Guild Wars 2

Utility Skills:
Healing Skill: Chose whatever you want except Hide in Shadows, which is lame because it gives Stealth.
Skale Venom: The best utility skill you have by far. It applies a total of 3 stacks of both: vulnerability and torment, thus profits from 4 attributes at once (crit. dmg, power, precision and condition damage). Vulnerability amplifies the damage of ALL your attack skills and with torment it adds another tremendous damage source.
Ice Drake Venom: This incredibly strong venom not only increases your opponent’s cooldowns but also snares him for an enormously long time. In combination with the smoke field from Black Powder, this is devastating for everyone who is stupid enough to engage in melee combat.
Prayer to Kormir/Scorpion Wire: If you are human, you should definitely pick the former option. Prayer to Kormir removes 3 conditions at once every 40 seconds, which is really useful if you face one of those weak and pitiful but annoying condition rangers or a condition necromancer. If you are any race but human or stuck in aquatic combat (abusing your 1200 range weapon), you should take scorpion wire: A reliable low cool down pull with long range that is feared by even the most confident and experienced players.

Traits and Equipment:
Since both your weapon sets offer lots of different skills for any kind of play style, you should use whatever suits you best (either by looks or by stats). Don’t bother with ascended gear or food because they are waste of money and time and do NOT influence the outcome of a duel or encounter with several other players. Nevertheless a mixture of different stats is advisable to gain the best out of all your hybrid skills.
In terms of traits there are some outstanding ones you should look for as for instance Assassin’s Retreat: Just imagine that the impossible is going to happen and you are losing a fight, with this trait you just need to quickly kill someone and then you can immediately escape with an everlasting 10 seconds of swiftness.
If you decide to spend 30 points for acrobatics, make sure you pick up the Quick Pockets trait, which gives you an additional heartseeker in your most ridiculous combo: Use Steal and quickly followed with a quick Black Powder. After that you use Body Shot to render your opponent harmless and vulnerable. Now you can just swap to your D/D set and finish him of with a couple off heartseekers (but be aware that you don’t use heartseeker too early, since you honestly don’t want to end up triggering the leap finisher because once again: Stealth = lame)

PS: Don’t forget to carry a Short Bow in your inventory to show people what long range combat really means and that they have no chance of getting close against all your fast moving, long range and impossible to dodge Trick Shots and Cluster Bombs

This is the most stupid post I have ever seen

6/10 for effort, but you came across a little strong, too obvious for any experienced Internet roamer.

Blnt.

I’m a terribad thief but I just… wow…

this thread made me actually type “terribad”

wow nice build, super op.

You apparently have been able to even troll someone, gg

well this build is basically using all of our overpowered abilities at the same time, so it stands to reason it’s OP as hell. if i wasn’t a thief I’d be trying to get it nerfed, all of it!

Can I one-hit kill a Rabbit with that build?

Siva Mira.3546:

Can I one-hit kill a Rabbit with that build?

You can probaly get it to 50% hp

Vote for Sticky!

Siva Mira.3546:

Can I one-hit kill a Rabbit with that build?

Yes, but forget the heavy armored rabid ones, it’ll take time.

Siva Mira.3546:

Can I one-hit kill a Rabbit with that build?

Depends on who gets the jump on who. If you get the jump on it, then you could do it. If the rabbit catches you by suprise, oh boy you’re in for a world of hurt.

Gratz…

\one handed golf clap

Please guys can we stop posting our best builds before they all get rofl stomped nerfed.

take this build into the new aetherblade dungeon and watch yourself get kicked from the party after 5 minutes.

hah,
‘Chose whatever you want except Hide in Shadows, which is lame because it gives Stealth.’ made me chuckle,
yes as a d/d u should avoid stealth at any cost ^^

Yep, It is a nice build, but mostly for roaming in WvsW

However, for group play I much prefer Haste plus Back Fighting synergy.

First you activate Haste to deplete your dodge bar. You do this to avoid accidentally dodging incoming attacks. The extra attack speed also makes easier to grab aggro from bosses. Many people can do well without this skill, but I find that my self-preservation instinct often kicks-in and makes me dodge heavy hits… which is detrimental to this build, since you want to go downed state ASAP.

Once in downed state, the real power of this build is unleashed. Now you have a ton more life compared to your normal HP, and all your attacks do +50% damage thanks to Back Fighting

But the Big Deal comes now, since Anet, promoting build diversity, just over-buffed this build by allowing a fellow thief to use on you Merciful Ambush. Now, as long as you keep a fellow thief casting Merciful Ambush on you (or any form of stealth), you can keep spamming Venomous Knife downed stealth attack (Remember that we are already the class with the most number of skills in downed state).

Your fellow thief need a little expertise to keep you healed, but not too much, since you don’t want to recover, but extending downed state as long as you can.

This build is known as the ‘Living turret’ since, you essentially transform in a mobile turret with a crapload HP, that can shadowstep, can be ‘repaired’ and can choose the most convenient target in every moment, with a rate of fire (AoE DPS + Cripple +Bleed +Poison) that exceeds the wet dreams of any engineer. (Which I already hear QQing in their forums)

However, expect nerfs for this build, since it is easily exploitable.

Sticky note this thread. This is the most revolutionary build I have ever encountered in the forum, this is an eye opener to our fellow thieves.

Kyrion wins the internet

was this a sarcasm post?

Forgive if I am being a little slow here but this was just a joke right?

Pretty sure not serious.

Good troll attempt, many people got confused. You have my +1.

Kyrion.2749, you just scared off 2 Mesmer and 1 Guardian. They were whispering to their team saying “NEVER DOWN A THIEF, wait until they nerfed it!”