Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I started playing about a week ago so still a big noob, here are a couple questions for you guys, any help will be appreciated

1) Why do i keep hearing people saying leveling jewelry to 400 is a waste of time? whats soo bad about this discipline?

2) With the recent nerf to thieves whats a good and viable build with nice amount of damage level up from 20 to 60 (solo PvE and dugeons)

3) what trait tree should I max first to make PvE easier but without sacrificing much damage?

Ascended items make crafted items obsolete and currently ascended items are trinkets and back items.

Ozone.7315:

Hey guys, I started playing about a week ago so still a big noob, here are a couple questions for you guys, any help will be appreciated

1) Why do i keep hearing people saying leveling jewelry to 400 is a waste of time? whats soo bad about this discipline?

2) With the recent nerf to thieves whats a good and viable build with nice amount of damage level up from 20 to 60 (solo PvE and dugeons)

3) what trait tree should I max first to make PvE easier but without sacrificing much damage?

1.) as stated, ascended jewelry kinda screws the profession over.

2.) for leveling D/D condition damage with death blossom spam and caltrops, and S/P power/crit builds are still pretty much the most effective ways to level. for D/D conditions just stack condition damage, then bleed and kite. for S/P between black powder and pistol whip entire groups of mobs will never be able to hit you.

3.) the trait tree depends on the build. crit strikes tends to work best for power builds, trickery for condition damage builds, and acrobatics and shadow arts are great lines for survivability.

If you are asking about lvling your char via crafting (sorry if not but since it was in your title).

I got my first char to 80 playing normal… did the whole world thing and story and all that.

Then I spent 10 gold or so rolling a mesmer and using crafting to got from 3-80 in about 8 hours of game play.

I played that for a month or so then wanted to try something new and did it with a Ranger. Ranger wasn’t for me.

About 3 weeks ago I did it with a theif but I am much faster at it now and can do it in about 5 hours of play time.

If you have a lvl 80 that does some cof runs its not hard to get 10 gold to get a alt to 80. I am sure I will also do it with the rest of the classes.

Thief is still my fav to play so far… even tho that is off topic.