Guild Wars 2

Maining a staff support ele in WvW, I wanted an alt with a bit of a faster pace for some fun. What I’m wondering, since I no nothing of the class, is what gear stats I should be looking for while leveling, and where I should be putting my points as they come for general pve leveling. Thanks in advance!

While levelling you should always be using as much AoE/cleave as possible with the highest amount of damage possible. Berserker’s gear with shortbow and Sword/dagger is a good set to level with.

Yes I would like to bump this since no one replied to my thread >.>

There are 2 ways to level with the thief that is considered “the best.”

1. Going Sword/Pistol with shortbow off hand, use black powder (pistol 5, AoE blind that pulses) and then cleave with sword auto attack. Basically massacres all melee mobs. Just focus on power and prec/crit damage for this. When dealing with a lot of mobs or ranged mobs, swap to shortbow and spam cluster bomb. Effective, although I didn’t particularly enjoy it.

2. Going Dagger/Dagger condi bleed thief. Focus on condition damage and survivability (specifically invest in trickery, acrobatics, shadow arts). Drop caltrops from your utility slots, spam leaping death blossom (D/D 3 skill) and watch things die. Very fun build and this is what I personally used when leveling. Downside to this is that it’s not the best build to use when doing dungeons or fractals, but you can worry about that when you get to level 80,

@Qultera: Only reason I can think of why no one replied to your thread is that this particular issue has been brought up many times before so maybe they didnt want to reply again. The general consensus for leveling is using sword/pistol or d/d condi thief. Also remember to do all 5 starter maps to level to 35 ish, faster you get to 40 the better. Playing thief is so much easier once you unlock the grandmaster traits.

d/d deathblossom spam made leveling really easy, you can aoe farm and sustain like crazy