Guild Wars 2

I am really enjoying how thief works with initiative and the basically 0 cooldown on main bar. I have been gone from the game for a while and have noticed some changes, like buying skill books from trainers. Can someone give me an idea on how to build dungeon worthy assassin using debuff mechanics. I’m using a shortbow, dagger/gun weapons set up, I’m also lvl 23 right now so I only have the attack up and shadowstep sigils with roll for initiative as I already know it’s a main skill for many thieves.

well if you’re from before the time where you had to buy traits from trainers (or unlock them by doing certain tasks), then you don’t really need to worry about building anything.

honestly, at lv23, just do whatever you want. it’ll be a while before you hit 80, and GW2 has no “build permanence”, you can reroll the build as many times as you want, on the fly.

but if you want a super high damage, burst style build for PvE, get used to dagger/dagger and sword/pistol. shortbow is also almost always recommended to be on your second weapon slot, because of all the utility it gives, and the fact thief doesn’t really need to swap (or benefit from swapping) weapons in combat.

Debuffs/boon removal has almost no place in dungeons as the bosses and mobs don’t get boons which can really be removed if at all, and for those which do, they immediately go back on unless some other condition in satisfied, which is usually through destroying structures, or simply having a mesmer with Phantasmal Disenchanter in the party.

This build is focused entirely on dungeons and PvE for DPS while attacking out of stealth. I do not endorse this exact build for PvP/WvW.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoYVlsMp0pNOxzJ0PNRLBtdHi+L87N6+gAA-TlCBwAXOEAQOBAY3fUuIRJIgHAQWlUp0Hw4IAkwEkO1fAA-w

Lol, forgot the build link before (See above post now).

Almost all the thief skills, apart from steal, have a ninja feel to them. Poison, smoke, blind, movement. You shouldn’t have a problem feeling like a ninja-assassin.

Dungeons need a different style of play to open world. You really can’t practice for dungeons in the open world. Instead, I would advise testing out all sorts of skills in the open world so that you know your options for dungeons instead of just following a meta guide.

for now get Caltrops asap. You drop them on enemy camps and watch them all die.
Sword/Pistol is epic build as well, your 3rd skill evades damage and hits all enemies infront of you