Guild Wars 2

I am currently level 60, I have tried all the recommended leveling builds so far… the most popular on this board is sword/pistol, and next cluster-bomb spam build and dagger pistol build. I got tired of sword pistol since it was dead boring, yes you will never die but leveling should be about killing stuff quickly and traveling from point A to point B as fast as possible.

Say no to all of those builds and go with Death Blossom and stack that condition damage up. Mobs drop like flies and its much easier to use than cluster bomb, I just cant relax and enjoy myself having to detonate those bombs. Death blossom kills them just as fast, while evading their attacks, with just a press of a button.

I agree. Having played every recommended spec and some of my own, the most enjoyable experience from a fun perspective (resulting in most successful for me) as a thief has been condition based builds particularly D/D even at early levels.

Agreed.

I found shortbow to be the best leveling weapon. AoE, decent as both a power and contain weapon. And it can inflict weakness which makes you pretty survivable.

The sneak attack is pretty good too.

Kashijikito.1864:

I found shortbow to be the best leveling weapon. AoE, decent as both a power and contain weapon. And it can inflict weakness which makes you pretty survivable.

The sneak attack is pretty good too.

Yes short-bow is effective, but it requires you to aim, press one button and press it again to detonate it, all while strafing. But doing so thousands of times on your way to lvl 80 can become quite tedious…

Death Blossom just requires you to press one button, once. Much more relaxing, you can watch your favorite tv show playing a death blossom build, but short bow will require more attention and more button clicks.

Shortbow is by far the most effective weapon for leveling.

It does literally everthing.

Three things make thief leveling faceroll :

1.) Shortbow

2.) Caltrops

3.) Signet of Malice

Unless it’s been changed, SoM heal tics proc off EVERY aoe pulse/tic per mob. So each caltrops tic procs a heal per mob inside it, same with poison field, same with each clusterbomb hit (x3 per mob per clusterbomb).

Then run around and spam clusterbomb in melee range, it essentially does the same bleeding as Death Blossom + awesome direct dmg, it becomes a powerhouse melee skill, and you can kite EASILY with caltrops which can maintain perma cripple on any number of melee mobs/champ mobs.

Enjoy your faceroll. =p

Death Blossoming is fun and stylish though, w/e floats your jimmies.

I disagree, Knote, SB is a perfect off-hand but nothing beats DB spam when combined with SoM and caltrops + dodgetrops. Sb is best swapped to when you have no initiative or want to kite.