Guild Wars 2

Hey guys i’m currently still leveling my thief and was wondering which stats I should focus on gear wise leveling and end game. Also feel free to drop some builds if possible

Thanks

Well I wouldn’t bother making a thief at all with the way anet has been treating us thief players. But if you want to torture yourself like the rest of us, CONDI is probably the way to go seeing as anything zerker has been, will be, nerfed into oblivion.

Well, most important thing: Don’t listen to people who say you shouldn’t play the class you want to play.

Feel free with experimenting while leveling I guess – I’m currently leveling a thief besides some other classes (Only playing this game for a month and a half) and I switched a bit between more Precision and more Power (with the respective other as second most stat) and it doesn’t seem to make that much difference up to level 65 (where I’m currently at).

I don’t recommend much vitality or toughness, mostly, because Thief playstyle revolves around not getting hit – This doesn’t mean you should not try it while you’re still leveling, if you want to, but I’d say going more on the offense while practising evades, dodges and blinds to mitigate damage will pay off more in the long run

AyuReady.3952:

Well I wouldn’t bother making a thief at all with the way anet has been treating us thief players. But if you want to torture yourself like the rest of us, CONDI is probably the way to go seeing as anything zerker has been, will be, nerfed into oblivion.

Yeah i’m not sure why the other professions got a paragraph full of changes and thief get like…one strip of toiler paper lol. So im guessing Pistol/Dagger for my weap set and D/D or Short bow?. Wouldn’t have mind but the leveling system is so crap, Can’t even choose when i want to do story missions lol.

Enriquejzee.5281:

AyuReady.3952:

Well I wouldn’t bother making a thief at all with the way anet has been treating us thief players. But if you want to torture yourself like the rest of us, CONDI is probably the way to go seeing as anything zerker has been, will be, nerfed into oblivion.

Yeah i’m not sure why the other professions got a paragraph full of changes and thief get like…one strip of toiler paper lol. So im guessing Pistol/Dagger for my weap set and D/D or Short bow?. Wouldn’t have mind but the leveling system is so crap, Can’t even choose when i want to do story missions lol.

I feel ya. I got many hundreds hours on my thief, and was about to unlock the “confusion on steal trait”, but the trainer told me I was not experienced enough, lol (I haven’t bothered doing the story done.. Guess I have to now).

P/D for easy condi build, full dire armor, and you will be un-killable. I just purchased a full dire armor for funsies with krait runes (they are WAY to cheap to be that good, haha. Guess it’s the drop rate that does it). Anyways, I can charge in on a group of 3-6 people going HAM, and if things don’t go my way, I have enough toughness and if you feel really cheesy, spec in shadowarts for another 300 toughness, I can escape without any problems.
People will hate you for this, but who cares? It’s in the game, so use whatever you want.
Cheese will be cheese, and it tastes DELICIOUSSSSSSssssssss

For pve leveling if you like power builds, focus on power as main stat, then precision in lower levels. Once you reach those lvls where berserker gear is available get that one. If you want some survability stat too, mix in vitality and avoid toughness.

End game builds depend on what you want your thief to do and the game mode you intend to play in.

In general avoid healing power, toughness, boon duration and condition damage. Don’t stack too much precision, because it’s bad for your damage output. Focus on power and ferocity.

PVE:
go s/p, zerker stats (power/ferocity, crit chance) for pve/leveling/trash mobs… stacking any other stats on thief is pointless, since you will still die in second no matter how tanky you build, so might as well kill them fast before they kill you.. most dungeon groups want full zerker anyway

additionally, get daggers and at least sb for end game bosses/dungeons
build wise: 6/6/whatever you want… last time i checked, the “meta” pve build was 6/6/0/0/2… google for DnT thief build

PvP/wvw:
roll engi…. no srsly, just don’t play thief in anything competitive atm, skills consistently bug out and you will just end up being frustrating watching how nothing works

if you still want to play thief in pvp/wvw despite all bugs and just general bias from anet against thieves:
- play to win and annoy other players in wvw/hotjoin: stack condi dmg/toughness and get p/d build (plenty of those on net too), people will hate you and call you max cheese abuser, get ready for long boring fights
- team pvp oriented build: trickery d/p with zerker stats (caed’s build), painfull to play atm due to bugs but still possible… needs good coordinated team though… can’t 1v1 with it really, your job with this build is assistant assassin + some team support (boon steal, stomp/rez interrupts, decaps)

Honestly though, i would just go to HotM and try out different builds/weapon sets and stats untill you find something to you likings. I personally consistenly swap weapons and traits depending on situation, takes a a bit of class knowledge but easily archivable after playing the class for a bit.