It’s OP at being garbage imo.
it is sarcasm and you can smell it miles away 
IMO thieves don’t have much to complaint weapon wise. ALL weapon setups are playable.
As a PvP players only P/P does not “work” but in PvE I believe it works fine.
On the other hand, traps and poisons are still very sub-par…
The goes for all classes but especially thiefs because basically the team with the most thiefs loses atm.
Wrong. The Team with most PvE guys loses.
^this right here
I have had teams with 3-4 COMPETENT thieves and we won easy! although the strategy must be different since we cant defend points we must be on the move all the time decaping and caping points, yesterday we had a game with 1 necro and 4 thieves, necro stayed in home wile the thieves teamed up, 3 to mid and 1 (me) to far
we lost mid and got home and far to start with, then it was a question of being mobile and helping out our necro when he had company.
I play P/D condi “burst” with poison and the other 3 thieves 2 were D/P standard meta build and the other were S/D with the same build ans the D/P thieves, just different weapon choice
Easy win!
the enemy team had engi on home, thief harassing far and ranger warrior and mesmer in mid.
As long as players are skilled you always have a chance! even against some OP facerolling professions that I will not talk name in this thread
I don’t like SH as well but lately with my thief I’m trolling necros so hard that they whisper me asking how the hell do I fear them, and I explain. We end up laughing about it
Basically I steal from them, stealth up, get into position and fear them off the edge xD
I spend 3 days trying out new specs, play styles, weapon sets….
I went full grass, went control, went condi, tryed alot of combinations of weapons and whatched alot of 1v1’s to see what they were using.
Came up with my own build and play style, different from what appears to be the meta and it is working better then expected!
What seams to be the meta is S/x. that work very well and a few P/P poison specs recently but imo they are not that good.
Ok… what works for me mught not work for many other thieves but I have been very sucessfull with my build but feel free to try it out if you wish.
It is 2/0/6/0/6
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQRAqY4alsMpppdPx0J8PNRw9wpGtpeP+KZNrWBaC-ToAivUf5+y8l8L7XjAWLsXYGA
The last trait in SA is the new one that applies 5 stacks of Confusion.
It is an atrition spec and I can outlast almost anyone, in some cases, it I’m fighting a Glass cannon, I can burst him down faster then I use to with the “meta” D/P build.
I’m very happy with it.
All of this to say, instead of coming here to the forums asking for the “job done” you should try out different things yourself and find what works for you. Cuz what works for me, may not work for other players it is a matter of play style and skill
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no, it is not but apparently it is “allowed” since it is been happenning since custom arenas were introduced and so far nothing has been done to avoid/stop this kind of thing…
My suggestion, do not use the “play now button” instead, create filters to the kind of match you are looking for i.e. 5v5 or 8v8 or even 1v1, then use those filters and enter an arena that is almost full.
Have fun