Guild Wars 2

Ok. I thought so, but wanted to confirm. Thx. Phaeton

I wanted to craft a Whispering short bow last night and from what I could gather from crafting sites it looked like I needed a Free token and Arcane Silver. There looks to be a chance to get a Vigil weapon, or a Whispering.

I did that 7 times and got Vigil every time. Before going through all my tournament tokens, I wanted to make sure that there actually a chance that I’d get a Whispering bow. Can anyone confirm/deny that?

Also, if this needs to be in Crafting, I’ll go there — I only saw pve topics there so figured I’d come here first.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

Thanks Revyri. I’ll switch around my P/d build a bit and go more toward yours. I don’t use the same utilities. One question is — would you go with nightmare over undead? I used undead on my condition trap ranger, then switched it out to Nightmare. the loss in total condition damage and toughness didn’t seem to be a big deal to me — and I loved the duration. Would that work here?

I might try that.
Plus, I wasn’t using CnD to it’s full effectiveness when I was first learning the burst build. I’ll probably try both agian. : ) thx again

ryokoalways.3450:

D/D Thief’s role in PvP is to be so that whenever anyone on the other team goes below 75% health, they have to be on the watch out for thief since thief can insta-gib that player. It changes the dynamic of a fight completely.

For Hot Join, full-burst thief isn’t as good for tagging and scoring points. Since most fights are zerg-fests, having that high of a dmg output doesn’t do much since you have more than enough other sources of damage with you. Reduce damage, increase utility, mobility and sustainability if all you want to play is hot join. However, if you want to play correctly, it’s better to just do 1v1 tourny queues, even if the map is ele/guardian haven.

I think you’re right on. Part of my issue is I don’t want to “get to know” a class in tournaments because I don’t want to be a detriment to my team so I play with things in hotjoin. That being said, hotjoin isn’t necessarily the best representation of that class’s abilities in tournament play. fingers crossed for a dueling system at some point.

I’m glad the OP posted this. I was going to come online this am and post the same thing. I’ve played the most games with Ranger I think (over 200 I’m sure, but I haven’t checked in a while), guardian/thief/mesmer a close 2nd (100ish each). With Ranger I’ve become pretty effective with a trap build and really like it. Like the OP said — I seem to have unreal survivability and I hold up really well, even in 2 v 1 situations.

I too wanted go to thief because I really wanted to be better at it. I played probably (guessing) 80 games as a glass cannon build and I just couldn’t get comfortable with it. I was getting hammered a lot. Sometimes I’d have a good kill, but many times people would take my initial burst and then I’d be screwed.
I switched to a p/d build (wild bill style) and was overall more effective than glass cannon — but I’d still get crushed if focused. I just don’t seem to have the survivability i’d like. I was playing that build without any kind of stun breaker, so that didn’t help (although I do the same on my ranger, and still am really effective).

Basically — ditto what the OP said. Keep the responses coming. I’d really like to get better, but so far it’s less enjoyable of a learning curve for me than ranger/guardian/mesmer all were.

Same problem as above. Never before the newest patch — only way I can get out is powering off via the power button.