Guild Wars 2

With any success? Build suggestions?

Made it to Diamond running that build and probably could have kept going if I had the time to play more games. I pretty much ran the same thing that you see on MetaBattle (http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Daredevil_-_Dagger/Pistol).

The build’s just gotten better since the patch.

Dahkeus.8243:

Made it to Diamond running that build and probably could have kept going if I had the time to play more games. I pretty much ran the same thing that you see on MetaBattle (http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Daredevil_-_Dagger/Pistol).

The build’s just gotten better since the patch.

I should have been more explicit in my request, I was asking about D/P builds for players that do not have HoT.

Yes I used them a few times. Thing is with those builds (CS and SA variants) that they aren’t bad. It’s just that the Daredevil variant(s) is/are better.

I am! I have HoT, but don’t use daredevil. (Most Thief players are going to ignore the rest of the post, due to my “ignorance” of the daredevil ways) I don’t really want to farm HPs. I have a D/P and shortbow venom share, with some success. I slotted shadow step (for mobility), Ice Drake Venom, Trip Wire(for CC), and Basilisk Venom. It works in PvE, but it is perfect for shatterer fight. That much CC obliterates the healing crystals.

You can be moderately successful using da/cs/trick but you have to play more reserved than with the daredevil variant. Having DD allows you to dodge around like an old s/d acro thief so you can get out of some sticky situations. Running non hot d/p you shouldn’t lose any damage and may even do a bit more with the cs modifiers, you lose a lot of survivability and utility that daredevil gives you

thunderfall.8095:

I am! I have HoT, but don’t use daredevil. (Most Thief players are going to ignore the rest of the post, due to my “ignorance” of the daredevil ways) I don’t really want to farm HPs. I have a D/P and shortbow venom share, with some success. I slotted shadow step (for mobility), Ice Drake Venom, Trip Wire(for CC), and Basilisk Venom. It works in PvE, but it is perfect for shatterer fight. That much CC obliterates the healing crystals.

Same here, I have one thief using DD just because and my main thief is da/sa/tr s/p venom/signets. Fun stuff. I dislike d/p because of being forced to play it though. My DD uses d/d sa/tr/dd though.

Played da/sa/trickery mostly in ranked games as I tend to skirmish too much and muck about when I trait to dd. I find that I can’t troll around kitten so I am more focused in winning then having ‘fun’

Playing old fashioned dp here (i have HoT but i hate daredevil design). Got to legend yoloqing, so was doing fine i think :P

The build is pretty standard: DA 222, SA 322, TR 312; dp: air/fire; sb: fire/generocity; marauder amy, scrapper runes (only thing you won’t be able to obtain w/o HoT i think). The build is more team oriented than dueling.

Excellent, thanks for all the responses guys. I’ve been running S/D for so long that I’m finally ready to try the old D/P meta in PvP. It will be a big adjustment, but hell I’ve got time on my hands.

that baby stealing dingo.7216:

Excellent, thanks for all the responses guys. I’ve been running S/D for so long that I’m finally ready to try the old D/P meta in PvP. It will be a big adjustment, but hell I’ve got time on my hands.

If you’d like to see some good gameplay of D/P, check out Sindrener’s stream. He was Legendary X3 last I checked and even though he often plays other classes in tournaments, he tends to play D/P thief on his stream.

http://www.twitch.tv/sindrenerr/

He said vanilla d/p and old meta. Nor the daredevil version :p. At least for me, I played both versions different.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

He said vanilla d/p and old meta. Nor the daredevil version :p. At least for me, I played both versions different.

Yea, he runs DD, but it’s pretty much the same gameplay aside from a different stomp. I mean, the rotations are the core skill of any glassy, burst thief build in PvP anyways.