Guild Wars 2

im still learning but when i first started and i had no clue about thief, i found this video very helpful…i used to practice in pve until some of those moves became muscle memory, while others i still cant execute right.

i started playing d/d so it might be different for you

First thing you need to learn about Thief, don’t expect to survive a lot of damage. You’re gonna have to retreat and evade quite a bit. Since you just started out, I recommend using Dagger/Pistol+Shortbow as it is the strongest weapon set for Thieves right now that doesn’t require too much effort to deal damage but you’re still gonna have to dance around other classes as Thief is in a bit of a bad spot at the moment in terms of PvP.

You almost always want to use Trickery in your build also as it recharges Thieves’ Steal faster and increases you initiative so you can use your weapon skills more often.

If you’tr using D/P, you should also try using Shadow Arts with the Shadow’s Embrace and Shadow’s Rejuvenation traits as they will keep you alive longer. Some people like to use Acrobatics instead but it requires a bit more experience to use effectively.

Lastly, I would recommend Critical Strikes to increase your critical damage and have more access to fury so you can get critical hits more often too but Deadly Arts is also optional if you dont mind giving up critical damage in exchange for some useful traits.

First tip would to be disable auto attack on your #1 ability.
Second, resetting must become your best friend. Keep retrying until your foe messes up and you get him/her down.
Third, get to know your combo fields.

The rest will come with experience.

JoshSoCal.4516:

Hello I was just wondering if anyone could give me some helpful tips on the Thief. I never play rogue type classes in MMOs but decided to try a Thief as it looked different from other styles of rogue types. I am willingly to be patient with the class and learn a lot. Please leave any helpful hints or tips that I can use.

You can also add me in game. I’m usually on after 5pm PST as I work during the day. Thanks for all the help in advanced!

JoshSoCal.4516

just quit or go to another class. we aren’t rogues. we don’t even do that much damage. and on top of that, we only have 1 viable build… its really sad.

Bloodyx.5946:

JoshSoCal.4516:

Hello I was just wondering if anyone could give me some helpful tips on the Thief. I never play rogue type classes in MMOs but decided to try a Thief as it looked different from other styles of rogue types. I am willingly to be patient with the class and learn a lot. Please leave any helpful hints or tips that I can use.

You can also add me in game. I’m usually on after 5pm PST as I work during the day. Thanks for all the help in advanced!

JoshSoCal.4516

just quit or go to another class. we aren’t rogues. we don’t even do that much damage. and on top of that, we only have 1 viable build… its really sad.

While it may be true that we only have one viable build in PvP, Sword/Dagger still has a nice place in WvW as does Pistol/Dagger.

Same can be said of PvE. Sword/Pistol is very good in Pve with both Venom Share or just full DPS.

So don’t drop this kinda quitter mentality to a new player. We should be encouraging him to stay and learn the class.