Guild Wars 2

Thief fail builts and me (a tragic story in 3 acts)

ACT I – OHH LOOK IMATHIEF

You see, I play GW2 almost solely for WvW these days. As I said many times, the quest-less PVE of GW2 is simply not my thing. Like at all. I do PVE sometimes, but rarely.

So, when I played my first char, a Warrior to max through PVE, I felt I had seen enough of GW2 PVE. I began to play WVW and really like it. The dynamics! The thrill! The adventure!! What’s not to like! So, again and again, I had this experience you guys prolly know: I was regularly kitten d and gangbanged by THIEVES.

You know the drill. You walk some lonely road to find the zerg, and BLAMMO, some Thief kills you. Hell, I haven often enough seen Thieves keep 4-5 people busy for hours! It’s both super annoying, but of course I was fascinated by the idea! So I shook my fist into the Tyrian sky and yelled, I CAN DO THAT TOO, ha!

So I rolled a thief and began to level him!

ACT II – TREADMILL LEVELLING

Levelling again was a chore for me, mostly disliking the PVE, and WvW levelling was… slow. Not much to see in this act, I made it up mostly for the dramatic effect. I mostly stuck to a survival built here, knowing I was weak in low levels, so I stuck with Zerg groups while levelling in WvW and as I said, it was an entire defensive survival built. Nothing to show off. Until I finally reached level 80! YEY ME! Now you all wait and see how I all gank yousa!

ACT III – OR SO I THOUGHT

Now see, this is where the woe (and questions) come. I read MANY built guides, I watched dozens of Youtube videos with advises. And I went to what was said to be the classic gank built, 0-30-30-10-0, all based on prolonging sneak and doing mucho damage from stealth, with Dagger and Pistol. You know the drill: spamming black powder and heartseeker.

Only – that it DOESNT THE FRACK WORK!

God. I swear I never ever died so much. I tried. I really tried. No matter how many times I kissed the mud, I always ran back over and over. The really bad time came, when out of curiosity I tried lv 80 mobs with that built. HELL DID I SUCK. As in the history of Tyria! As in the frigging history of sucking!! It wasn’t pretty. Until some guildmate told me, hey you know why they rule in 1 VS 1? They have the expensive uber gear, and you casual gamer DON’T. Ha ha.

What a farce. What a letdown. Yeah, I hear you say, serves you right trying to be a ganker! But seriously. It’s in the game. So even being victim, I never complained. It’s part of the package. It’s war. shrug But… kitten ation! I am so kitten ed at my sheer inability! How can they DO this?

So I come back, sobbing myself into sleep, wondering what to do? Any advise besides “go and farm uber gear”, because… I dont do dungeon grinds. Sorry. But, repetitive grinding the same OVER AND OVER is not my thing.

Advise pls.

:(

Exotics are cheap… you don’t need to “grind dungeons” to gear up… run cof1 every one in a while, it takes 10 minutes and earns you a gold, most of the COE paths take <15 minutes each, if you were to occasionally run SOME dungeons you’d have a full set of gear in less than a week (1g per path buys your weapons in 2 days, save your tokens for armor pieces)…

Alternatively, run with a zerg in WvW to farm badges and buy your gear with badges. Alternatively champ farm, all you need to do is tag the mobs to get a loot bag, you end up getting ~5g an hour…

There’s a bunch of ways to get what you need, just pick one of them and do it.

Unfortunately the game doesn’t give you your gear, but there’s so much exotic gear on the market right now that it might as well.

If this is a troll story, 10/10. Pretty funny and very bait-ful.

If it’s serious, my advise would be not to believe the hype about Thieves. I’ve never —- EVER —- been able to instagib somebody except when the game first lanched and Assassination Signet was brokenly OP. Thieves have been nerfed to the point that 100-0 assassination of anything but the squishiest of classes is a myth.

Unless I’m an idiot. Which is possible.

I can 2shot lvl 10 thiefs and eles with no toughness and vitality in their gear and no traits with my maxed out ascended critical damage. Then i stomp them with ultimate invisibility+blind stomp. Stomping part has imba 10 % chance to suceed, couse they never run alone, NEVER. Nerf thief.

1.5/10, just because i read the full story
TL, DR version ? spam blackpowder when fighting enemies melee in pve/pvp/wvw
you will win !