Guild Wars 2

First of all I would try getting different gear. The spec itself is for Venoms/Stealth, not for either condition damage/ critcannon. Some Power/Percision/Condition gear would set you up nicely for basically spamming CLoak and dagger and pumping out tons of bleeds with the pistol and applying the poison venom, while a critcannon build can venom-share vulnerability.

The big problem is right now S/P DOMINATES PvE, the super long evasion on pistolwhip and ovveral effectivness of blinding powder makes surviving a breeze, I literally went full damage gear, full damage runes, the only defensive things I had was the offhand pistol and my utility skills catered to the specific Dungeon (shadowstep and shadowall in CM ect…)

TL;DR
Focus on doing damage and causing vulnerability. Either AoE with a sword Power Percision and crit (Better for PvE) or if you refuse to get a 2nd set of gear go Mainhand pistol offhand dagger.
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mckmMc0z0owFgMMwbvMG0xG0mRosqcR8khG7kiO

P.S.
picking the right utility skills is what a thief is all about, abuse shadowstep to early turn off traps, Shadow refuge is one of the best rezzing abilities in the game with its 15 seconds of stealth it also lets you run past 500 mobs and stealth your entire team. Smokescreen is an instant-win button in many pulls. Calitropes for kiteing (think the first boss in AC explo where you have to protect the NPC) Just stay away from signets, they wont bring as much to the table as other well played utility skills.

Sword Pistol, Dress like a pirate and get pirate runes.

YARRRR!!

The cooldowns are on the thief abilities because thieves can easily and often do specc into precision giving them 60%+ crit chance. The cooldowns exist because thieves SYNERGIZE better with on crit effects.

What most likely happened is during testing none of them had cool-downs then theives were nerfed while warriors and elementalists didn’t need it.

For PvP D/D is great but I would also consider speccing far into shadow and having your offset be P/D. P/D is an extremely versatile weaponset that deals great damage wether you specc into raw damage or condition.

For PvE S/P is the best for dungeons and shortbows are amazing for world.

Read my posts, some are funny some are constructive some are informative. We just need less posts like this and more posts about thieves.

The biggest problem with venomshare right now is that almost all the venoms have abilities that stack duration and get overriden. Obviously increasing the max duration of the abilities would make venomshare too overpowered for PvP so another solution I would like to see is adding an effect.

Now for balancing issues we can’t attach this extra trait directly to the venomshare so I think it could be added to the Deadly Arts Line. (Fixed because people were getting on the topic of whether or not extra venoms are good rolls eyes)

Deadly Arts

Grandmaster
Hemotoxic Venom:
Inflict Bleeding (5 Seconds) when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike.

OR

Dermotoxic Venom:

Deal Damage when triggering a venom. This can only occur once per strike.

The duration of the bleed and the exact damage would have to be fine tuned but that’s what testing is for. This would also make any venom-share builds into taking 30 trait points in Deadly Arts and Shadow Arts, leaving only 10 points for other things preventing the build from having too many advantages.

In Conclusion:
Mull it over A-net, it just might be what your looking for. These changes are simple, fix several problems in PvP and PvE, and are based on KNOWN programming that A-Net has already done (so many good ideas on here would just be a nightmare for the programmers.)

Niim.9260:

Its the new fotm ele build. Running into it a fair bit. Has very high regen, which counters a condition build pretty well, plus a fair amount of DPS. Given that you use d/d as your swap, why didnt you set up the burst and use d/d to finish?

I actually did later, we had 2 more skirmishes but at the end of the 2nd one fraps droped my framerate down to 3fps and I died so I had to turn it off.

For round 3 I went back in with Evasive Roll and Swapped to D/D as soon as he blew his healing cooldowns. It was a learning experience for me. That stupid lightning ball escape is REALLY hard to chase down though, I would have killed him twice in this first round if it weren’t for it.

Scootts taking on 7 enemies of various levels with at least 1 level 80 mixed in.

Not so much SPvP competitive, but knowing how to deal with blobs in WvW is very important…

Shout out to Miles Forrester!

He told me himself that glass cannon builds countered him. I used to play a glass cannon thief but found this much more fun and much less situational. Also, 360 + 62s is the damage before I start stacking might from stealth dodging and venoms. My crit chance and damage comes to 34% and 50% making me do double damage 1/3 of the time.

I do think your right however, I’m just not getting the damage I need to take down the tankier/heal enemies quickly.

I talked to them after the fight, their main stats were Power, Toughness, Healing. I think it’s a great build and I’m leveling an Ele just to try it out <3

Finally finished my characters gear and look. Funny how some of the gear that fit/looked good was white and starter gear :)
Character: Scootts
Location: Maelstrom’s Bile
Class: Theif
GEAR
Anonymity Hood
Whispers Shoulderpads
Berserker’s Duelist Coat
Divinity Councils Gloves
Rampager’s Pirate Pants
Berserker’s Duelist Boots
Daggers: Normal white gear “Dagger”. (I picked them because they are rare and match the ones in the shoulder ;)
Bow: Berserker’s Short Bow
Color Scheme: Midnight Ice, Shy Peach, Latte, Blue Tint, Matte

First of all, anyone whining about the chests can kitten its designed to pay for the game and as a money sink for the economy.

On to the events:

Food fight stations total confusion, ghoul costume is OP for the fighting, no explanation of when you get rewards but i’ve seen people get as high as 20 crowns with nothing.

The search for the pages event is glitched, theres no little girl ghost which is leading to MASSIVE confusion.

Carving pumpkins appears to be broken too cause I’ve carved 6 now and the NPC doesn’t say anything different to me.

As much as I would love to explore every single map in Tyria… again… for all the jumping puzzles and ghost doors and the new dungeon… no…

Going to bed, hopefully kitten sorted out in the morning.

Finally finished my characters gear and look. Funny how some of the gear that fit/looked good was white and starter gear :)

Character: Scootts
Location: Maelstrom’s Bile
Class: Theif

GEAR
Anonymity Hood
Whispers Shoulderpads
Berserker’s Duelist Coat
Divinity Councils Gloves
Rampager’s Pirate Pants
Berserker’s Duelist Boots

Daggers: Normal white gear “Dagger”. (I picked them because they are rare and match the ones in the shoulder ;)
Bow: Berserker’s Short Bow

Color Scheme: Midnight Ice, Shy Peach, Latte, Blue Tint, Matte

I got on a few hours after the switch and blue had 100% of the map (not including the random camp cap)

It’s clear that blackgate still has some bite in it where as Henge and Eredon are completely full of carebears.

Good luck to Blackgate trying to make it to teir 1, but to be honest everyone knows that all the real WvW competition transfered off of ET and HoD long ago, it’s just gonna take some time for our system to send us to the bottom of the bracket :P

Gear synergy is a very simple concept to understand. You will find that some skills effect each other multiplicative while others are only cumulative.

Multiplicative stats, such as Critical Damage and Precision, both increase your DPS, but there is an additional effect where Precision making you crit more often, makes your Critical Damage more effective and vice versa. ( 3 × 3 = 9 )

Cumulative stats, such as Vitality and Healing, or Critical Damage and Power, do not have significant interactions that synergize. ( 3 + 3 = 6 )

Here is a simple chart showing you which stats synergize well with others and which don’t. You’ll note that Condition Damage and Precision only synergize slightly due to “On Critical” Weapon Sigils.

*Precision is spelled wrong in the chart :X

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zqfu0/the_ocean_of_lost_souls_escaping_the_map/

(I’ve been looking for possible opportunities to jump through invisible walls to see what lies beneath the world and I got my opportunity inside Mount Maelstrom while trying to take a shortcut over it. (Apparently the middle of the mountain is just a dropoff. By using Infiltrators Arrow and Decent of Shadows (And a revive orb) I was able to land inside the ocean that lays beneath the maps of Tyria!
One thing I noticed right away is the music immediately changed to an eerie underwater theme. I’ve Also found several ruins, I’ll continue to post screenshots as I explore
http://i.imgur.com/KkTlL.jpg (You can see all the tunnels like in minecraft)
http://i.imgur.com/30GBw.jpg (The first set of ruins I found)
http://i.imgur.com/ee9zU.jpg (The first ruins up close)
http://i.imgur.com/whn5l.jpg (I was able to shoot and kill enemies and complete a mission from under the world, although they went invulnerable if there wasn’t something for them to attack nearby)
http://i.imgur.com/9hVzG.png (Trying to get to the crystal desert I hit an invisible wall :P)
http://i.imgur.com/2Kh4P.png (The inside of a mountain and random bronze medal \o/))