Guild Wars 2

Ohh spear is underwater, ok that sucks. I never like underwater combat. What other weapons are suggested for PvP ? What about Greatsword ? I personally would prefer a 2h type weapon, any suggestions?

I am confused about the warrior’s weapon, as far as I know, warrior can use a very large range of weapons, from sword to bow, to rifle. Just a stupid question, because I seen a guide and I haven’t seen it mention a Spear. Can warrior use a spear ? If so, what are the suitable traits for it and which attributes should I be going for?

Thanks in advance!

Nevermore.3820:

The above post is good, but sometimes having someone show you around a bit in game is very helpful, I noticed you post is only a few minutes old so if your on line feel free to hit me up in game and I’ll be happy to give you the dime tour.

Just type /w Nevermore.3820 and If I’m on you’ll get in touch.

Will do, if you see this reply, I’ll be on in 10 mins, so I’ll PM you once you’re on, hopefully you’re still on.

@The rest – Thanks for all the very useful and detailed information ! I will look into it when I get back in-game!

So I’m level 10, close to 11. I’ve finished 11/17 quest ( the orange heart symbol ). I tried to search for the rest 6 of ‘em, but I couldn’t find any when I scout through the map by pressing M. I have been walking around looking to see if there’s any quest that would pop up usually but it doesn’t anymore.

Anyway, my ultimate motive and question is to ask what can I do now to level up quickly ? Because my story quest right now is at a level 20+ place, which I tried going there and obviously I died, needless to say. Any suggestions from the Pros and Kind people?

Alright, will do. I hope to keep you posted on what’s going on with my progress and my doubts if I have any, hopefully I would be able to leave you a PM from time to time.

Thanks for being so helpful!

Ahh ok, so now I believe you mentioned it before, now when I change to Sword / Dagger, my skills that are hotkeyed below will be change to a different set ? Or at least, some of it?

Which would be ideal for leveling for now ? Sword / Dagger or D/D ?

Ahhh, I see. So right now I have a Sword in my inventory, and 2 daggers that I’m wearing atm, so can I use the sword / dagger combination now ? If I were to use it, should I put sword in main hand or dagger in main hand or it doesn’t matter ?

Add-On ; For the unlocking the weapon, do I have to press H and unlock it from the left side of the panel before I can wear Sword / Dagger ?

Ok, so basically am I correct to say before I get those skills that I mentioned above, I won’t be able to use any combo?

Oh and, I have 1 more question, I can only use different combination of weapon like Sword / Dagger only after when I reach level 7 ? Is there a way to tell it ?

Diak Atoli.2085:

Wonders if Daniel Lee is talking to someone behind him.

Before I answer your questions, and I’m quite happy to, might I suggest [url]wiki.guildwars2.com[url]? Aside from some mechanical misinformation, the rest is quite good!

Now, onwards!

Combos are interactions between a Finisher and a Combo Field. You generate a combo by using the finisher inside the field, which produces some kind of effect.
Finishers: Blast, Leap, Projectile, Whirl
Combo Fields: Dark, Ethereal, Fire, Ice, Water, Smoke, Lightning, Poison, Light
— Example: A whirl finisher inside a fire field produces bolts that set nearby foes on fire.

As for your second question… Welcome to thieves. One of their main mechanics is called the Dual Skill. The first two and last two weapon skills are determined by the weapon in that hand. The third skill, or dual skill, is determined by the combination of weapons. Note: two-handed weapons don’t have a dual skill, merely a third skill.
— For example, your dagger/dagger setup has two main-hand dagger skills, Double Strike (Chain) and Heartseeker, two off-hand dagger skills, Dancing Dagger and Cloak & Dagger, and the dual skill, Death Blossom.
— If you switch your main-hand weapon to Sword, you would gain the main-hand skills Slice (Chain) and Infiltrator’s Strike, and the dual skill would change to Flanking Strike. You would skill keep Dancing Dagger and Cloak & Dagger, because those are tied to your off-hand, and not the entire dagger/dagger setup.

As for my opinion on dagger/dagger? Well, I do run both sword/dagger and dagger/dagger.

Ok, I got most of the part, but still, not the combo. How do I generate a Finisher inside a field, and what’s a field? Since you said by using a combo, I need to generate it by a Finisher, so.. Heh, mind explaining?

I read the link that Stooperdale gave, I went into the Combos table for Thief, and I went through it, can I say that the reason I can’t use combo now is that because I don’t have the skills that it mentions? Like Dancing Dagger, Heartseeker, Death Blossom, this 3.

Diak Atoli.2085:

Velcome to da ranks of da Thieves!

To start with, your base amount of stats are automatically increased when you level up, to a total of 918 in Power, Precision, Toughness and Vitality at level 80. You artificially increase these stats through spending points in specific trait lines and equiping armor, weapons, and trinkets.
- Trait lines provide benefits as well as the aforementioned stat boost, so choose wisely. (Trait points can also be refunded if you want to try something new or make a mistake.)
- Depending on what build you want to run, you’ll choose from several sets of equipment with differing combinations of stats. Some of the more common ones you’ll hear about are Berserker’s, Assassin’s, Soldier’s, and Knight’s.

As for leveling up, go with what you like! Figuring out what weapon sets, equipment builds, and trait builds is what makes it fun. Personally, I stick to melee on my thief, and was switching between Dagger/Dagger, Sword/Dagger, and Sword/Pistol while leveling.

To clear up some information:
- You unlock the ability to swap between two different sets of equipped weapons at level 7.
- At levels 5, 10, and 20, you unlock the three utility skill slots.
- At level 30, you unlock the elite skill slot.
- When you first start using a weapon, only the first skill will be unlocked. To unlock the rest of the weapon skills, you earn experience from killing mobs with that weapon. The more experience per kill, the faster the skills unlock.
-Tooltips:
— Any damage listed on a tooltip is direct damage applied to the target.
— Tooltips will list conditions, and the duration/overall damage of the condition, seperately.
— Tooltips will also list information like skill range, number of targets, buffs you gain, etc.

Hope this helps!

Hi , thanks a lot for your reply and I really appreciate it. After looking at what you wrote, I believe you have a huge experience regarding the job Thief.

I have a few doubts before I move on, how could I use finisher, or how could I use combo? They say that a skill can do a lot of things, but that is the part I do not understand.

Second thing would be, if I wear Sword / Dagger, would I get a completely whole new set of skills of the skills will be the one that I’m having as Dagger / Dagger ? I’m currently using Dagger / Dagger, and I prefer this set and I think it’s great, your opinion?

Sorry for taking up your time and I appreciate and awaits your reply!

I see, so which means now if I get shortbow, I will get a completely whole set of skills to unlock from 1 – etc? Oh and also, can I add attributes at H ? Or it’s automated as I level up?

Will do, yep I understand the dodge/ attack thingy, getting used to it in some MMORPGs. Anyway, how do I obtain a Pistol / Shortbow ? And which combination would be better ? Shortbow / Dagger or Pistol / Dagger?

Wow, ok thanks. I’ll look into my #3 skills. Are there any helpful tips you could give out to me as a beginner Thief getting on my journey ?

Ahhh I get it, so right now I’m using Dagger and Dagger, my #3 skills is a skill that cause condition damage to monsters ? Oh and now I get it about the Caltrops utility skills, what you mean is I’ll get them eventually as I level up, yeah?

Caltrops? How do I get Caltrops? What’s a ultility skill? Sorry, don’t get either of that, but for the rest I do. Please tell me more about Caltrops utility skill. And what’s the d/d #3 that you’re mentioning about?

nagymbear.5280:

You can view stats of your character by pressing H (as in Hero), or clicking on the icon in the upper left corner that looks like a sword and shield.

I mostly used power stats. At lower levels your crit chance and crit damage won’t be that great, so you get more out of power. Most PvE content is trivialized when you get to know the tells (visual indication of using some special skills) of mobs. Sword/pistol and shortbow are great for leveling. Mobs attack slowly, so you can just stand in the blind field applied by pitsol #5 and use sword autoattack to kill most mob types out of water. As opposed to dagger, swords cleaves (you can damage up to 3 mobs in a frontal cone range). You can also go all condition damage, but thief weapons don’t have that many sources of condition damage.

Hi, first of all thanks for all your useful information, I really appreciate it, but at the same time, my mind is fill with so much more new things and terms after reading your passage.

I’m using Dagger / Dagger now, is it wise and good? I personally really prefer that set despite anything else. Secondly, so I assume what you’re saying is, go for Power now? Oh and, what’s Condition ? Is it AKA Critical ?

Sorry and I hope you’ll be able to spend the short amount of time answering my doubts, very new here.

I realized I posted on the wrong forum, Staff please delete my thread on the Player Helping Player section.

I have just started Guild Wars 2 not even 2 hours ago, going good so far, but one thing has been bothering me ever since I created my Human Thief.
I get to choose at times after certain quests, between 3 types of stats, Power, Vitality, Precision, I’m puzzled which one should I go for each time I get to choose between.
Should I go for Power OR Precision? Because I think Vitality is out of the choice. Please do guide me along my question, and I will really appreciate it.
PS – How can I add my stats of my character and how do I open up my character screen?
Thank you.

I have just started Guild Wars 2 not even 2 hours ago, going good so far, but one thing has been bothering me ever since I created my Human Thief.

I get to choose at times after certain quests, between 3 types of stats, Power, Vitality, Precision, I’m puzzled which one should I go for each time I get to choose between.

Should I go for Power OR Precision? Because I think Vitality is out of the choice. Please do guide me along my question, and I will really appreciate it.

PS – How can I add my stats of my character and how do I open up my character screen?

Thank you.