Guild Wars 2

I am getting a bit frustrated with how the thief healing works (as in 3 specific condition heals per spell bleed/poison/burning or crippled/stunned/chilled dependant on which skill you use)

Now I do use shadowstep to get in and out of really bad situations but in a sustained fight I have to use it at the last second because of the reset time (I would gladly give up a skill slot if I had some sort of siget which removed say 2 conditions without stipulating which 2, but that’s for another thread)

I would reall like some suggestions for how to maximise my healing without getting the usual nasty replies about just manning up – it’s not helpful and just ruins the whole playing expierence.

Suggestions for build are also welcome – I am a relitive noob (only ever played GW1 and a tiny bit of ranbow six) but I am open to CONSTRUCTIVE help (sorry had really bad exp on Diablo lll forum and gave up and sold the game – just wasn’t worth the abuse from the so-called expert gaming elite)

Thanx

Pick up the Shadow Arts skill available even at just 10 points in. Purges a condition upon stealthing and every 3 seconds you remain stealthed. Also, make use of Sword main hand. #2 ability clears a condition as well.

Healing/sustain is actually one of Thief’s strongest points if you’re willing to trait for it.

30 points in Shadow Arts for XI alone will give you about 300 hp/s in stealth, without any additional healing power. With SA III you can also get regen for 5s which brings the regen up to about 400/s. This is still with 0 additional healing power.

With these two traits your Hide in Shadow basically becomes a full heal if you don’t have too much extra vit, and so does your Shadow Refuge if you don’t break stealth early.

Combined with dagger offhand you won’t need your healing skill in most fights in PvE thanks to the insane sustain and the aggro drop that comes with stealth.

As for condition removal, also in Shadow Arts is IV that removes a condition every 3 seconds while stealthed. Note that this 3 second cooldown spills over to the next time you stealth. So if you have 2 conditions, the first c&d will drop the first in 3 seconds and run out 1 second after, but the next c&d will drop the other condition after only 2 seconds. This is hands down one of the most efficient passive condition removals in the game at the moment.

Thanx I will use the stratagy you both suggested – I really like the thief because of the speed and was just getting bummed about being crippled and not know how to get rid of it other that letting it run out.

Yep, the Shadow Arts tree is really your friend in that regard.

You may also consider the Singet of Agility if you want more condition removal. However it will only remove one condition if you are solo roaming.

I like the Assassin’s reward trait. It heals me for about 100~ for each point of initiative I use and coupled with Lifesteal food + Signet of Malice (in PvE) you can get some pretty nice amounts of self-healing flowing in.

I use Hide in Shadows to remove boons.

Dee Jay.2460:

Yep, the Shadow Arts tree is really your friend in that regard.

You may also consider the Singet of Agility if you want more condition removal. However it will only remove one condition if you are solo roaming.

It will only remove one condition on you no matter what you do.

I’ve of 2 minds about singet of malice – I am still tweeking my build to fit with my style but I will give it a go and mess about in a low lvl area till I can get it all working for me – Thanx everyone, so far lots of ideas just need to sit down and mess about with the combinations !