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Literally everything I wanted. They have to Willbender, mobility via teleports, fullcounter, double swords

quoting myself. so Willbender is new Mobile Thief huh? Since willbender has all these shadowsteps and movement abilities, I find It hard to believe that Thief will have anything near to this amount of mobility with the new Spec. Willbender is kindaaaaaaaaa dope.

What i don’t want for ANET to do (assuming we do get GS) is make the weapon skills cost 8 INITIATIVE PER SKILL. Our 2 handed weapons so far have absurd amounts of initiative cost as of now. They need to reduce initiative cost per skill across the board and make preparedness baseline. Oh and remove 9 sec weapon swap CD entirely. It makes no sense paired with this initiative system.

I want GS, but I also want the variety that 1h weapons bring across the weapons we have thus far. But if I had to choose between the choices… I’m tryna recreate Dante. DMC 🥴 BRING ME GS! plus on a side note, I’ll add. The fact that all these new elites are bringing mobility into their kit is great and all, but we really are just taking away from everything that Thief was and is supposed to be . Stealthy (which pretty much every class in the game has access to now) and we are supposed to be the most mobile and quickest class. So let’s see what this new spec brings.

Bruh it’s gonna be Greatsword Thief. Power of manifestation.

Honestly Now that I think about it more, I’d definitely support a more defensive spec that offers blocks on top of blocks on top of blocks, Perry’s, and Full Counters. I want to be the most annoying spec out there that doesn’t need to utilize stealth but instead denies your dmg while visible so it makes it that much more satisfying when you’re smashing your keyboard in the classic “nerf thief” frenzy post. Having another thing the community can have a public uproar over is always a foot in the right direction. 🙌🏾

So all of the lame Omega beta tier weapons

I am still hoping it’s thief, but GS is leagues more interesting as a weapon. ANET did say they will be breaking rules this time around, I wonder if that extends to armor 🥲

Dont you dare say that, I just spent 4K+ on eternity + other GS skins 😂😂 in hindsight it’s not that much money, but shhhhhh!!! Worst case scenario, I got some sick skins I can resell.

Ayeee smart man! But it’s most likely greatsword at this point. 😛 if we don’t get one type of jump skill or teleport on the weapon I’m gonna be mad 😂 and please no heart seeker-like arc or vault. Oh AND LET US CHANGE OUR WEAPONS IN THE AIR, like you restricted for STAFF 5 vault. Oh and if we don’t get a FULL COUNTER then what’s the point in GS.🙄

I had purchased an Eternity 2 days ago before this post even hit. I had a feeling we would get Greatsword. Thank God. Much Cooler weapon. Can’t wait to see all the Dante DMC outfit renditions that appear on reddit. 😄 Happy Thiefing.

Lets create a spec that is heavily attack on titan based xD haha. I want a full teleport specialization. Our evade should be a teleport xD haha

Yeah bro i totally agree. I would hate to have a generic Ninja-like specialization. I would definitely not be against having more Protective boons either! Thief needs more Protection boon or aegis, or increase our base vitality. :c I just hope if we trade off our stealth or our F1 ability, it'll be worth it! Yeah I definitely believe Dual wielding sword will be lethal, but pistol/sword is definitely going to be nasty too! Probably one of our most lethal weapon combinations. Because if they give Pistol./Sword a blind on the 3 skill as well as a blink/teleport on the 5 skill It'll literally be D/P but for Sword xD. Thief definitely needs more access to haste and defensive boons too. Shoot. I would love to have a quickness specialization. That would be awesome!! I want a skill that runs linear like a bulls rush, maybe the #2 skill and it be like a gap closer. That skill can offer quickness while running towards your enemy and upon contact quick slash or jumping slash or something that'll stun, I don't know. I'm spewing nonsense xD But it could happen!! I definitely want to see critical strikes have more love, so if this line works hand and hand with CS tree line, then I'll be all for it! I already have a CS build waiting to be used. Oh and greatsword Thief is also a possible thing too! I already bought an eternity for luls just incase.

I am calling it right now. Pistol/Sword offhand will be stoopid strong. I can't wait to see the number "3" skill. But also in general the 3 and 5 skills across all the weapon combinations. This should be an interesting spec. I'm also looking forward to the new thing that the community will cry about. Since launch to present day it's been about Stealth, then Daredevil came around and it was dodges, Deadeye came around and it became stealth, but also reveal debuff removal skill, I hope we get some type of Perma Counter ability for the community to cry over next, so it's not only perma stealthing, or perma dodging, but also pure perma full countering that the community has to worry about. --1 blade counters magic/range attacks, the other blade counters physical--. This way we wouldn't need to stealth or dodge, we'll be in their face memeing away. (This suggestion is a meme, but will be a bigger meme if i predicted correctly) And this new Steal mechanic better be unique. Something like Skyforge's (Yeah I know.. old game) Slayer class skill- Backstab. 1200 range or hey.. maybe even 1500 :p. But with this new steal you jump in the air and slice/slash/strike downwards knocking down or stunning opponent. ( I know that'll cause an uproar for even suggesting that), but it's just something off the top of my head. I want a really unique F1 and F2 bundle ability

Yeah to be honest, this dude doesn’t know what he is talking about. Ohhhhhhh.. the days where S/D 2 infinite port was a thing 🤧 and that wretched staff jump 3🙄 and double D/D Death blossom condi spam😂 man gw2 was fun back then. The cost for some of these skills now just don’t make sense and this dude calling for an 1s ICD on initiative makes even less sense than the sense he was trying to make when he tried to prove a point by listing “spammable” attacks without actually knowing the history or actual group practicality/stealth limit behind them.( i.e group stealth in a Z vs Z WvW battle vs open world PvE junctions.) Shadow shot 3 is really the only legitimate candidate for this argument, which wasn’t mentioned. The initiative system wasn’t designed for hard CDs in mind. I still don’t actually know why we even have a 9s weapon swap CD. But I digress.

I laughed at that LOL that was funny as heck. I wish equipment templates didn't cap out at like 6. I want to buy more, because i have more builds I want to seamlessly transition through. :c

Yeah but that is still manually switching. I’m talking about pure autonomous smart switching 😁. Im glad EDIT 2 works for you though!

Might on crit trait (I forgot what it was called) is good for might stack build. but I agree with the threads sentiment. Twin fangs and just critical strikes in general needs to be relooked at, re-evaluated, and updated.

What if the legendary variant of the aqua rebreather automatically switched to the rune you were using at the time? That would be its effect. You would have to purchase 7 runes and have them in your inventory or have 7 legendary runes for the effect to occur. You won’t just get a free rune upgrade. Smart Autonomous Rune Switching. (SARS) Of course it’ll only work with rune sets that have all 6 runes on the body. And not work with people that mismatch their runes for stacking 2nd effects or something like that (2 & 2 & 2) or like (3 & 3) for the mismatched rune effect. EDIT: It’s definitely a hassle not having the effect you want underwater if you switch rune sets. It’s especially a hassle if you don’t have an ascended rebreather and an upgrade extractor. EDIT 2: Actually I thought about it. You wouldn’t really need 7 legendary runes. Just 6 superior runes and 1 legendary rune.

Every 1000 rank ups you are gifted with gift of exploration 😉

I agree. It’s very self immobilizing. Honestly I would argue for it to have an immobilize soft CC for like .5 or 1s a long with the weakness debuff it comes with. I also believe that the evasion frames on vault while you’re in the air need to be longer. Because the mere fact that a Veteran Sentry NPC has the ability to bulls rush and interrupt/stun you while in the air and unprotected is absurd. Vault needs to be fixed and all it needs is like 1 or 2 more active frames of evasion while coming down in the air. I won’t even talk about the cast pre-cast animation itself for vault, because that in itself needs to be fixed. So if a veteran Sentry can capitalize on this flaw with staff, almost any player can. Oh and REDUCE INITIATIVE on staff skills for crying out loud it’s outrageous. Staff needs to be re-looked at and evaluated, it’s very clunky and the costs are criminal. If we didn’t have a 9s weapon swap CD (which doesn’t make sense in the first place due to having an on demand resource system like initiative) then I would be slightly more okay with the initiative costs, since we do have that trickery grandmaster trait that rewards 3 initiative on weapon swap (Quick Pockets). <- which I believe needs to at least be 4 intiative returned or reworked in general for 75% faster initiative regeneration for it to be better viewed as a grandmaster. (hence the word QUICK) in quick pockets.

QoL change for the forums. Bring back the “To the top” button on the forums while on mobile cellphones. Very small QoL change for the forums that we had before this big forum rework.

This thread needs to die, solely due to the ignorance (Lack of knowledge) There's plenty of counter play to stealth for objectives. That is all I will say and all that needs to be said, nobody needs to argue.

@Cal Cohen.2358 @Cal Cohen.3527 @Ben Phongluangtham.1065 Someone just close and lock this thread. It’s way past it’s time and conversation has become regurgitated, repetitive, toxic, and just plain non constructive. Please do the community a favor and end this 18 page way-past-due thread. Thank You.

Yes they are overreactions, but to react how he does over PvE content, just doesn’t make sense to me. To be honest in PvE any class should be able to be strong or have the capability to be, so every class would be desired and not just cherry picking over the LFG system if you’re not a particular class or build. It’s on Anet to make harder content to compete with the strong builds out there.