Guild Wars 2

I do agree with you but for different reasons. I never understood why put PvE elements like dungeons, vistas, POI, jumping puzzles in WvW specially when there are alot of people only there to do this PvE elements.

Is really frustrating when there are a lot of people doing the dungeon or jumping puzzle and we lose a tower or keep because we dont have enough people helping.

It would be ok to have those kind of things if it didn’t keep the players from helping other in the battles.

I’m a Thief level 80 looking for a decently sized guild to represent. I play WvW, PvE and sPvP but I’m still new in this part of the game. I log in daily at last 1 or 2 hours, but usually I play more than that. I have a headset too in case the guild have some kind of real-time voice chat.

I’m only searching guild in Stormbluff Isle since I don’t wanna change servers.

Auflauf.1679:

…having three illusions up all the time during a fight is kind of annoying, but the “too much stuff on the screen” thing is a general problem of GW2 (at least in pvp).

This is something that truely bugs me… I don’t think you should be playing Mesmer at all. They are meant to have a lot of “stuff on the screen”. If it is annoying why would you chose mesmer?

I really enjoy my Thief in WvW, I run a Cleric set and a combination of Cleric and Soldier trinkets.

Traits: 25/0/25/20/0
Main weapon set: Sword/Pistol
Secondary weapon set: Shortbow
Heal: Signet of Malice
Utilities: Scorpion Wire, Shadow Refuge, Signet of Shadows
Elite: Dagger Storm

My damage is not to great but the amount of heal is really great combined with Assassin’s Reward. I can tank and control the crowd when a clash against another server is inminent. If I’m taking to much damage Dagger Storm heals me really fast and if it is not enough I cast Shadow Refuge.

Start chosing what you wanna do and then chose your weapon set. Chose your traits and then your armor based on that.

First get out of you WoW shell. Any class has a primary role, when you realize this your mind will be open for new posibilities. The Thief has a lot of potential an is a lot of fun.

Take it easy guys, they need to save some content for expansions

If you are going for a DPS build with few vitality then you should use P/P as your main set and use S/D or D/D or Shortbow depending of what you wanna acomplish when a clash between armies is coming. You wanna keep distance, use the shortbow; you wanna do decent damage and disrupt, use S/D or S/P, if you want to be able to chase your enemy to finish him use D/D or P/D.

I’m using a controller build for my thief with my main set S/P and my second set a shortbow.

The good thing about this game is that all the weapon sets are viable but you need to build your trait and armor acordenly to it. If you don’t you will fail. I recomend you going to PvP just to try builds with the dummies, that woked really good for me and I love how my thief does his job in WvW.

Rewarding bonus stats it’s never a good idea. The server who manages to get the 3 orbs get such an advantage that the other servers stop trying.

Bonus gold, experience, karma, magic find, etc. should be the stats that a server should get for having an orb, something that don’t encorage others servers to give up the fight.

BTW I’m not saying all the players in the server give up but a lot of players does, and this weakens the hole server as an army.

This is not the right forum…

You may want to post it here.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds

This is my opinion and I hope you don’t take it like harass or some more “shut up and learn to play” kitten, we already have to much of that. Play another class, you would enjoy the game more.

I only agree with you about the poisons, specially the Basilisk Venom, they feel really underpower, they don’t do anything that I can’t do with my weapon skills (exept for the elite but still is only 1 strike and 1 second of petrification, for me it’s just another stun but I still need to confirm this).

About stealth: the stealth works great and Cloak and Dagger may be hard to hit if you dont spend time practicing it. It was hard for me to learn but the reward is good enough.

Hide in Shadows is a skill that I really like but I don’t use because Signet of Malice has much more sinergy with the role I want to play (Controller Thief). It stealths you and cures poison, burning and bleeding. Besides you get regeneration over ten seconds. Yes, the cast time is big but if you use it just to stealth you then you are looking in the wrong place.

Shadow Trap is another abillity that works very well for ambush or scapes in pvp or pve with 5 seconds of stealth, speciallly for the first one. To be able to escape with this skill requires a lot of skill. But for ambushes your opponent will never know what happaned and with a little of luck and skill your oponent will be confused enough time to take him out.

Shadow Refuge and Blind Power are skills that lets you stealth almost in the instant. Shadow Refuge helps a lot as a defensive ans support skill while Blind Power brings utility in the offensive line.

Hidden Thief is a trait of Shadow Arts that gives you 2 second stealth when you steal, for me one of the best traits lets you confuse and play with your enemy combined with other skills.

We have Smoke combo fields that will help us to get into stealth from diffent ways too.

As you can see we have plenty of stealth of options but you have to adapt to the mechanics.

Gimmik? if you talk about our spameable skills then you could realize that someone that abuse this “atribute” of our class could be easily beaten by anyone else since not everyone are built squishy, no matter if they are elementalists or other thieves. If you spend all your initiative spaming just one skill you will find yourself in more dangerous sitiontions than if you think a head and administrate it to confuse, dodge and damage your oponent, because after all that’s what means to be a Thief.

I do not have any problems with the skill Steal but the unique attribute related to it.

Ok, gonna explain it fast, simple and citing the official wiki.

Control: is the act of manipulating enemy movement, damage, as well as many other game mechanics. Correct use of control is a way to turn the tide of the battle. It is one of the three main elements of the combat system, the others being damage and support. For more information: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Control

Support: is one of the three main elements of the combat system, the others being damage and control. It consists of providing increased effectiveness and survivability in combat via additional healing, boons, defensive actions like blocking or cloaking as well as combos. Supporting is a way for players to work together to accomplish a shared goal. For more information: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Support

Damage: is any effect from an action which results in a target losing health. Damage is considered to be one of the three facets the Guild Wars 2 combat system is built around, the others being support and control. All professions are able to deal damage in a useful way, mostly by using skills. For more information: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage

Try to inform yourself, you may find usefull information. I’m a Thief/Controller, to acomplish my role I use Toughness, Vitality and Healing Power, I spam blind and stuns and when a find my self or other ally in problems I use Shadow Refuge. Thanks to the diferent poisons and traps there are diferent ways to do my job. Try experimenting!

Actually I crafted the equip I’m using right now and I gathered all the materials by my self. Maybe it’s to much work for you but this is the first time I enjoy crafting in a game. My next stept is gather materials for my exotic armor and craft it. By the way, I reached 75 from 70 only crafting in just 1 hour, and made it easier reach 80. The experience from crafting is really good.