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Posted by: Socmonky.1529

Socmonky.1529

Ok ive been playing this game for awhile now and i decided to make a thief but i have no idea what kind of build or where i should spend my skill points at so can i get a little help plz?

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Posted by: beaker.1980

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That’s quite a question. The quick and dirty answer, in my opinion is:

PvE: Use a Sword/Pistol and Short Bow. Short bow for all your questing and stuff, and switch to sword/pistol when you want to kill an elite ( you can use the 5 skill to get almost 100% blind uptime on a mob). I tank heavy hitters all day.

PvP: Dual daggers. Then you can either focus on power/crit with heartseeker/backstab people to death. Or you can go with +bleed damage and duration, spam Leaping Death Blossom then take some skills to help you get away quick after dropping 5LBDs.

Google for the actual trait layouts for those, plenty of them already posted.

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Posted by: Socmonky.1529

Socmonky.1529

ok thanks alot of the info

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Posted by: beaker.1980

beaker.1980

No problem.

I’d like to elaborate on the PvE aspect. You can totally do daggers in PvE, but the advantage with short bow is it has much better AoE so you can attack multiple mobs at once, and it’s ranged obviously so you can kite and stay out of melee range. If you do want to do daggers in PvE I would suggest doing a bleed build while you’re leveling so you can drop your damage then use your endurance to dodge away while the bleeds tick. Also since Leaping Death Blossom hits 3 targets you can use it as an AoE attack. I would avoid going with a melee build that didn’t use bleeds. too much down time while leveling since you take the most damage in melee range.

Whether you take Daggers or Short Bow, I would still use Sword/Pistol as your second set because that Black Powder ability drops a small Smoke combo field that AoE blinds enemies in the field. You can tank pretty hard with that while doing damage at the same time. Some folks even drop the Black Powder then switch to bow and fire into the combo field, which will do damage and blind with every shot.

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Posted by: Socmonky.1529

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ok ya right now im running a dual dagger and short bow combo that seems to be working fine for me but i have noticed that i cant take any damage at all when i get into the thick of it.