Guild Wars 2

Seriously, do it.

I want to be able to kill you faster.

Nah, I’m joking about doing it to kill you faster. Though I did experiment around trying to create a viable hybrid build up until this last week since the patch. Mostly it focused around traps because I liked Shadow Trap and the new trap traits made it seem like it might be fun. After weeks realization set in that hybrid for a thief is not going to work with a D/P set and I just didn’t have the same enjoyment with D/D. And quite frankly with classes with burning we just can’t compete on the hybrid damage.

So I went back to a D/P power build and after trying for weeks to actually work at making a hybrid build succeed I came back to find that thief isn’t so bad in that area. The power area that is. Sure we have other classes that can burst hard too but thief isn’t dead in the water either. We just have to adapt to the changes. Also after running various iterations of a “scrub” build for weeks I found running something closer to the D/P meta make thief so much easier. I don’t feel like my class is totally nerfed now.

So if you’re feeling like thief is dead, try running a kittenty build for a few days and then go back to a good one and actually try to win on the kitten build. The things you’ll get from it will make playing a good build seem so much easier to win fights.

Ambush and Thieves Guild with Rock Dog is hilarious. I run P/P on my stream quite often as well and melt stuff. If this class didn’t rely so much on having Shadowstep and SR in sPVP there’d be a ton of room for fun, but sadly you almost definitely need those two skills.

Yeah, I had to go back to taking SR as well. I was running Needle Trap and Shadow Trap to stack on each other for all the Vulnerability and Might but it really was just not powerful enough to waste two utilities and a trait on.

I haven’t seen you running P/P but I have seen your twitch feed a few times. Some of my guildies and I were in your last two matches on their last night. I was the one who got “blown up” in stealth when I came in trying to res with SR at that mid fight. XD!