Guild Wars 2

I’m just starting with a thief and I was wondering if anybody had messed around with a no off-hand weapon build. I’m running around right now with just a Main Hand Pistol, it’s pretty cool. For thief I was thinking this might actually be viable because: 1) You have a unique third move for not having an off-hand, and 2) You are limited by your initiative shared between any number of your weapons skills, not cooldowns.

Any thoughts?

It is not viable. Your third off-hand ability is just a weaker version of a dual-wielding ability. One pistol is just a weaker unload. One dagger is just a weaker Death Blossom. Etc.

Unfortunately, the above poster is right. It is not viable long-term, which is unfortunate because I love the idea of using a single-wielding thief and it really should be viable. IMO, you should be able to equip utility skills in weapon skill slots when you don’t have a weapon equipped, and there should be a mechanic that improves the stats on your MH weapon when your OH is empty.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the downside of lower stats. They should fix that. Why even make it an option…

It’s just to get you going until you get an OH, mainly. If you look at them, you also see where the Dual Skill “evolved” from.

It would be nice if they added fist as some kind of off-hand if no other off-hand is equiped:) Add some stats scaling from main-hand and we have new viable options:)

I love the idea of MH-only fighters, and there really should be some kind of incentive to only use a single one.

I tried for a few minutes and gave up, as fun as it would be you just can’t do it. It’s a kitten shame that Anet purposely made those skills terrible, I doubt they’ll ever get changed

I just started a thief and it was pretty weird seeing those No Offhand skills. Thanks for confirming they’re pretty much pointless.

Maybe we’ll see something neat done with them with a later patch.