Guild Wars 2

Probably asked before so if you guys have a link, feel free to post it! So i just got back to GW2 after quitting around christmas, currently soo out of the loop with everything, how do people farm gold or make gold now? and on a thief.. haha, builds is what im really looking for, items needed etc, guess im asking for a bit too much :S oh well! thanks guys!

Get a warrior to 80 and run CoF p1, that’s the fotm money maker these days.

Fractals, to me, is the best source of money due to a large number of vendor trash each run even at low level (< level 10) fractals.

But don’t expect to get invites with your thief though…thieves skills are just too selfish for fractal runs.

I personally bring either my Ranger or my Guardian.

Warrior/Guardian/Mesmer in Citadel of Flame is your best money maker.

I don’t PvE on my thief so I can’t really help you with builds but I think sword/x ot d/p are the way to go right now. I would just google thief PvE builds and go from there.

Like the 2 posters above said your going to have a hard time finding Pug groups with your thief. It’s not a matter of dps because thieves have some of the highest single target damage but like Sir Vincent III said they are to selfish (as far as group synergy gos) Also there is a stigma around thieves for these reasons and most people don’t even want to group with them.

If you’re set on playing your thief, your best bet is to find a guild and get a group of friends that don’t care.

I play d/p and shortbow and have enjoyed doing runs in cof, ac and coe. zerky thieves are actually very solid dps in cof, and terrific in ac. the trick in all of those pve areas is understanding the battles and knowing when to dodge. this is important for all classes as 5% of the attacks you face can one shot kill you….it’s doubly important for thieves where that goes up to 25%.

as people mentioned the fotm in cof is lots of warriors and a mesmer, maybe a guardian running p1 in speed mode. though thief can keep up and contribute…even excelling in parts, many of those groups will kick you outright, because they want their easymode speed run and don’t want any deviation.

thieves are also very solid at farming events in orr…their aoe spam on shortbow means lots of tags and loot.

then again, you could always farm the borderlands.

so i guess the question for you is what is more important? maximum gold per hour? or getting decent gold per hour while playing the thief?

I would do 0-30-30-10-0 and farm southson with s/p. The SE corner has a WP, vendors to sell and pretty good crafting drops. Just avoid the reef drakes as they hurt a lot more. But I have decent luck there using dagger storm, signet of malice and black powder.

Just run up and down the beach on the east side. The sword ae and black powder keep you alive and killing pretty quick.