Guild Wars 2

Avelos.6798:

Azraelle.1683:

>standard CPU fan is barely enough for non Oc’ed cpu.

Not always true. Friend of mine that runs a computer shop had an old Athlon II X2 clocked up from 2.8 GHz to 3.720 GHz on stock fan and gamed on a Radeon HD 4890.

Next time try to read original post. It’s about certain cpu and not even amd.

Kesoria.5601:

Hello everyone, the following is my current setup:

INTEL CORE I5 3570K
MSI Z77A-G45 GAMING
Asus Radeon R9270X-DC2T-2GD5 2048 MB
Corsair Vengeance Blue,1600-8gb 8 GB, PC3-12800, 1600 MHz, Single
WD WD Caviar Black 1TB 1000 GB, SATA, 64 MB, 7200 RPM
Corsair Builder Series CX500 V2 500 Watt, 20+24 Pins
Windows 7 Pro x64

I heard that I could overclock my CPU, my question would be how to do it and how high can I overclock it without replacing the standard CPU fan.

Thanks for the help!

Kesoria

>standard CPU fan is barely enough for non Oc’ed cpu.

Treads like this make me laugh. I deleted like 5-6 stacks of useless dragonite.

I bought 4k gems recently, now i only have like 100 gold. I suppose i’m poor now :C

Fractal entrance for gods sake!

http://intothemists.com/guides/?req=search&class=thief&category=2&sort=glory
plenty of giudes here, some of them have detailed description.

Vuh.1328:

And not just a special stun which makes you move in weird ways?

Would help alot vs all these condi immunity skills for necro, engis can kinda deal with them with knockbacks etc.
Wouldn’t it also be easier to balance if it worked by same mechanics as daze and stun? like it wouldn’t be affected by condition duration anymore for example.

Meh just something that has been on my mind since release of the game >_>

>stun
>makes you move
Think more, post less stupid posts.

Don’t wanna see more kittenty condi thieves.

If you mean open world pve then d/d and s/d are pretty good setups, but in fractals i would kick you for using these weapons.

Looks like you’re trolling. There are plenty videos on youtube with spvp thieves. P/d is pretty easy to use, kill and survive.

Facepunch.5710:

I main a warrior, but I have been trying to put more play time on my thief because I really enjoy it. The problem is that I am absolutely awful in dungeons. I get downed constantly. I understand it may take some practice, but I’m just so bad and I honestly don’t understand how people play thief in dungeons and contribute nice DPS while staying alive, without just camping shortbow.

I tried zerk gear and build and I just can’t stay alive. I tried zerk gear and a survival build, using stealth to clear conditions and such, and I can stay alive pretty well but my damage is meh. For those of you who run thief zerker and do it well, how do you do it? Are there indispensable utilities or traits you can recommend that keep you up while dealing out nice damage, or is it just about having so much practice that you never miss a dodge/evade?

I know many fights pretty well from having done them on my warrior, but warrior is just so much easier. You just stand there with healing signet and take attacks right in the face and you’re fine. Thief is like a 0.05 sec mis-timing and you’re downed again. Any advice?

S/p is your main weapon set. BP-SR-Smoke screen/ShadowStep/SoA are your main utilities. I run with 0/30/30/10/0 and survive in most cases better than any other class in high lvl fractals(30-40). In certain situations you’ll be forced to equip ranged weapons like sb/pp but most of the time you want to melee BP/PW everything. So learn to time your dodge, time your pistol whips and blind everything that doesn’t have defiant buff.

Fractal gates pls.

Jumper.9482 I thought you left the game. Better leave again and take your “improvements” list with you.

Yes, i agree! It’s just unfair and arena must look into this issue. I suggest to add new legendary tier(like divine with black and fiery stroke name effect) and to get one of those ppl will need to forge all available legendaries together.

It needs fractal gates as well.

OP is a typical “i have lvl 80 thief, thieves are op and cheeeeezy, plz moar nerfs”.

Volrath.1473:

I took a brake after the Dec. 10th patch and came back yesterday.
Went immediately into sPvP and 1v1 arenas.

I noticed that most high ranked thieves are going 30 points into Trickery wile using S/D, S/P and even D/P…

I miss to see were this trait-line would be helpful for such weapon sets… what am I missing here?

Why place 30 points in trickery instead of Shadow Arts or Acrobatics or even Critical arts?

Well, steal is pretty weak by itself, trickery makes it much more usable. And since shadow arts isn’t viable in spvp ppl take it.

>Tactix keeps its nerves and possesses up to 18 key commands at the same time.
This is weird.

Check it outside of the game, like type something in notepad with 3 keys at the same time. Or go there http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/KeyboardGhostingDemo.aspx Even cheap keyboards usually support 3 simultaneous key presses.

Deathspike.1870:

The Warrior is the only profession that has movement speed as a trait. There is very little reason to have the same kind of trait on a Thief just “Because Warrior has it”. All other professions need to invest in Runes or utilities, and there is nothing wrong with that. You could also complain about the ease Warriors have to keep swiftness up, instead (which is what I do).

>Inactive: Elementalist,

Nice game knowledge.

To op: They should rework sos because it’s terribly useless. And absolutely not worth it. Traveler runes always better than sos.

Watch less anime.

kittenty build. .

TGH.7630:

Condition builds lack the power necessary to bring elementalists below the 90% threshold. This is because elementalists harbour a variety of heals, and also often run with at least some toughness. This is not an ‘Ele is op pls nerf’ thread. Simply, this particular trait completely negates counter-play in certain scenarios, which I do not feel is in the best interest of the game.

Maybe make it so that while above 90% health, conditions applied to you have a 66% reduced duration. This would increase the effort needed to bring them below that threshold while making it still, actually possible.

Typical “ele op nerf plox can’t play gg((” post.

Doggie.3184:

I’ve actually not seen a HS spam Thief in like half a year or more. Not sure how you’re finding so many.

2 HS’es on low hp enemy=spam.

It won’t help much. i’d install whole system on ssd and place gw2 there as well(or on separate ssd).
As for your question: use directory hard link “mklink /j”.

Arlandaes.2398:

Can someone pintpoint me the best spot to farm powerful blood ? So far I have tried FG arctodus but with no luck wathsoever.

Thanks

I farm it on AH. Got about 700-800 so far.

Yes, they nerfed it pretty much.

Zach.3264:

This is not a rage thread, if anything I’m laughing. I’ve been doing WvW avidly recently, and about 90% of the thieves I come across seem to start off the fight by going stealth, opening with backstab then proceeding to HS spam.

Really?..

Normally I don’t mind, but I’m trying to play my Power/Condi Necro and continually eating 7k HS spam is tiring. Are there any of you going to be decent enough to admit HS needs to require more initiative or have a small CD on it?

Sure your class is squishy and you deserve to have good DPS. But when I’m playing a class that has little cleave and you’re able to dodge through my Marks, then you can easily avoid a huge portion of my damage with your somewhat endless stealth. Alongside that, being able to spam an ability that crits upwards of 5k…

I don’t expect much, but surely there’s at least one of you able to admit that HS spam needs some sort of fix. I don’t care if the damage gets an increase but unable to be spammed. Besides it being able to be spammed, why on earth would anyone be boring enough to play a build that requires you to mash 1 button and the occasional stealth?

Anyways, I know I’ll probably get lectured on how superior my class is, how bad your class is, and how bad I am, though I’m just curious if there’s at least one of you to admit HS needs a fix.

Oh, and I can only expect someone to bring up “Necro conditions are op”, then yes.. yes they pretty much are.

my2c

Ok, since you skipped elementary school i’ll help you count d/p thief’s damaging abilities:
1. autoattack/backstab
2. heart seeker
3. shadow shot
That’s all. No damage on utilities, no damage on 4-5. You should figure out the rest by yourself.

It’s time to buy a new graphic card.

So how long till i’ll be able to create topics and post more than one message per hour? A month? A year?

Drop rate is terrble. I run 20, 30, 38 almost every day and got only 1 skin since update.

There is no such thing as “gaming laptop”(aside from alienware monsters). So if you buy that thing don’t expect good performance on high settings.

Arenanet answer: No! In fact, new nerfs incoming.

Vhenom.5621:

Hello my friends! This is a build i created for spvp and i am enjoying very much… but im not a pro player, so if any of you have any insights about it, let me know. Please read the description before comment.

link: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQJAsYlcmaPHcS5E+5Ey2jdqC5JuCFV3Dsyq0KA-ToAg0CnIwRhjDHDOScs4MIYWA

Description:

Weapons
S/D – IS > FS > LS > Slice… , repeat / cloak and dagger for stealth (forget #4)
No secondary weapons since theres no room for swap sigils (dps loss in my experience)

Gear
Sigils – +5 dmg and +5 crit, no question about it
Runes of the eagle, also the best in every way for this spec
Zerker with zerker jewel – some would point for valkyries, but the 45 healing gives minor upgrade to the life leeching

Base stats
70% crit chance without trait procs
58% crit dmg
18,6k life
2839 attack

Skills
Signet of Malice (part of the mechanics here with assassins reward, same cooldown of Withdraw, you jusst will dps instead of evade)
Shadow refuge – stealth
Signets for initiative (must) and precision (the main stat for this build)
Dagger storm – extra heal mainly (with dps and stability)

Mechanics
- This build aim for heal per hit/initiative with critical bursts and evasion
(350-600 heal from AR each skill + 110~ from signet of malice per hit… pretty tanky if not a high burst opponent, negates a lot of dmg and needing to active heal)
- Theres no steal (except for jumping to the enemy) – steal is awesome but theres no room for invest in it
- It is a modified default S/D build adding the life leech aspect to survive better instead of having more stealth/steal/vigor traits… it is just a different style to play the same weapons, and for me, it
- Acrobatics instead of Shadow arts, for assassins reward and initiative
- 10 points into shadow arts instead of deadly arts for deception and a little bit of healing… since theres no much point in getting Mug (need to do more tests yet)
- Full Criticals Strikes is a must

Thanks for reading!

Typical sd build. You only changed runes and heal. lol.

SoLeciTO.3490:

Butch.4957:

SoLeciTO.3490:

it is just amazing how a lot of people do not get that Sanduskel is the one of the biggest trolls in the forums . . .

. . . and people just keep feeding him.

Just click on his message history . . . please do not feed the troll.

He will never tell you his build because he do not play thief as he pretends.

About the topic, you can chain stealth, but you can not keep perma-stealth as before.

This is a good change IMO . . . but S/X cast time . . . well.

I do not think you read some of my previous posts, I know he is a troll (or at least appears to act like one) but he is still a human being (as far as i know, don’t think he is some weird AI) and I know that most people respond better to polite inquiry and the request for a decent conversation than they do to vehemence and calling them a troll.

Also, please read my last post again. Nowhere in my post did I ask for his build or even proof of whether or not he was a thief. I was simply speaking from my own personal experience playing a thief myself.

I agree with you that for the most part, the change to the thief class has been a good change. It made me start playing a D/D thief again and I am finding love for the build all over again because of the change to initiative. I also agree with you on the S/x change for IR because my secondary thief (for when I get tired of my main) uses S/P as her primary weapon set. In a previous post, I begged Anet to not nerf IR and gave my reasoning why.
Let me see if I can find a link for you… Here we go. Link: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Dec-10th-thief-changes/page/17#post3318354

I do really know why you think i was talking to you.

Read upper.

. . . About the polite thing . . . if this guy is polluting every single thread to make thief look bad with no base arguments, videos, builds, numbers . . . ANY!

How the heck he will earn any kind of respect that leads to be polite to him? (any thief in the forum can tell you)

The people that really wants a better community do not deserve to have people like this that expend more time trolling in the forum than actually playing the game.

Sorry for my bad english

Well, moderators are supposed to check trolling/misleading/insults/etc messages but they can miss it sometimes, that’s why there is a report button. So instead of arguing with them just report sanduksel and batch.

Hi, if you don’t have aoe damage in fractals then don’t spoil other people’s game and enjoy shadow shot alone.

Fortus.6175:

Incurafy.6329:

Backstab does not hit 8-10k. Stop lying and stop posting these ridiculous threads.

Also, the Ele in my team 2v1s at far all day while we cap everything else and win teamfight, clearly you guys are doing something wrong if you think they’re in a terrible spot right now, lol.

oh , yes it does, yes it does! I have felt it on my own toon, and the fact that you cant get those numbers tells a lot about your skills…. Dunno, but the thief in my team cap everything and wins teamfights, clearly you are doing something wrong if you think they’re in a terrible spot right now.

See? It can go both ways…. so lets stop it with these arguments. It is a fact that backstabs hit 10k in PvP, next one I will make sure to screenshot if needed.

Lol, whining about thieves and pointing out at someone else’s skill.

I hope arena will nerf his and withdraw into oblivion, so ppl will be forced to take new poison heal. Yhats arena way.

I have my doubts regarding s/p in spvp. With all recent nerfs(don’t forget stun duration nerf) it just won’t shine.

p/d/sb + 5 venoms.

> Thief was the first character I rolled, d/p actually got me to stop playing because it felt so cheesy and easy.
Pro-tip: you cay play d/p with trickery traited, not shadow arts.

Also: bp+hs+steal=900+ range bs.

Still same d/p for www and 5 venoms for spvp. If anet want to kitten thieves i will kitten other players as well.

No. .

MyCondolences.8172:

Why are you talking about clerics set when I’ve already said I’ll be running a mix of settlers/shaman or Dire depending on how well it scales.
I plan on running a condi build, actually quite close to your Panicond build with a few minor supportive tweaks.

My intention is dungeons rather then WvW so not sure how my DPS will compare to a DPS build but I’m hoping to be useful in other ways, since not all fights are DPS races and If all goes to plan i’ll be able to keep those glass cannons alive and still dish out some useful damage while I’m at it.

If i see a venom sharing thief in my fractal group, i’ll kick him.

I’ve created character specially for spvp venom meta. I won’t go down alone, i’ll take 4 other fotm players with me.

SoLeciTO.3490:

Kadin.2356:

A thief violated Burnfall at some point in the past so now he trolls the boards to unleash his righteous fury (don’t blame the guy, being a ranger that’s about the only option he has).

Is just amazing how much time he expend trolling in this forum.

Maybe Sanduskel created another account?

About the topic . . . i really have hope in devs, the changes seems to be really kitten thief but i’m sure they will compensate.

I’d like to see sunudkesl and burnfall locked together in a cage and “backstabbing” each other for the greater good, lol.

Dual.8953:

I did some testing with the code, it seems the skill may have a higher heal potential then any of our other heals. This is assuming the heal in the spec is a single hit instead of overall.
Skelk Venom
6332 overall if per hit
1583 if overall
Withdraw
4683
Hide in Shadow
5805
Signet of Malice
3275
Anti-Toxin Spray
4275
This was on my Cleric’s set (you may ask why a thief has a Cleric’s set, short answer, experimenting. I have a Knight’s, Valkyrie’s, Berserker’s, Carrion and Soldier’s set too)

Drugs are bad for your health, bro.

BobbyT.7192:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Are-there-ever-going-to-be-utilities/first#post3303991

I would like to point out I called it,………..yay me :P

Well it was either healing trap or healing venom.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Auesis.7301:

Just experimented with it. It seems to:

- Get proper CD reduction with Quick Venoms
- Receive an additional attack with Residual Venom

But:

- Does not give Might with Venomous Strength
- Does not get additional damage and healing with Leeching Venoms
- Does not benefit from Venomous Aura

This was tested by changing the traits and comparing the additions to the code with existing Venom skills.

Ummm… So what’s the point of this skill again?

It’s prolly still in work, so some traits might not work/display correctly(i have traited vigor on heal and it wans’t mentioned in the tooltip) but cooldown of 45 seconds makes it totally rubish. Even if they double the numbers, 45 seconds are just WAY too much.

Ghostwolf, don’t feed him. It’s another rabbit like sudunksel.