I've been playing gw2 since it came out.
I am a main thief, I play both pve, pvp and wvw and the truth is that I have been very tired for a few years to see how badly thief has always been treated. d
Honestly, when I read that the weapon of the new spec would be the scepter, it made me want to uninstall the game, however I will wait to see the beta and at most for EoD to come out, but I am a bit skeptical.
You just have to compare how overpowered the new necro is with 33k life and doing a lot of damage; Even if you sacrifice 50% of your life for blight, you still have more of the life a thief has to have to do "decent" damage, apart from all the cc, and boons it can give. On the other hand, Willbender's abilities are like those of core thief or deadeye, but improved and with much less cd.
All this cannot sit well with any player who is main thief, imo.