Guild Wars 2

Damage sounds nice, but is it worth the trade off for the bonus ini or other things you gain from acro towards survival??

What heal are you using Kaliny? I find SoM really really good for a double dagger combo with acro/trick/DD, when ever I use withdraw etc I feel much more squishy, where as on low HP with SoM I can heal up very fast passively whilst dealing out the damage. also using geo with energy to keep the bleeds stacking up heavily, might try a leech as well, good for entertaining multiple enemies!

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tbh most thieves I found in ranked have no idea of what is their role and they just go mid and die like flies from aoe.
Decapping can be done by many other classes and it’s also quite hard to find a thief good enough to win 1v1 I can’t even imagine 1v2.
I’d like to play thief if it would be viable cause the class is fun, I believe right now you need to be a top player to make this class barely acceptable.

I’ve no problems at all in unranked or hotjoins but since ranked is suppose to be an harder competition where one liability can bring down points to the whole team members I don’t see why people need to go there running crappy build/class in this specific game. Just to prove that you can play a crappy class but outskill your opponent and still win sometimes.
Few classes/builds are better then other so what’s the problem? Grab one of those and play it while you wait for patch if it will ever come.

I find this the complete opposite. No one knows how to play with a thief!! I mean seriously a thief will make your life 100x easier. When I go far, THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU GO FAR, it means I am stalling the opponents by 1v2ing. That means we can hold mid longer, get more points and win. And when I 1v2 I can quickly disengage, come to mid and join the fight all while wasting the enemy’s time.

Basically the last thing you said in a nutshell. He amount of times I find myself at far with 1/2/3 people trying to kill my bouncy Thief with SoM healing constant.. And then team mates decide to pukitten a time to die or even lose out when heavily out numbering the others .. OR chasing one class down off point and losing the node due to not fighting on node! But blame the Thief for going far and distracting them, sure.

If I were a DH and one shot with my traps, they’d have been happy though. The thing is we won.. Easily so why he felt the need is behind me. Even when I stated the facts about resses/stomps I’m still a kitten thief. Lol.

Yes it’s a cheese build but playing staff - vault I find ineffective m, it just takes longer to kill people in my exp, & as DB lotus I can hop to a DH, dodge his trap, LoS with a few bleeds and then finish them off .. So it’s war of the cheese

….Wait a little background info – I play condi d/d – d/d build and can hold my own very well. So.. Back to my topic, I queued ranked, team went mid – I followed, got there perhaps 3rd (seconds after the rest) after killing the NPC for point on cap bonus, spammed my bleeds blah blah, times impact strike to Insta down, shadowstep stomp and res team mates and then hold the point out numbered. We won, quite easily..

I leave the map happy with not dieing and not letting any of my team mates die, and then.. I receive a whisper telling me I was carried all the way through the game.

Is this Thief hate just into the realms of kittened?

kitten IPHONE STOPPING MY POST!’

….Wait a little background info – I play condi d/d – d/d build and can hold my own very well. So.. Back to my topic, I queued ranked, team went mid – I followed, got there perhaps 3rd (seconds after the rest) after killing the NPC for point on cap bonus, spammed my bleeds blah blah, times impact strike to Insta down, shadowstep stomp and res team mates and then hold the point out numbered. We won, quite easily..

I leave the map happy with not dieing and not letting any of my team mates die, and then.. I receive a whisper telling me I was carried all the way through the game.

Is this Thief hate just into the realms of kittened?

I understand that getting somewhere faster and recapping +1 ing is our thing, however my main query is if anyone else can and is still able to stack stealth up for more than 4-5 seconds

I saw a recent video, or a couple (can’t remember which) and there was a teef doing the HS in smoke field to stack at least some stealth. Is it basically stealth just before you steal > backstab now? With the possibility of using a CND (if going d/d) to add some stacks on when reveal is leaving?… I just haven’t seen anything recent about not being able to stack stealth via this method

I swear I’ve been doing double heart seekers but stealth isn’t stacking up. Even tried bounding as well or instead of but to no avail.. It’s not that I’m having an issue build wise, just really don’t know why stealth isn’t stacking :-/!

Hi peeps. I’m fairly new to the game and currently play a condi d/d – d/d build and succeed well (I am only first tier granted) I do how ever wish to play a build that uses might stacking for a huge backstab and then an impact strike chained into it for a huge burst -> Insta stomp.
I have created this build, with variants on + dmg % as passives HOWEVER. I cannot seem to stack my stealth up in #5 with heart seeker… I did used to do this whilst leveling up (100% completion as I’m OCD) but now when I try this it just doesn’t work. Max im getting is 4-5 seconds? Do I NEED to use Shadow Arts?
Could someone please explain what I’m doing wrong now? Is there a specific trait I’m forgetting for example? I’ve been trying 3xHS and a bound finisher for the 10% damage + stealth duration but to no success…

Build : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoaVn0MBNOhFOBeOBkmiFYCbrDscSBzdwT4KULBEAyAA-TpRBwAROEAX3fYcZANHBgHnAAAPAAA

Thanks, Z

edit – build link

You don’t mean ’ > ’ that means greater, I thought you meant it was some kind of rune that destroyed our new elite spec already lol.

Sounds cool though

Wow! What can I say! What a great community. I have recently joined the GW following after taking a long break from gaming, which came down to the community being toxic! (WoW) it’s great to see people helping each other like this, and even in game where you throw a res out or events, champions etc! Fantastic to be part of. And to be cheeky, like most here! I’d really love one of those mining/lumber/sickles that don’t ever run out – they feel like a big sink to my very limited gold (my only char, and first attempt at GW)

Thanks in advance if anyone could be so kind, can’t wait to help out too!!

Hi all, I’m a newbie to GW and haven’t really done much PvP (nor have I established the terms you all use for the different kinds of PvP..!) I have played WoW basically from vanilla, and had quite some success achieving gladiator a few times and having a high rank pre TBC arenas. However, I find myself a little lost with all of the different abilities I can prune to make my own spec.. basically, are there any cookie cutter builds I can use that allow me to survive enough to not get destroyed from a tiny mistake, let me burst quite hard, do SOME (not a lot, but some sustained DPS) and give me the swift movement a Thief should have? not to mention be stealthed a lot. I’ve seen people mention a Trap build, and that being perma stealth (?) how do you achieve permanent stealth, I’ve only just hit 80, and this is my first toon so I have no idea.. can anyone point me out several specs with different play styles so I can have a look please?

Regards

Z