Guild Wars 2

So I recently started playing some WvWvW again instead of just logging in for daily’s and I’ve run into a problem.

A lot of other Thiefs kill me so quick, hitting 9/10k backstabs, I’ve had gaurdians and ele’s insta kill me (literally 1-2 seconds cant even respond and I’m dead) I want to know is it my buid? gear? etc, because I only hit for around 4-6k on a tanky and 8-9 on glass cannons if I have full bloodlust.

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Any help, suggestions and changes to what I have is much appreciated. I’m pretty poor in-game tho (constantly have 7g).

Your armor is really low. In my opinion it’s best to have at least 2500 armor and 15k health for any WvW character. To be honest though, the armor and health won’t help you if you don’t out-play other burst builds/professions anyway — it’s just there as a buffer for their opening combo or if you’re jumped on. Your critical hit chance is normal, but personally I’d say it’s too high for a Hidden Killer build. Definitely swap out Sigil of Accuracy for Sigil of Force (+5% damage).

Hidden Thief (VII) in Shadow Arts is an interesting choice for your build, you’d probably be better off with Infusion of Shadow (V) if you’re running dagger/pistol. I also don’t find the Descent of Shadows trait in Acrobatics particularly useful, but if you like it then whatever. Try changing it out for Fleet Shadow (VI), enabling you to drop your Signet of Shadows utility for something more useful like Blinding Powder.

I would recommend either Runes of the Scholar (highest damage potential by far) or Runes of the Traveler (frees up utility slot and traits), but since you’re on a budget, Ruby Orbs/Runes of the Ogre/Runes of the Thief are fine. Ogre is probably the best rune of these cheaper options, but beware that decent Thieves who are using off-hand dagger will be able to Cloak and Dagger off the Rock Dog if it spawns.

With these changes, you’d pretty much be a cookie-cutter WvW Thief, but there aren’t too many decent options.

Thnx for the reply, I done the changes to my traits since I’ve been trying a bunch of different combinations (thats why i had hidden thief). I’ll see how I do with it.

On the other bits what would you suggest I change out to get the 2500 armor? and is Ogre a lot better than Ruby Orbs? I’d love to get travelers for the 25% movement but @ 10g a piece I’d rather not.

Runes of the Ogre are powerful because of the +4% damage bonus. I also forgot to mention Runes of the Wurm which are also pretty decent. Ruby/Beryl Orbs do just fine though, they’re all pretty similar. I believe 5 Runes of the Scholar + 1 Ruby Orb is supposedly the next highest DPS to 6/6 Runes of the Scholar if you don’t include Rock Dog from Runes of the Ogre.

To get more armor, you could swap in Soldier’s or Cavalier pieces. Mess around on a build calculator to see the stat differences you’d gain/lose: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/