Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone

I’ve recently returned to Guild Wars after a little timeout.
The reason being my Warrior, I got bored fairly quickly and decided to take some time off.

So, now I started leveling a Thief, with whom I plan to do mostly pvp and wvw.
The thing is I know nothing about this class so I need your help guys.

I’ve got a couple of questions:

• What is the state of the Thief now?
(I heard the class was being nerfed a lot)
• Where is the Thief most welcome?
(in pve or pvp groups)
• What are some good builds to try?
(pve/fracs & wvw, currently viable)
• Is the Thief hard to master?

Lastly, thank you in advance for your feedback guys.
Any hints and tips are much appreciated.

+ I know question no.3 is asked a lot, but I’ve never played a Thief before, I don’t know the class well at all, so I’m sorry if this question upsets or bothers someone. Thanks again.

Usually when asking such broad questions a list of guides does more than enough than us making wall of texts about it anyways:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Guide-to-Thief-Guides

tl;dr Thief fits in a niche in all 3 types of gameplay. In WvW we’re great at scouting and small team play. In PvE we maintain aoe blinds and stealths and can spam blast finishers which makes fights easier and runs faster. I don’t PvP so I can’t tl;dr anything there.

Going from warrior to thief is probably a good idea. Warrior can probably be agreed on that it’s great in many areas but boring to play with. Thief offers the intangible gratification of stalking after your enemies and evading and mindtripping foes a bit.

Well this is by far the best backstab build.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fen.gw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FfYEQRAoY8YlUmiO3ey5E%2F5Ey2jdqCJKuHGVS1UaFoJA-jEzAorBRTWCNRAiKAk8UWzeCiVtioxqrxUuDRW7iavJiWt5wCBUeBA-w

If you like D/P n stead just use D/P over D/D (or D/D+D/P, doesnt matter.) then youve got these Sw/P builds becoming more and more popular. Then theres S/D which a few people still use after the nerfs. And the very defensive P/D condi build with 30 trickery, Scorpion wire, and perplexity runes.

That pretty much sums up thief diversity in a nutshell.