Guild Wars 2

Ekemeister.8905:

If this is inspiration, then C&D spam is a legitimate part of the game.

Its legit, anyone who says otherwise, either dont play thief or if you play thief, you hate stealth.

Is this really true? I could have sworn that this is how it always worked.

Maybe all my steal cooldown moments have been suppressed because it was so traumatic and annoying

Thanks for the motivation! I made it, jewelcrafting at 75 and monthly done

Im not a crafter, congratulations to me, I cant complete the monthly.

/sad

Puzzle is a great place to pick my 1vs1 fights, I spend all my day in the puzzle killing people, solo.

I know that a lone thief isnt the problem in the jumping puzzle, big group of campers are, so I do it with a good conscience.

But I do have a big grin on my face when I succeed holding people back in their puzzle progression.

So Executioner > Hidden Killer once you reach around 63-66% Crit-Chance (and that’s with berzerker and valk gear, using gear without crit damage (Knights) will move the results so Executioner is better.)

Do you mean that if you use knights gear (Power/toughness/vitality), Executioner is better than hidden killer?

Oh dear stealth, why did you leave me, we had such fun times being invisible.

You were always there for me, keeping me safe when i fought against greater numbers and bad odds.

I was rushing into battle with a big grin knowing that a battle against 5 was in my favor.

Now it is no more.

Reveal debuff is 4 seconds and there is no culling, makes it alot harder to fight against more than 2 people.

Its a sad day for all lonely thieves out there.

You are most likely seeing the culling bugg, thief backstab you and you cant see him, when you can see him for a brief short moment his reveal debuff is gone and he just stealth again.

You cannot stealth during reveal debuff unless using hacks.

Evilek.5690:

Eli Stormstrike.8637:

Hey, so what I’m wondering is whether it’s a simple matter of transmuting a chosen mask and the Thief default hood in order to get the appearance of the character below, as that is what he did, by combining the look of both the Hood and Mask into one headpiece.

I’ve tried the solution laid out in other threads as to how to get the Hood to become Account Bound, but I’m not sure whether the Hood and Mask combined into one or whether only the Hood’s appearance was saved, since I cannot wear it yet, my alt being too low level, and the preview only shows the Hood.

Thanks in advance.

Look this =)

Such a helpful answer, kitten.

Well I looked through all the helmets and there is no hood like that, so ye its a glitch or bug.

Would be nice if they fixed so attacks that have channel time gets cancelled when you stealth.

I just get disgusted when i see a ranger shoot with his rapid fire and hitting me while i run around in stealth, that skill last forever.. its like seeing him shoot you for 1 hour while you are in stealth >_>

The 5% crit sigil does not stack, so you have to find another one for your second weapon.

I would suggest either:

Superior sigil of Force

Superior sigil of Air

Superior sigil of Fire

Superior sigil of Bloodlust

FOTM? Only seen 1 thief using this build and that was 3 weeks ago… If every thief was this build, I would probably be very annoyed

You guys are plain wrong, sneak attack has good damage for a power/crit build.

Test P/P Unload vs P/D Sneak attack vs D/D Backstab vs SB Cluster bomb:

Sneak attack crit for around 4k. Range with stealth.

Unload crit for around 6k. Range with no stealth.

Cluster bomb crit for around 4k. Range with no stealth.

Backstab crit for around 6k. Melee with stealth

Seems to be in a pretty good state, damage wise with range and stealth on demand.

Tulisin.6945:

Rissou.7213:

The 5% crit works but I would prefer the 5% damage since crit above 60% is unnecessary because of diminishing returns.

GW2 stats don’t have diminishing returns. It is 21~ points per % crit chance at 80, whether you’re going from 10->11 % or 60->61%. Don’t fall into the trap of assuming that as you near 100 % crit chance the relative value of another 1 % crit chance falls either.

That said, a 5 % damage boost will be superior to 5 % more crits only if a critical hit isn’t doing at least double damage (<50 % crit damage from stats), and crits also confer better on-crit proc rates as well as some resistance vs. weakness. Which of them is better is going to depend on your stat/trait setup.

Thanks for proving my point, there is no burst built thief that doesnt have above 50% crit damage.

Regarding your statement that critrate would still be good if you were aiming for proc chances:

At 50% crit, you’d have 87.5% chance to crit at least once in a sample of three shots (1 – (chance no crit * chance no crit * chance no crit) = 1-(0.5*0.5*0.5) = 0.875. We also have a 50% proc chance, so we have (0.5 * 0.875) = 0.4375. Or in other words, just below 44% chance to keep 100% uptime on your bleed.

At 60% crit, you’d have 1-(0.43) = 0.936. Multiply by the proc chance for the bleed and you have 46.8% chance to keep the bleed rolling on your target.

At 70% crit, you’d have 48.65% chance to keep it up the whole time. Etc.

Now after i sounded smart typing that, heres where I got it from Math

Curry. Curry gives you 10% crit damage, Truffle gives you like 100power= 3% flat damage increase.

For burst aka backstab the crit damage is better.

The 5% crit works but I would prefer the 5% damage since crit above 60% is unnecessary because of diminishing returns.

So it depends on your stats and build.

The lightning strike has a 1.1 damage coefficient.

The flame blast has a 1.0 damage coefficient and a radius of 150.

Air is alot cheaper and does a tiny fraction more single target damage, but fire is probably recommended, unless you are saving money.

Ryuujin.8236:

Skimpier? – Some of the outfits already border on nudity. It looks silly in a warzone to see people dressed like this

I’m glad that asura and charr females wear their male counterparts clothing. Tends to come with better protection against stabbing, burning, corrosives, shooting explosions…

I want that light armor(Kiran Lorien) on my thief, then im satisfied

Use the sigil of Force(5%damage) in mainhand and sigil of fire or air in your offhand, most practical for burst damage.

Rest In Peace, Eddard Stark <3

I hope they buff Repeater. So i can run around with just 1 pistol being James Bond.

Give more skimpy Light,Medium,Heavy male/female cloths to the people!

Your link gave me a damn heartattack…

I dont know what you hit your head on, but it must be something hard. There is no thief that gets killed by a necro.

I just missed out on reporting two hackers jumping into towers in WvsW, I clicked report but theres nothing that makes sense to choose from there.

Botting, scamming, gold selling etc.. wheres the option hacker/cheater?

My suggestion is to implement that

Sometimes I wish my Thief was asura, but then I remember that I love my human female since she got boobs.

Ye that 4k backstab really need to be nerfed, seriously?

Anyways, you just need to poke him after you dodge is steal and he dies. 11k hp thats maybe 3 hits?

Doing daggerstorm infront of a greatsword warrior, since hes crippled he takes out his rifle and fires volley on me, killing himself.

Same.4687:

It is basically impossible to beat 2 warriors if they aren’t completely terrible. Given that atleast half of the warriors out there are glass 100b warriors and warriors have more than 1 stun at their disposal, unless you run with 2/3 stunbreakers, you’re going to have a bad time.

Sure in a perfect world you will dodge their bull’s charge and dodge the shield stun thingy. But even then the 100b warrior will switch to his rifle and volley the living crap out of you or you will run out of dodges and have to eat that next stun and use your breaker.. After which you basically are screwed.

2 Warriors simply have too much kitten to make you push up daisies.

Yes if 2 warriors arent bad, they will kill 1 thief. Thats true for all classes, if a skilled player meets 2 skilled players, the solo player will lose.

Seragi.5910:

ok seriously if you trying to win a 2v1, against 2 warriors you doubt… there is something wrong with your head… not trying to be mean but warriors are like anti thieves. Huge swinging weapons with big range to hit stealth, more armor, more hp, not to mention a second life at down state. If any thief in the entire game could pull off killing 2 war in a 2v1 its a BS thief and thats only because he “gibbed” one so hard the guy died IRL behind his monitor

Haha, no man. Most warriors are average so a good thief will kill them both.

Loading.4503:

Lockon.5312:

There’s a quote that I live by when it comes to gaming.

" There is no such thing as spammable if no one is vulnerable to it. "

The first thing I thought about when I read this was
" it doesn’t matter if you by an inch or a mile, winning is winning "
- Vin Diesel

I loled almost got a write up at work for loling

I just had to Vin diesel quote for you

Tulisin.6945:

Rissou.7213:

Tbh, against any range opening with daggerstorm usually take 25-50% their hp of, it is very rare that people stop attacking, which is why its beneficial to use it.

Using Dagger Storm in small-scale conflicts where you are likely to be focused is entirely banking on your opponent being terrible. Anyone decent will close as soon as DS begins (dodge in to avoid being crippled on the way) and either kill you or force you to dodge out of your elite very early. As a thief there’s nothing I enjoy more than Infiltrator’s Strike onto a daggerstorming thief and downing them with some auto attack chains.

Dagger Storm is awesome in any situation where the enemy can’t close (on the edge of friendly lines), or you’re likely to be able to spin around without many people noticing you (big brawl).

I use Dagger Storm nearly exclusively as my elite, but it isn’t a solution to everything.

As I said, in everyday situations its better to pop it than not to do it, in rare cases, very rare, people actually know what they are doing and stop attacking. I usually get eyes open wide and shocked O_O when someone stops attacking or that if someone goes into melee trying to stab me during daggerstorm.

OP is silly, no person opens with daggerstorm against a melee player, against ranged its a viable option

I saw something nobody should see.

Tbh, against any range opening with daggerstorm usually take 25-50% their hp of, it is very rare that people stop attacking, which is why its beneficial to use it.

Against thief , I pop daggerstorm if hes ranged or when he pop Thieves guild, because the thieves kill themself.

I would disagree that thieves guild is bad against another thief, they are very annoyin which will balance the fight towards you. This is a generalization, but it works more often than it fails, so really no reason not to.

You adapt to the enviroment and if everyone falls for the same easy, cheap old trick … by all means continue to use it.

Puandro.3245:

Coffeebot.3921:

Well I found that to be pretty boring, nothing against your skills or anything but roaming while solo in WvW as a condition thief is just… boring to watch. Mostly because your fights are just the same thing over and over again; acquire stealth, use pistol stealth attack, avoid getting hit… not to mention many of your displayed opponents were pretty mediocre in their usage of skills and play style.

Think about it for a moment, if a PvP game is pretty balanced (which GW is) and 2+ enemies lose to 1 enemy are they ever good? You can’t really flip your statement and say “those enemies were good/great” when they are losing while having a number advantage.

Indeed, theres just no way anybody will win a 2vs1 if the 2 players are equal or more skilled than the single person But it is still entertaining to watch newbs/averages getting pwned hehe.

Gwalchgwn.1659:

Seeing underleveled person chasing you (the thief) on his own … I just wait ‘till I’m sure no one can save him, turn around and gank him. Facepalm whenever ppl break the fundamental rule in wvw … “stay in group”

Haha gotta love low level people when they think they are strong enough to fight lvl80 1vs1 :P

Aervius.2016:

Rissou.7213:

Haha OP you make me laugh, “easiest fix for arenanet” is to make auto attack cost initiative. Wow, just wow, the only reason why Pistol/dagger is so strong and killing everyone is because the render issue that occers on stealth. Man you need to do some research before making accusations.

If you even fought one pistol/dagger thief you know that they go into stealth then you see his sneak attack and he will still be invisible and continuing attackign you while you cant see him, when hes finally visible for 1-2 seconds he goes back into stealth.

Only a noob would die from a thief trying to run around 900range with auto attack mwahah.

And it’s not like you can’t see the bullets in this game.
Regardless of Culling, Sneak Attack gives away the Thief’s general position when the opponent isn’t a horrible baddy.

That is true, but not as easy as you makes it sound.

There is nobody who will win 1vs1 against a pistol/dagger thief, so futile attempts attacking into empty space wont really help. This game isnt 1vs1 so it doesnt really matter. I barely meet any Pistol/dagger thieves anyways.

I cant count how many times I see people run after me in WvsW when im going somwhere else, then when they get into the 900 range you steal, CnD and backstab them and they are dead.

Share your /facepalm moments.

Haha OP you make me laugh, “easiest fix for arenanet” is to make auto attack cost initiative. Wow, just wow, the only reason why Pistol/dagger is so strong and killing everyone is because the render issue that occers on stealth. Man you need to do some research before making accusations.

If you even fought one pistol/dagger thief you know that they go into stealth then you see his sneak attack and he will still be invisible and continuing attackign you while you cant see him, when hes finally visible for 1-2 seconds he goes back into stealth.

Only a noob would die from a thief trying to run around 900range with auto attack mwahah.

Very misleading topic because you make us think Wild bill is supporting or playing with you.

Dont ride on other peoples fame.

A blend of Human cultural, Vigil and whispers.

Ive seen mesmers dying next to the door with the intention of being rezzed through it and teleport everyone inside.

Example: Being inside a tower with enemy zerg beating down the gate, gate is 50% hp and the mesmer goes to the gate and dies from the zerg and says, do not ress me now, Im waiting dead here incase they take the tower, so we can take it back.

Hell yeah its an exploit, you know its not meant to be like that.

salluks.6017:

Rayya.2591:

Tzun.6073:

Where do you pull so many people from @ SFR? It is insane! haha

Been much fun!

Desolation player

we got lvl 1 fractals

There is only 1 server which transfers all the guilds to top servers and still stays quite strong …far shiverpeaks.. Few guilds mentioned above just moved to sfr..sadly fsp has become a pve server, so all the hardcore wvw guilds are leaving from there. ofcourse am not taking away anything from sfr and applaud them for reaching so far.

I also moved to sfr from fsp just 2 days back, and already regret it:(
Am not saying that a majority of the sfr is bad, but theres hostility there for people assumed to jump on the winning server. This also reflects on this very thread.

I just played for 2 days and have already decided to move back to fsp or a more wvw focussed server(desolation maybe)
Again, this maybe becos of only few people who are the vocal minority.

Far shiverpeaks is a weak server, you are getting beat by a medium pop server piken square this week and you are high pop, that says it all.

Why would people whine more if they saw others name? That makes no sense. Ive always seen my enemies name in other games , never seen anyone go forum and whine about a specific person.

OMG, that thief Onehitwonder is so overpowered. lol really?

If name was visible i think it would promote griefing, like a whole group of people like 4chan or reddit goes after 1 single person and bully them or something.

But still I agree, I want my enemies to shiver in fear and run away when they see me because I am Legend.

Yeah im using those duelist already, but sometimes you want to change your appearance and theres not much to choose from

Latinkuro.9420:

Rissou.7213:

Awh thanks, to bad im human, guess i have to wait for racechange to be implemented

Human medium cultural T3 is also very nice and skimpy.

http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/c3/medium/display_looks.php

Hehe yeah, but I think the side skirt keeps it from being skimpy enough ^^

SpyderArachnid.5619:

There is also the Vigil Leggings (if you joined the Vigil of course, though I think there is a work-around to get them without joining the Vigil). That is if you want something skimpy.

http://www.xionsphere.com/share/Guild%20Wars%202/Screenshot126188.jpg

Sadly I joined the whispers, so I cant get those

UnderdogSMO.9428:

race change wont happen. F’s with persanal story to much

No it doesnt, theres only personal story between like 1-40 after that its the same for everyone and those choices can just be included for you to choose in the race change, like when you create your character to choose if they are charm, diginity or berserker etc

If someone wanna racechange i doubt they really wanna play through the story and that it would be important not to miss out on it, in that case you could just make a new character.

I could make a new character, but all the money I have invested in several gear sets prevents me from that. I would rather pay 25€ for a change.

Awh thanks, to bad im human, guess i have to wait for racechange to be implemented

Saw this thief with very naked legs and im wondering which ones it is, havent seen them before. The one with green armor.

http://imageshack.us/a/img145/5447/gw024ti.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img90/7216/gw025k.jpg

Great, now I will miss out on cap awards when taking garrisons, towers, sentries and supply camps because more than often I will happen to accidently be in stealth.