Guild Wars 2

Well, i always go for SB second set for having the range option.
Cuz ya know, we ain’t stinky warriors, we die in 1 hit (sorry, i had to say that).

Shortbow! Especially if you have the dreamer lol. Don’t remember the last time I ran double melee sets tbh, short bow is too good at what it does imo. It’s not just #5 but everything on the weapon has excellent skills.

Speaking of stinky warriors, I was on my zerker warrior last night and I 2 hit an enemy thief with a 3k shield bash and then a 10k evis. kinda made me sad :-/ (he 75% health)

I just might not be on a level where I can wander around without a shortbow on me. The #5 skill is simply good in general but it’s also recovered me from bad pathing and the blast finisher is hard for me to let go of. Aside from the fields as well, I like having the choice in distance and spread with the cluster bomb.

We don’t really get a choice of secondary weapon right now. It’s almost always shortbow. You can try others, but you’ll come to realize that shortbow has the utility you need (especially to make up for D/D) and is the best choice for range amongst the 3 possible combinations (SB, P/P, P/D).

Sb. I tried every other set and it comes back to SB all the time . Number 5 is huge and then whether dagger or power the AOE off the SB when needing range s valuable.

I use P/P.
I know, I know. /cry
But thematically at least, it looks better.
Least we did get a Dev comment for how poor P/P is performing, so at least it has been noticed by even them at this point. We don’t get noticed much, so any news is good news.

Lordwafflez.4163:

I heard that sword/pistol is pretty good,

I play a Sword-Pistol Thief exclusively and have since the first week of the game.
If someone told you Sword-Pistol is good, they lied.

S/P is relatively tricky and clunky.. but it can be really fun. I suggest you wait for HoT to be able to play S/P more smoothly.

I don’t suggest having two different attack weapon sets simply because it will be very initiative costly.

get one attack weapon set and a utility weapon… so in terms of now you should stick to D/D and SB.

In terms of HoT you get the option of switching SB with Staff.

but D/D, S/P? A rather inefficient way of dealing with enemies imo. At the end of the day, do what you fancy the most, it’s the best way to learn what works and what does not.

Kocoff.7582:

I suggest you wait for HoT to be able to play S/P more smoothly.

I dunno. During the beta weekend, I found it really clunky to try and play S/P with the Daredevil, just because every Pistol Whip locks you in place. It’s a real pain.

Shortbow.

Thieves don’t take secondary sets for damage, they do it for utility since we don’t get dps increases from swapping like other classes.

Shortbow is essentially your best utility weapon kitten 5 doesn’t have the mobility limitations of the other sets (always toward or away from a target) and you don’t have the init to really use more than one “key skill” on your secondary set unless you’re in a situation where SB would already be a better option: ranged fights where going melee would be suicide/ You could try p/p but it’s just bad at keeping range and mobility, meaning it doesn’t support your melee set and it doesn’t give you escape utility or a good auto attack to spam and range while you recharge init.

and doing d/* or */d is just a waste if you’re going d/d as you’re only getting basically the dual attack and half of a dps set you’re not using anyway, and the dual attacks are all inferior in either mobility or basic utility.

Shortbow gives you the camp clearing, quick escape, blast finisher and a good plinker/tagger in a larger fight. Shortbow is also great for working around environments that require other players to walk around allowing D/D and steal to work much better. D/P is a workable option for stealth purposes but doesn’t synergize well.

Thieves basically only have one weapon slot available because currently, Shortbow is the only viable option for your second slot.
Range, AoE, Blast Finisher, Evade+Cripple for Kiting and awesome vertical Mobility (good horizontal Mobility) make it our best weapon and the least nerfed one as well iirc