Guild Wars 2

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Ele is better at buffing / supporting the group and thus especially useful in dungeons. Thief is only useful for the group when you need stealth (for example in Arah). They both deal good damage, but ele is more effective (because frostbow) against structures while thief does more damage on mobs and single bosses. Both are pretty fun to play but die pretty fast if you make mistakes. Except if you get that trait for the thief where you’re healed for 15% of your crit-damage.

Is the gap between single target DPS big enough that it needs to be taken into consideration or is it somewhat balanced there?

Hey there! I’m a somewhat new player that can’t decide between playing an Elementalist and playing a Thief. So my question is: What’s the demand and overall usefulness of these two in endgame? From what I’ve read so far they roughly do the same amount of DPS only with Ele having more utility.