Guild Wars 2

Hey guys
Well I play damage Guardian in sPvP and I also have a Thief. I love the Thief class in all areas of the game. I like it in PvE, WvW either Zerging or Roaming (I don’tlike roaming with Guard) and I believe that overall is the class that completes me the most. Now recently I have started sPvP a lot and I’m really enjoying it, but I’m having a really hard time getting used to the Thief with the Meta builds. I love the dagger but I’m having a real hard time with the meta D/P 10/30/0/0/30.

Now I would like to ask, why nobody uses Shadow Arts with dagger? The meta is problably really fine with S/P but the dagger will always rely on Stealth and I don’t see better trait line for that than Shadow Arts. Condi Cleanse, Iniciative Regen, HP regen and more defence. What’s not good about it?

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Okay but that also happens with D/P Meta. If that is just the problem then Thief should just be viable with S/P and S/D but pll still name the D/P meta viable too

Because D/P trickery is good at shutting down opponents during team fights when your allies are keeping the point capped/from being capped. It’s almost easier to simply disengage and go to another point when you’re forced into stealth to heal up than it is to stay in combat and wait for SR to heal you. When you aren’t attacking to heal the difference is between you letting your opponent heal up as well or simply being on your way to another point to at least get the decap if not the cap off.

You can’t cap points while stealthed. That means for every second youre in stealth on a point, the person youre fighting is deccapping it. Which means theres no real reason for you to be on the point anyway.

Okay but that also happens with D/P Meta. If that is just the problem then Thief should just be viable with S/P and S/D but pll still name the D/P meta viable too

Well then I’ll just try S/P and wait for new play mode where D/P is more opiomal. Shadow Arts was one of the things that made me want to play Thief. I’m not talking about the trait line but the style. I did the Thief to be a steath staby staby killer. I also like S/P I will just miss the staby kills