Guild Wars 2

Well, since people have been pretty down on thief lately, I thought I would share a build I’ve been having success with. I’m not very high in ranked now since I haven’t had the time to play continuously, but it’s still been largely fun. Took some input from the previous thread.

With Runes of the Daredevil, you can build tanky and still hit pretty hard, especially with the power from the Soldier Amulet.

Build

Video

Opposing team was full premade.

Opposing team looked like that had some glass cannons with 10k vaults lol…

I’ve moved on for the moment to other games due to anet having their heads up their kitten s I regards to balance…

swinsk.6410:

Opposing team looked like that had some glass cannons with 10k vaults lol…

I’ve moved on for the moment to other games due to anet having their heads up their kitten s I regards to balance…

They could have been, but 13k on this build is my high.

with this build, condi preasure is difficult, no ???

So vs necro or rev mallyx, you switch staff master by escapti’s absolution ?

I have test this build in the past but with the meta very tanky, druid, mesmer, elem and many conditions, it’s not easy^^.

Shinuro.9086:

with this build, condi preasure is difficult, no ???

So vs necro or rev mallyx, you switch staff master by escapti’s absolution ?

I have test this build in the past but with the meta very tanky, druid, mesmer, elem and many conditions, it’s not easy^^.

I usually never swap out staff mastery. Condi pressure can be difficult, but I find that I’m often going to get burst by condis or keep clearing the same one over and over as it’s reapplied, so I treat them like normal damage but try not to heal with poison on me. I’ve only fought a few condi revs, but never really a 1 on 1 situation. If they’re distracted, I wait for them to dodge something else from a teammate then hit them at the end of the roll with WC + Steal. I try not to hit them when they get stunned cause it usually results in stealing into the Shiro stunbreak.

Tanky isn’t really a problem because you’re pretty tanky in this and can still have good burst so you can stay on target. That said, it might take forever to down someone, but that seems to be true of virtually any class right now. I can’t tell you exactly the builds I’ve fought, but the lowest crit I’ve seen vault hit was on scrappers for 4.5K and the highest is somewhere just above 13k (mostly necros); 6k-9k is the most common range.