Guild Wars 2

What’s the quickest way to level a Thief weapon, treats, and armor/stat wise?

Goloith.6349:

What’s the quickest way to level a Thief weapon, treats, and armor/stat wise?

Go from lvl 1 to 80 in 5 hours via crafting.

Crafting is of course the quickest way to level any character.

But for PvEing up to 80 I’d have to say:

Condition Build
D/D + Shortbow
Signet of Malice/Caltrops/Shadow Refuge/Signet of Shadows
Carrion/Rabid Armour (Malign, Ravaging or Lingering at lower levels)

Key Traits:
Uncatchable – Trickery 10
Trickster – Trickery 20
Quick Recovery – Acrobatics 20
Assassin’s Reward – Acrobatics 20

Optional traits:
Opportunist – Critical Strikes 15
Serpent’s Touch – Deadly Arts 5
Potent Poison – Deadly Arts 10
Lotus Poison – Deadly Arts 15

Group up a few enemies, drop Caltrops and Death Blossom and Dodge through them to stack up bleeds. SoS to give movement speed to help reduce downtime, and Shadow Refuge to make quick escapes and to collect Places of Power skill points.

Thank you so much!

I was wondering what were good level ranges to PvE and which levels were ones to use crafting to level from. I noticed with a few other professions that certain areas were a pain to PvE through.

Goloith.6349:

I was wondering what were good level ranges to PvE and which levels were ones to use crafting to level from. I noticed with a few other professions that certain areas were a pain to PvE through.

All levels are pretty good.

It just depends where you want to level at, this way of playing Thief can easily take on things 5-8 levels higher due to Bleeding (Or rather conditions in general) aren’t affected by Glancing Blows and so continue to pump out a lot of damage, that combined with the cripple from Caltrops (Both Utility and Dodgetrops) can allow you to keep kiting things for a long period of time.

Oftentimes if an area is getting pretty difficult it’s possible to just go to another, similar level zone and do some leveling there (Or even a lower level zone, since completion is a % of current level in experience)

Taril.8619:

Crafting is of course the quickest way to level any character.

But for PvEing up to 80 I’d have to say:

Condition Build
D/D + Shortbow
Signet of Malice/Caltrops/Shadow Refuge/Signet of Shadows
Carrion/Rabid Armour (Malign, Ravaging or Lingering at lower levels)

Key Traits:
Uncatchable – Trickery 10
Trickster – Trickery 20
Quick Recovery – Acrobatics 20
Assassin’s Reward – Acrobatics 20

Optional traits:
Opportunist – Critical Strikes 15
Serpent’s Touch – Deadly Arts 5
Potent Poison – Deadly Arts 10
Lotus Poison – Deadly Arts 15

Group up a few enemies, drop Caltrops and Death Blossom and Dodge through them to stack up bleeds. SoS to give movement speed to help reduce downtime, and Shadow Refuge to make quick escapes and to collect Places of Power skill points.

This is also a good spec to farm at 80. Cluster Bomb and Dagger Storm is great for taggin ALL the mobs!

With Signet of Malice/Assasin’s Reward/and possibly Slowed Pulse (Shadow Arts) you can keep your health up while tagging all the mobs and letting them bleed out.