Guild Wars 2

So fellas after a loooooong break… i have decided to give gw2 another shot.. gonna keep playing my thief! So whats good these days? Was playing a full zerker with scholar runes for pve and a full valk on travelers last time… whats the deal with thief now? something i need to look into? last time i played was when they introduced that living story thingy

How long exactly?

If you’ve been gone for long enough, you won’t have seen a new trait being introduced called Revealed Training, which grants 200 Power while Revealed. Since that trait got introduced, the new PvE meta is Berserker/Scholar with 6/6/0/0/2 traits using D/D pretty much exclusively. If you can’t get good positioning for backstabs on some bosses or when stacking on a wall or something, 56003 S/P still works great. 6/6/2/0/0 D/D with Infusion of Shadows is good for long boss fights or high level Fractals where things take a while to die, since you can maintain your initiative for much longer.

For WvW, I’ve seen and use a variety of builds. D/P still works well, S/D has always been fairly strong, P/D is as strong as ever. Metabattle probably has a full list, and you can see my P/D Trapper build here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFzKDepokBE

Your Valk set will be fine there.

For PvP, S/D has seen a bunch of nerfs over the past few months but is still very popular for the mobility and +1 team fight role. Old school D/P 26006 still works reasonably well but there’s also been a trend of using 60206 for Panic Strike, enough to warrant a slight balance change to that trait. Again, Metabattle will show these builds as well.

Welcome back!