Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’ve been playing some solo Queue with this build, and at the moment it works pretty well (but I’m probably also in wood tier).

Do you guys have any suggestions/improvements on this build, and more importantly, do you think this build will be viable against higher-skilled players?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQRAoY4Yl8Mp5plPxtJ0PRBNBxVN8+KfpMaFgOPSfB-TJRAwAAeBAkLD45oA0b/BA

Generic way to approach an enemy- dance your way to the point. Pop caltrops (maybe trap) and db ~2 times. Then keep poking him and db when you think the opponent will do something ouchies. Weapon swap if out of dodges.

Noticeable cons:
No good way to attack someone on point (got to expend a steal or a couple of dodges to get in range).
No range.
Plague signet gives you 20 stacks of bleed.

Noticeable pros:
Physical attacks are comparable to S/D with fire/air.
Enemies are perma-crippled.
You can harass them for about 10 seconds and then run away and leave them to get downed from bleed.
Combo finishers.
Your signet is now a Healing Signet.

So-So:
Dodge->swiftness->HS still gives decent landspeed
Blinding powder can be used as a gap-close, reposition, or for fleeing.

Maybe I should have one sigil be Burning on weapon swap?

Nvm, the amount of 4v5s I get made me quit GW2 again

I would suggest that you watch some Thief video’s on youtube, and read some guides about general pvp.

Then I would test out all weapon sets available and mess around with Shortbow a lot.

I would then test out different builds in hotjoin, so that you are not ruining ranked matches for other players. And get zerged for a bit. Which teaches you how to escape nasty situations. Which on its own is about the most vital job of the Thief. (If you assume that the enemy is responding to your movement).

When you are able to outplay random players, and understand your task in SoloQ:
Get used to people getting mad at you, and get used to dying.
Watch some gameplay on Sizers stream, just to see how he’s dealing with different situations.

Asking for the right build will not make you a good thief necessarily.

If you are from EU, I’ll be glad to show you some tricks

Menzies The Heretic.3415:

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Thanks, but I’m in NA and probably won’t play GW2 for like another 2 months. DD DB is pretty gimmickly, but it can work really well at times.

The people in PvP are probably even more toxic than those in League of Legends. There was one thief called Glock (with dumb accents everywhere) that I thought was pretty decent (he could beat me 1v1 like 75% of the time), but his team always lost. I would say we faced off eight times in two days.
Late last night, I played a game, and he was on the other team. My team won. Then the next game, he was on my team. Before the game even starts, he tells me, “Use a different kittening build you moron”, and then leaves the game, making it 4v5. The next game after that, I was facing him again, and he lost again. But yeah, the community is kitten in PvP.

It’s also because you’re using a Thief, people already have an unconscious hate for you. They will QQ if you beat them, and will talk crap if they beat you. It’s dumb. Especially in hotjoin. I had a necro who talked mad crap to me in Skyhammer about how bad I was and how I contributed to the loss of my team because all he did was keep porting in and out, fearing and doing other shenanigans trying to get me to fall off. I was able to kill him about 40% of the time, but he was off the skyhammer for 90% of the time, trying to keep me off of him. In the end, our team lost but we would have been at a higher deficit had he been on the kitten thing for the whole time.