Guild Wars 2

I have been away from guild wars 2 for a few months and just started back to it. Since I am already 80 I am just going to do pvp and wvw. What is a good current build for soloing or being a group. I am using D/D and wondering if its still one of the best builds or should I change builds to a different one? Also since the new patch for ascended armor is coming what armor would be good to use?

What you need to know:

D/D lolbackstab is dead. You can still run burst, but due to changes to several traits you can’t faceplant full HP people. If you’re going to run glass burst DD you’ll need a soft target.

Shadow trap is now amazing.

Trickery builds, thanks to the GM trait rework, are now viable. Trickery builds will have a 20 sec steal CD, which functions as an interrupt, and can still proc whatever other steal traits you like. Personally I run a tanky D/D evasive brawler with Signet of Malice to passively heal while I evade. Wheras before this build was fun, it’s now completely viable when put next to dagger/pistol or sword/x as a solid 1v1 or 1vx

Also, take a moment to play with S/D and check out the boon stealing awesome in that set now, as well as looking over changes to mug and some other traits that have opened up our build options.

What you’re not going to be as a thief any more is a 1shot wonder, however, you’ve been given a lot more tools to evade, tank, and heal to run a more balanced build and survive fights, or function as an extreme boon ripper or unstealthed point holder in team settings.

Stealth is now optional rather than mandatory, basically, so you’ve got several build options depending on what you’re up to.

Oh ok. Where can i find some good trickery builds?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Guide-to-Thief-Guides/first

That thread is the amalgamation of a lot of the popular thief builds in PvE PvP and WvW. D/D is still viable btw but the burst has been nerfed quite a bit (since mug no longer crits, it does the solid damage and heals for a good amount too).

Superior rune of perplexity (a new rune thats out) will probably get nerfed in the next patch to include internal cool downs, but until then going d/p and 30 into trickery and taking the GM trait for daze when you steal is absurdly good. You can basically perma daze/confusion stack. Enjoy it while you can.

PopeUrban.2578:

What you need to know:

D/D lolbackstab is dead. You can still run burst, but due to changes to several traits you can’t faceplant full HP people. If you’re going to run glass burst DD you’ll need a soft target.

Shadow trap is now amazing.

Trickery builds, thanks to the GM trait rework, are now viable. Trickery builds will have a 20 sec steal CD, which functions as an interrupt, and can still proc whatever other steal traits you like. Personally I run a tanky D/D evasive brawler with Signet of Malice to passively heal while I evade. Wheras before this build was fun, it’s now completely viable when put next to dagger/pistol or sword/x as a solid 1v1 or 1vx

Also, take a moment to play with S/D and check out the boon stealing awesome in that set now, as well as looking over changes to mug and some other traits that have opened up our build options.

What you’re not going to be as a thief any more is a 1shot wonder, however, you’ve been given a lot more tools to evade, tank, and heal to run a more balanced build and survive fights, or function as an extreme boon ripper or unstealthed point holder in team settings.

Stealth is now optional rather than mandatory, basically, so you’ve got several build options depending on what you’re up to.

D/D is still very doable. It dies faster and has less safe stealthing compared to D/P, but it has greater burst and can shutdown even tankier players IF you manage to catch them off-guard. You just can’t stay in a fight, which is pretty bad in sPvP but it works great in WvW/PvE.

Hello! Welcome back!

I am a WvW Roamer and tPvP player who has tried every build under the sun. The most effective build I have seen or played was 10/30/30/0/0 — This builds provides the condi removal you need to stay alive as well as many cushions to fall back to if you get overwhelmed.

Build: (copy paste link if it doesn’t work) — http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQJAoalUmiO3cS+E95Ey2jKcnIKuHGlT1UaFoJA-j0yA4rASQQIKA8BwkXETgDZteWENW1CmycR16TAvRR0qlCIitAA-w

This is the build in case you don’t have any ascended gear. This build is quite balanced in stats and is super effective for burst. Please note that the Orb on the weapon is to provide 100% Crit Damage. As people tend to use the 80 power 8% Crit Damage food, I did that to make sure Crit Damage stayed at 100% while keeping the other stats balanced.

The tPvP variation of this build is Ogre Runes, Zerker Ammy and jewel.

Enjoy!

PopeUrban.2578:

D/D lolbackstab is dead. You can still run burst, but due to changes to several traits you can’t faceplant full HP people.

That just says BAD thieves are dead, definitely not D/D.
D/D is perfectly viable for people who don’t need to faceplant full HP people in 1 second or they die. L2p.

d/d is not for pve
ascended armor ? zerk or combined with valkerie