Q:
Elite?
why would you use anything other then thieves guild for pve? I can understand daggerstorm has its uses in the harpy fractal but 99% of the time thieves guild would be your go to elite for pve
A lot of the time, thieves guild does almost nothing because the NPC’s will die to random AoE’s within a few seconds, making it not even worth the cast time (even if you cast it before the fight.) Even some of the racial elites are better than what we have… Take a look at the Norn Bear Form untargetted rush.
Why don’t you do something revolutionary and slot the skills you need for the upcoming fight? If you were always running with the same elite all the time in PvE you were underperforming.
People talk on these forums about specific builds with specific traits and skills because they play SPvP where you cannot change skills.
Thieves Guild really is the go-to elite for PvE. Yes, the thieves will get trashed from the start a lot of the time, but that’s just the way it goes in a game that only has 3 elites per class (ignoring race elites since they’re generally just a fun gimmick at best).
Daggerstorm can be great on fights with high AoE or with projectiles, but other than that, there’s nothing else worth considering. Sadly, ANet decided to focus on making a bunch of new heals instead of new elites.