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World map 100% with thief
My 1st character was a thief on 100% map completion. How i did it? Just have fun, use stealth where you need to pick up free skillpoints. and enjoy the scenery.
Also for the underwater skill points that our stealth abilities don’t necessarily work on, get some Spy Kits . Actually, you should buy a full stack on every character you have for that reason alone.
On my first thief I did D/P vs singles, SB for multi targets. 0 30 30 10 0 for traits. Worked pretty well. That thief is now P/P-SB with the same traits. It’s my PVE thief, and I’ll be changing to 20 30 20 0 0 in traits once my wvw thief is done. This is the character I did world completion on.
I’m level 50 on an WVW thief now and using the same build to level/map complete. P/P-SB and currently 10 20 10 0 0 for traits.
Not sure how much this helps. Quite frankly though for PVE I think P/P-SB is quite good with a fully glass cannon build. At level 75 use mixed berry pie or at 80 omnomberry pie. As a fully ranged thief with seriously spamable attacks and high crit chance, survivability goes through the roof.
20 30 20 0 0 is quite good for this build. 20 power for additional base damage + increased dual skill damage (unload). 30 crit for obvious reasons. 20 toughness for a little more survivability but mainly for the two chosen traits…. regain initiative when you use a skill that stealths, condition removal “or” initiative regen while in steallth – up to you.
You can spam through initiative with unloads, heal or refuge to regain init, autoattack from stealth for a nice burst of shots, more unloads, repeat. With that build no single targets short of champs can take you assuming you have rare or exotic weapons (preferably exotic).
2 stealth utilities, precision signet, movement signet, daggerstorm.
Shortbow is nice for skipping mobs for faster map completions obviously.
Get to 80 if you’re not there already. Get wvw done as you can depending on your server and what game times they do well. The rest goes by pretty fast as a thief compared to a lot of other professions – especially with the movement speed and ability to skip a lot of content.
My Thief is the only lv 80 char I have and it also has 100% map completion.
I ran a D/D DB spam build until around lv 60-65 then just messed around with different build until I hit 80.
Now I mainly use D/D or S/P for pve. Stealth is your best friend when it comes to getting skill points.
Thief is the best class for map completion. Yo or able to stealth commune and skip lots of mobs.
Even able to sneak into wvw keeps/towers when the other servers are fighting…. Easier said then done
Shadow refuge makes it much easier than most other professions
shadow refuge, 2x daggers with omnom pie and heal on hit signet and most stuff is easy, also underwater spears third move is ridiculous, block attacks and counter with 9 hits, each of which trigger drain signet and have a chance of procing healing pie means I’ve only died underwater to megaldons ><
Singet of Shadows is a must at 25% run speed when you’re running around going for 100% completion. Saves a whole lot of time.
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