Guild Wars 2

The point is: the currently setup is really really far from the one pre 6/23 last year patch. Previously, playing a different setup had a sense: D/D, D/p , S/D offered to you more playstyle; every single build offered a different things (the old 0/6/6/2/0 or 2/6/6/0/0 just to have an example)… Now you are forced to play always the same build, same gear, and the last patch seen d/d useless more than ever.
Thief needs to be as the pre 6/23 patch to be competitive. Previously Acrobatics had a sense, but now it’s such useless.
And this new trait on SA explain how Anet is cheating on us on regard.

That trait is such useless: 2 stolen boons with stealth attacks ( and you give us 1 sec ICD on them) and -10% dmg reduction if enemy has NO boons… here the funny thing: find out 1 single class who could fight without boons more than 1 sec; thief maybe? Or war? And the other classes whom we could have “problems” like druid, dragonhunter, scrapper, revenant, any tempest, any mesmer? Then If you chose Shadow Arts (instead of Deadly arts I guess), where the damage should came from?
10% damage reduction and these classes have perma boons, that makes this bonus useless. I rather roam with Shadow Rej at least…
I personally think that Anet give us some reworked kitten to cover them as “buffs” .
All venoms has been nerfed, they always have the SAME cooldown. Mesmers have seen a reduction (again, after the increase) of mantras for example…
Where Anet will bring us now?

really thanks guys, you helped me a lot, all is fixed!!

Is there a way to switch from 64 bit client to 32 bit again?
Since last patch I’m having many lag problems with high ping and low fps, and I would try with 32 bit client again.
Can anyone help me?
thanks!

But I don’t know how it works -_-

After the latest patch, the game is unplayable!!
Something is surely changed, and obviously I’m not a technician and I don’t know where and how to fix!
I’m always playing with more of 100 ping (everywhere in the game, pve, pvp, WvW) and low FPS. Never happened.
I’ve also installed the 64-bit patch, but nothing is changed obv.

So try to fix something please, or at least tell us how we could.

I also tryied to do something good with this fourth video montage.
I hope you appreciate it! thank you all!

I always look at Havoc video, In fact I’m a subscriber!
I really like his video, fight and montage are amazing!
We want more every month ahah

Basilisk attacks are unblockable… but I don’t understand why I can’t interrupt the shield of courage.
Obviously we all know basilisk doesn’t work on “invulnerable” skill (DH elite) , but the shield is a block (also the heal skill).
Why it shouldn’t work on these skills?!

We just hope Anet doing well his work…

take a look at this! I show 2 different builds
(links in comments!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3DXsc9Jk_Q

Who knows which are the formula for DPS and effective power?!

Staff 1,2,3,4 are really useless and slow, it’s only a spam of #5
A quickly class as thief cannot have a really slow weapon!!

Hi Guys for all who plays necro in wvw raid, what do you think about Transufions trait?!
Do you think the 20% recharge wells is better?
I’m looking for a good way to play necro in wvw raid, I often use this build http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgQBaAWoBNw~ with axe/focus obv
what about yours? What do you think?
Ty all! have a nice day!

Hi guys, I’m looking for some help.
Anyone knows if these 2 traits are bugged?
“Flawless Strike” and the minor “Keen Observer”. When I’m in combat (I have 53%crit chance) when my health is above 90% I can’t see on stats the +5% crit chance.
Same thing for “Flawless strike”. If I switch to “Signet of Power” I have the same critical damage if I’d chose flawless strike. So nothing change.
Can anyone explain me why? Is it a bug or I don’t understand how they work?
Ty all!

IGN : Ore Wa Itachi Da
playstyle: WvW/ a bit of PvP
Server: Gandara
Experience: I ve been playing thief for 6 months becomin my main char. My focus is WvW, roming with small groups, and raids GvG. I tried every kind of play, but i ve focused majorly on s/d pre-patch. Now I’m looking for some good playstyle with s/d (that i really like) and I have so many ideas yet. Sometimes I play on sPvP ( I’m Just lvl 49).

I ve not read all the comments here, but I think we ‘re talking about new patch mesms changes.
Who said mesms are not OP, I said : mesms are kitten OP.
I play mesmer as I play thief. With who say “thief, stealth, bla bla bla” now mesmers have more stealth than thieves… PU give them a random boons too, thing to not understimate.
Mind wrack deals more damage as well, and u can shatter every 10 second.
with a full zerk gear mesmers have a really high health, a thief can’t play with a full zerk gear cause he’ll has 11k health. MtD then, stun and daze together, instant cast, 1200 range, no time to recharge ( cause we all know that if you have the 2 mantra, the skills automatically recharge the 30 seconds). then reflection on every dodge. And this is the shatter one, without talk about the condition one…
Before the patch mesmer was a class, like thief, that you had to play as well, you could be suck as you could be the strongest. Now even a noob like me can play a mesmer!
So continue to say mesms is NOT OP…

I tried d/d build in wvw and I realized that it’s not good.
With the new patch opponent’s damage is too high, you can’t resist a lot on the same position spamming death blossom; then there are so many classes that deal their damage in ranged mode, how could you think to catch ‘em? Ranger, condi thief p/d, mesmers, engi, rifle warriors. You always have to stay on the same position, but now you can’t.
So I think is good in pve only.

I’m playing the same build (s/d SB) with critical strike instead deadly arts.
The only changes on mine are : Thrill of crime instead flanking strike and bountiful theft instead trickster.
However i’m starting to use another way to play without shortbow : s/d d/d with deadly arts instead acro (with 1 or 2 sigil of energy on swap).
I think acro is not so good as the pre-patch so I prefer deal more damage.

I’m still playing S/d, and I’ve managed some stuffs to make it batter as before, or I tried!
First of all, let’s say that playing a thief full berserker is now pretty impossible due to really low health, so first thing to do is replace some gear with Valkyrie (or soldier at least). This means lose some critical chance (If u take soldier ferocity also).
I’m still doing some try, but now I’m trying to play in this way:
the main changes comes from replacing Deadly Arts with Critical strike.
With critical strike i have a sort of perma fury, so around 65% , this gives me an improvement of critical damage (due to “no quarter” trait) – Rune of Pack- . I lose 70-80 power only instead of full berserker gear, but i have 1,4k tough, that gives me more survivability.
I tried, and the only thing that we could regret i think is “Mug” .

babazhook.6805:

While I think pack will be very solid those Runes of Evasion now look more usable as well and might just work.

This will really load on the ferocity on top of what you get from the CS line. You will go 0/6/0/6/6 of course and get a lot of evades and dodges. Fury shuts off you just dodge and turn it back on along with getting 5 seconds swiftness base. Why I did not use them bere was the 3 seconds fury was too low. With the ability to keep regenning fury using the CS line this no longer an issue.

These runes along with the CS traitline will allow a base of ~ 650 ferocity and will open the door to using all knights armor for added toughness.

I was thinkin about CS line, but for s/d I realized it’s a little useless.
Deadly Arts gives more useful traits, and unless I don’t wanna use DA, I’ll get on SA for sure…

I was thinkin about rune of rage too, but at least you will lose 175 power over 5% damage under fury… Idk, for now i’ll say Pack.
We should only see how many critical dmg we’ll have after the patch… if it will be high, pack will be useless i suppose…

Hey everybody! We all know that with the new traits system some things will change to our thieves playstyle; and I’m focusing on S/d SB thief, in particular for the runes to use!
We don’t know exactly how our stats will be balanced, but I think we can make some little consideration: the most important I think is the fact that thieves won’t have access to might anymore. Hidden Assassin won’t be in our build, as the same Power of Inertia.
So The point: Rune of Strength will be useless I suppose.
Which rune do you think will be more viable for s/d new build? Rune of Pack only?
Considering to choice in the build “Deadly Arts”-“Trickery”-“acrobatics”… which runes you would choice?
Let me know your thinkin about it!
Bye all!

Hey Guys, I ‘ve started to play s/d in wvw for a while instead d/d or d/p. The reason is for the high amount of dodges and because I think It’s quicklier than the other builds.

But unfortunally, the new meta is moved on d/p build, and I can’t hide that I’m finding a lot of difficulties with it being a s/d thief!
The fact that a d/p thief can go in stealth whenever he wants, and the high damage, it let me with no hope!
I play 20066 (with hard to catch, cause I play with a stun-break only, Signet of Infiltrator), but the only thing I can do vs the d/p build is just to use the shortbow as God commands!

So, Anyone thinks as the same way as me, or I’m just not a really good s/d player!?
I really Like this build, but I think It has so many malus against others, isn’kitten

Guardian, D/p, tank hammer Warrior are the classes that really can make troubles for this build!

What Do you think about it? Do you have any tips on regard?

See you All!

Hi guys, I want to share my builds with all of you that I run in WvW now, searching for some tips, cause I’m not totally sure about ’em.

This is S/D :
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAsYVl0MpwpdPx0J8PNBNB5dY+SZ0KAdHl+GEA-TVCEwAEeEAbVCyU5nhTAALVKyt/QH9BAOCAuUXhQAi2CA-w

And D/D:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoYVlsMpypdPx0J8PNBNBtdFGeI4uGrYGaFAA-TVCEwAp2fgwjAYrSQmK/McCAYpWRH9BAOCAuUVhMAVbB-w

I’m not totally sure because the relationship berween my Damage/Toughness in sot so high.
I take really high damage if crit hit ( by Guardian, Ranger rapid fire, Shatter Mesmer) and I don’t think my Damage is so high ( max backstab crit to an heavy armor 5k with all wvw stack and bloodlust… and I often see thieves doin’ 3k damage with lotus and wild strike…)
So I hope in you for some tips; what I could change and what improve!
Thanks for watching!
Bye Bye!!

Guys, how much the build 2/6/0/0/6 could be useful in WvW roaming?
I Used to play a D/D thief or condition, for more survivability, but I really like D/p, but when I play it in WvW It’s hard to survive… It’s the same build that I Use in PvP which one I can play really well.

Which change in WvW, Could you suggest to me a good build D/p for roaming?!

Really? Ranger can hit thief (stealth or not, doesn’t matter) with “Point Blank Shot” that cause knockback, as we all know, and then “Rapid Fire” that has 1200 range with a really high damage and vulnerability… I should dodge 12838 times to evade that skill… So my thief is dead with 2 skill, and you want fix some stuff on thief?
It’s ridicolous. You should ask for a less damage on your “rapid fire” skill! With the last patch this skill it was really OP!!

Hey guys!
What do you think about Sigil of Strenght over Sigil of Fire in a D/D thief?
Surely, it would be Sigil of Strenght and Sigil of Air.

So which is the best, Strenght and Air or Fire and Air?

thanks for your attention!
See Ya!

The only reason I m not using rune of ogre is cuz it seems that while Im in stealth, my enemy can see where Im, or makes an idea about that.
Now Im using rune of the pack for my d/d build (0/6/6/2/0) and sometimes with d/p one.
Im not thinking about scholar because the 10 % + damage is only above 90 % of my health, if enemy strike me just one time I have an health below 90% asap.
The main problem is with backstab damage that I think is really low

here my current build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoYVlsMpyplOx7J8PNBPRsdxQA3lbjddD-TFSDwAHODAPV+l4RAKBfpSBv9HApPAgJoYqrQKgn2CA-w

what do you think about it?
I’d really like to share each other opinion!

Rock dog, could be good… but it seems he follows me even while I’m in stealth… who knows this “trick”, it could know where I am.
So I decided to run Rune Of Divinity. It gives me just 90 power less than rune of ogre…

I know Strenght is the best, but for now, that i don’t have so much gold, I think I’m going to use divinity!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoaVlsMp8plOx7J8PNBNBt9wbQI8OMfpMaFAA-TlyEwAi2fIwpAgjOgkKzG8EAlgpUpQpSDNaDAYCal6KkC4ptAA-w

Do you think, guys, this rune could be useless for D/D ( also D/p) ??
What do you suggest to me ?
Ty all!

Make an other character! XD

Can anyone explain me why with sword as main, the choice of traits is different than dagger as main… sometimes I ve seen that S/D build is 2/0/6/0/6 but D/D or D/P is 0/6/6/2/0 .
Which change?
Thanks for your attention!

Hi everyone guys! Can anyone suggest to me a good build for roaming?
I don’t know if after new patch anything is changed.
I hope you could help me!

Peace!

Hi guys!
Could anyone help me saying to me what this armors are?!

I would do some cosplay in gw2 with my chars… what about yours?!

So, in that build, what can i change for run as well in WvW ?

Hi Guys!

I’m looking for some advice about WvW Necro build.
I’ve intrested about necro power build, but I saw that all of that ones had low toughness and health, so here my question: in WvW, could power necro build works even if I have low toughness and health?

I would run this one: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW3djc00SbNNO2whbiahC66MAmho6AqnjwoaB-TFDBABCt/gvKBzR9nuUaokSsFMxhlyAAuAAecQAUR3AFPAAGOCAkCYUlRA-w
but I’m not totally sure…

Can anyone tells me anything about these builds?