Guild Wars 2

kateuk.7538:

I think my main problem is that I can’t get my head around the thief and it’s abilities. The thief seems quite melee based and I do prefer ranged. Yes I know that the thief has ranged abilities too. I’ve been using pistols a lot, for the ranged abilities.

Dual pistols aren’t very good.

Grab a short bow, it’s easily one of our top three weapon sets.

Thieves become very strong in pve it’s just the first few levels we struggle with. I’ve had no problems doing story quests 6,7 levels higher than me on my thief.

Personally i would suggest going Dagger/Dagger + Short bow. Trait for initiative regeneration(20 Critical strikes; Signet of power, Signet use. 15 Trickery; Thrill of the crime).

Signet of malice, Signet of shadows, Assassin’s signet and Roll for initiative as utilities. And as your elite either pick Thieves guild of Blade storm. I prefer guild’s for when i’m in trouble.

You run in and spam death blossom, While rolling around gaining might then pop steal when you’re low and continue to pop signets at your will to regain initiative while spinning around bleeding large groups of monsters to death.

I very rarely die. But this build did not come into it’s own until around level 30 or so. On the rare occasion i run out of initiative(Very rarely) all i do is use my daggers number 4 skill which slows large groups of mobs and kite them around for a bit untill either they all drop from bleeding to death or i have more cooldowns/initiative for more bleedings.

One of my other favourite pastimes is to run into large groups of nasties with my short bow and spam cluster bomb in melee range while detonating it for massive aoe bleeding and damage.

The only problem i have is with the nasties who put condition damage on you, they really mess up your day, but this is easily fixed by swapping Malice for Hide in shadows.

Hope this helped.