Guild Wars 2

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mzkmzc9cMFnvoMFnvoaxx9MczcqcVq

My build is centered around massive self regeneration from stealth, the sword’s 1 attack, and restealthing constantly with cloak and dagger and reopening with the daze.

With your constant restealth you are able to keep 100% uptime on regeneration for yourself, plus while stealthed you regain a hefty amount of health. You also bring some heavy healing to the table with Shadow Refuge(Normal 5 sec regen hot+stealth hot+Shadow Refuge heal for you, for others Shadow Refuge heal and the 5sec regeneration).

This healing keeps you in fights and the constant daze openers keeps someone locked down pretty hard. I can easily 3v1 and I can also pick people off from large groups without having to disengage combat for more than just restealths.

I personally run full Berserker armor and jewels/accessories and have no problem with survivability.

I’m interested in some feedback after some of you try this out, or if you are already doing this.

Update:

I have been playing this same spec with D/D and its working amazingly well.

I’ve fought a few thief’s with this build, there was 2 of us and we couldn’t even target him. He would come out of stealth so I would tab to him, but he would still be rendering. But the time he rendered he would stealth again, I find that the rendering issue plays a big role. He probably used stealth 5 or 6 times during that fight. Pretty impressive, my other team mates were calling nerf.

Though with that said it’s a good spec, not the one for me though.

Never actually faced a thief like this, so I’m quite curious on how effective the build is. However, your primary defense is focused around stealthing and regening while stealth’d, so I don’t see the purpose of using dagger storm and exposing yourself for such a long period of time. If anything, thief guild provides you with more distraction for regen to take full effect and creates openings for you to attack. As for going S/D, you’ll lack damage simply because you’re not relying on quickness, but autoattacks. In 1 v 1’s, it might be useful against certain classes, but cloak and dagger is very initiative-heavy and it provides very little room for chasing capabilities. the build looks good from a defensive perspective, but not as significant from a offensive perspective.

I prefer dagger storm because, from my perspective, Thieve’s Guild is more of a 1v1 duel winner rather than large scale, multi enemy ability. The 8 second projectile reflect is quite potent in WvW.

As far as Cloak and Dagger being a high initiative cost, when you land the skill you get 2 initiative back from the talent Shadow Arts V. So 4 initiative for your stealth/ health regeneration /and a daze opener is relatively conservative for the performance.

As for not relying on quickness… I welcome not relying on a 45sec cd to kill people. The main hand sword attack and regular Dancing Dagger and Cloak and Dagger attacks bring potent damage along with staying power.

I regularly kill multiple people at the same time and I can fight right in the middle of large groups of enemies with well timed dodges along with the stealth and healing.

I welcome comments from people who have experienced this build, either playing as/with/ or against it.