visible that Arena dont like this class and nerf thief when some kids cry on forum: “bueeee bueeee, some thief killed me, thief is OP, nerf please”. Dagger was/will be nerfed and bow and pistols are weak so what thief would use as weapon? All our weapons are or will be weak so why you made this class, Arena??? Is really nice that thief has some 2-3 seconds of stealth but what it is good for if we have (after all nerfes) almost no damage with all weapons?

From start of game is thief only target of nerfes, nerfes, nerfes. You could have said on start of game that you want during next 2-3 months make from thief poor wretch with no hp and damage and many ppl could choose another (now) better class. Its really not fair to present 80. level thieves that you make this class useless after their 2-3 months of hard work of leveling, exploring maps, crafting and collecting money for better gear.

I thought that GW2 is better than other multiplayer games and Arena is serious developer but I see that true is other. Arena is only puppet which dance on child-cry rhythm. Really i though that you are better but you are same like other mp games with crying forums.

Yeah, cause people aren’t going to whine if all their hardwork they put into their thief char gets removed.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cluster_Bomb

<3 thief, but I don’t want it to get nerfed to the ground. Hopefully they release a rit in a expansion and I can main that without a complete QQ fest filled forum.

What makes you have any more say in the future of the thief just because you buy gems?

I know, it sucks, but people would rather spend their time here QQing about the class > actually doing some research and learning how to counter it.

No.

I always dodge, not mindlessly, but not just to dodge a specific attack. I use the dodge + swiftness to quickly make a gap between a warrior and myself.

5 Minutes of swiftness off of bunnies? You realise he would have had to kill 75 bunnies for that? Plus a 5v1, wtf dude.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Swiftness

I really enjoyed this event, just because I didn’t get anything doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun. I was prepared to not get anything, because there was never a definite chance that I would get something. <- This is what people need to understand.

wow, just wow. Can’t believe you guys managed to pull off such a fun event, and for the first event in this entire game, I am in shock to think of what more is to come.

Thanks Anet.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35mZfYU__Yw

part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oQPsnksC0

Nubenai.5127:

Sithaco.4673:

Nubenai.5127:

Sithaco.4673:

Nubenai.5127:

Act 1 for example started way late (or early, depending on how you see it) in the evening, around 5 or 6 GMT if I remember correctly, which meant that I couldn’t make it. Who knows what I missed?

They weren’t one time events, it wouldn’t have made a difference if you joined instantly or if you joined in 30 hours time.

Except it would’ve made a difference, because the first few people got to control the market of candy corn and other Halloween related goodies, making large amounts of money during the first few hours the event was live.

If anything I’d say missing that is something that makes a difference. If you were among the first, you could potentially make a lot of gold doing it.

This event will in all probability be purely cosmetic, not tied to any achievements, and just be a fun thing.

Sort of like the end-events for the beta weekends.

So what will the “attend the party” achievement be for? Or is that on like the 31st?

The party itself will be either act 3 in its entirety, which will have some quest you will have to do for some NPC (mad king, perhaps?) not unlike the scavenger hunt of acts 1 and 2. So if it’s the Halloween title and achievements you’re worried about, I’m pretty sure Anet isn’t stupid enough to make them linked to a one-time event like that.

You’re right, that is the only thing I am worried about, not getting the title. I really hope it isn’t apart of a one time only thing.

Nubenai.5127:

Sithaco.4673:

Nubenai.5127:

Act 1 for example started way late (or early, depending on how you see it) in the evening, around 5 or 6 GMT if I remember correctly, which meant that I couldn’t make it. Who knows what I missed?

They weren’t one time events, it wouldn’t have made a difference if you joined instantly or if you joined in 30 hours time.

Except it would’ve made a difference, because the first few people got to control the market of candy corn and other Halloween related goodies, making large amounts of money during the first few hours the event was live.

If anything I’d say missing that is something that makes a difference. If you were among the first, you could potentially make a lot of gold doing it.

This event will in all probability be purely cosmetic, not tied to any achievements, and just be a fun thing.

Sort of like the end-events for the beta weekends.

So what will the “attend the party” achievement be for? Or is that on like the 31st?

Nubenai.5127:

Radene.3194:

Nubenai.5127:

I pre-purchased the game, I played the beta weekends, and I happened to miss the major events at the end of them.

Not comparable. After that everything was wiped. In this case, missing it remains a permanent mark on your character.

How is missing this event any different? It won’t give you a permanent title saying “lol I wasn’t at the Halloween event”. It won’t be tied to any achievements, which means you can still get the emissary title. The ONLY thing you may be missing out on is some form of cosmetic reward, if even that.

Can you please show me proof that this one time event will have nothing to do with the title? I am yet to find it (been searching all day).

Nubenai.5127:

Act 1 for example started way late (or early, depending on how you see it) in the evening, around 5 or 6 GMT if I remember correctly, which meant that I couldn’t make it. Who knows what I missed?

They weren’t one time events, it wouldn’t have made a difference if you joined instantly or if you joined in 30 hours time.

Nubenai.5127:

However I do respect their design decisions, and if they want to make it a one-time thing, then that’s what they’re gonna do. This won’t affect your ability to enjoy the Halloween content they’re offering at all.

So what? You’re saying that I will have the same amount of enjoyment whether I am at this one time event or not?

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Sithaco.4673:

Q: Will there be stuff in this ‘one time’ event that will go towards our EotMK title?

“Attend the party”

So yeah, if you miss it, no EotMK either.

Are you sure of that? If so, please link.

Coming from a oceanic players perspective, I’m pretty disappointed. We payed for this game just as much as people in America and Europe and yet we have a one time only event which a lot of the oceanic community won’t be able to participate in. I wish it was like a few more of these events spread out over the day.

P.S I would rather be spoiled by videos on youtube and then go and participate in it > not participating at all.

Q: Will there be stuff in this ‘one time’ event that will go towards our EotMK title?

I think people are missing the point… People have gone into this game thinking that they will be able to get everything. It is not like this nor was it like this in the original Guild Wars. Some things you get and others you don’t, it adds a uniqueness to the game and individuals who obtain these items.

Does this one time event have anything which goes towards the title?

Yeah, I just got it. Wooooooo

Look, I understand games have glitches and bugs in them so this isn’t a whine fest, I just would like to know what to do.

Basically, I have been doing the jumping puzzle for hours now, finally got it (jumped through the window) entered a loading screen, saw the inside of the clock tower for about 1/4 of a second before getting teleported back onto the ROOF of the place where you start.

I got the achievement for the JP, but no boots or reward chest. Do I have to do it all over again to get it, or do I let support know? Thanks.

I won’t be able to play this one time event thing, but will it have anything to do with getting the title “Emissary of the Mad King”? Or is the “Attend the Party” achievement at another stage?

P.S. How do I get the “Halloween Events Completed” achievement?

Thanks.

how do I get that?

I only have 2 achievements? ToT bags and halloween huntin’. What is the 3rd one I can complete now and how exactly do I get 3/4 of a mad king’s world. (im at 2/4)

Infidel.8412:

The jumping puzzle doesn’t count towards your Emissary title. I don’t know why all the complainers choose not to listen to this part.

“Oh, but I want every single achievement in-game!” Why do you want the puzzle to be so easy that it is not an achievement.

All you get is a pair of soulbound slippers that are not salvageable. So basically wear them, or npc them. They have the exact same skin as the other lvl 70 + exotic armor drops. Oh and 10 achievement points. Just transmute a few items, or use heritage skins on a few items and you easily get 10 points.

Points don’t get you anything.

Coming from someone that took over 4 hours to complete this puzzles, and hates puzzles because I am the worst jumper on the planet.

I was a human guardian, no speed at all.

Yeah, the main reason I was freaking out was because I really badly want to get the title but I was worried I wouldn’t be able to do the puzzle. Hopefully the jumping puzzle stays in the game permanently lol.

Could someone please list the 5 achievements needed for the title? I always thought that the JP was one of them. Thx

I thought it did go towards our title??? What are the 5 achievements that do? Please list them for I don’t know anymore lol.

The time thing isn’t a problem, and it would be quite easy to complete if it wasn’t for…

A. Other players blocking your view and…
B. The camera being quite terrible.

/clap

Well done Arenanet.

I am just getting really sick of coming onto this forum and seeing a giant whine fest. I understand people would like to explain their issues but can you do it in a way that won’t start a completely stupid argument? Here are some simple ‘guidelines’ to follow…

- When posting about high damage backstabs or other insane things people aren’t likely to believe. Can you please show some proof or whatever to back up your info.
- When making big posts which are saying how thief is like totally not OP and stuff then how about explaining to some of the community how to counter certain builds instead of repeatedly typing L2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2PL2P.

There are other things which I cannot be bothered to go over right now, but it’s quite simple to keep these forums a healthy place. Thanks.

haha, I think these issues (if they exist) will get sorted out. Like (im not sure if they have) but if you had 100% map completion and summoned thieves guild/clones they wouldn’t have the map sign, making it easy to distinguish the real target.