Guild Wars 2

Hello guys,

I just started playing WvW, and i actually like it a lot, but i still need to finish my thief..
I got full exotic gear (only missing rings and accessories) but i still need something i can put into my gear and weps..

So do you have any suggestions? Which runes and sigils? Or even ruby orbs, i heard they’re good as well.

im a glasscannon thief btw.

Ruby Orbs are the best if you take price in to account. Otherwise, Scholar or Divinity would be good, too. Sigil of Force/Accuracy are nice.

I run 6 scholar runes and a sigil of rage and fire/air in my daggers, and bloodlust in my shortbow for pvp, and i like that build.
Any chance it would work for www as well?

I use 5 Superior Rune of the Scholar and 1 Superior Rune of Divinity. In my opinion, the (6) rune effect for Scholar is a little too situational, especially for a class as squishy as the Thief. The extra critical damage is always useful, too, as well as the slight bump to all stats.

For sigils, I use Superior Fire in my sword, Superior Accuracy in my dagger, and Superior Bloodlust in my shortbow. For D/P or D/D, I’d probably use Superior Air instead of Fire, since it’s concentrated single-target damage.

I wouldn’t agree with only 5 scholar, but thats personal preference i think.
That 10% extra dmg is really useful, and you’re most likely full hp most of the time, since you should be able to one-shot ur enemy, or atleast almost one-shot, so you won’t take much dmg. (Talking about tPvP here) I had a lot of success with this at least

Yeah, i’ve been using the air sigil for quite a long time now, and i like it much more than the fire sigil. I used fire back in time, thats what i meant

Thank you for your answer tho :P

I use the Ruby Orbs, i thought of going for the Scholar runes but the orbs besides being allot cheaper have better stats overall imo:

6x Ruby Orbs:
120 Power
12% Critical Dmg
84 Precision

6x Superior Rune of The Scholar
165 Power
7% Critical dmg
10% dmg while health is above 90%

The orbs (imo) have more fire power since they give precision and allot more critical dmg the the runes and the 45 power difference do not compensate for the orb’s precision and critical dmg.

just my opinion.

Yeah, i also ended up getting 6 ruby orbs.

Also i went for Rage and air sigils for my 2 daggers.
Still not sure if bloodlust for my shortbow is worth it

Ok, what do you guys think about this?

My mainhand dagger with superior sigil of air.
Offhand with superior sigil of rage

the first Shortbow with superior sigil of bloodlust
and second with superior sigil of flame.
So i swap to the flame shortbow when i got 25 stacks.

Or should i do this with daggers? give me your opinions ^^

Fire is almost always better than Air; that’s why it’s so expensive. The damage difference is not nearly as big as you may think, but Fire has AoE. Which is everything in PvE, and still fairly useful in PvP.

I decided to buy an air sigil because it’s a bit more dmg, its WAY cheaper than fire, and its just for my daggers = i dont do any AoE with my daggers anyway.

But yep, i know fire is great, thats why im thinking about adding it to my shortbow, but i see no reason to put a fire for around 5g60s into my daggers, when i can get air sigil with more dmg for around 15 silver ^^

I prefer blood and frailty (d/d stealth), have a couple sets of them, different stats.
Then yes, bloodlust on bow which stacks very quickly standing just behind the melees in large engagements. I have a bunch of bows, good tool in wvw for a thief, and another good one is sigil of night that I put on an ascalonian bow even though it doesn’t glow but blue shows it’s good. Crescent bow to remove conditions. Generally just tap 1 and collect bags