Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

Just started this game a week ago, the first class im rolling is a thief with D/D + Sb build.

At first, lvling via story and “heart” tasks was quite fun till about lvl30, but now i find it so hard to keep my toon alive most of the time, not sure what im doing wrong. Any advice how i shld allocate my traits/utility to be tankier?? if possible, id love to see some videos about rotation and playstyle etc, i feel so squishy atm.

Thanks in advance!

Make sure to keep your gear up to date: level appropriate blues at minimum. Are you married to D/D + Shortbow? Sword/Pistol is more of a “lunchpail” spec for open world and instanced content in PvE, since it has built-in defenses.

Low level gear is incredibly cheap on the tp, just keep it up to date. Also dont bother with a condi spec, at low levels they dont do much. At higher levels (60+) youcan fiddle with it and see some impressive DoT. Also if you are dying a lot and you can always grab 15 into acrobatics traits so you aren’t so punished for wasting dodges plus get some hp. Dont worry too much about dying earlygame, you have a lot of skills to identify to know whats bad and/or how to avoid them with lesser maneuvers. Also welcome to the game!

P.S. My necro was my 4th 80 and when I fonally got 80, I discovered I had 60 rares and level 30 green underwater weapons. You arnt the first nor the last person to run around under geared^^

Add a pistol as offhand into one weaponset, the blind from #5 will save you many times. Sword mainhand may speed up things as it can hit up to three foes (while they can’t hit you because they are blinded).

Go all offensive traits plus 10 points in shadow arts for skill 6. That blinds opponents every time you stealth. so for a PvE mob, it is CnD, backstab, auto attack chain, and then repeat. You won’t even take much damage.