Guild Wars 2

So, I know it’s getting nerfed but I was wondering if anyone had some useful tips for playing S/D? I find this build so unforgiving if I miss a dodge I’m usually dead.

I understand how to play basically every other thief weapon set but I actually find S/D the hardest to play o.o Kinda wondering why that is…

this is kinda a bad time to learn S/D. it’s probably dead after dec.10, so you’d just be learning a useless set.

MOST S/D thieves just spam #3, but I don’t know if that really is optimal because it makes them extremely predictable which can be bad because you’re vulnerable while doing larcenous strike.

i don’t really use #3 with my S/D thief because I like my thief fulfilling the “control” role instead of 1v1 duelist. with thief superior combat mobility and engage/disengage this is a niche it’s good at imo.

S/x doesn’t have enough burst to force a bunker off point(though nothing can really kill a decent bunker with in a reasonably timer frame) and it gets countered by mesmers and it will be much worse after patch no point in learning now dude. D/x specs will be much better it almost all aspects of the game.

vincecontix.1264:

S/x doesn’t have enough burst to force a bunker off point(though nothing can really kill a decent bunker with in a reasonably timer frame) and it gets countered by mesmers and it will be much worse after patch no point in learning now dude. D/x specs will be much better it almost all aspects of the game.

^^^^^ This. S/D had it’s advantage over D/X in that it could push bunkers off of points and kill them (after a prolonged fight if they knew how to use wards or time any abilities). The nerf to LS removed that advantage since you pretty much just pull off the disposable boons now (prot for hammer, retal, vigor….etc.). You wait for the abilities to wear off naturally now anyway so you might as well have poison on your autoattack to kill the regen and spike damage on top of it.