Guild Wars 2

So I keep trying to alt, but I’m not an alt guy. I feel like my thief is me, it’s what I like. But I like dungeons too. I’d really like to try and get into te 20 and 30 fractals and I’m sure it’s possible with a thief, just I feel like I bring nothing

I open up my skill slots and I look at what I got. I usually em up running shadow refugee (my one skill I think I bring to the team, I’m like a super medic), signet of shadows for speed and the blind and signet of agility I think? The one with precision and condition removal. Oh I seem to use dagger storm most the time

I look at the others and kind f go meh. Smoke screen has its spots. Scorpion wire would be awesome if it had a smidgen more range.

I just feel so selfish. I’ve tried some support type buiks and run stuff like the traits that gives my teammates regen when I stealth them and the swiftness might one from the trickery line.

I’ve been making a mes just to maybe get a feel of group support. I look at the skills they have and I can see the purposes and the possibilities.

I know ill probably end up playing my thief after an hour of my mesmer a night but I always have not too much problem in dungeons with him. Well lately I’ve been sucking but that’s just me getting too bored and just clicking and doing rotations and just aggroing everything at once for more of a change lol.

Maybe when I get this mesmer in ill feel the same way. Just feels like I’m missing something.

You won’t contribute much anything more than damage unless you go venom share build.

I run shadow refuge, smoke screen and smoke bomb(?). With that I can block the MANY projectiles you are subjected to in both boss and trash fights and I have two methods to give mass stealth for rezzing, or dropping aggro. The smoke bomb is great because you can use it while knocked down! I really enjoy using this build, and I feel that I contribute to the group well. That’s just my two cents though.

I run Shadowstep, Shadow Refuge and Smoke Screen. Combine Shadowstep with one of the other two and you can save a life from across the room.

Apart from that, there’s no real “selfless” Thief build apart from venoms, but traiting heavily in to venom sharing usually detracts highly from your damage potential, and realistically, damage is the best thing Thieves have that isn’t stealth in dungeons.

Metamega.9025:

I open up my skill slots and I look at what I got. I usually em up running shadow refugee (my one skill I think I bring to the team, I’m like a super medic), signet of shadows for speed and the blind and signet of agility I think? The one with precision and condition removal.

Just run Smoke Screen instead of Signet of Shadows and you’ll be good. SoS is just a convenience utility in most situations, especially PvE where you won’t be able to effectively use the blind to stop bosses from getting in a big hit. Shadow Refuge and Signet of Agility are awesome support utilities, properly used.

s/p SB 25/30/15/0/0 — Zerker armor weps with Knights/Cav Trinks have someone pull a group and LOS the mobs and spam that Black Powder. Also the Evade on SB makes escaping damage sooooooooooooooooo easy.

You could take a look at the other end of group support and try a control-oriented build. Take 15 in Deadly Arts and shortbow, then make it your self-appointed duty to keep poison and weakness up on every opponent. Combine that with say, S/P for an immobilize, plus cripple and weakness on the auto chain. Between those, headshot (for bosses) and black powder (everything else except Dredge) and you can try and keep your enemies from destroying your friends by just not letting them do anything at all.

It’s not a full build, but it’s a start that you could experiment with for something different.

become a glass cannon, damage is the best thing you can contribute as a thief in pve