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  1. What skills are DOA obviously depends on the skills themselves, and not the weapon type. People are ultimately going to play what is good and fun. And besides, the prospect of wielding an offhand sword with any mainhand sparks way more excitement for me as a rogue archetype player than e.g. throwing axes or pew pewing with a rifle.
  2. I didn't find the aoe that impressive tbh, because the enemies basically have to stand all on the exact same spot to really get a lot of damage on all of them. And besides, this doesn't change the fact that axe just feels terrible to use right now. By the time your first axe reached an enemy, other classes already chunked half of its hp.
  3. Looks really cool, the first mew weapon for Thief that I'm actually a bit excited for since we got staff with Daredevil. I'm especially glad that they built in some kind of combo mechanic to break up the usual "Spam highest dps skill" Loop a bit. However, I can't deny that still being stuck with only 2 offhand weapons leaves a very bitter taste. And is another mid range weapon really the thing Thiefs needed the most? I doubt it.
  4. I was always quite supportive and patient with the development of the WR and Alliances system, but this studio update post is taking it too far. It reads like they are desparately trying to somehow deliver on their plans from 5 years ago, without putting the required ressources into it, whilst framing it as a success. Which in itself is just embarassing by now, and as a WvW player I just feel trolled. So much for "cornerstone gamemode". I really think that releasing just half the feature is a big mistake. It's going to introduce unnecesarily high friction in maintaining any sort of community. We already know this from the beta events. And this is undoubtly going to kitten a lot of people off.
  5. I don't really care what axe could or couldn't bring to the thief weapon lineup as mh. I'm just sick of being stuck with the same 4 oh skills for over 11 years now. Ideally thief would get both new mh and oh weapon, as some other classes do, if anet really thinks thiefs gaps can't be closed with just an oh weapon alone. But as it stands right now, mh axe could be the most exciting weapon in the game, and it would still be only half interesting to me, because i have to pair it with dagger or pistol again. And further this also means that builds using the existing mh weapons play out the same since said 11 years. Anet misses another opportunity to give those weapons a breath of fresh air as well, which they really need.
  6. Another boring 3-3-3 build, just what thief needed
  7. I don't disagree, but it made up for how bad the rest of the traitline is. Using Deadly Arts was already a hard sell, now it's just not an option at all anymore.
  8. Title. Not much more to say. I'm not necessarily against the idea of taking the randomness out of this trait, but 15% recharge is plainly not nearly as good as it was before. If you want d/p thiefs to run kitten over SA, this is not the way.
  9. I don't think it's ultimately about the total number of skills you get from a weapon, but about the potential to complement other existing weapons for new playstyles. And here we are being are stuck with the same 4 offhand skills in the 4th and 5th slot to complement for a decade. In the end this feels just limiting and incredibly stale, no matter how good and exciting a new mainhand would be.
  10. I think i kinda made staff work on power specter as an open world build. It flows nicely when correctly alternating Staff, shroud and wells. The key is to take trickery with slight of Hand, which gets procced when entering shroud to refill initiative quickly. Overall fun build with good cleave to run around and kill multiple mobs at once, but ultimately very lacking in single target damage potential. I don't think it's anywhere near viable in instanced or competitive content
  11. Sadly, it appears that Weapon training is a non-feature for thief players
  12. I'd say it was necessary to change Shallow Grave, it was a badly designed trait. But the reworked trait is just kinda weak. In WvW it cleanses/transfers just one condi, you're not able to help anyone nor yourself with that.
  13. Thief is still good, but it really skillchecks you.
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