Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!

I haven’t played my thief in ages but I spent so many hours on her that I just hate seeing all that work go to nothing. The problem is, I don’t know what build I should work with and was hoping you all might give me some suggestions.

I currently have two sets of gear, 1 set that is condition based with perplexity runes in it and the other was from my D/D days that is your standard power based. I will admit that I never really mastered D/D and so that was probably most of why I quit playing as it felt it was the only viable build at the time.

I have also tried D/P and though I liked the concept, it felt just too rough on the initiative.

I’m trying to find a build that allows me to maximize the stealth of the class and should I get into a bad situation, easily escape. Any suggestions?

I don’t like the idea of a condi thief, so i’m prepared to remain a burst dps thief. I have started using a new build today 6/6/0/0/2 with revealed training on d/p+sb. sb #2 hits for 3.5-5k per big explosion and i’m averaging 7-9k backstabs with half knights/half zerk gear (berserk trinkets+weps).

It makes use of revealed training = pistol 5 > dagger 2 = stealth, now use your venom if you’re running it to stun on hit, now quickly precast backstab (dagger 1) and steal from your target. Being traited with mug, it reveals you on steal, but you can still land the backstab and get the 200+ power for the backstab from revealed training.

So typically for me with the gear i just mentioned its a 1.5-2k mug, followed by a 7-9k backstab, then a couple auto attacks or heart seeker if i’m feeling lazy. If they get away, rinse and repeat (no steal this time, just pistol 5 then dagger 2, either shadowstep or infiltrators signet to them and backstab again, if you’re low on ini and thye’ve pulled a gap on you use dagger 3 to shadowstep to them and do a little damage then spam your autoattack, or alternatively swap to sb and attack from range while they run.

Yes the initative drain is noticable, but keep playing the build and you’ll learn to manage it effectively (no kittened heartseeking just for the sake of it, and using the same smoke field a couple times to stay stealthed and position yourself better). Also try not to use infiltrators signet unless you really need to, that extra initaive every 10 second can be the difference between a stealth or death.