Guild Wars 2

Hey Guys,

I’m a pretty WvW Centric player and now that I have a very group oriented Necro at level 80 and some decent gear, I’m trying to figure out how to make my thief a Roamer/WvW Camp Killer. Someone who can run around and play interference. I’ve been a big fan of the Sword/Dagger builds because they allow you to forgo stacking toughness by letting you being mobile, but I’m having issues coming down to something that is truly great. So far I’ve come up with this skill Trait:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAsYVlYmSOHcy9E/JFx+hdy9wpItpaFoZ/BsC

Basically, it’s a variant of the 0/20/30/20/0 build, except that I pull 5 points out of each of the 20s so that I could get mug for better 1v1 Basilisk application. The nice thing about the 30 points in shadow is that it’s great for survivability, and then in groups I can also switch my Grandmaster point into venomous aura and give my groupies Basilisk Venom.

I’m planning to use this with mostly Assassin’s gear, and a little bit of toughness thrown around to keep me at about 45% Crit chance with Signet of Agility and 2500 Armor. I’m saving up some money for Runes of Lyssa to use with Basilisk Venom.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I just tried to 1v1 an Engineer roamer with this and got annihilated multiple times. kitten was running perplexity.

I just looked at Wish’s mug: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.0|8.1c.h2.8.1c.h17|c.1c.h2.8.1c.h17|1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j|2s.d13.2s.d13.3s.d17.3s.d17.2s.d13.2s.d13|a3.u36c.u56b.0.0|39.1|57.5c.5b.5h.0|e

And I just realized that the only reason I had a Short Bow was for mobility and Zerg Support, the latter is something I rarely do.

I just realized that if I really needed to run away using Initiative instead of utility skills I can easy spam Heartseeker with no target to achieve the same effect. So this answered my question.

I personally play a more shadow step build with s/d but theoretically you could run 20/30/20 with a sword and dagger with the two stealth utilities, and use backstabbing immediately after the #3. Right now I run 10/30/0/0/20. Out of stealth I crit about kitten .5k. I do not have 100% crit because I choose different traits to accommodate a different play style, but you could, IN THEORY, run a very effective s/d stealth build. I run full zerk, and I don’t have any problems surviving but I have played the same character since launch, and that is my thief. I would suggest signet of malice. Basically just through in the back stabbed traits and play it nearly the same way, just a bit more time out of stealth for a bit more damage.

-Oscuro