Guild Wars 2: Post-Release Discussion

[lolColenzo]

Pretty cool that they're nerfing damage on a class designed to be glass cannon.

[shepardG]

Colenzo?

[lolColenzo]

lol yes

[shepardG]

lol, wb?

[Imitarate]

[edit] holy exhaustion, batman, wrong thread.

[Shiyo]

Also worth noting that they're "specifically looking at" nerfing backstab, and Thief burst in general.

derp

Good, a class being designed around 2 shotting people is horrible. THF is very badly designed at the moment, anyone bitching that this is an unneeded change is a complete moron who knows nothing about PVP and hasn't the slighest clue about game balance.

Right now there's too much burst in PVP, and when you come across someone who knows how to hit their buttons correctly it's basically whoever 2 shots the other person first. A few classes are immune to this or live much longer than others, but it still makes for a very unfun PVP experience to randomly lose 60%+ of your life because a THF exists, you get stunned with a warrior around you, etc.

I'm glad Anet realizes PVP is faar too bursty right now, hopefully THF gets some buffs to survivability, support, cc, or something. Right now THF can ONLY do damage, and that's it. It's a very badly, horribly, designed class. It has like 3 viable weapon combinations, a lot of these weapon combinations have skills that make NO SENSE AT ALL for the weapon(a bleed on a burst damage weapon set? d/d doesn't need death blossom, why does p/p's autoattack bleed when it's main damage is power based, why does pistol MH have vuln that is useless, why is pistol 4 and 5 situational crap that's barely used, why does d/p not have a way to do damage, why is sword/dagger not have a way to do damage, etc etc). It also doesn't help that ALL their weapons are PURELY damage and nothing else..no other class has that. Basically requiring a THF to always use SB, and having to use SB 75%+ of the time no matter what spec you are is also incredibly bad design.

The class needs completely redesigned at this point.

edit:

The first three posts in this thread is everything that's wrong with THF:

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/foru...nstant-nerfing

[Rhyis.]

Thieves killed my grandpappy.

[Corrderio]

I never really had issues with thief other than how often they went invisible and managed to heal themselves. Shit got annoying fast.

[Cjskater]

Removing orbs is already a thf nerf. They scaled wayyyyyyyyy too well with orbs. Like from manageable to holy fuck what killed me I had 25k hp a second ago. I don't think, in WvW at least, that thf will have that presence anymore. Now they still have the badly designed abilities, but they aren't going to be OP as fuck with orbs anymore.

Seriously always wondered why it was designed so classes like ele, ranger, and necro scale like shit with Power but a class like thief becomes god. We go from 1k to 1.5k hits, they go from 7k to 12k backstabs (1 more attack could kill an ele with that).

edit: also @Corrderio: You're a guardian (with an engineer alt), those are like the two counter classes to thief. Every necro hates you for having such luck, every fight vs a thief for us is a battle to our death or till he runs away. Very rarely do I get to kill them, when I do its because I caught them with marks while they ran. Also didn't mention, they can fear us for the combined duration of all of our fears, including downed state, with 1 ability. The shit is that.

[Alderaan]

As a thief and only a thief, i welcome the nerf to backstab.

Need a fix to the might stacking warriors as well.

[Meph]

nerf the planet!

[Rhyis.]

Nerf everything but me.

[Kiarax]

You'd still be worst class in game if they nerfed the other 7 in to the ground.

[Rhyis.]

Hey, fuck you.

[Shiyo]

You'd still be worst class in game if they nerfed the other 7 in to the ground.

That title belongs to ele.

[Orden]

After watching Angry Joe's review of Guild Wars 2 I've commited myself to getting it when I get my next paycheck. I'm also gonna pick up a 2tb hard drive so I can fix my computer (finally!). Is there a BG server?

[lolColenzo]

So what are you guys doing for fun in this game? I lost interest a couple weeks ago and have no desire to level another class to 80. I've done guardian thief and necro and explored everything. Got a set of CoF armor and 3 CoF weapons and fuck doing a legendary that shits retarded.

[bluefan]

Playing through the Priory story now. Then I'll work on the Order of Whispers. Just happy most things are account bound (sucks world completion isn't though).

[Prothescar]

If it was account bound you'd never be able to make more than 2 legendaries
























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[Kiarax]

Technically you could make Twilight, Sunrise and Eternity!