Guild Wars 2

Hello all I gone a tried thief and I am actually loving it I am loving the dual wields of daggers and pistols. So my question is will I beable to do fine when ya dual dagger or pistol when leveling or will I have survival problems meaning dyeing often?

If they are fine I am planning to use both dual wields primary daggers and secondary pistols now the question is which traits I need to use when I am leveling on good on survivability and a way to kill things quick :P

To the first question the answer is yes, ya can dual wield pistols or daggers just fine leveling – though pistols are safer ‘cause they’ll let ya strafe. Just remember to get in close and use yer daggers on the ranged enemies and put some distance between ya to use pistols on the melee guys. Once you’re good at it, ya can take down mobs of 5 easily with dual daggers, ya just have to be quick and slippery.

I haven’t played for about a month, so I dunno what trait changes may have done lately, so I’ll let someone else field that second part of the question. I will say, though, not ta underestimate Steal, especially around lvl 20-30 when you can get it all traited up – it’s a game changer.

Playing dual daggers in a direct dmg build can be hard early in the game if you aren’t experienced, but if you insist on using it, get Infusion of Shadows from Shadow Arts as your first major trait and Thrill of the Crime from Trickery. Rotation: Cloak and Dagger > Backstab > 1 full auto attack chain and repeat, put in steal either before Cloak and Dagger or after, using it afterwards will give back 3 initiative if you have 5 points in trickery. Once you are able to trait into grandmaster, Hidden Killer will make things easier since your backstabs will always crit.

Pistols have a bit low damage compared to all other options, but here again you will need to add some initiative management.
Infiltrators Signet utility, 2 ini on signet use from 20 CS, +3 ini pool from 15 Trickery, and 20 acrobatics for Quick Recovery are good options.

If things get hard, try S/P and use smokefield to blind mobs, or a D/D condition build,
those are the most reliable options imo.

I honestly find dual pistols more dangerous. You can’t put an enemy down very quickly so as soon as strafing no longer works you are pretty much dead as you won’t be able to put an enemy down fast enough to survive the encounter.

Sword/Pistol, Dagger/Pistol, or Sword/Dagger, Dagger/Dagger all have much better damage mitigating abilities provided you learn how to time your dodges, or simply sit in Black Powder (an offhand pistol ability).