Guild Wars 2

I recently got my hands on two infused rings (power/prec/crit dam) my luck with trying to get (power/vit/tough) rings for my guardian which I run FoTM is failing me so I’m looking into a viable thief build that runs FoTM otherwise, these rings are never going to be used (certainly not an a tanky guardian) and that’s a good 10 agony resist wasted.

FoTM isn’t like other dungeons where you can just zerg zerg zerg. Your death will hinder your party greatly since they’ll have to rez you and you can’t start from the nearest WP on your own.

I’d like to know if there are any thieves that reached high FoTM (lvl 20+) and is favored by the party members (not being carried by other tanky builds) please share your build

Use shortbow with Signet of Agility utility. You just slowly kill everything from range and keep initiative for shortbow 3 evades and use signet for condition removal and endurance restoration.

Use smoke screen in many places, it helps. Also, thieves are probably the best wisp runners with passive 25% speed and controled shadow step skills. If you can get the trait that removes cripple on dodge, even better.

Outside of shortbow, try pistol offhand for support with stuns and smoke fields, and sword main hand for AoE meleeing when needed. And switch pistol offhand for dagger when stuns and blinds aren’t useful (most champions) but you need more evades and boon removals.

Lastly, offer stealthing support to your group. Shadow Refuge got many uses through the various fractals. And with smoke screen + blast combo fields you can try some trickery in the dredge fractal to make stuff easier but it takes more coordination.

So basically you have two “Berserker’s” infused rings?
1.) I’m jealous.
2.) http://www.intothemists.com/calc/index.php?build=Vc3RV;1RwVb0U5FOkd0;9;4JT;0J28-29A;448-6NW4;2G3G3G3G35BN

^Scholar’s can be easily swapped out for equivalent effectiveness with Ruby Orbs in the upgrade slots, losing the chance at Scholar’s pathetic uptime of 10% bonus damage in return for 4% crit and 4% more critical damage easily makes Ruby Orbs a competitive alternative.

Pistol off-hand for spammable daze’s (for stripping down the stacks of CC immunity on bosses to prep him for a real stun/daze/cc).
Smoke field to handle trash mobs.
Haste for burst + Ini regen. (Could easily replace Initial with Bountiful Theft for group vigor.)
Refuge to res careless allies.
RoI for the initiative burst+stun break+condi remove and evade window.

Or there’s a 10/30/30/0/0 build if you’re a bigger fan of dual daggers, but I found that pistol off-hand for dungeon work is pretty tasty for direct damage builds. Too bad I despise sword with a passion.

For Jade Maw, I love the D/P setup. It destroys the tentacles. Just use skill 3 to get close, then 1/1/1/1/1 (amount may vary) then reuse 3 when the blind comes off and repeat until victory. It’s a lot more sustainable than using 5 for blinds for those. You use 5 on the crystal golem things though. You won’t be blinded yourself by their reflect if you make sure to use the skill in melee range.

signet of malice, go to the trading post. search for “reyna’s” buy that armor set, dagger storm for elite (if there is only one boss that doesnt summon adds you could use thiefs guild to kill the boss abit quicker). and be sure to have a shortbow. also buy some peach cookies

ive had several times where my whole party whiped and than they start crying that i should kill myself since thats faster than reviving them all -.-

Toversletje.9345:

signet of malice, go to the trading post. search for “reyna’s” buy that armor set, dagger storm for elite (if there is only one boss that doesnt summon adds you could use thiefs guild to kill the boss abit quicker). and be sure to have a shortbow. also buy some peach cookies

ive had several times where my whole party whiped and than they start crying that i should kill myself since thats faster than reviving them all -.-

Bah. Vitality set and healing power doesn’t work well against agony attacks and doesn’t synergise well. I’d rather use Cleric or Zho set.

I run a tanky build of 10-0-30-30-0 in FoTM with full soldiers gear…..S/D and SB, the regen and condition purging from S&D each time revealed wears off keeps me up pretty well….

I run a p/d and d/d; with 0/0/30/20/20. Most of my traits revolve around dodge and stealth. My most of my gear are carrion, the rest are cleric, apothecary, or shaman.

It provides decent "tanky"ness with high hp and a lot of evasion. My stealth traits also provide a little support to the group by giving them regen on stealth.

I know this setup is not as effective without coordination. It works for me most of the time, but the bleeding stack limit severely cripples this build when there’s more than one condition build in the group.