Guild Wars 2

I main an ele, but I’m frankly getting tired of the class. I spend most of my time in WvW and sitting on a ledge throwing meteor showers and water fields is getting old. I’m trying to level a thief through a mix of crafting, personal stories, and mostly WvW. And advice for where to put the few points I have, and what weapon setups would be the most useful at my low level of 21? And for gear, should I be stacking power or toughness/Vit? (To clarify, this is mostly for WvW zerg trains.)

Late reply but seeing as no one responded to you I’ll give you some pointers. For WvW thieves aren’t really useful in zergs. It can be done but it’s not something a new thief player could do well imho. They’re more for roaming and assassinating small groups. If being in a zerg is your thing then you’re going to want lots of armour and some health so you can withstand the aoe. If you go zerker you’ll drop like a fly.

Heartseeker and Infiltrator’s Arrow are great tools for roaming across the map.

Power builds make use of s/p, s/d, d/p, p/p, and d/d weapon combinations while condition builds use p/d. Short Bow is great for any build and can be its own focus in a power build. Short bow and Sword are your weapons of choice for cleave damage; pistols as well if traited.

Traiting in Shadow Arts brings a lot of benefits if your build allows you to stealth often, such as cleansing conditions and health regeneration.

Lastly, take note that a few of your teleport skills like Steal don’t break your casting animation of other skills so you can use that to your advantage, example being precasting cloak and dagger.

Hope this helps some if you even check back on this thread :P

On a side note if you choose to level up in pve. You’re pretty much god mode against swarms of enemies if you abuse Blind Powder and cleave with your sword. Beware of the dredge :P

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