Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I have decided to come back after not playing for a while and wanted to level another thief since I really enjoyed it the last time. I was curious whether or not “steal” builds (builds heavily traited into the steal mechanic to get the most out of it) were still viable. If so can you point me towards a good steal build. I would like to see something to use as a base, then I can personalize it with finishing touches. I haven’t had any luck finding threads on it.

Well, you need 30 points in trickery for utility, 30 in critical strikes for damage, and 10 in deadly arts for mug. This is very common build with dagger/pistol. Some people play it with sword/pistol aswell, or even sword/dagger. Gear is berserker, of course.

I did 10/0/30/0/30 to have some serious stealth for combat interrupt. With 30 in stealth tree, you can tailor the traits for whatever you’re doing. I chose it for some WvW I plan on trolling with D/P.

Build I’m playing with at the moment
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQRAoa6YlsMp8pdOx7JsPNRw9IpItpePI7YNrWBaC

Steal seems to be a pretty strong ability now, but to maximize it you gotta sacrifice 30-40 points lol.

Edit Also you could do something focused on Torment for WvW/PvP
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQRAsY6Yl0MpppVOx0JsPNR494rj1saKopN7UwVqC-w

Steal builds can be quote adaptive. You can go more utility, you cango with a condi build or power, the key is you go atleast 30 into trickery.

I only use steal builds in pvp, and my favorite 1 is 20/0/0/20/30. I ran 10/0/15/15/30 before but I strongly dislike the issues LR presents so I went for more damage and passive defenses. Also I dislike using stealth. Ill say its my favorite power build and makes fights rather interesting instead of blowing kittens up or just hiding over and over.