Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I was wondering what Armor Set fits best to the playstyle I play.

I basically tend to only play my Thief equipped with a Shortbow in PvE as well as in WvW. Reason for that is simply that fact that, in PvE, I don’t need to go melee all the time and have an easier time overall. That being said, I assume that condition damage is a viable option.
I also use the shortbow in WvW for several reasons. Thanks to the 5th skill, it’s easy to escape but also easy to chase. I personally like to immobilize several enemies while chasing a group of enemies so that my mates can catch up and kill them easily. However, I do not think that condition damage is needed for that.
On the other side, shortbow allows us to aoe either enemies on a wall or enemies in front of a gate. I am not sure whether power/crit or condition is better in this situation.

What are your thoughts about that and thanks in advance,
Mart

shortbow doesnt stack bleed very well at range due to the long arc of the arrow, which leaves you with poison which is a low damage dot.

I would advise against condition damage really, just use poison and cluster bomb to apply weakness in an aoe then stick to auto attack and cluster bomb with a power/prec approach which will certainly give you a higher overall dps at max range

If you did want to use condition damage then use your short bow in melee?(WHAT??!) because you can stack bleed easier that way due to the cluster arrow not taking 43 years to get there….

Alternatively, use pistols for condition damage, you can stack bleed pretty nicely with your default attack, especially with the quickness proc and using haste, and you can use your spider venom to add poison into the mix…. spider venom + haste + pistol auto attack = a lot of bleeds, and a long old poison

Hi,
I also use the shortbow in pvp and pve, but i think if you are 1v1 maybe is better to use daggers
( I usually use daggers against squishy characters ) while in the case of tf i prefer to use the shortbow .

Stroz

I’m just theory crafting here, no real experience with this build. But because Shortbow can cause several conditions, I would think taking advantage of that would be good.

Here’s a build that uses traps and has a few traits for initiative generation 30/0/0/25/15.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fYAQFAVlYmSPHby2E+5Ei/hvS7BDiTwUPjtyqA

I’m interested in what others are doing too, especially if a crit build would be better and why?

Shortbow is a horrible weapon on thief IMO

Well, that might be your opinion, but still my playstyle.

Anyways, I agree with Donin’s explanation on why not going for a condition build in the WvW situation. It makes perfect sense to me.

Zii The Mad.2563:

Shortbow is a horrible weapon on thief IMO

lolololololol

can’t believe i just read this.

Shortbow is so important that it is basically the mandatory weapon swap for Thief. you have whichever melee set you like on your 1st swap slot, and shortbow on the second swap slot. doing anything else is just wrong and misplaying the class.

Why would you even think Shortbow is bad anyway? Haven’t you ever done any of the Dynamic Events with swarms of enemies? How about Dungeons? How about sPvP? Shortbow is AWESOME in all of these. The only time its not a great weapon is in 1on1 fights.