-mavera: Antiquary feels like an April’s Fools joke

ColeWithAGoal: Heh, the guitar for the Antiquary even confused me, what an odd class design.

mrseebs6148: My reaction to Antiquary: oh cool an Indiana Jones artifact hunter... Wait why did he just bust out a guitar?

Effaly_: I still don't understand why the Antiquary has playing cards as icon

erjikkzon: Wtf warrior 6x same shouting animation in video

elgame6263: deleting antiquary and giving nothing to thief would be less insulting

Briskwarrior: Thief is my least played character and looks like that trend will continue next expansion lmao

antipoet5920: As a thief enthusiast I was hoping for my faith in the upcoming adventures to be restored by the first actual look at the abilities in game, but this left me a little heartbroken. Antiquary and its animations look like a parody, almost... fake?

ramboramb0: Anet: reveals cards as thief's class icon

Everyone: will it be a cool gambler / cards based spec?

Anet: it's goofy indiana jones with skirts and rng utilities..?

???

Toki1908: Thief mains must be so sad lmaoooo

Banim: Antiquary is more confusing than anything a Mesmer has ever done, lmfao.

lugo1465: A thief who turned into Indiana Jones that uses an Iron Maden guitar... What kinda weed your game desiner is using?

Sand663: loved seeing warrior shouting for 20 seconds lol, i know paragon is all about shouting but come on animations?

Caporai: ”I don’t know Rick, it looks fake”

-Antiquary

LycheeLeo: Inquest:

Banditcoo: Wtf even is that thief spec. If I were a thief main, I would probably cry.

valphyrian: As a Thief main since launch, I can't help but feel heartbroken. Antiquary is yet another miss for Thief, and it's starting to feel insulting. Antiquary looks extremely low budget (in line with your previous streams being in 720p, I suppose). The visuals aren't cohesive in literally any way. You could have put me, or any other Thief main for that matter, in a room for about an hour and we would have come out with better ideas than whatever the hell this is supposed to be. You're bringing back TWO professions from Guild Wars 1, shown off in this very same video, but Assassin is nowhere to be seen. How have you gone five expansions without dipping into the Assassin niche? Who asked for axe? Who asked for scepter? Between trying to be cute and naming the scepter spec the "Specter" and giving us whatever this eyesore is, it's starting to feel like you view us as a joke, and it's becoming increasingly clear that, at least for Thief, Profession identity is dead in a way that no other Profession seems to be experiencing. I beg to god that you guys stop trying to subvert expectations, because every time you have tried has resulted in something exceedingly disappointing and hard to swallow. Even if you didn't want to go the obvious route of giving Thief the Assassin spec -- you could have given us an Elite Spec where we lose our ability to steal but gain access to Shadow Clones, let us trade places with the clone to gain an "advantage" in combat, allowing us to perform stealth attacks without necessarily needing to be invisible. Let us evade and misguide our opponents by commanding the clone to perform an "advantage" attack in place of doing it ourselves. Or if you're hell-bent on giving us yet another steal based Elite Spec, Maybe give us an adrenaline rush spec where the Thief receives a stacking speed bonus when stealing or landing stealth attacks and has access to adrenaline finishers? There's so, so many things you could do with Thief before making us send out a Skritt while we... checks notes

bosunbones.8815: Genuine confusion with the design choice for the Antiquary.

Like.... wut? Dudes, please. The mechanics had better be good.

ushaani8912: Antiquary looks so random and both visually and thematically incohesive. Of all the things they could do with Thief they chose this mess. Like, Thief STILL doesn't even have off-hand sword for a basic dual sword Assassin playstyle! And Warrior already has shouts. Curious how these new skills differ.

ramaum: They are just clicking on the randomize button at this point.

runemaker_v: Anet, please, scrap the Antiquary now, immediately. None of it looks good, cohesive or fun. Skrits, guitars, dancer holograms?! You still have time, two months to scrap whatever the f this is completely and give us a decent assassin specialization. Please, for the love of thief, give us something we actually want!

rainsong77: Literally the perfect oppurtunity to have a swashbuckler/pirate spec for thief, and this is what you came up with?

dfaller3982: These copies don’t come close to how well the GW1 Ritualist ghost skins fit.

locotenso123: Paragon animations seems repetitive.

PicchiMark: Thief players: Look what they did to my boy...

ENSOWA: I need to live another week to know what is Engineer

kitcat757: I hope antiquary is more interesting than it looks from this. It looks pretty lame here.

Jul 31 2025

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