Guild Wars 2

Thanks for all the answers. I was already switching weapons quite a lot and mainly using s/p + short bow for trash. I’m mostly disappointed by not being able to backstab so many bosses due to stacking and visual effects.

The only things that are still unclear is whether to use s/p or d/d for bosses that I can’t backstab and there seems to much disagreement as to which one is higher DPS. If the DPS is really close I’d probably use d/d as I like the evade on 3 and the stealth on 5 to get out of sticky situations. Also, when using s/p and not moving a lot (i.e. stacking in a corner) is it better to pistol whip or auto-attack? I’ve seen some people say that the auto-attack actually does more damage.

I just got my thief to 80 and was pretty excited about going with a dagger/dagger CnD+Backstab build, but I can’t even find the backside of most mobs/bosses with all the particle effects and stacking, thus finding it hard to land backstabs. Is this a case of learn2play or is dagger/dagger not optimal in dungeons? If it’s not optimal, what do most dungeon thieves run? Please tell me it’s not sword/pistol! Thanks.