Guild Wars 2

Hey thanks for the tips in your post ^^

I’ve played around with it for a while and it worked out pretty good. The blind is indeed really useful while stacking thus making surviving a bit easier but the lack of damage is pretty big. Being able to only use your basic attacks and HS as a damage source is kinda sad. I’m currently just trying to play with D/D because the damage difference is pretty huge.

I also rolled with S/P for a while even tho I don’t really like the sword but in the end it seemed like I was wrong. After trying it, it seemed pretty satisfying to be honest, stunning mobs while they were charging an attack feels rather good. BUT I decided to practice D/D and SB, this way I won’t be a bother for my team mates.

If anyone has some tips for D/D survival then I’d be more then happy to read them.

Hey, thanks for the quick response!
I feel like I completely forgot my purpose of this thread (Sorry!)

Surviving with D/D is currently one of my biggest issues, when I’m playing Fractals or dungeons with my friends I’m always the one that ends up dying first. For this reason I played a dedicated P/P build for a while which was pretty nice to play with but it did indeed lack the damage that D/D has. Also I’m aware that the S/P is really nice for trash mobs but I can’t get myself to like the pistol whip. I don’t know if anyone can share some tips or just hand any type of advice as on how to survive with D/D in PvE content because I cannot seem to do it.

I’ve read the Dulfy guide you sent earlier already, the guide pretty much tells you the basics of every single thing that’s available to the thief which is really good but, I’m looking for something else. I’m trying to figure out why I keep dying instantly or fast in dungeons/fractals.

Another thing I want to know is if the pistol can be used in PvE beside S/P since I hate the sword (Due to pistol whip stopping my movement.) I know that D/P is used in PvP and sometimes in WvW but, from my experience it’s not that good in PvE.

Hi,

So… I’ve been playing thief for a while now and I’m trying to main the thief. So far I’ve been enjoying the thief a lot and I have about 400 hours on the class but things are still kinda off for me. I don’t really play a lot but I think I play more then enough to at least know more than the basics.

I currently play both PvP and PvE with the thief and haven’t really looked into WvW yet. When playing PvE I run D/D and SB which is alright with me, I’d prefer to play with P/P instead of SB but it seems like the short-bow is just much stronger since the D/D already does the single target damage. When it comes to PvP I play with D/P and SB. Again, I would love to run P/P but that just seems inferior compared to the other weapons.

So currently I’m really close to getting the Quip but I’m not sure if I should keep it or not since the only real place you use the pistol is in pvp/wvw I assume, however, I play PvE a lot more and as far as I’m aware you don’t really run a pistol on PvE. I would honestly love to just run P/P or P/D in PvE because I really like how the quip looks but I think this would just hinder those who I party with. Perhaps after the specialization the P/P might be better but for now it seems like the P/P is just bad ._.

So in short: Should I keep the Quip once I acquire and use pistol in PvE as well or should I sell it and buy another legendary? A buddy of mine told me to get Bolt but I’m not a fan of the sword on the thief, I don’t really know why but I just dislike it ._.’’

(This isn’t only about the Quip, it’s also a question whether the pistol is viable in PvE)
(Also if I made a mistake or if you think I said something horribly wrong in this topic please feel free to correct my mistake)

I’ll give that a shot when I get home, thanks for the tip =)

The only thing I had on mind with the build I currently use is stealth and at least some conditions, I wanted to test out torment’s power ^^ (which I’m not disappointed with) But indeed, running a hybrid build isn’t that smart with the current way the thieves build. But how about full bers with double pistols and just keep the stealth utilities, run with Haste or the power signet and just burst people down with your unload and whatever the skill’s called when you are stealthed and you use your basic hit. But ofcourse, running full bers just gets you killed unless you are 100% sure that you can take someone down :p

Hey,

So.. I’ve not been paying attention to the updates for my class but when I did I noticed the changes on my shadow strike… Time to take advantage of this new improvement

I play PvE a ton with my thief just because I love the double pistol combination and the single target damage from the thief is insane. I’ve got 250+- hours on my thief so I’m not like the all knowing thief player :p

After noticing the torment on Shadow strike I figured.. hey.. why not abuse this in wvwvw.. if we take the original permanent stealth idea and combine it with a condition build we should have something fun right? Correct.

I’m currently running with this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYEQRAqY8YlUmiP3eS6E/5Ex2DguTiyzooI1/AZB-jkxAYrBRnDLiGb1sIasaGMNKRUtHpIa1A-w

It’s something I just put up today and used yesterday when practicing my idea with a friend of mine. I’m assuming that generally you’ll be facing more the one person in WvWvW so I think the stealth aspect of this build will come in handy ^^ being able to enter stealth whenever you want is great because you will need the stealth shot from your pistol hit, this gives the enemy free 5 bleeding stacks and if done correctly this should remove about 15-20% HP, now include torment and it’ll be 25% if the enemy doesn’t know about standing still when hit by torment. That’s just with the stealth hit (5x bleeding stacks+the damage dealt when shooting those bleeding stacks+torment from shadowstrike). Now we include Cloak and dagger, more basic hits and just general stealthing. With the 100% crit chance you’ll deal about 5k with your first shot and after the burst from your pistol (the 5x bleeding stack thing) you’ll deal another 4k excluding the bleeding damage.

I think this might be pretty useful and I am NOT sure if someone else already posted something like this =< I just wanted to throw this out here and share ^^

If someone has a change or new idea for the condition/torment build then please give me a heads up ^^