Guild Wars 2

I’m rolling P/D and D/D set up with full condition spec, right now i have superior rune of the krait 5/6 and superior rune of grenth 1/6, i’m saving up for divinity, is it any good for condition damage build?

Heartseeker thieves is only effective when the target is at 50% health or below, usually in WvW, roll a glass cannon, find a zerg to go raid with, when they meet an opposing team, just pull out your shortbow and wait for someone to have 50% health and then you can go ape kitten on them with HS.

Cris Croix.2370:

Isn’t this thread called “Fantasy THIEF skills”? If so, then why do people keep bringing up Assassin’s when that class doesn’t exist in this game? Thieves are NOT Assassin’s, why is that such a hard concept for some people? It seems like more than half of the suggestions in here are based around the assumption that Thieves are Assassins, when in fact, they aren’t. Be more realistic or re-name the thread.

Thieves are assassins, they only named it because of steal and wanted it to be “diffrent” whether you like it or not.

EDIT: Anyway there’s no reason non of those skills won’t work on thieves except for balance reason.

TheRamosOnline.2670:

Blazer Hellsing, I really do wish it was.
The guardian in my guild whispered me to give him a hand with a thief who was grieving him in the EB puzzle, I went inside and almost as soon as I loaded, PHWOMP!
I’m pulled down, locked down, dead.
Didn’t even get to see him, the render engine wasn’t having it.
So after a respawn, I get some guildies together and give it another whirl; we wanted to clear the puzzle anyway.
The 4 of us go inside, coast is clear.
We jump down, phwamp. Guardian at 50%. Guardian at 10%. Guardian down.
Still can’t see what’s doing it. Engie down. Didn’t even notice his HP falling. Now I’m getting attacked. Still can’t see the thief. I pop every field I have ready, thief finally visible but I’m downed. Ele has no idea what he’s doing and hardly fights back before getting downed.
All the while he made sure to melee us to stop us from healing between HS.

So this wasn’t a bogstandard thief, this guy knew what he was doing, but that didn’t make it any less annoying.
:v

If you can’t see him and he’s attacking you then its a stealth bug where you can hit people while still in stealth, it happened to by in WvW by two different thieves, they would go in hide and still be able to attack you, i don’t know if it’s a bug or not, but i want that kitten they were rolling on.

Cyric.7485:

You played Rohan:Blood Feud, didn’t you? Love the assassin techniques in that game, lol.

Yup hehe

Ok for me thieves are hands down my favorite class to play, it’s the same with other mmos, i love the rogue archtypes.

Now this is for nostalgia because my first mmo i used to play an assassin and imo it has the best skills you can think of.

Ok now my fantasy skills i would love to see on my thief but prob won’t.

Death call- a modify scorpion wire, except it paralyze your target for 2sec, meaning it’s not a stun and it cannot be broken by any skill
Parry- (trait) 20% chance to block PHYSICAL attacks.
Silence- Disables your target’s skills. Lasts 4 secs.
Confusion Pouch- Confusion takes over for 8 secs. User in confusion does not receive damage. (you can confuse yourself or an enemy, you cannot move and use skills while under it’s effect.
(need different name than confusion since there’s already condition named after it.)
Sealing Circle- similar to the guardian hammer skill, a creates a circle that foes cannot get in or out for a duration. (10sec maybe)

TRAPS it will have similar appearance of a totem.

Ruin Trap- 20% drop in your target’s Defense if they are within the Trap Range. Lasts 45 secs.
Healing Trap- 15% HP recovered every 3 seconds for all party members within range. Lasts 30 sec
Heart Trap – 40% chance of stunning your target for 1 secs every 5 secs. Lasts 30 secs.
Scarecrow- 1800 damage given to random targets within the Trap’s Range. Lasts 60 secs.
Immobile Trap- Opponents that are inside the trap range will have a 30% drop in their attack speed. Lasts 30 secs.
Doom Trap- 15% drop in the Attack of your target inside the trap range. lasts 60 seconds
Strength Trap- Absorb 80 power from your target that’s within the trap range. Lasts 60 secs.

Demolition- 100% boost in damage dealt to your targets aligned at your location. 30% of the damage is applied as Poison damage. Lasts 15 secs.
Duplication- 40 % chance of exchanging your target’s health with yours. Lasts 10 seconds.

And my favorite….
Suicide- 90% chance of committing suicide with 3 targets. If it doesn’t activate, then you’re dead instead of your targets.

Beside backstab thieves are not OP, if they stand still for literally 2 sec with a greatsword warrior they will drop dead. And i’m talking about exotic warrior vs exotic thieves, seriously a thief can get pwned by just the freaking auto attack from the greatsword.

Condition damage is fine in PvE, but in PvP it’s very hard to stack enough on a player to do damage, specifically in WvW, and when you do stack enough they end up cleansing it, i still love the build and i’m still sticking with it even though i always get pwned with it in WvW.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Rannulf.9417:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Rannulf.9417:

Soulwatcher.2604:

When you guys hit 80 come back and post in this thread until then you have no idea what your talking about. Way points are 2s~4.5s each and repairs are not cheap. You guys are going to end up grinding hrs on end for a few gold that’s not going to buy you anything worth while on the trading post.

What da hell are you talking about? i swear to god the ignorance with every post you make is mind boggling.

By the way i have 3 char, thief, warrior and ranger all have full exotic which i brought just from gathering nodes whilst i was lvling and selling them on tp, seriously i think you just love to troll.

Clean your glasses because obviously they are all spotted up. Next time you sell on the trading post check and see what a vendor will give you. 45%+ of the high level items sell for less then what a vendor gives or just a few copper over. If your happy giving loot away by all means have at it!

you’re a kittening idiot plain and simple, don’t act like you know kitten.

Are you mad that you haven’t been checking vendor prices?

No i’m mad because i keep replaying to every stupid post you make. goodby i got better things to do than keep typing to dumbkitten.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Rannulf.9417:

Soulwatcher.2604:

When you guys hit 80 come back and post in this thread until then you have no idea what your talking about. Way points are 2s~4.5s each and repairs are not cheap. You guys are going to end up grinding hrs on end for a few gold that’s not going to buy you anything worth while on the trading post.

What da hell are you talking about? i swear to god the ignorance with every post you make is mind boggling.

By the way i have 3 char, thief, warrior and ranger all have full exotic which i brought just from gathering nodes whilst i was lvling and selling them on tp, seriously i think you just love to troll.

Clean your glasses because obviously they are all spotted up. Next time you sell on the trading post check and see what a vendor will give you. 45%+ of the high level items sell for less then what a vendor gives or just a few copper over. If your happy giving loot away by all means have at it!

you’re a kittening idiot plain and simple, don’t act like you know kitten.

Soulwatcher.2604:

When you guys hit 80 come back and post in this thread until then you have no idea what your talking about. Way points are 2s~4.5s each and repairs are not cheap. You guys are going to end up grinding hrs on end for a few gold that’s not going to buy you anything worth while on the trading post.

What da hell are you talking about? i swear to god the ignorance with every post you make is mind boggling.

By the way i have 3 char, thief, warrior and ranger all have full exotic which i brought just from gathering nodes whilst i was lvling and selling them on tp, seriously i think you just love to troll.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Rannulf.9417:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Thorp.7250:

Soulwatcher.2604:

So you want the item prices to keep going up and you want to make less money to buy the items?

I don’t recall saying that at all.

Prices only go up to a point which people are willing to pay. It is called a relative value.

If you flood the market with gold you inflate prices to unobtainable levels for new players. While it might make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside seeing big numbers it ruins the game.

The cost of crafting materials should always be less than the items they create. It wasn’t like that before.

I never said anything about flooding the market with gold. And its already to the point where is hard for new players to buy items. Anyone trying to buy exotic’s at level 80 today is going to have a very hard time.

no their not, exotics are easy, from lvl1 to lvl80 you gather nodes, ore, plant, trees whatever and you sell it, you will easily get more than enough to buy a full exotic set, so please don’t spout you bullkitten.

Kind of hard to sell materials on the trading post when most of them are the same price or less then a vendor would give you. Or did you not bother check that?

facepalm what game are you playing? cause it’s not gw2 evident by your ignorance.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Rannulf.9417:

Op is an idiot, he doesn’t want to be rich yet he said he amass 100g, if you don’t like it then you’re welcome to go back to that other mmo you came from.

Don’t worry friend in the end most people are going to go back to their old games.

That is very good, i don’t have to roll my eyes reading post like these.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Thorp.7250:

Soulwatcher.2604:

So you want the item prices to keep going up and you want to make less money to buy the items?

I don’t recall saying that at all.

Prices only go up to a point which people are willing to pay. It is called a relative value.

If you flood the market with gold you inflate prices to unobtainable levels for new players. While it might make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside seeing big numbers it ruins the game.

The cost of crafting materials should always be less than the items they create. It wasn’t like that before.

I never said anything about flooding the market with gold. And its already to the point where is hard for new players to buy items. Anyone trying to buy exotic’s at level 80 today is going to have a very hard time.

no their not, exotics are easy, from lvl1 to lvl80 you gather nodes, ore, plant, trees whatever and you sell it, you will easily get more than enough to buy a full exotic set, so please don’t spout you bullkitten.

Op is an idiot, he doesn’t want to be rich yet he said he amass 100g, if you don’t like it then you’re welcome to go back to that other mmo you came from.

Btw when is karma going to be account bound, we have WvW badges i think it’s only fair for karma it to be account bound

Oh god every time i go in WvW and go up against a gs warrior, i just run in the other direction cause when you use up all your dodge and stealth and the warrior is still standing, and this happens most of the time, you’re dead, a warrior can bullrush ,hundred blade, anyone who’s not a warrior and kill them instantly, the thief have similar build like pistolwhip, although it’s nerfed and can’t tell if they still hit hard since i don’t roll one, but as a condition thief, get ready to be pwned by warriors cause no matter how much bleed you stack on those mofos you will die from just auto attacks.

So what does the thief have?

P/P= damage is joke
D/D= condition sucks against plate classes
P/D= damage is laughable
S/D= Duel skill doesn’t work right
S/P= PW have been nerf.

So you either roll a backstab build, which i hate or S/P for PW.

I’m still sticking to my condition D/D thief and love getting pwned my hundredblade.

It’s amazing how freaking clueless you people are, P/W needed a nerf, i was full freaking exotic in WvW one week ago with acrobatic build and i got one shotted by P/W, so you either roll a warrior for damage play a build other than P/W spamming or kitten

About B/V, they need to remove the cast time, that is all. Stun breaker is quite useless in this game since most stuns last 1-2 sec and by the time you activate one the stun duration already ends.

Thief
>Pistol Whip: Reduced damage by 15%.
>Basilisk Venom: Increased stun duration to 1.5 seconds. Stun breakers now

Basilisk venom just become a little more awesome.

All the snowy zones, it like skyrim on steroids.

Kromica.2831:

They don’t glow if you enter a zone that it is already night in only if you are in the zone when it changes to night

Then it’s bug or should not be that way, it takes forever to turn night and when someone enter a zone and it’s night then by logic it should glow because it’s night, players should not have to wait in a zone for one hr to see if his weapons glow.

I got those daggers about 1 week and not one single time i saw it glow when it was night, what is the use having them?

My weapon glow, everytime i go when there’s night time like WvW, LA, or any other map my weapons doesn’t glow, i have two duel wield daggers and it saddens me when a warrior have a greatsword that glow (ghastly) and mine doesn’t, i was waiting for this weapon since i saw that game play about two years ago with the charr and the ghastly axe and i knew what i wanted, now i have it and the main reason for getting it doesn’t work.

Here’s an example.

Caulle’s Crossing, just to let you guys know, if you want to change to a diffrent server and start fresh or whatever you can join that if you want since it’s a low pop right now.

So i’ve reach lvl80 about a month now, full exotic and i’m bored (100% map completion). I’ve tried every class, and non bring me joy more than the thief, i don’t know what it is, but thief is so freaking fun to play ( for me) and i’m gonna create my second thief, now i’m thinking a charr, i love their t3 culture armor and i like the Roman legion attitude :P

Now all i need is Anet to fix the ghostly weapon glow, i have two weapons that don’t glow in night whilst the NPC one does very sad panda here.

Here’s two screenshot

btw there was a guy there with a greatsword that had the glow effect on it.

Kimbald.2697:

you didn’t do that alone.
Aren’t you one of those saying there are always people around?

I’m not trying to nargue with you for the sake of arguing, but there is a difference between playing by yourself while other s are there, and truly being alone in that area.

You can not complete a map alone. You only can do it ‘alone’ if at the crucial points other players are around too.

What I am saying is that on the mid pop server I was on this saturday afternoon, too many crucial map points were impossible… because I was truly the only player there.
As I said: it’s better on a new server this evening.

But that returns us to the fact of the matter: this game just isn’t designed to level alone, unless enough others are around.
And it does seem that a lot of people stopped playing, or if they do play, they aren’t in the mid-level zones…

There are people around but they don’t stay in one place, people spread out, just ask in map chat and you will see people, one of the problem i have with this game is people are too quite in map chat, if you’re feeling alone join a guild. But people are there.

I don’t know what game you people are playing, but i made my thief and did 100% world completion ALONE, when i need help for large events i ask for help in chat, i’m making a warrior now and doing the same.

You people just need to learn how to play the game.

Red Falcon.8257:

Drake hugging beats any crying

either you’re humping that draking or he’s choking on something.

The maps are freaking huge to see people everywhere, the only place where you gonna see everyone together is the starting zones, lion’s arch, and the major cities, everyone is spread out, they don’t stay in one place. And yes EVERYthing is solo-able except those group events, when one pops up ask in chat for help, if you can’t do that then sorry we can’t help you.

Game is truly beautifull, WvW, and the norn areas are simply amazing, reminds me of skyrim. Oh and i don’t think i’ll ever stand another fetch quest ever again, which makes up 95% of the mmo genre, so when i get bored of gw2, then i’ll stop and come back, and i don’t think i’ll ever played another mmo ever again, even if it’s new and shiny.

Oh god yes, Death blossom is good in PvE since i can spam it stacking 25 bleed in 5 sec along with caltrops, in PvP, bleed absolutely suck, your target will not stay in one place to stack enough bleed to do enough damage, heart seeker damage will suck cause you’re condition spec, and stacking 5 bleed before he removes it, our int. is depleted and he has all his skill ready to kitten us up.

P/D sucks too, there’s not enough damage with bleed and the skills are low damage, it’s simply for staying in the back and feel useful by hitting something, you won’t kill people with it.

It’s the same thing with p/p, unload suck balls, damage is low and anyone with half a brain can dodge it, and the second skill takes too long to cast and it’s useless, venerability itself is poor.

So what do we have here for burst damage thief? spamming backstab and pistol whip.

I love d/d thief i don’t care if it’s a condition build or burst just remove death blossom or remove bleed and add immobilize or some other kitten.

gw2 will soon go f2p truye story

Kimhyuna.1035:

As good as this game is … TL2 should be GoTY.
It is supreme quality from a small company.

I’m sorry, Tl2 will never be GOTY, while everything is good, the story was just an after thought, it was go here, kill this and loot, loot. IMO the real goty will prob be assassin’s creed, bioshock, broaderlands 2 and whatever is release, and i wouldn’t be suprise if gw2 makes it.

A lot of people came into this game thinking they will have an endgame base on stats or whatever, gw2 was never about that, if you game into the game expecting it then it’s you’re fault, yes the game needs to give people more reason to go back to lower lvl zone with high lvl character, but if you compare what gw2 has to offer with no sub fee, it’s a steal, and you might not agree if gw2 be GOTY, but those same crits who give it10/10 will be the same to give it goty, IGN/gamespot.

And yet their here on a GW2 forum posting, i don’t know about you but if i hate a game i move on, i don’t stick around on the forums.

EDIT: and i don’t trust that site, they give The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings an 88, it was the bestkittenrpg i ever played

I don’t mind if anet increase the prices for karma items or whatever, what i do mind is lvl a char to lvl 80 getting 45k karma and decide that char is not right for me, i decide to create another one and all that sweet karma going to waste.

Please make them account bound like the dungeon tokens.

Oh yea, i can survive good in PvE is the PvP i have trouble with, it’s not easy to get like 20k HP and then get one shotted my another thief using PW or a warrior using HB or whatever, this is not a L2p crap, thieves have super weak defense and traiting in shadow and acrobatic does not help. Anyway i’m bored of gw2 now and will check if they make any stride if not oh well. back to playing torchlight 2

I want to know this too, i was playing torchlight 2 and at lvl4 i got this stone that i can put into my crossbow that have this cool looking frost effect, i wish there were more of this in gw2. The weapons i know that have cool effects cost a lot of time and money, ie the dungeon weapons and armor. They should add special effect for every superior runes when you have six of them on armors and same for sigils, would be pretty cool. I hope they add it in the future.

I play a thief and i have approximately 18k HP in WvW and when another thief can downed me in less that 2 sec is not fun, what’s the use of stacking Vit and buying Valkyrie set when it’s useless and you’re gonna get killed by one skill in less than 2 sec? they need to nerf that damage.

So tree random players along two other players were doing CoF runs, after 2 runs and on the last, we were at the chest about to loot and finish the dungeon when the two players decide to kick three people from the party and we were unable to loot the chests since we instantly get kicked out of the dungeon. This is total annoying and needs to be fix, the whole pt should decide to vote if they want to kick said person not two people. I hope they improve this system since anyone can just act like kitten when they feel like it.

It’s the duelist set,and yes before you ask, i checked gw2db and guildhead and they don’t have any info on where to obtain it in PvE

here’s mine http://i.imgur.com/wLpox.jpg

Seriously for PvErs this is an annoyance, why don’t you make a separate completion for WvW and leave the PvE side of things in PvE, why have PvE and PvP separate then have the map completion include PvP also? and no the mist is not part of Tyria, it’s a complete different zone so it shouldn’t be include in PvE world completion.

combat speed, for the life of me i can’t see the reason why our combat speed is like everyone else, in WvW is very hard to fight melee in a zerg, it’s impossible right now to fight melee anyways. But why give a thief 25% speed boost when we can’t use it in combat? we’re suppose to be stealthy and fast yet we move the same speed like everyone else in combat, a couple of cripples is the bane of most thiefs since there’s a limit on initiative and steal, A sb rangers can span that kitten 24/7, traps and weapon skills of other class makes it difficult to fight in zergs. It’s the same situation in PvE also, especially in orr, it’s very hard to move around in combat when you’re slow as kitten. So make that our speed REMAINS the same in combat.

This will prob get lost in all this suggestions, but in hopes of one of Anet’s staff seeing this, can we have a visual display prahaps a green effect on our weapon blades when we activate a venom or poison? this will be really neat for the thief and make us look more kitten :P

They only have the vendor in the last zones for armor why not put for weapons too? better yet add accessories also.

another spam thread…

One of the first mmo i use to play have this, every guild will compete in a tournament from same server or world, every two week players would capture small forts on a battle ground, gain points and bragging rights. I would love for gw2 to have this, i don’t like WvW and everything you get in sPvP you can only use it there. Pls a.net consider this option for another pvp mode in the future, i and many others will love this.

I finish every map in PvE area save for 3 skill points that are currently bug, but i’m missing ALOT of vistas and PoI so do WvW vistas and PoI count?

Orr is not suppose to be kessex hills or the beautiful snowy mountains, orr is orr, it’s full of undead and everywhere is unpleasant, if you don’t like it then oh well, maybe wait till the next expansion.

As a thief playing solo i always dread going there, but i don’t mind, once i’m there i’m ready to kickkitten and finishing up the zone for 100% completion.

A lot of imo justified criticism about the p.story and how anet went about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aEla26siA0&feature=g-all-u