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Posted by: Incurafy.6329

Incurafy.6329

Greetings fellow permastealth/permaevasion/150 trait point Thieves!

Following the 15/10 patch I started theory crafting a new build that takes advantage of some of the most unused Thief traits in combination with a never before seen set of runes to create a new Thief build to suit the current meta and the substantial abilities of the Thief profession!

Introducing… the NINJA NURSE!

The Ninja Nurse is a daring new build that takes advantage of the incredibly overpowered Shadow Protector (SP) and Merciful Ambush (MA) traits combined with the Superior Runes of Mercy to resurrect fallen allies in the blink of an eye thanks to the mobility and regeneration offered by Infiltrator’s Arrow (IA), MA, and SP!

Strategy

  • Stay at the edge of the fight with your Shortbow and maintain pressure on the classes that are actually capable of killing your allies with Trickshot and Choking Gas.
  • Choking Gas is a ridiculously OP skill in the current meta and is great at destroying the regeneration offered to the inferior Warrior and Guardian professions by reducing the effectiveness of their pathetic healing abilities.
  • Using the amazing buff to Body Shot (P/x #2) and immobilise stacking, you can completely control your enemies for a bare minimum of 1 second, allowing your Warrior with burst much higher than you’re capable of to eliminate them!
  • Use your P/P #4 Headshot ability to interrupt your opponents most telegraphed skills, such as the Asuran Skullcrack and other abilities that are extremely easy to tell the difference between.
  • If you see an ally get downed, spring in to action! Interrupt the stomp with Headshot, switch to Shortbow, IA onto your ally, drop Blinding Powder or Shadow Refuge and resurrect them straight away! This is where your true strength lies, and the reason this build is so bloody OP!
  • If you’re directly focussed, don’t worry! According to the logic used by the players of PvP who hate and despise you, Shortbow #3 provides you with infinite evasion thanks to your extremely broken and OP initiative mechanic which, again, because it’s so broken and OP, means that you have absolutely ZERO COOLDOWNS!
  • In the event that your enemy manages to get some conditions onto you, don’t worry about it! You’re OP, I’m sure you’ll manage!

So, what do you guys think? Is this build good enough to shake up the meta and force teams to comp around their Thieves and create a counter to the Ninja Nurse? Discuss!


This thread and build are obviously a joke and parody, please, for crying out loud, don’t take it seriously!

That being said, I would love if someone could test it just to see how viable it is to screw around on! :P

NOTE: I didn’t come up with the name myself, the name is courtesy of Kata.6795 in this post.

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Posted by: Spanny.9256

Spanny.9256

oh sweet jesus halfway through i thought u were serious
that gave me a hearty laugh

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Posted by: infantrydiv.1620

infantrydiv.1620

Wow, this build sounds really good!

My Naruto roleplaying guild has been looking for something like this!

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Posted by: Stompy.1387

Stompy.1387

I’m going to try this when I get around to it later tomorrow.

If I remember, I’ll come back with the results.

Edit: This is gold. Gold I say!

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Posted by: Nemitri.8172

Nemitri.8172

LoL, I spotted this as a joke right when you said Ninja Nurse, the image alone makes me laugh!

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Posted by: Incurafy.6329

Incurafy.6329

oh sweet jesus halfway through i thought u were serious
that gave me a hearty laugh

How could you even take the name “Ninja Nurse” seriously? :P

I’m going to try this when I get around to it later tomorrow.

If I remember, I’ll come back with the results.

Edit: This is gold. Gold I say!

I can’t wait!

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Posted by: liefbread.9513

liefbread.9513

I have actually run something like this before, you can pick people up in a couple seconds, it’s the trolliest way to play and really drives some people up the wall. It’s more fun than it sounds.

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Posted by: Incurafy.6329

Incurafy.6329

I have actually run something like this before, you can pick people up in a couple seconds, it’s the trolliest way to play and really drives some people up the wall. It’s more fun than it sounds.

I’ve never ran something like this but I’m excited to see how much fun it is to screw around with in hotjoin once I get home.

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Posted by: Mathias.9657

Mathias.9657

Too much OP, incoming ninja nurse nerf.

Back to WoW, make GW2 fun please.

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Posted by: Devon.9061

Devon.9061

Trying it………

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Posted by: Dagins.5163

Dagins.5163

Play double shortbow with energy sigils + quick pockets. Take shadow’s embrace to negate conditions, and cloaked in shadows to make yourself a pulsing smoke field while reviving with shadow’s refuge.

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Posted by: Shinobi.3240

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Attachments:

Shinobi Sicarius [ Thief / Lvl: 80 / PvP Rank: 250+]
[5/8 Champion Titles – Legendary Division] [19k+ AP]
[BEER – Dungeon Riders – Desolation]

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Posted by: liefbread.9513

liefbread.9513

I have actually run something like this before, you can pick people up in a couple seconds, it’s the trolliest way to play and really drives some people up the wall. It’s more fun than it sounds.

I’ve never ran something like this but I’m excited to see how much fun it is to screw around with in hotjoin once I get home.

I mean you end up being effectively useless to your team.

but it sure is silly.

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Posted by: Incurafy.6329

Incurafy.6329

I have actually run something like this before, you can pick people up in a couple seconds, it’s the trolliest way to play and really drives some people up the wall. It’s more fun than it sounds.

I’ve never ran something like this but I’m excited to see how much fun it is to screw around with in hotjoin once I get home.

I mean you end up being effectively useless to your team.

but it sure is silly.

I wouldn’t run a build like this in real PvP, lol, just screwing around in hotjoin.

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Posted by: Pawnchee.3059

Pawnchee.3059

So in all seriousness, I played around with this build for about 5 or 6 solo ques and hotjoins in the down time. DID NOT DIE ONCE. Didnt really kill anything either but outlived or bunked down to the point the other person got tired and ran off. Teams fights obviously are where this build shines. If my team was near me they didnt die. All in all its an annoying support build.

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Posted by: Incurafy.6329

Incurafy.6329

Haha, I’m glad to know that something I threw together in 5 minutes as a joke actually works! :P

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Posted by: ryan.6217

ryan.6217

Yeah a build like this is straight amazing for a small 5 man group running around in WvW. I used to run a similar build on my thief, but i like killing people too much haha. Support thief is deceptively powerful if ACTUALLY played kutos for posting man, maybe some WuvWuv guild will pick this up in their havoc tactics (Hell even I might)

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Posted by: Zacchary.6183

Zacchary.6183

I adapted by making a warrior. :I My thief is now on the shelf.

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Posted by: liefbread.9513

liefbread.9513

I adapted by making a warrior. :I My thief is now on the shelf.

After tooling with a few new builds tonight with the reasoning that “maybe I kind of exaggerated the nerfs… thieves could still be fun.” and hitting a few walls, I think I might just be going back to my ele. I hear those guys see buffs sometimes.