Guild Wars 2

I played with it for a couple of hours last night and it was fun to a point.
problem is confusion…. got me killed really fast a few times. As for reflects and retaliation, i can easily deal with them no prob.

I though it was a problem on my end as well, i can see now it is not…

Beldin.5498:

And how should it look for example if you war dagger / dagger and sword / pistol ?

Like this:
http://www.primagames.com/media/images/news/assassins_creed_4_black_flag_box_1.jpg

I’d suggest you get into a guild, ppl in the same gild tend to be nicer to each other.
if you need a hand game wise as in builds tips and tricks, try the general chat, most of the time you will get whispered by a helpful payer.
There are indeed many players in this game that should be seen by therapists but there are alot of decent ppl out there too.

I don’t play much now days, I’m a pure pvp player and the current state of pvp is pushing me away from the game but feel free to add me to your friend’s list, I’ll be happy to help you out.

Question: You have not one single trick equipped, yet you took the Trickster trait, why?!
you are running with 4 deception and one venom, trickster trait dos nothing for you…

locoman.1974:

Hopefully 1 and 2 will be addressed in next patch when they make all boss target crittable, we’ll see.

i doubt there will be another relevant patch before HoT so if you are waiting for balance fixing you may as well get comfortable cuz it’s gonna be some time.

Hapmuhr.2781:

Honestly no. The new aggressive scaling means that my character now feels like paper everywhere. I leveled for a reason, I want my 80 levels to matter if I go to a lower zone. They don’t, I get shredded in seconds now and it’s no fun at all.

Bosses are now HP sponges, since they have no new AI. Teq is now 99% fail and Jormag is just 100% boredom. I mean, before the patch, you had two waves of ice wall, now you have a mandatory three waves because of the HP buff. It’s excrutiating.

The new cookie cutter trait system means that I don’t get to choose anymore what I want. I don’t care that I get more points, because I have to invest those in things I’m not at all interested in to get the stuff I want to get to.

Overall, I’m not at all interested in HoT anymore, because the fundamentals about the game (power, loot, cool bosses) is now completely ruined for me. If I could get a refund for HoT, I would definitely request one now.

i believe you can. have you contacted support on that matter?

Randulf.7614:

The balance and traits patch? Neither, im just as glad as i was. Why would the patch alter my opinion though?

after the patch you have a more clear perception of the direction the game is taking.
I almost pre-orded, so grad i didn’t….

… are you sorry you pre-purchased HoT?

Or are you happy you didn’t?

Dev: “Thief is just fine, there are some amazing build out there that NONE has found yet, not even us, but they are there and once found thief will be incredibly OP!”

So L2P you noob thief wannabes. Devs say were OP so we are OP!

wait, wait, wait, wait…..

there’s a PvP community?! pls tell me the nicknames of all 3 of them!

What for? Pvp, pve, wow zerg, wvw roaming?
assuming its pvp, here you go http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_Dagger/Pistol
if it is for other aspects of the gam, you can find them onthe same site.

CS + DA + SA?

yes the dmg was buffed but with vigor nerfed it became a death sentence, every one prefers to play with blinds now since it is safer than dodges.

PvP players will get an extra trait line and revenant for 50€.
Sounds fair doesn’t it!?

Resilience of Shadows does not appear to be working, and if it is it’s definitely not 25% reduction, i have tested it with a friend and the dmg seams to be the same in and out of stealth…

make it remove a condi when entering stealth and then another every 3 sec as it was before and i’m more than happy with it.

I liked having the choice of using multiple adept or Master traits in the same build, now i’m stuck with a choice between 3 traits that are useless to my build when i could use a more useful trait from a lower tire instead…

just great!

ESPORTS

I’m copy/pasting a post of mine from another thead.

“Ricochet probably got movednto the new trate line that we know nothing about yet. One more reason to believe the new weapon will be a rifle and that the new trait line will be about ranged dps (pistols, short bow and rifle)”

Ricochet probably got movednto the new trate line that we know nothing about yet. One more reason to believe the new weapon will be a rifle and that the new trait line will be about ranged dps (pistols, short bow and rifle)

Pvp players get the finger…. thy whant us to pay 50€ for a new pvp (more like pve) map, a new trait line and the ability to use 1 “new” weapon. New to the profession but existent in game since it released, nothing actually new to the game.

tks anet, maybe next time…

What do exclusive pvp plyers get for 50€ ?
1 exta trait line… no tks!

Haralin.1473:

80%of the player in this thread who now shout i would not buy it, will be the first in the jungle.

Gamers are not consistently and they know it

say that to all the PVP players who don’t give a flying kitten about PvE

the expansion is SO overpriced… they what us to pay the price of a FULL game and delivering a small fraction of a game! no way ill buy it at this price.

$_$

no kitten sherlock

better then nothing i guess… tks ill look for it. though the video would be best ;P

not hyped here but not disappointed either.. ill wait and see.

were can i see yesterday’s steam? cant find it anyware…

Maugetarr.6823:

Well ele was seeing some nerfs coming that got turned into buffs, so there’s some hope there.

1 problem… thieves are not engies…

I play since beta so listen when I say (as a thief) expect the worse and hope for not to bad.

Talek.6795:

That was so obvious Karl you do that! And all these nerfs will be done only to balance improvisation, which will be must have since then. I understand you don’t hear customers feedback but do you personally play your game at least?

what are you complaining about?! i miss your point…
Karl DOES play the game and he plays thief too, not as main but he does!

He gave some examples of the “nerfs” to the stolen abilities and i must say i’m very happy with them, even if you don’t take improvisation, here is why:

Necro Fear: reduced duration from 3sec to 2sec, we use it as an interrupt, nothing else, even if it just lasted 0,5 sec it would still be a great AOE interrupt, WITH improv it will grant a total of 4secs of fear instead of 3 = BUFF.

The guardian mace daze will be reduced from 4 to 3secs for daze. here! another great single target interrupt that with improv will allow you to daze for 6 seconds

The ranger’s Healing Seed will have a reduced duration (10s ? 5s), but pulse twice as fast (2s pulse ? 1s pulse) meaning if you dont have improv you will get condis removed TWICE as fast, removing DOUBLE the condis and gain the same regeneration you have right now. Now double all that with improv if you trate it.

seriously… how can you ppl see a nerf here?!…

Ofc thieves should be punished for missing attacks!! After all, all other professions get punished with conditions for missing their skills right?!… Right?!….

/facepalm

Aggrostemma.1703:

(…)Fighting on a point: sure I can chase them off or kill them but if they catch me unaware or without cooldowns I’m as good as dead. (…)

er… this is true to ALL professions… if » insert random profession here « is caught unaware or without cooldowns will surely die to » insert random profession here «

The issue here is that Thieves will die to a bunny if they miss 1 skill or press a wrong button unlike other professions.

Playing thief?!… tough luck mate… you better change profession asap and save yourself the frustration of playing thief.

Thief is the most unforgiving profession in this game, you you commit half a mistake you are dead! the other professions are much more forgiving, even if you make a couple of mistakes you still have a chance.

so yeah… jump profession wile you are still new to the game!

and now you cant use 2 traits from the same tire is you what to, and that limits builds allot…

how is removing/merging traits going to generate more build diversity?! o.O’ they are limiting professions even more…

as for the stream… No idea, i don’t think they announced anything at all.

I’ve been waiting for the “Nuke” permanent finisher for ages… is it ever coming back?

What’s up with it?
in 5 weeks A-net announced 5 profession specializations and suddenly, no more… we are all left hanging waiting to see what our profession specialization will be…

tyvm!

Alexander.9810:

Nothing’s going to change – they’re understaffed, they’re trying to make one size fits all solutions as usual, and with Blade and Soul coming out I doubt GW2 is getting any extra investment from NCSoft to do ambitious projects like ladders or revamps of the competitive matchmaking system.

Yall need to stop ragging on Arenanet so much and blow up NCSoft’s corporate “Contact Us” emails to show them that people care enough about GW2 and that they’re willing to go to the source, not just yell and scream at the messenger and the understaffed worker bees.

there is no date for Blade & Soul yet but yeah! i’m going to play it for sure and it is actually e-sports atm not just a try-hard wannabe like some “other” game…

if balance is horrible right now, just w8 until one more profession comes out and every one getting new weapons, skills, trait lines… this forum will drown in tears.

meta will prolly be rifle traper imo

Although i agree with you that rifle is the most probable weapon for thieves, you say "The design was already done a year ago. " but your link is from a player post not a dev so they had no design whatsoever, they obviously done it all as they did to every other profession.

More, i bet non of the actual abilities will match the ones on list you linked! ;P

Ninja Nurse is the elite specialization!

there it is! your support role!

the armor is in PvP is purely cosmetic, just saying…

why ppl keep opening this threads?!… the elite specialization is already DONE they are not waiting for our feedback or listening to our suggestions… they have chosen for us and made it happen, nothing we say or do will change that! all we can do is wait and see what they have for us…

this should be on the Warrior Forum i guess.
tks for sharing anyway

LoL

Nice video. Thanks for putting this together for us. +1

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