Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, how are you? I’m from sea of sorrows right now, and I wanted to make a new class to enjoy WvW and Spvp from a different perspective. Currently I play a bunker engineer, and while he is fun and a solid mid range character, I miss kitting or a class that also has a ton of utility (Engi does but in its own way). This situation has led me to the forums, so I can do research on a few classes and be able to pick one that I’ll enjoy the most.

So to be concise, how is thief doing atm? Can they fit a far ranged/kiting class pretty well or are they strictly a melee only class? What is their possible playstyles, and a couple things you wished people told you about the class before you, yourselves, rolled one?

Thanks for your time.

Kiting works extremely well on P/D condition builds, but your biggest weakness will be of course condition necros, and anyone else who has tons of condition removal (D/D Eles, guardians, etc.)

Thief has a lot of potential build variety, despite being highly over represented in pvp with D/D burst builds. My favorite at the moment is my own version of Sword / Dagger dazelock build, which also maximizes shadow arts and tons of shadowsteps to be very tricky.

Overall, we’re doing extremely well. Some argue far too well, but you can be the judge of that.

It’s a good build, its not easy to use at the start, and don’t spam your #1 when always in hide, look out for enemies, if the target you are vsing still has a good amount of bleed on him, dance around them let the stealth time out and go for some slow shots, hit cloak and dagger again, the way you have to use this build is how to make it to your next Hide0In0Shadows cooldown, how to make it to there, its a battle of time, you wont down anybody like a backstab build, but if you play correct you will down 3-4 solo.

on top of my mind we have DD burst build, P/D condition build as the most popular in wvw.

i have a full set of carrion and i ran a P/D condition build until last night. With carrion, i have 20k HP, 5% crit rate, 2.5k -ish attack, with bleeding ticks at ~120. my direct attack hits around 350. With this build, i can stack about 7 bleeding and troll the enemy, but i need to constantly get into melee range to use Cloak and Dagger which was a problem to me cuz the whole point of using a pistal is to stay at range(just personal opinion). Besides, the firing rate of pistal is very low so it somewhat feels lacking. Barely die when equipped with shortbow and shadowstep, shortbow 5 *2 + shadowstep will wrap u at least 2500 distance away, if u have enough ini. nice survival in dungeon btw.