Guild Wars 2

Step 1. Your weapons:
shortbow with air+energy + something of your choice with air+fire (HINT: pick d/p)

Step 2. Utilities
Heal: Withdraw
U1: Shadowstep
U2: Shadowrefuge
U3: depends on Step 3.
Elite: Basilisk Venom

Step 3: Traits
Deadly Arts:
Everything in the mid. If you feel fancy go for excecutioner

Trickery:
bot, up, mid
(you can also go mid mid mid but it’s not recommended)

Now we have a choice:

Do you stealth?
- pick Shadow Arts (bot mid mid) and for U3 Blinding Powder

Need more power?
- pick CS (up mid up or mid) and for U3 Infiltrator Signet

Need more defence?
- pick Acrobatics (bot bot bot or mid) and for U3 Agility Signet
(just kidding, pick something else)

Step 4:
Rune: Vampirism or Pack (too much choice? throw a coin)

Note: You can also build something else, but yeah, better not.

Summary: This easy recipe will provide you with anything you need until the next balance patch hits october 2016.

Pretty sure I run CS bot mid up for my s/d build… I also use runes of the ogre so meh…

I run scholar for that burst…

Just count on my excellent gameplay to not die in 1-2 hits

I also run different runes, and my traits are a bit different. Still, it’s D/P burst or nothing. I’ve tried D/D, S/D and P/P since patch and while they’re all fun, they are just a bit behind the curve.

The bestest thread showing the poor build diversity of thieves atm .

I like ogre over scholar personally cuz the little doggie has saved my life

Acro signet is superior to blinding powder and inf signet right now. How else are you going to clear that 8 stacks of burning a guardian just put on you? Plus, you get a stat boost when it isn’t being used, and more dodges immediately after.

The sheer amount of diversity and choices are just staggering! Thanks Colin Johanson!

/s

I think checkers has more build diversity. At least you can become ‘crowned’ when you reach the other side.

Odyssey.2613:

The sheer amount of diversity and choices are just staggering! Thanks Colin Johanson!

/s

I think checkers has more build diversity. At least you can become ‘crowned’ when you reach the other side.

Nerf crown. Too much mobility.

this was funny… and sad.
allow me to get this into my signature

Can you make a d/d variant pls?

Maugetarr.6823:

Odyssey.2613:

The sheer amount of diversity and choices are just staggering! Thanks Colin Johanson!

/s

I think checkers has more build diversity. At least you can become ‘crowned’ when you reach the other side.

Nerf crown. Too much mobility.

Nerf the red side when I play white. Too much chances for them to win.

Due to the game’s design there really wasn’t much play-styles besides choosing your weapons since day one – Every thief with D/P will play like the next D/P and every thief with S/D will play like the next S/D, with very minor variances, and that’s the same thing for other classes.

Traits, runes, sigils, armor types are essentially supplements to the weapons you’re play.

Zero Day.2594:

Maugetarr.6823:

Odyssey.2613:

The sheer amount of diversity and choices are just staggering! Thanks Colin Johanson!

/s

I think checkers has more build diversity. At least you can become ‘crowned’ when you reach the other side.

Nerf crown. Too much mobility.

Nerf the red side when I play white. Too much chances for them to win.

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Due to the game’s design there really wasn’t much play-styles besides choosing your weapons since day one – Every thief with D/P will play like the next D/P and every thief with S/D will play like the next S/D, with very minor variances, and that’s the same thing for other classes.

Traits, runes, sigils, armor types are essentially supplements to the weapons you’re play.

Imo this isn’t true. Before the April 2014 patch the only thing every thief has to do was putting 30 points in CS. Beside that you had many choices. Back then I thought this is not much diversity, but now it’s worse. We have 2 traitlines that gives us the needed utility which is leaving us with excactly 1 choice for our last. And Acro is so bad atm that most thieves go into SA (some in CS).

And this isn’t true for other classes. Take mesmer for example. Choose a build. You can use now every weapon combination (beside scepter, this is mostly for condi) and you will be fine (worked also prepatch).

apocom.3172:

Zero Day.2594:

Maugetarr.6823:

Odyssey.2613:

The sheer amount of diversity and choices are just staggering! Thanks Colin Johanson!

/s

I think checkers has more build diversity. At least you can become ‘crowned’ when you reach the other side.

Nerf crown. Too much mobility.

Nerf the red side when I play white. Too much chances for them to win.

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Due to the game’s design there really wasn’t much play-styles besides choosing your weapons since day one – Every thief with D/P will play like the next D/P and every thief with S/D will play like the next S/D, with very minor variances, and that’s the same thing for other classes.

Traits, runes, sigils, armor types are essentially supplements to the weapons you’re play.

Imo this isn’t true. Before the April 2014 patch the only thing every thief has to do was putting 30 points in CS. Beside that you had many choices. Back then I thought this is not much diversity, but now it’s worse. We have 2 traitlines that gives us the needed utility which is leaving us with excactly 1 choice for our last. And Acro is so bad atm that most thieves go into SA (some in CS).

And this isn’t true for other classes. Take mesmer for example. Choose a build. You can use now every weapon combination (beside scepter, this is mostly for condi) and you will be fine (worked also prepatch).

Right… and a D/P will always try to BP→HS→BS→AA→repeat as it’s main moves.

Zero Day.2594:

Right… and a D/P will always try to BP->HS->BS->AA->repeat as it’s main moves.

Iff the thief trait in SA. If you don’t play SA there is no need to fight stealth heavy beside the opening. It’s even more like a hindrance because most classes will simply outsustain you, while you are sitting in stealth.

And there was also a huge difference between 2/6/0/0/6, 6/0/2/0/6 and 2/0/0/6/6 d/p. I think it is not true that every d/p build plays the same with the mentioned chain as maintool.