Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, just a video that I’m putting up, which is a mix of solo and group roaming. I’m bracing myself for all the “p/d thief cheeeze” comments. Enjoy.

I like cheese

You’re use of CnD is impressive. I need to practice.

everyone says these buidls are cheese but if u play an aggressive version like 10 0 30 0 30 like i play…and im never in stealth more than 1 sec…like hte first couple fights i saw here….. then thatsn ot cheese. its not like we are hiding etc. its a good build! nice video

Thanks for the replies! And yea Travlane, I think everyone eventually gets negative comments about any build they play, so I tend to just live and let be. In this video I have two builds, 10/0/30/0/30 and 0/0/30/20/20, both are pretty fun.

Nice man, good to see fellow P/D thieves around. The hate we get today is insane! I have ran this build for WvW since November 2012 and the hate was never this bad haha. But kitten everyone else. We use what we can to kill.

Curiously, why Signet of Shadows over Shadow Refuge. i find SoS redundant. I sued to use but switched it out for shadow step rather quickly when I started. It just seems like such a waste

Thanks for the feedback BFMV. Honestly I think I have Signet of Shadows on for both quality of life, and usefulness. I agree, shadow refuge is probably better, but I am used to the improved run speed and I find without it, a cripple or chill will be extremely effective on you and make it difficult to land a c&d.

But besides the run speed, the signet is most useful when stomping. It can negate the downstate mechanic of a gaurdian, warrior, ranger, necro, and engineer. And I also can use it to negate a basilisk venom, or any other telegraphed heavy hitter, like warrior’s eviscerate. So ya, SR is nice, if not better, but I think SoS is more useful than most think.

I like, much good.

I’d love a link of your builds, since you said you use 2. Build, gear, runes etc. Thanks!

Here you go savchris: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.3|a.5q.h1n.8.5q.h5.e12.0.e12|5.1q.h1j.0.0.0|1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.0.0.0.0.0.0|1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62|a3.0.u46b.0.u67c|30.d|57.5a.5c.5h.0|e

Thats my main build that you see being played in the video. Something that the build editor wouldn’t let me do, is instead of having a kill stacking sigil on the dagger, I actually have a major sigil of bursting. Since I have a Superior sigil of bursting I can’t put another, but Superior and Major do stack, so its 6% + 5% condition damage. The kill sigil is usually on my shortbow.

My second build uses the same weapons, and sigils, but instead uses carrion armour + trinkets, and 3 afflicted and 3 krait runes on the armour. The traitset is 0/0/30/20/20, with the same traits used in shadow arts, acrobatics uses II and III, and trickery uses III and VII. The whole point of the build is to be a dodging machine, and let the dodging and stealth build up your might stacks. Using the might on dodge food also really helps. The utils are the same, except I use withdraw instead of HiS.

Hope that helps!

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Here you go savchris: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.3|a.5q.h1n.8.5q.h5.e12.0.e12|5.1q.h1j.0.0.0|1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.0.0.0.0.0.0|1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62|a3.0.u46b.0.u67c|30.d|57.5a.5c.5h.0|e

Thats my main build that you see being played in the video. Something that the build editor wouldn’t let me do, is instead of having a kill stacking sigil on the dagger, I actually have a major sigil of bursting. Since I have a Superior sigil of bursting I can’t put another, but Superior and Major do stack, so its 6% + 5% condition damage. The kill sigil is usually on my shortbow.

My second build uses the same weapons, and sigils, but instead uses carrion armour + trinkets, and 3 afflicted and 3 krait runes on the armour. The traitset is 0/0/30/20/20, with the same traits used in shadow arts, acrobatics uses II and III, and trickery uses III and VII. The whole point of the build is to be a dodging machine, and let the dodging and stealth build up your might stacks. Using the might on dodge food also really helps. The utils are the same, except I use withdraw instead of HiS.

Hope that helps!

Thank you! With the upcoming season 2 I’m trying lots of different builds. Backstab builds are nowdays very predictable and everyone knows how to counter us thieves. But condition builds seems to have a very good combination of survivability and damage. Cheers!