Guild Wars 2

I’m returning to the game after 4 years and boosted a thief and am wondering what’s a solid all around PvE build.

I’m mainly looking for a build that I could run with the Valkyrie set I was given when I boosted my character, as I don’t have enough gold yet to buy any other pieces.

This thread helped me put together an open-world thief that is satisfying to play for a casual player like me:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Is-Acrobatics-really-bad-with-Daredevil

If you pick up HoT, then I highly recommend a staff daredevil thief for pve.
Likely you’ll feel insanely squishy at first, and the whole rolling all over the place thing takes getting used to, but once you get a handle on it, it all just clicks and you’ll be having a ton of fun.

I would go staff as well.

Something like this should work to start with. Has good defense, good damage, and near constant swiftness uptime:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZUQJAWVn0MBFOhFmCWmCkmiFqiaO73+x3LEShSoLCCgGA-TRwmAAg6PAA-e

Later, when you can start gearing out and getting higher crit chances/damage, this one can keep at top health while putting out tons of damage with great mobility:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZUQJAWVn0MBFOhFmC2OBkmildCbLAUbOQzLwG4F0bKsFuCA-TxxTABcrEEg9HgQJyvq/8qugnVe8gSIA-e

I just picked up thief as well and read up on some info. Apparantly D/D condi is really powerful. The lack of range however does concern me since staying in melee range is often suicide in most battles.
Is the shortbow usable in PvE as second weapon to build up some distance and kite? Or does that hurt the double D/D condi build?

And how about mobility with the condi build? It seems to lack perma moving speed increase?

Don’t worry too much about being in melee range on d/d condi. You should be evading much of the time off d/d 3 and dodge, and it’s pretty easy to bounce out and get some space if things get too hot. SB synergises with it very well (sb4 to d/d3 for spitting out more poison), and sb5 is great for positioning/kiting/running like hell. If you want to have swiftness, then run it with Acro as one of your trait lines which gives speed on dodge, if not then run DA for more damage. I personally prefer Acro, but that’s me.

JonnyForgotten.4276:

Don’t worry too much about being in melee range on d/d condi. You should be evading much of the time off d/d 3 and dodge, and it’s pretty easy to bounce out and get some space if things get too hot. SB synergises with it very well (sb4 to d/d3 for spitting out more poison), and sb5 is great for positioning/kiting/running like hell. If you want to have swiftness, then run it with Acro as one of your trait lines which gives speed on dodge, if not then run DA for more damage. I personally prefer Acro, but that’s me.

Thanks for the tips & advice! I’ll try it out.