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Feels bad, I bought 8 slots specifically for this farm. I even saw big brother anet up watching the ppl loot the chest about 2 weeks ago and asked if they planned to change it. Of course they said "nope just up looting the chest." Right....... Oh well I guess I'll find other things to do with the alts.
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17 hours ago, Solomonlike.7631 said:
Deadeye main detected. In case you lack comprehension skills, that was unsuspected damage all in a matter of 3-4 seconds against someone running full toughness. I was trying to figure out what killed me so I pulled up the log. How is this ok? Explain.
Birds of feather. I expected at least one clown to show up. Looks like it's two.Not sure what being new to WvW has to do with unsuspected crazy damage in a matter of seconds against a target with high toughness. Literally running up the stairs and this happened. It wasn't a 1v1 scenario. Please explain how being new to WvW caused this. I'll be awaiting your response.
should check out full glass nades scrapper if you think deadeye can do fast damage 😛
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17 hours ago, BlueFlame.8673 said:
Some interesting pictures from WvW that I've taken over the last several days to help spread the holiday cheer.
Imgur image album: https://imgur.com/a/FmaWDkg
Take a good restful break everyone, we all deserve it - friend or foe. See you all on the battlefield after Christmas!
Yeah, my Christmas wish is for mag players to have a family. The poor things are spawn camping on xmas eve 😢. I understand though, you were spawn camped yesterday but that wasn't xmas eve. This is a time for friends and family. Not spawn camping. I hope you at least enjoy the keep.
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4 hours ago, Kozumi.5816 said:
The only people who like boonblobs are the people playing them.
If boonballs are having fun, no one else is.
When will Anet finally listen?
I have fun fighting boonballs. It's just an organized squad. If you are dealing with organized squads and you are solo/small scale try back capping or picking off the tail. When ppl say "boonballs are bad" the real problem you have is fighting organized parties. If you nerf defensive boons to the ground people will just organize cc parties and do the same thing in a different way. It's organized squads you have issue with.
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haha, this is like elon musk twitter poll. Democrazy has spoken.
We need some underwater keeps on a fresh map. Maybe bbl could be a waterworld lol
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On 11/7/2022 at 1:41 PM, saerni.2584 said:
Thief has gotten suggestions implemented though. The entire SA rework recently had years of Thief feedback backed into it. As did the reworks to Deadeye post Path of Fire.
We won't get everything we ask for. But we aren't quite as ignored as you may think.
I'd argue using the leaked discord conversation that the evidence points more to being ignored than feedback.
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19 minutes ago, Bern.9613 said:
This was Nov 2020 using SA, trick and be quick or be dead. This was my playstyle. No perma stealth. I used stealth to reposition and confuse the enemy as to where I was.
Some may have already seen this on other threads.
Yup. RIP my beautiful unique play style you are missed.
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14 hours ago, Bern.9613 said:
So, what are you views now? I would also ask that you specify if it's about pve or pvp/wvw. In pve, rifle deadeye is okish. You have 3 sec to reposition/get a combo off. In competitive modes, not so much, you have 1 sec to reposition and/or try to get a combo off.
Deadeye runs away more now then they did prior to the disemboweling of SA.
Agree 100% it was a disemboweling. It's weird to me to see like alt fact propagandist white knight type players saying things like "specter is still okay" and s.a change is good because experienced thieves wanted it" like manufacturing consent type propagandists. But really the nerf for both shadow arts and specter are huge nerfs I've not used thief in anything other then open world since. Even anets own partner streamers know it was a monster nerf.
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Really shows a lack of care in the product.
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On 10/7/2022 at 5:41 PM, SFShinigami.1572 said:
This is a joke but it could be a great tool to spice things up in wvw.
Random NPC just shows up yells out OH YEAHHHHHHHHHHH and busts through all the gates/walls on something.
Like the nemesis in d3. OJ nemesis random spawns after a keep lord dies.
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On 10/5/2022 at 10:33 PM, Androx.8572 said:
It seems a big number of users are pissed off.
Myself included.
I propose we organize and punish Arena Net in a way for either :
1.Putting the wrong people for this job calling out “balances” that end up making gamer experience worse.
2. Not listening to what the customer wants aka bad customer service.
3. Because by doing these changes without polling us the users , they send our in game experience to trash, and also our investments in gems and such. And there is now way to fix this at will but every patch which gets more ee dee Oo teek than the previous .
Any ideas?
Considering they nerf to destroy. like a civil war doctor amputating entire builds/especs. I just don't like having my favorite toys broken.
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On 10/6/2022 at 2:34 AM, ASP.8093 said:
Not sure how the same five people posting the same complaint to every active thread on the subforum is meaningfully "offering feedback." /shrug
I hate the shroud nerf, too, and I wish the situation were different, but it doesn't change any of the following:
• Condi (Alac) Specter's still the best thief for typical group instances at pretty much all levels of execution (and Staff Daredevil is the best non-Specter alternative)
• DPS benchmarks are about the same as before
• The rotation is still the same — I've tried it both on the golem and in real instanced stuff, with the passive shroud loss there's still ample room to do the 3x Grasping Shadows loop with either build (and, idk, i feel like if a fresh player only managed to pull off the shorter 2x Grasping Shadows sequence, it's not the end of the world)
kthxbye
says the guy with 1.8k posts. I'm at least happy "I hate the shroud nerfs". Because in other parts of this thread you made it seem like it didn't matter and no one had valid complaints. Also I point to the evidence of the private discord conversation before the june 28 patch where the dev's actually say "i don't understand thief enough to make changes" then nerf stealth by 50% ish. Now not only did they not help with that issue they nerf thief again 2x. If you play thief I have no idea how you're not enraged by this. I've spent 1000s of hrs on my thief and bought all the transmogs with gems and rl money. Now my thief is barely usable. Before june 28th the thief was only in an okay spot in the game modes i play. Now it's F tier.
My inner dialog: Guy tells me to l2p... I've 1000s of hrs on thief in multiple game modes. L2p like I'm some ape at the keyboard. Some knuckle dragging imbecile. Then admits the nerf is bad. But we are the dumb ones complaining about it....
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8 hours ago, ASP.8093 said:
Please note that the Oct. 4 shroud nerf hasn't changed "what's the best thief build for instanced pve?" The DPS benchmarks and the rotation basically stay the same. After this patch, you'll have about 10k shroud in Viper gear and about 19k shroud in Ritualist gear (assuming you have a level 10 Jade Bot core); this impacts the group healing from Consume Shadows and also means you shouldn't try to tank hits in shroud, but as long as you can stay in shroud for like 6-8 seconds I don't think it significantly impacts your rotation.
Also, Well of Bounty gives a guaranteed ~7 sec Stability now, you should keep that in mind for certain situations like the Mordremoth-smash-smash segment of Harvest Temple.
"shouldn't try to tank hits" Right guys just don't get hit! lol
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9 minutes ago, nopoet.2960 said:
By the way, which one of you told the devs there wasn't enough access to endurance in the acro line?
Also I can't figure out what elite the new hard to catch is supposed to enhance. Spinny knives already has evade. Stony poison actually stops attacks so most likely don't need evades when you use it. Hep Frenz! gets used in a safe space during the combat flow (this is actually hard to describe, does anyone know what I'm talking about?) I think this is a result of the casting time. DD elite, hard cc again. DE elite you're in stealth. Specter elite, again your targets are being controlled. Am I missing something?
I bet 1 of 2 things is going on. Not a single one of them plays the thief or another companies mole is sabotaging the balance devs. The 28th patch... now this, Idk it seems really strange to me. Like the 28th banner change was just so illogical it felt unreal. The s.a change now this... Idk, somethin don't feel right.
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6 minutes ago, AikijinX.6258 said:
As long as we stay under the radar and don’t actually learn our class, and just play like dog water we’ll be fine apparently. If we excel too much that’s a problem.
Have you played this dumpster fire? Idk I played it and it feel bad I mean like bottom of the mmo classes out of my 30yrs of gaming bad. (excels in .01% of player/game mode) catches another 50% nerf. 5 endurance lul.
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38 minutes ago, Yunari.9065 said:
Thief can't have nice things. 10 years of nerfs and one of the least played class in the whole game and the Devs keep nerfing them hard. Now is the point we should say: NO Anet!
When I want to play a thief I'll go look at other offerings. Rogue/druid in wow, burglar in lotro, ninja in bdo, Unfortunate gw2 doesn't offer this play style as a functioning profession within the balance of the other professions. Maybe ashes will have the play style I like sometimes. Anet has a hard time with the basics imo like guys we just want normal class fantasy from d&d sometimes.
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3 minutes ago, Bern.9613 said:
Promote to next level of incompetence. Saw that a lot in the military.
You must be new around here. I played thief since launch. I played against other known thieves like Yishis, and blackbyrd and Wyld Bill. I know that Jinx is still around, he's been playing thief for a long time as well. When gw2 was brought onto the MMO scene, stealth class, assassin, rogue, thief, was the quintessential. Apparently now it is "a source of frustration". I have been watching the decline and ultimately the disembowelment of the thief over the past decade. Twenty eighth of June was the final straw for me. Question still remains: how much more abuse to the thief are you willing to endure?
My tinfoil hat is warm. My spidy sense is tingling. I suspect sabotage in the balance team tbh. (or they are quite quitting) Because they are just like "lalalalalala dgaf what they think", "just forget we offer this profession to our player base" I'm sitting here as a customer thinking omg they don't even care enough to play this pile of crap to see how many of us feel. It's absurd really.
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booo.
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On 9/28/2022 at 12:40 AM, Jitters.9401 said:
I mostly play a condition mesmer now in wvw. My defenses are evading (far less than a thief has) and blocking.
If you look at the amount of times you see a thief able to use their dodges/stealth/blinds/ you will see that their defensive capabilities are far far superior to most other classes.
I mained a thief in wvw exclusively for a lomg while till last major update. I didn't like being forced to use stealth as a main defensive skill because I found it to be overpowered.
You play a class that is almost impossible to target the real player then complain about how powerful stealth is. Every time you blink, or stealth ppl lose target on you and target one of your clones... And stealth is oped? Thief and mesmer hold hands in the (learn2counter) mechanics my friend. "(far less than a thief has)"lmao so this means you cast shame on thief players because they are so overpowered... Yet the fotm rerolls don't go anywhere near thief which makes that an odd argument. Idk your posts feel biased for some reason? The thief profession isn't very well represented in any aspect of this game other than spvp so we know it's not overpowered. (<points> to the huge amount of mechs as proof of the results of being an actual overpowered spec).
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On 9/24/2022 at 4:43 PM, Svarty.8019 said:
All variations of Thief are hard to play well. I acknowledge that fact. It's a blessing that there are only a few who can master this abomination of design, but when they do, holy smokes, it's incredible - it's no accident that the most impressive and outrageous roaming videos are made by thief players.
It's been clear since way back in the day that an average thief can outperform anything else in competitive modes. Come on. It's time to change the core mechanic to something sensible, get rid of the idea that it's fine to have ..well... everything on a single class and without cooldowns.
Please understand that I'm not just asking for nerfs. I'm asking for a rework. Make things more balanced, let's see some LEVELLING UP!
Thief is trash right now. Try going in wvw roaming in tier 1 or 2 in wvw solo and "destroy" anything lol. I wasn't super good at thief but half decent and any +1 fight you have to use every ounce of initiative and utility cooldowns to try to escape. You act as if thief can 1vs2,3,4,5 or something. 1vs1 thief can do okay but it's still not the best in wvw. I think in spvp it has to do with gear scaling and available gear sets. "thief are hard to play well". I main thief 4 hrs a day for a yr straight in t1 wvw before the shadow arts nerf and i was only okay. If I spent that much time on any other profession I'd probably have better results. When you come at this like "wow thief is clearly the best ever" that's straight up saying nerf it to the devs because redesigning the profession would easily irritate the entire playerbase of that profession. Like think about your main and you roast a noob in pvp then that noob is on the forum "nerf redesign into something i can kill" lol
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1 hour ago, Stand The Wall.6987 said:
the only nerf scrapper needs in wvw is core engis medkit auto. i know i've said this in other posts, but i think its important to post it here too. its blatantly over tuned, being able to dish out a 2k heal per second auto with no kit cd goes a long way to make zergs the unstoppable force they are. due to the way stacking works in this game and the fact medkit auto is a cone, its possible that in a group of players some players will get healed by more then 1 medkit. please take a look at it, sustain is way too high these days and being able to slow down a bigger group would be nice. this would be replaced by vindicator if it was nerfed hard enough since vindi/ ventari has no heal down time as well so that might need a look at.
I disagree. The medkit is strong but having an invincible max range cloud be able to destroy an organized group doesn't seem fun to me.
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20 hours ago, kash.9213 said:
Numbers and approach are going to decide things more than a rigid composition, and your approach as a thief might decide even a large fight if you can make things cascade. The other side also has to maintain their comp and normally if you take out a Firebrand or two or other support, the other side has to scramble at a pace that's going to be in your sides favor. Almost every Keep fight comes down to either being overrun by the attackers because the defending blob composition keeps crashing into them over and over trying to fight the blob itself, or, the defenders thin out the others sides support until you can see them pick up the pace because they're being dragged and stretched by your side into a final burn.
Right now most builds can be pretty durable in large fights but Specter especially can hold it down in the core of a fight while also being one of the best to respond to and mitigate different parts of a fight. Even when I don't get an invite to a squad, I'll keep their people up and just try to stay out of their circles when they set up something. Your own fields take priority so you should be set in blob fights even un grouped.
The squad calls the cloud around it the "locals" and proceeds to unbag them mercilessly, 4kdr is pretty normal. You think you're doing something, but you're not. I enjoy the what if scenarios that make thief useful but in practice it's not. The only decent place thief has is in spvp and I would assume that has to do with the gear sets and the way thief scales. In wvw the cooldowns are just way to long to roam. I mean mech can shadowstep every 18 seconds + rocket boots x2 talk about mobility. It's rifle burst is insane and can pierce. I'll hard pass on thief until it gets very needed development attention. The wvw forum has a pole and thief is the least played wvw in that poll for a reason.
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19 hours ago, kash.9213 said:
There's nothing funny about not trying, especially if the rest of your group is. You have a few solid templates to chose from, with build variation, especially in WvW and pve. Specter as support is fluid and responsive, especially in Action camera mode. If you've ever wanted to vibe daily with groups of different sizes as a thief, this is the time.
Nah, the group I run with would throw my specter in subgroup 1 unsupported with the rangers and other non meta. You know unsupported are basically free bags for the enemy zerg or cloud. The server I play has map ques and bringing an underperforming class or spec takes that spot from another player that might be on current meta, your usefulness is actually hindering. Years of underdeveloped balance attempts have put thief way behind current meta in actual gameplay. (prob why you don't see to many thief players in wvw anymore)
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On 9/13/2022 at 12:05 PM, kash.9213 said:
This is the best time to be a thief in zergs. This is also the best time to have thieves around your zerg.
Lol, I guess if you count laying supply traps and marking zergs then stealth running away? But being useful in a fight you are not as a thief player.
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Why did Anet wait a full year to make New Kaining JP account wide?
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You're right. But it feels bad and this is a game based on a business model of being fun. Fun does not feel bad imo. When games feel bad players don't play.