Guild Wars 2

All is in the title^^

Do you play with it?

What is your opinion about it when playing with a full Shadow Arts trait, and specially Shadow’s Embrace?

20 in shadow arts is like a staple for thief….run in all the best builds and like 80% of all builds in total.

Travlane.5948:

20 in shadow arts is like a staple for thief….run in all the best builds and like 80% of all builds in total.

That’s not true in pvp.

Sounds like a good way to get yourself revealed in the middle of a fight, à la Last Refuge.

Edit: The issue is, this can proc without you realizing it, causing you to waste the stealth opportunity.

Travlane.5948:

20 in shadow arts is like a staple for thief….run in all the best builds and like 80% of all builds in total.

Not if you are playing a full support venom build for WvW or Spvp.

Nettle.9025:

Travlane.5948:

20 in shadow arts is like a staple for thief….run in all the best builds and like 80% of all builds in total.

That’s not true in pvp.

atleast 10 in shadow….or 15 for the extra second of invis. remove 2 conditions everytime you stealth? thats crazy good. its the best defensive skill or trait thieves have. plain and simple. to not take it is to make your build weaker. even if u dont rely on invis.

Softspoken.2410:

Sounds like a good way to get yourself revealed in the middle of a fight, à la Last Refuge.

Edit: The issue is, this can proc without you realizing it, causing you to waste the stealth opportunity.

Thanks for advice, but i already knew about that

What i would like to ask is that does this skill useful for WvW in your opinion, as it might stealth, blind, give also might through SA.

Nettle.9025:

Travlane.5948:

20 in shadow arts is like a staple for thief….run in all the best builds and like 80% of all builds in total.

That’s not true in pvp.

yes it is

No it’s not.

Some of the best thieves in the tpvp scene run bursts as 25/30/0/0/15. That has been the go to burst spec for months.

Boon steal builds and sword builds in general don’t run anything in SA either.

There are good builds that do use SA, I’m not arguing that. However, some of the other top builds don’t touch that line at all.

I’m talking competitive thieves here though, not your average hot join or newbie tourney thief, not your typical WvW roamer thief that stomps underleveled and undergeared people all day. You are not pigeon-holed into putting points in SA.

Anyway I feel like this is pretty off topic, so I’m going to leave it at that.

I’m playing the build Nettle mentioned because I had heard it was super-bursty. It is. That being said, I spend most of my time
0/30/20/5/15

It gives you great versatility for small 3 vs 5 or 6 in a good guild group – still good damage and a lot of survivability. BOTH specs have great potential, just very different applications.