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as someone who gets killed by thieves all the time and is really really horrible when I try to play as a thief. I think stealth is fine, people just need to learn not to stand still out in the open field by their lonesome for more than 5 seconds. If you want to afk, do it in an objective or at spawn. If you're trying to solo cata/ram an objective always be ready to dodge and run in case enemies come. If you were moving in one direction when the thief managed to backstab you, congratulate the thief on a job well done and learn to move in a less predictable way. Getting a backstab off successfully is not easy, unless the target is careless or stupid, I know because I've tried it and failed because I'm a horrible thief, and I've gotten backstabbed and wrecked plenty of times when I was being careless or stupid.

i don't understand why people see map queues as a good thing? I don't have much free time to play, I'd much rather jump in and play instead of waiting 30mins to get in

you don't do meaningful damage, but you definitely do enough damage to get credit for things.

I still miss the days of 4 necros and 1 venom share thief party. They were the best.

you can get the warclaw very easily, just check the wiki for the exact steps. I've seen people who are only wvw rank 8 with warclaws out.

personally I would love it if Anet brings back the Lord banner revive, but I understand why it was removed. Other than that, I don't particularly care for garrison fights specifically.

The only reason why it is unfeasible to lead on a light class (and medium class) is:Firebrand has all the stability in the world. Not leading on one currently puts you and your squad at a significant disadvantage. Gone are the times where you would lead on warrior, mesmer or elementalist. Stability is the game and only guardian has access to it reasonably. That is absolutely hitpoint or armor unrelated. Mesmer commanders are still very common to this day. I still lead on elementalist and do fine. One of the best commanders I know leads on a necro and does fine. Just because firebrand is great for stability doesn't mean that the commander needs to be a firebrand, go get a guildie to play firebrand.

No. The reason is simple, so many people seem to think that bringing gear parity or lowering stats etc would somehow bring "balance" to WvW. It won't. I have played WvW since launch and generally speaking I ignore things like food/utility buffs due to my own cheapness. There has been exactly one time over these many years where I lost a fight because the enemy had 1% more health than me. In all other fights I've been in there was a clear winner either due to superior numbers or superior skill. I mean I have actually won a fight even though I was wearing only masterwork armor and no trinkets, against a shiny looking enemy that definitely has at least full exotics, and probably ascended given how shiny they were. Similarly I've lost fights against people who I ambushed and took by surprise, because they were a lot more skilled than I am. People like to use "stats" as an excuse for why they lost, because they don't want to take ownership of their own failings. They didn't lose because of stats, they lost because they had the inferior skill or inferior numbers or both. You can't improve your skill if you refuse to properly analyse and accept that you lack skill. And modifying stats won't do anything to the difference in numbers.

So no response to the rapid fire cooldown of 10 seconds untraited? https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Longbow And Lead the Wind is a trait that drops it to 8 seconds (20% cooldown of longbow skills) https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lead_the_Wind people generally don't like it when you prove them wrong, they just ignore it and pretend that they're right. On topic, I have been called a "filthy condi cheater trash" once. I wasn't cheating, it was 4 pugs vs 1 pug in my side's favour, nobody there on either side was particularly skilled, so we won due to simple numbers. And the funniest thing is that I wasn't even using condi gear, I was using mostly cavalier gear with some zerk mixed in. It's true that I was on a necro so I suppose a lot of my skills apply conditions by default, but still, it's amazing how some people just refuse to even look at the numbers.

Server population is based on WvW players, PvE only players don't count towards the fullness of a server. If your server is full, you likely don't need to reinforce your numbers, you already have more active WvW players than all the other open servers. That being said it's possible that your players are all skewed towards a specific timezone, which makes other timezones appear empty. So you might dominate one or two timezones and then get whipped during the others.