Guild Wars 2

Hype.8032:

OP, a balanced thief will have ~100 crit damage for x2.5 multiplier on crits. You can get 2.5-2.6k armor and 15-16k hp with that. Thief’s defense is dodge, evade, blind, and stealth; it’s all active on your part. You can’t play a thief like your other characters, but once you learn your limitations you can have a lot of fun. Get used to using shortbow though… it’s clutch in most builds. No need for perma stealth when you’re always faster than your opponents.

Anyways, if you can put the time in to learn the class I’d recommend taking it to 80. Besides killing newbs I’d claim that thief takes a lot more to learn than say mesmer or elementalist.

Edit:
I forgot, if you feel squishy while leveling (I know I did) try running pistol main / dagger offhand. Stack condition damage and precast caltrops then steal as it activates. Once you learn the class better the power builds become better imo.

I run d/d + sb or d/p + sb in WvW. Keep your head on a swivel and be fast with SB # 5 as well as shadow step and you’ll never die. As an added benefit you can land those backstabs you’re looking for

Yea, i am on level 52 ATM. Trying to get used to different weaponsets. I do pretty good in PvE. I can solo like 3-4 mobs thats 5 levels higher than me. The dogding aint a problem. Im just trying to find a weapon set i like. D/D seems like the one for me ATM. I have already realised that if i fail a dodge/stealth im dead… I kind of like it. Its kind of a win or loose situation

I see myself in everything you just said. I have played since release, and i think this is why i still enjoy the game. I joined a guild, i help my guildies level, i help them in dungeons and i just have fun together with them. I have played on 2 characters the whole the time and still love it.

1st january this year i started on my legendary. i am STILL not done with it. I need the precursor and some T6 mats. Im not in a hurry to get it. I just keep helping my guildies aka friends, i do WvW and have fun.

Bassosaur.1963:

Homonavn.6348:

I can share mine. IMO one of the best armour i have seen on heavy

This is what i have:

Helm: Primeval
Shoulders: Dark shoulders
Body: Armageddon
Gloves: Primeval
Legs: Armageddon
Boots: Primeval

if you have any questions, feel free to ask

You are relly cool looking!
But, i go support guardian, and this looks more like a DPS guardian

Thats true… Even though my stats are a tanky. If you want a tanky look the Norn culture tier 3 armor never fails. But to get that you need over 100 gold and be a norn so.. .:P

I can share mine. IMO one of the best armour i have seen on heavy

This is what i have:

Helm: Primeval
Shoulders: Dark shoulders
Body: Armageddon
Gloves: Primeval
Legs: Armageddon
Boots: Primeval

if you have any questions, feel free to ask

This is great! I have always used an website for this, but this app is so much better. thanks

So it seems like thief are great fun for roaming (Which i do alot of with my brother) so i guess i should get mine to 80 then I will stick to my necro for zergs and thief for roaming

thanks

Rookni.2469:

inb4 just another fluff content release that will disappear after 2 weeks

Sadly i think so too… All you can do with it is destroy some paper pinatas of the ship to get some candy… And then 1 week later its all gone

But seriously, i hope it is a new dungeon. PERMANENT one aswell. The new steampunk armor is probably the dungeon armor. Seems logical, but you never one with Anets: “The world is ALIVE!! OMG; Things dissapear after a week! ITS SO REAL!”

Ruin.3461:

Thief is pretty good at small scale engagements, and at harassing yaks and supply camps. If you run shortbow secondary you can be sort of effective in zergs (aoe to tag people, blast finishers on demand).

You’ll be able to survive in WvW once you’re 80 with better gear, a tighter build, and a better grasp of the play style. I can usually go hours without dying (unless my internet dies).

Interessting.. May you share your build?

DanH.5879:

the only thing thief is good for, is trolling the wvw players via roaming (1vs1 surprise attacks)
glass builds+stealth= win or withdraw

what you see is what you get

Thats kind of what i think aswell. And it does look like fun to roam and surprise someone with a 5k backstab or something. And use like a perma stealth build and keep like 10 players busy. I have seen that happen alot. Well, its going to get nerfed most likely, but still

Ok, i need some help right now.

i have a level 45 thief i have played alot recently. My main is a necro which i have played over 700 hours on and i love it, but wanted to try out thief and is it quite fun.

My problem is, with having a bunker necro with 31k health aswell as a tanky warrior, i dont like the “squishyness” of the thief. i know for a fact that i can survive almost everything in PvE (Stealth and perfect dodge). But i am mostly a WvW player since PvE endgame isnt all to great.

I tried my thief in WvW (Level 40 gear) and i kept getting 2-3 hitted and i couldnt do kitten. I know for a fact it WILL get better when i get to 80 with level 80 gear. (no, i am not going to run full glass cannon, but i will run around 50% crit damage with valkyrie gear i think, so kind of glass cannon)

But, will a level 80 thief survive in WvW? I mean, i don’t want to get like 3 hitted on 80 aswell. I am talking zerg fights or like small group fights. I know i wont survive D/D in zergs, but hey!

Also, thief looks like so much fun while roaming. Getting those nasty backstabs etc.

I would also like to say, i might use my necro for Zerging, and Thief for roaming with my brother. So, thief is pretty good for 2v2 and 1v1’s right?

So… Should i get my thief to 80 and try it out, or is it no point? Will i be able to survive in WvW alot better at 80?

x per fection x.2096:

zerker war is the best for this

I personally don’t like waiting for anyone

http://youtu.be/OmLJaf5TE6I \

Sorry, but this is reason to dislike

Hmm, if you walk quite far away from the mountain, it wont load and you are able to see whats inside. I did some exploring and this is probably the best screenies i got

My bet (and also what i HOPE)

A new PERMANENT dungeon. The steampunk gear is most likely the armour you can buy from that dungeon, its the armour set.

i hope it is if its not permanent, im giving up on this game soon… 8 months in, like 2 updates that have been permanent (only good update which people care about, fractals)

AGREE!! I will just stick to my quaggan backpack, because with asura light armor this doesnt work. The wings keep clipping through my shoulders and helm

Do what i did.

1. Run SE path 1 and 3, very fast runs and can be farmed

2. Run fractals and buy the lodestones

So cute I can see she have the same WvW mathup as i do, what server does she play on ;P?

I havent been noticing it these last days, but like 1-2 days after the reset… Holy kitten its unplayabel.. Atleast in EB

Arvid.3829:

Thanx. It could have been a lot worse, I guess? But yeah, the styles do somewhat mismatch.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but although I like majority of the skins introduced in this patch in themselves, I seem to have a lot of trouble seeing how they can be integrated into my existing characters :S (including the dragon helm and the wings)

Atleast the weapon skins! I really love them. Especially the staff. I had get to rid of my my final rest to get it, but it was worth it

Here it is, kind of Meh IMO.. Would be so much better without

gennyt.3428:

Homonavn.6348:

Didnt get of the map, but i took this while RoF was against FoW and vabbi…

Wow and I thought our match up was lopsided :/ That is kittening atrocious and I can’t imagine that being a fun week for anybody(except maybe the map completion people on green).

Nope.. It was a PvE week for me.. It was terrible. Like 1 hour after the reset and we had 80% of the points

When i was level 10 and i got my first well… Ahh it was awesome

Didnt get of the map, but i took this while RoF was against FoW and vabbi…

I can comfirm this guys.. I just farmed there for 45 minutes, got 2 ecotics (Bad rings ofc) and 7 armooured scales + 52 T5 scales. Got 1 supply crate aswell as a few rares.

I does work guys, its all about RNG…

i were just wondering the same thing. I had 6 superior rune of the fighter on my armour (Power and toughness stats). In the end i had 90 power and 35 toughness.

Then i saw the azurite orbs i believe they are called. They give 20 vitality, 14 toughness and 14 power. I figured out if i had 6 of them i would end up with 120 vitality, 84 power and 84 toughness. So i gained tons of vitality and toughness and lost 6 power by doing it.

The orbs were also cheaper, so IMO the orbs are alot better than runes

Just a question… Did everyone on RoF transfer to UW or something…? Usual at this time we are back fighting again, but now we have no commanders at all, and we are loosing everything. Our population went from Very high to Medium aswell…

if WvW is all about Server transfering, its just stupid, really… Anet should fix that

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

I second NeXeD. I’ve done what I can to max my crit chance while traiting Vampiric Precision. That said, I also like wells and usually have at least two on my bar. Since the pulses from wells also have a chance to crit, you get the best of both worlds; especially with densely packed mobs.

Yea, im going to test out both and see what i like the most

NeXeD.3042:

If you got more precision you would end up healing even more per second using crits to heal, the well heals are nice and all but I found the crit heals to be more effective in the long run, I hate waiting for cooldowns to heal. You would also deal more damage.

Yes i have been thinking about that. havent been testing much of it, but you do have a point. I have just assumed wells siphon is better, but thanks for the heads up! I am definetally going to test that one

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

NeXeD.3042:

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It takes balls to play a siphon necro though you need to be right up in there , don’t know how many times I’ve done a lfg where the group see’s me start meleeing bosses yells at me that I’m gonna die only to have then be like Welp guess not lol.

^ This.

This is the secret to effective life siphoning. Yes, the individual amount of life siphoning on a per-hit basis is low. However, looking at it from that perspective, is missing the forest for the trees.

As a blood necro, you have to deal in volume. Life siphoning per-hit is low? Then simply make up for it with lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of hits. Get in there with that dagger, go toe-to-toe with the boss, throw down those wells and activate Locust Swarm, etc.

You can not be a backline, ranged fighter and expect life siphoning to be effective in this game. If you want to leverage it to its fullest potential, you have to be a meleeist getting in as many strikes as you possibly can in the shortest amount of time you possibly can.

Personally, I’m glad the community and even the devs themselves think life siphoning is lackluster with plans to improve it. I’m really looking forward to the patch; but let’s just keep this little secret to ourselves, shall we

I agree. thats why i use my AOE skills on my staff in the backline, THEN i rush up with dagger. Even though the healing is LOW, with all those hits i get, its around 1k healing a second. Its not bad at all

NeXeD.3042:

I run a 20/20/0/30/0 siphon build full knights vamp runes. I honestly hate the idea of using pvt with siphon builds and I feel the extra damage + damage mitigation from using knight’s ore than makes up for lack of vitality on the gear plus your already getting it from going 30 into blood. I’ve run level 30 fractals with no ar withought hindering my group. Easier content I throw on berserker weps and jewels for some added dps and I have zero trouble with surviving. It takes balls to play a siphon necro though you need to be right up in there , don’t know how many times I’ve done a lfg where the group see’s me start meleeing bosses yells at me that I’m gonna die only to have then be like Welp guess not lol.

Hmm, even though i agree with Pvt gear being “useless” or i mean, something could be better… I just love my vitality. As i said, this is for my personal preferance and i love vitality But yea, i could swap it out and test!

Thanks for the tips both

So, i have been working on this build for a while now and i would like to get you guys’ input on how to improve it or simply what YOU would change.

This build is NOT made for insane DPS, but instead being supportive and staying alive in zerg fights aswell as high level FotM

I made this build for my personal preference and what i wanted so you might not like it, but if i get you guys’ tips, i could try it out and see if i like it myself.. If you get what i mean.

Ok, before anyone say “Oh you just want views on your youtube video!” I would say no… You dont have to watch the video i will link, its just so you guys can actually see what i mean, since i suck at explaining stuff.. So you can see how it works.

i will first link you my build, and everything you need to know is on the build page, so just scroll down.

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/zokeers-well-and-siphon-build-wvw-dungeons-siphon-31k-hp-survive-10647.html

And here is my video showing the build in action

Simply leave your guys’ idea on how YOU would change it, so i might get some ideas myself

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/zokeers-power-siphon-build-dungeons-wvw-survivability-and-damage-10646.html

Its made for Dungeons and WvW. Mostly survivability in focus. Everything you need to know is in the link above. Also a video showing it in action

mishel.2574:

@Homonavn.6348 plz can u link ur build or utube video

Posted a link to the video now. Currently working on the build link

Wells IMO… I feel so much more powerfull and suvivability with wells. With my build i have 31k HP, insane life siphon and insane AOE damage. Its amazing

Im going to upload a video to youtube right now, so you can see what a well build can do

EDIT: Here is my video, of the well build http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWPqxsQ0I64&feature=youtu.be

So, i have a level 37 thief. I would love to make her to 80 since thief is an interessting thief with the initative system etc.

But still. My problem that prevents me to level her up is the “Squishy-ness”. I am used to a bunker necro with 31k HP and a bunker warrior. Therefor i really want to have some survivability.

Thats why i am asking for a build that makes me able to survive. I am mostly interessted in mid-high levels Fractals and WvW

Appreciate all the help i can get Thanks

So, after all these “Farming” nerfs, how am i supposed to make gold?

I need my precursor and T6 mats before i get my legendary, but how am i supposed to get my last T6 mats now…? I used penitent and shelter farm, but thats nerfed, i used Corrupted lodestones, but now that place is dead. I did cof until i got sick and cant stand it anymore.

I still do my daily fractals run, but thats about it… watching the price of T6 mats just sky rocketing is to frustrating…

Any tips on how to make gold now…?

To bad its only available for a shirt time, and the new wings and weapons will be in some stupid RNG boxes

LordByron.8369:

last 2 posts by warriors/guardians users.

I wonder if some day they will make war and guard on par with other pve profession if we will still have so many people asking for difficult content.

NB i do it at lvl 48 with pugs…..but i am honest enough to recognize when there are class requirements/walls that makes things difficult.

This battle is almost impossible or extremely easy depending on party composition.

Reflect + dps = easy at any level…expecially with dps you put up some invul skill and clear elementals…
While shaman itself can be soloed easily.

Not enough dps = don t even try…..if you don t clear elmentals fast you don t have enough evasions/skills to even think surviving

Oh and did i mention the oneshotting bug post shield that is still to be addressed?

BTW the priority is PvE balance so we will see much less “L2p” and “where are difficult dungeons” posts (or much more depend if they will nerf OP or buff Others)

Lol? Im a necro, so… not a warrior or guardian

well, im not really… It looks awesome yea, but its temporaraly and its just some mini games that will dissapear. i am sur its like crabtoss, we love it for 1 day, then it becomes boring

Henge.3907:

Just threw around 250-280 rare 80 rifles into the forge and got Hunter. I’m excited!

Congrats!

I like this fractal…

1. Its challenging
2. Its not AFKable

No.. I found out there is no “Bad profession” all the warriors and guardians cant see the good sides of other professions really. They are like: “ALL OUT DAMAGE BRO!! YOLO SWAG YEAh!”

Not going to lie, i was like that once myself, until i created my necro. I saw that necro is great IF PLAYED RIGHT. The same goes with engi. i dont think you should say some profession suck before you tried it yourself

Ahh! Thanks I might have to pick up a few these then! Even though i dont really like boons, since i am a necro and i know how corrupt boon can really take down a guardian… But it seems awesome with all those boons ;P

Very nice vid, but i have a question… So my main is a necro, but how did you manage to give yourself all those boons when you activeted the signet?

It may be a noob question, but i havent played my warrior in a long time

lol… Ring of fire – 49k Points
Fissure of Woe – 2K
Vabbi – 1K…

Ok Anet, got so tired of PvE i moved to WvW and loved it. And when this happend, i cant even stand WvW… FIX THIS

Yes… This is a problem, but as the mod said, vabbi and FoW usually face this problem so.. :s

God this sucks.. I play on RoF and i have to say i hate this… 1 hour in and we have like.. 85% of all the points already

They shouldnt do anything with bolt… It has effects, an aura etc.

They should instead focus n meteorlogicus and minstrel

Orpheal.8263:

Mysterious…

I had never any problems yet until today after any patch. never did my game crash because of patches.
My game crashed so far until today after 9 months of play just only 2 times and that was because I played the game too long without making breaks for my PC, so that the Memory Space from my PC (and its 16 GB RAM!!!) really ran out.
Both times it happend only whily playing massively WvW with huge amouts of players in action …

I guess, its absolutely not Anets fault that your game crashes.
It surely must be because of any other reason, because its surely not unnormal, that millions of players have absolutely no problems after patches, except you.

When your game crashes, the game automatically wants you to send Anet information about the crash via Email, best thing you could do is send the stuff out and go and have a talk with the Support and send them the text that stands in your Game Crash Report that pops up once your game crashed.

It will surely help them to help you identifying, what really the problem is.
But blaming Anet just only for your personal problems with the game is surely no solution at all.
Whether for you, nor for Anet!!

Yes, i know. But “millions of players have absolutely no problems after patches, except you.” is wrong. All my guildies and people in WvW are crashing after every patch aswel.. Might be my server? Ring Of Fire… i have no idea

And yea, it might not be Anets fault. Its most likely a problem they can’t see before its to late or something

lordkrall.7241:

If it keeps happening after every single patch, why assume the problem is at their end and not yours?

Well, if you could read my thread you would udnerstand. All of my guildies keeps having the problem aswell, and everyone on my server in WvW. After every patch, not just this one

So, after yesterdays patch my game keeps crashing every 15-20 minutes. Im not the only one, all my guildies aswell and today everyone in WvW crashed while we were capturing an enemy tower.

My game keeps crashing AFTER EVERY SINGLE PATCH. I have never ever experienced a patch in this game, without this problem accoring the day or days after the patch.

What are Anet doing wrong all the time, and why dont they learn? I know it might not be easy to discover or fix, no hate towards Anet, its just after 8 months or something, and quite a few patched how come they still havent figured out a way to prevent this?