Guild Wars 2

Since I’m called an altoholic, since I love testing all characters before maining a character. I am really doubting about which profession I should choose. I am really doubting between Thief, Necromancer or a Mesmer ( or maybe even the elementalist ). But people told me, to choose mesmer, ele or necro since they’re a lot more competitive and more versatile/flexible than Thiefs. People told me that thiefs are overall weak and can only compete in sPvP. Now is the question, is this true? Like is it worth it to main a elementalist, necromancer or mesmer over a thief in terms of utility and overall?

i would say no but its situational, your not going to want to be running a glass cannon build that can decimate a few ppl but then fight along side the zerg in a 50 vs 50 fight, in a roaming group that is taking locations moving and fighting other small groups i would say they excel at, how ever for zerg action or keep defense i prefer pplaying my ele

Go Mesmer, its not even a question. Thief is one of the worst in WvW due to the HP pool and limited functions. in sieges/defence all you can really do is runnign around trying to find a place where your slow moving cluster bomb can hit.

Thanks, that helped me alot already lol. Yea all professions can do all things, and this game is kinda balanced. But all professions have their ups and downs and each profession can be helpful but thats situational. In what situations do mesmers and necromancers excel? Thiefs in small groups/solo’ing/duoing. Elementalists in big fights / supportive. But mesmers and necromancers?

I play a thief and actually do well in WvWvW. Its just a matter of knowing your class and using right skills for. I have no problems charging into the zerg then getting out alive. Just need to be smart and also I use range which helps alot in those encounters.

Just make sure you wear armor that would help you survive and not go too much of a glass cannon.

I am lvl 10 or so, but in PvP I use like 30 – 30 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 10. So it’s full glass cannon. Also, I use dual daggers+dual pistol, since thats like the best thief build atm.

Shintai.5618:

Go Mesmer, its not even a question. Thief is one of the worst in WvW due to the HP pool and limited functions. in sieges/defence all you can really do is runnign around trying to find a place where your slow moving cluster bomb can hit.

Oh my god , hm… on a second thought YES you are correct. Thiefs are the worst for WvW. Having 4+ thiefs doing dagger storm is BAD. As a matter of fact don`t ever roll a thief in WvW.

Here are some of the worst skills:
Daggers storm – completly not usable in WvW esp in big fights, very low dmg, the cripple effect is pointless and you even get stability. They need to buff that skill to give at least evade in addition to the stability
Cluster bomb – so slow fligh time and the DMG, oh its so low no point to use it.
Smoke Screen – pointless to block incomnig projectiles, do aoe stealth and spread blindness.

Any movement skill like withdraw, roll of initiative, shadowstep THEY are so bad. For example you can go inside a zerg unload dmg and then port back I mean really who would ever do that… Don`t let me even start on Sword 2 ability or the AOE dmg on the sword its so pointless.

I wish thiefs get some buffs for WvW as your statements clearly shows that thiefs are next to useless for WvW.

Well. I dont know much about mmorpg’s, because this is my first 1. But how are mesmers in overall? PvE, PvP, dungeons etc. And how good are Necro’s / Ele’s in PvP / PvE?

Shintai.5618:

Go Mesmer, its not even a question. Thief is one of the worst in WvW due to the HP pool and limited functions. in sieges/defence all you can really do is runnign around trying to find a place where your slow moving cluster bomb can hit.

Who would do that instead of getting 20 stacks of might running out stealing a warrior with f1 and doing a 30+k aoe dmg attack with F1. Then once they have switched targets to you cause in WvW at sieges everyone and his brother is using ranged weapons you do your whirlwind AoE and do another 30k+ dmg while reflecting all attacks back at people.. and if you get CC’ed you can just instant stealth and return to keep to repeat.. or use sword and pistol and frenzy and one shot people behind the door… so many more options then just using a bow lol. Not to mention you can pretty much instant kill one person every time you come out of the keep. Basically… Short bow is far from our only option that’s my point