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Try playing one. You will probably be terrible, at least at first…
orly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hh5zjK7ITpQ#t=77sThen some one tries to copy cat this video until they discover the heartseeker and assassin’s signet nerfs.
Yeah, there have been a few balance patches since then, but you can still roll a thief and go straight derpmode and win a fair amount of the time, certainly more than anyone mashing 2 should. Sure, damage numbers are different now, but you still see some thief players that love their 2 key more than life itself and the sad/kinda funny thing is that a lot of the time they still walk away with a kill.
Point is that thief doesn’t have the highest of skill floors.
Try playing one. You will probably be terrible, at least at first…
orly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hh5zjK7ITpQ#t=77s
Troll-full-evade-full beastmastery-soldier’s amulet spec Inc :p
I’m thinking of “Beware of Dog” or “Proud Pit Bull Owner” for a name
The vick.
Gonna need a lot of vigor uptime to evade the authorities while your pets do work.
My opinion: you’re not going to be able to compete with ele and guardian bunkers. Necros just don’t have the same sustainability options that those two have. We can get kinda close to the same ballpark, but it won’t be the same. We mostly are just really good at getting hit in the face with a large health pool.
Since the actual healing capabilities of necros aren’t stellar, it’s good if you have a lot of ways to regen LF quickly, and have a lot of LF/toughness so that you can take hits in DS.
I would say go at least 20 pts in soul reaping for the 15 pt minor and soul marks. Other than that, maybe 10 or more in death to get some toughness and staff traits or reapers protection. After that, just build for your preference and you will still be naturally on the tankier side.
If you want an example of pure tankmode, maybe try this…
Disclaimer: I’m not amazing at making builds, so just use this as an outline and make appropriate tweaks.
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http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW4YjMap7hbab87JApHPDdzTK4ObKFwzOA;TsAg2Croay0koJbTumkNt8Y4xOAA
I’ve used this to moderate success. It has lots of stunbreaks and escapes, decent condi removal, fair amounts of mini-heals via spamming dagger 2 + toughness on channel trait, and a good amount of LF regen (Spectral armor + dagger 2 = godmode). Only glaring issue is the pretty poor damage and ‘meh’ amount of bleeds you can stack with it. I find that BiP+staff2+darkpath+sigil of geo swap+dagger5 gets a fair amount of stacks, and with the might stack bonus it ticks for over 100 which usually gets the glass cannon builds to back off.
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Barring the fact that this is WvW…
1. Don’t build for a glass cannon.
2. Survive the initial burst.
3. Thief ends up running away