Guild Wars 2

Why is there a condi skill in the middle of a build that appears to be for direct damage. D/P has shadow shot and a daze for its 3 and 4 skill while d/d has nothing useful in those slots. Also, all of the sword builds require 3 spam and constant porting… d/p and shortbow are the only well made builds that are good and fun to play.

Because Shadow Shot doesn’t count as #3, or as porting.
Because Black Powder->Heartseeker isn’t repetitive at all.
Because sword builds can "spam" 3 while "constantly" pressing 2.
Because having Dancing Dagger - a ranged attack - on a melee set that bounces to targets even in stealth isn’t awesome.

Well, I agree that it’s kind of weird (hello Unload). D/D is fun and I really like how you can actually dodge the CnD, unlike D/P which is mindless and lets you chain stealth.

Also uh, all Thief builds require spamming of something. It’s either spamming Unload, spamming 3 (on sword), spamming 521521521521521521 on D/P, or 515151515151 on D/D. You can’t get away from it as that is how the class was designed.

And this should probably go to the Thief forum.