Guild Wars 2

I was P/D & Shortbow, 0-0-30-20-20, Carrion. Sigs: heal & speed, Caltrops, Thieves Guild. I think I had the power sig too.

I pretty much just dropped caltrops on the healing pirate while kiting, then take out the melees, finally cannon guy. Shortbow has the evade with the cripple on it and bounces, offhand dagger is a bouncing cripple with the torment backstep on #3. That’s pretty much it.

I’m not sure how having the bottom drop out of the arena cage dome meshes with her passing this off as some sort of celebration.

Bugged, tried getting a box at Fort Trinity, and nada.

CuddleStrike.8215:

Score Update!

handing out with parver

Your love looks like the same loving love that gravity loves its lovers with.

HatSimulator.9362:

D/P is too easy, and all D/P thieves make me really really angry.

That’s an opinion.

There’s nothing wrong with taking an effective build into WvW. That’s my opinion of course. Disclaimer: I’m P/D. If I run into a competent D/P, I’m usually trying to get away from them in one piece.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

You write that fanfic!

...that’s how I learned that porcupines are not big hedgehogs.

...so I haven’t had any research funding since that puppy incident.

...some massage places make you feel REALLY good.

...not after what happened to my pet rock.

...I can pass for a man if I have to.

You should see the other perky bits being a thief gives me!

Niko.8901:

Clockradio.3257:

TC, hang in there. The longer you fight us two, the more people will consider transferring over for some T1 wvw.

/(._______________.)\

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of our favorite things

We also enjoy the zombies, toast, beer, cookies, dolyak parades, making fun of the drama, making fun with drama, llamas, bookahs, and pointing a way to the moon.

Did I mention the toast? Lick it, learn it, love it, LIVE it!

JudgeD.5673:

TC’s NA coverage has been noticeably lower today, most likely due to the pavilion/champ farms.

Achievement points are like M&Ms. Except they don’t melt in my mouth or my hands. And they don’t pop out of a little bag. Not very chocolaty either. Or colorful. Ok, not like M&Ms at all.

I must be getting prudish as I’m about to turn 38. My first reaction to seeing them was "really?". Then there was some "bow chika wow wow" that swiftly went back to "whatever". Maybe it’s a weird homage to the fembots from Austin Powers or something.

And then super centaur with the spread gun from Contra started making things interesting.

Meriem.3504:

WoW for example your pets take a massive reduction from AoE dmg as passive that is automatic.

Just how long did it take for them to get around to that? Wasn’t it years?

I was a feral druid. I was mistaken for being a hunter’s pet 24/7.

You need to have Mug to make it work. Basilisk Venom will trigger from the attack from Mug.

Your other choice is to start a Cloak and Dagger, then Steal while it’s casting. You’ll shadowstep to your target and hit it with the C&D swing, triggering the venom. In that case, you wouldn’t need Mug. You’ll be on your stoned target, in stealth, ready to make with the daggery back massage.

C&D and Steal. Learn it, live it, love it.

Oh yeah, and how are you going to deal with multiple PvE targets? There’s using shortbow, Caltrops, Death Blossom from D/D, sword hits 3 targets a swing, or you can just focus on working 1 target down at a time.

No matter what, unless you’re using Pistol 5 for the blind field, you’re going to have to be constantly moving or dropping into stealth.

There’s no easy answer to which is "better". The best traits are the ones that compliment your play style and weapon choices. Thief is totally about give and take. You can lean towards survivability or burst damage. The problem is that the low levels are frustrating because you don’t have the traits to help out.

You need to figure out what range you’re comfortable engaging at and how much risk you like to routinely accept. Do you want to survive by avoiding hits by dodging/evasion or by staying in stealth a lot or by bursting stuff down before it can hit you? How are you going to dish out damage, over time or bursting?

Those are the main things you have to figure out. How am I going to deal damage, how am I going to deal with incoming attacks?

It’s a lot of tweaking based on experience. I leveled with P/D and Shortbow. Of late, I find myself loving D/D when I’m solo PvE daily achieving. I swap over to D/P now and then.

Study the trait sets.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_thief_traits
I like looking at the high end stuff and then working my way back down trait lines to support my playstyle.

Shadow Arts are for people that love stealth and/or use it as their main survival tool. Shadow’s Rejuvenation with an offhand dagger and Hide in Shadows, Shadow Refuge and Blinding Powder can keep you alive. Shadow’s Embrace is gravy on top of that as an on demand condition drop.

Feline Grace, Acro 15, means you get to dodge more than other classes, especially if you find yourself buffed with vigor.

I’ve never been overly impressed with the Deadly Arts line traits, but it is the Power line and Condition duration paired with that is good. It does have access to the +5% damage with daggers and +10% damage when your target has a condition. To get that deep, you’re picking up +250 power from the line. It goes good with the backstabby dagger life.

Critical Strikes takes everything you get from DA and cranks it up a notch. Executioner, the +20% damage when your target is at 50% life, nuff said.

But really, trait choices, try to pick stuff that compliments each other and your style. Trial and error. It gives you something to look forward to as you suffer through the early levels.

VOLTRON! Imagine 5 asura combining their power suits into something unstoppable.

Seigfried.5938:

Starscream.7803:

magikfox.9658:

oxide.8324:

Seigfried.5938:

Starscream.7803:

Yeah Seigfried, you have got the numbers out. Very good co-ordinated attack across all borders just now. Hit all our T3s almost. Where did you get the extra people from all of a sudden? Did you guys do a “all call” for overtime or bought another guild?

I am currently at work, so I don’t really know why we are ahead in PPT, but it could be an all call since we lost our lead not so long ago. Nothing wrong with that…

All call? I thought only SoR have those

The only time I hear the word all call is when people from Bg use it. REAL TAAAALK

Magikarp speaks the truth.

What did magikarp say? O_O

I am a lovely fish?

Are there more achievements? I’m tired of having to do new achievements.

Maybe their feet were tired. That or you were really really scary. ^^

Calae.1738:

Is anyone in TC fed up of tier 1?

No way! SO. MUCH. FUN. It’s never dull. Even sentry duty is a riot what with the running, screaming and putting out fires inside the tower or keep.

YaY!

gnarkiller.1862:

Theres 2 ND guilds on Blackgate. One is Nine Dragon and I forget what the other one is.

North Dakota? Notre Dame?

What happened to One-Eight Dragon?

Sylv.5324:

The colder thing that Caithe does is she writes Tiachren off to Nightmare.

I think that Faolain thing affected her deeply.

Burl.9567:

You need to be more subtle.

Everything looks like a nail when you have…

Sovereign.1093:

o.o;; ^ that is as confusing as it gets for me.

Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon, to a student: “It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. Do you understand?”

WvW. More having fun. Less worrying about building up the self or tearing down the others.

Neuromancer.2148:

This game is fun, I love the mechanics of it, but seriously, why should we be losing our heads over achievements that don’t really matter? Everyone wipes someone, everyone gets wiped by someone.

Just enjoy it.

YaY for the moon and not the finger!

Sovereign.1093:

TC will adopt. Everyone has to start somewhere.

I’ve always wanted a kitty. I think most people should try adopting a pet before they find themselves with a child.

Maybe we don’t have to adopt. There are all kinds of doctors and drugs that are supposed to help with the insert Tab P in Slot V baby kit thing.

Forzani.2584:

There is always something good that comes out of a bad situation.

*Holds up a cookie*

Have you ever actually spent a night in Detroit? I did over a decade ago with bars on the motel window and I really did hear a few gunshots during the night.

Fuzzion.2504:

Jahn.7019:

There is no T1.

Oh really?

Some sequels should not be.

Why didn’t they stop with The Matrix?
Highlander?
The Terminator and T2?

Then again, I started with GW2, so it all evens out in the end.
It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon! Do not speak of a sequel or I will get thorny.

VOLKON.1290:

There’s no “quit” in The Quarry.

Although… looking at it… there is “Quart”.

It comes in pints?

VOLKON.1290:

That’s where the loot bags come from.

So, that bit about the birds and the bees with the stork staring at them all in a cabbage patch is just smoke and mirrors?

Sovereign.1093:

FA, where you guys.

They love to show up when you least expect them, except you can expect them to. Kinda a more is less thing, the slight difference between paranoia and prophecy.

So, don’t look over your shoulder, or FA will be there to take you hard and fast from behind. Which happens to some people, in some places, some of the time. But it’ll be FA 24/7, in a good way. Or as good a way as it can be.

Astaldocair.9063:

...meaning someone as unlucky as me, who is always teamed up against or by chance attacked from two sides...

It sounds like you’re doing something wrong tactically or socially. Improvement is a constant process. Try something and then try to figure out what worked and what didn’t and why.

This is a concept that can be applied to many things in life. Good luck with the rest of those exams.

I managed it as glass cannon D/P thief in rare berserker armor off the trading post. Scorpion Wire and Basilisk Venom and some stealth utilities while using the Pistol 4 interrupt when the Plunderers tried to toss up the bag, I did Tier 4 for both candidates finishing with 500 supply left at the end.

Overkillengine.6084:

People have this bad tendency to vote for whomever is already in the lead when vote counts are given out in a running total.

That or they stop voting/playing altogether if their side isn’t winning.

Anyone who has owned a hamster knows how insignificant those lil back end pellets are.

aspirine.6852:

it’s been one day in, already talking about nerfing instead of finding out better ways to do it?

The better way of doing it appears to be avoiding as many of the mobs as possible. They made an area where you more or less try to avoid the majority of it.

That strikes me as a little bit off, doesn’t it to you?

I go to town as a crystal capper with Fire 5. Zip! Zip! GOOOOOAL!

Rivalz.3142:

So Charr jesus… R’Amen.

Thanks for making my morning.

Now I crave ramen. Mrrf.

I’ve had to look for tattoos to figure out if some lady is human or norn. My 2 copper.

Then again, with asura, I’ve had to really look at eyes/faces. Never had an asura say "Eyes up here." So, win/win. Ish. One dolphin fractal, I had a party member exclaim "YOU’RE FEMALE" before my toon put her armor back on.

Bookah.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

TC is at 360 PPT right now. Keep it up. I want to see what the Toast can do.

You should see what we use as butter!

Chris.3290:

TC, no one has the right to expect victory of you; but just about everyone is rooting for you!
Keep fighting and take as much as you can.

You’ve never seen us hit the dessert section of the buffet!

Finger. Moon.

It’s like driving. Focus on the road and finishing the race, not on your position on the leaderboard. It’s much more fun that way.

I’m not saying ignore traffic. For that leads to accidents and lawsuits and stuff. Or the price of gas. Which is painful. And gas station coffee. Wow. And the radio. My gods, what is this they call music?

Ya know, forget all that. Finger! Moon!

Levitas.1953:

Mesmer does not have many gap closer, if our best one is unreliable its a problem.

They really got the “Illusionary” part in the name right.

Bookahs can’t science. - Mif

zhonnika.1784:

Bah, TC and FA could both use some [LOVE] in their lives The more the merrier, I say.

TC and FA have their own special love. Yes.

Special beyond words. When we try to use words, threads get locked.

moolie.5927:

CHIPS.6018:

The battle for that 3rd place tier 1 spot has begun.

Trust me dude, that spot isn’t fun, lol.

But the battle is the fun. The rest of the details, bwhaaa

Nick.6972:

Another week, FA loses again.

NARF?

It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon! Do not shoot the FA asura BEFORE you see 30 of his friends behind him.

At that point, you just wave bye bye and start running…

It’s inconvenient, but it’s not the zomg drama that some are taking it to be. I really thought it was fallout from the pain meds tho ^^ ha

I’m glad this is a known issue. I thought those painkillers were messing with my mind.

I kinda wanna see the dozen ballista (ballistas? ballistae? balls?) outside a spawn tower thing again. That was SO. MUCH. FUN. to try to dodge.

Shrouded.6450:

These non-tcers don’t understand TC at all! I’m going to my room now, and hug my One Directions posters!

Which direction?