Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!
So I just started out on this game ( the game is still downloading :/ ) and I decided that I wanted to go with a Dagger/Dagger thief ( I want it to be PvP orientated and be good at PvE as well, but more PvP focused ).
If you think that if another thief set is better, please list it down below
And I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to list a guide from 1-80 leveling guide and where to distribute my skills.
Also, a money guide would also be useful.

EDIT:
If this is in the wrong section, I apologize. I have no idea where this should be
And, please put it in easy-to-understand terms and don’t go all GW2 phrases on me. I really wouldn’t understand them.

Thanks in advance!

For builds and such, check out the thief forum section. You can generally ignore the QQ threads since most class’s forums will scream they’re 100% broken when they aren’t.

For leveling 1-80, you really have only a few options. Since this is your first character, I suggest you do world completion + personal story to level. Each race has a starting zone you can hop to when you need just another level or two to jump to the next higher leveled zone. As a thief, you may find lots of the personal story missions to be a tad difficult (esp. since it’s your first char) due to thieves being inherently squishy, so you may want to be a bit overleveled when you do them.

You can do WvW to level as it’s insanely good XP. Downside is that since you’re upleveled to 80 without traits/gear, you’re substantially weaker than an actual level 80, and that upleveled icon next to your name when someone selects you will make you a magnet for enemy attackers. If you find WvW enjoyable, I suggest you stick to the zerg until you’re lvl 70+, otherwise you’ll get your behind kicked into oblivion when roaming most of the time :P

Almost forgot. D/D is good, but you have two weapon sets at your disposal. Use them, or otherwise you’re missing out. I’ve found the shortbow to be a good secondary due to the #5 skill which can quickly get you out of sticky situations if you burn stealth as well.

Shortbow also covers a huge gaping hole in D/D’s ability to deal with multiple targets. This is fairly important if you are trying to solo many of the personal story steps.

Comboing Choking Gas(#4) with Cluster Bomb(#2) for Area Weakness is also good for lowering the incoming damage.

What’s a WvW? I’m already lost. I might go with the S/P though? What’s the general opinion of it?

Oh sorry, WvW = World vs. World. Hit “B” and you can see how your server is doing and join the fight. Check the wiki page for the overview of how it works: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wvw

I’m a noob with my thief, so I’m not too sure whether S/P is good or not :x

How do I train in the beginning? I’m so bad. The thief is so squishy in the beginning ( as from what I’ve heard ) I’m getting… you know… the r worded.

This is the thief build that I’ve decided to base my thief around:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mckzzMz9MMrFvoMrFvo0xxa0okbVRqo

What’s your opinion of it? I’ve gotten the build from this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgaMSFWy8OU

Go say hi
It is not in anyway, shape, or form my build.

Hmm … not really my cup of tea. I guess it’s nice if you like relying on stealth but D/D and P/D is still single target only. I guess there is Death Blossom for multiple targets.

A large chunk of the damage for that build looks like it will rely on Hidden Killer and the stealth related traits. This means it won’t really work before you reach lv60.

For leveling I pretty much dump all points into +Power regardless of class. Then either into +Precision or one of the defensive lines depending on how squishy I am feeling.

This is all for PvE of course. Some builds can probably work fine in either PvP or PvE but in many cases they are not. There are more stat points and more stat distributions possible in PvE. 1v5 in PvE wouldn’t be too unusual but since PvP is 5v5 or 8v8 that sort of fight should be less frequent(the opposing team would be pretty bad if they let their entire team get tied up by one opponent).