Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking about leveling one of these 2 classes up for some roaming in WvW. Which of these 2 classes would you say is better at solo roaming and fighting outnumbered when played to its full potential?

Roll a Thief if you want the best class for roaming. Roll an Engi if you want the challenge.

Preacher

Engis can get pretty tanky with different tricks up their sleeve. Thieves can have a guaranteed escape. So I’d try them both out and see what play style you prefer.

roaming engie action, if you want to have an idea of what you can do.

Either works very very well.

It’s more impressive on an Engi though.

Thief will be easier to start and learn and you have stealth as your fall back if you mess up, Engineer really has some amazing potential when you learn the profession though. I also find it infinitely more fun than my Thief.

Choose Thief if you want, and if you can stand being compared to the million of them infesting the WvW grounds.

MrForz.1953:

Choose Thief if you want, and if you can stand being compared to the million of them infesting the WvW grounds.

Lolll, no joke here.

You could have people saying “Another troll thief”

OR they could say..

“Holy crap that Engi was a beast!”

Thief.

High damage, high mobility, high survivability due to Stealth and Escapes, kitten near impossible to die due to stealth and escapes, easy to play.

The biggest problem with a Thief is ascending above mediocrity. Most enemy players do not pose much of a threat, so you wont often be challenged to get better at it.

Thief is a crutch class. Roll thief if you need a crutch to play.

Check link in my sig. Be inspired, roll engi.

Heh … I’d have to say Engi. Thief has nice options, but Engi has some nasty CC/Conditions to toss out, with the right spec. I’m currently running around with Rabid/Carrion gear, and having a blast. Just need to work on my Traits/Utils a bit more.

OTOH, my Thief’s an Evasion spec … does well enough in most fights, but dies fast when outnumbered. Even with ~2800 Armour/17k Health. The problem there is that Thief is very limited on defensive Boons, especially Stability. One would think ANet wants all Thieves to run perma-stealth Zerker sets, or something …

If you hate dying, I’d say roll a thief and learn not to overextend. Camps also seem to go down faster. But I roam with an engineer because I like how it plays, and I like the possibility of getting into a 1v1 where I have to commit. I still lose most 1v1s (see sig) but hey, how else do I get better?

well one of the few things thief is good at is roaming, whereas engi is more versatile, also having the ability to become quite tanky with the right gear. like these guys said, engi is more of a challenge, which makes it more fun for me. some people dont like that though, so if you’re one of those then go with thief. now that i think about it, there are very little similarities between these two classes.

engineer excels in groups and for that sole reason is much less suited for roaming unlike thief.
You can’t roam if you cannot run away.

As an engi you will die, repeatedly, with no chance of redemption or escape. With thief, you can cloak and teleport 2800 units easily. I <3 my engi but it’s so difficult to do properly. And if someone interupts your 1v1 as an engi, you’re probably dead.

Why not both?

I do both you should too.

Thief is a lot easier to avoid focused by a ton of guys but has worse CC.

i have seen engi’s pull off excellent 1vX fights and defend against a constant stream of 1v1 – 1v2’s also i have noticed that since rocket boots they can pretty much when slotted keep in front of a zerg with those and swiftness.

thiefs are great for roaming, you can flip camps, harass and generally be a pain in the backside more than any other class consistently however that being said the engi is pretty common in WvW now and most i see are fairly competent a few exceptional bad kitten but same goes for thief, all you need to do is daze, stun the thief and there HP will bomb, the engineer can take more and over time dish out more if the thief doesnt land his kill and you get overwhelmed only idiots will die to a thief in that circumstance ir afkers or the thief was just that good.

the choice is yours, personally engi is more versatile so i would choose engi and lvl the thief as a side project

If you like Doug the same exact thing a billion times choose thief, if you want to experiment an do many things pick engi, also if you don’t want to be hated pick engi or if you want people to think your an easy target before man handling them