Any scraps fought thieves? What's going on there?

I play a support/bruiser still.I wanted to see how bad/good it still was.

Im fighting thieves that almost beat me...not because of skill. Im not playing plat 2.They didn't get better all of a sudden.

Just curious if any of you engies also main Thief and why a thief can no suddenly stand in my face all day and tank all my dmg.Don't tell me it's because my dmg is low. That hasn't changed for my build.

What weapon set are they using? With Sword and the new Shadow Arts line you can get some solid healing on shadow step casts.

Thiefs got better support builds now, but that also translates to self-sustain/bunkering. Scrapper has poor access to condis.

@Eastcorn.5901 said:What weapon set are they using? With Sword and the new Shadow Arts line you can get some solid healing on shadow step casts.

In the 4 games I played earlier, one was pistol/pistol rifle deOne was sw/d.

I know I don't do much dmg as is...it's just not often that the 'Bruiser/Healer' almost dies to the squishies.It shouldn't even be close.

If I'm on a node, most will see if they can down me and then just leave. /futility

Maybe it's a combination of the nerfs to engie and the buffs they received. /shrugfk I dont know...lol maybe it's in my head.

@Hannelore.8153 said:Thiefs got better support builds now, but that also translates to self-sustain/bunkering. Scrapper has poor access to condis.

In one of my games, Reapers rez better than engi now :P

Oh look let me put down this f5 and try to rez, it gets blown up, I get blown up aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.