Guild Wars 2

What do you guys use for utility and elite skills while doing random map events, like in the new maps? Do you use others fire world bosses? For jumping puzzles? Fractals?
I’m interested, I read a very informative description of thief skills but the realized it was from 2014, and lots of the info was outdated…

Some utilities are more useful than others but the ones that are the most useful haven’t changed that much.

Shadowstep is a solid skill to take. Most of the heals can be useful depending on your build. Elite-wise I would recommend basi-venom for breakbars or the HoT elite because both can do a lot of breakbar damage (basi will do more if you share it with your allies, which you should be doing).

Other than that more generic overview I can’t recommend specific utilities unless I know what kind of build you are running (weaponset and traitlines).

I’m so used to my pvp build, I run it pretty much everywhere…

sometimes I swap weapons but my utilities are almost always : chaneled vigor, signet of agility, shadowstep.

I found myself using p/p and venoms + thief guild for champs and hero points in Hot. Venoms shared with thief guild stacks an incredible amount of condis for good damages even on berserk stuff.

You should really play around traits and utilities according to the situation. In bloodstone fen, I used staff and CS + ACRO for easy confusion clear and heal as it did the job better than escapist absolution.

yeah I go around changing them, but I don’t want to have to change all the time depending on the type of mob either…
for now I use signet of agility, smoke screen and shadow refuge

Shadow Step and SoA are my mainstays in most of my builds. In competition I almost always go Bandit’s Defense. In PvE I typically take Assassin’s Signet for the extra DPS.