Guild Wars 2

Things sell for more now, soo I guess that means it is easier to make money or it is exactly the same and it’s just the lack of botters that is making the price increase.

Any way you think about it, I like it. I’ve found a few farmable items recently that can net me a very large profit with very little work involved. In fact, it is more profitable in 1 hour than farming events in Orr for 3 hours.

It’s all about working the Trading Post. If you can’t flip it, look for something (a drop) easily obtainable and get a bunch of it! It might require you to fight difficult monsters (cough)

However, I read in a post from another player almost 2 weeks ago that Karka pets have a super small chance of dropping from monsters in this place. Is this true? If it is, does it drop only from Karka or can I kill other monsters and still have a chance to see it drop?

I asked in Map chat and someone said, “I thought they only came from the cashshop chest.” Some clarification would be nice. Can I still get the pet in-game by killing a kabillion Karka or am I trapped into purchasing it from the Trading Post from people who got it from the Cashshop?

The monsters here are really easy to kill as an elementalist. With a staff I can use Magnetic Aura which reflects projectiles, at the very start of agro, and it takes almost 50% of the Karka’s HP away. After that skill it is smooth sailing until it dies.

Also, just for fun, the Light Karka shoulder skin looks awesome. I’m really happy to have bought them. Here is a pic of that:

Have a good day!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Neve.7134:

Why you don’t fix the fact that on Fractals if someone dcs cannot re enter in Fractal?

We’ve got people working specifically on this issue, it has turned out to be much more complicated due to the way fractals are implemented than we hoped. We’ll have a fix for this soon as it’s tested enough we think it’s clearly solved and doesn’t cause any other issues.

We are at least a week and a half away on a fix for this, possibly longer depending on how long it takes to test it properly, we wouldn’t want to deploy anything that makes the issue worse!

Thanks for your patience, we wish this one was super easy! =)

I’ve played games where developers and publishers don’t even TRY to fix things… Even just saying something like, “we’re trying to figure out how to fix this problem”, even if you aren’t, really brings up my hope. It is nice to see posts like this.

I don’t know anything about what happened last week, my only issues are with Elementalists.

Why must my Scepter Ice skill, “Shatterstone” suck so much?

Can someone fill me in on what happened and what the problem is?

I thought it was my keyboard. But I knew my keyboard worked fine, so thought it was lag. They broke jumping.

Gele.2048:

i feel frustrated i didnt buy many gems when i shoud have and now its INSANE to even try to buy 100 gems i cant upgrade my invetory space and i dont own credit card

My girlfriend and I both have level 80’s, I played for about 7 weeks before she started playing. In that time, I got a bunch of exotics with Magic Find gear and made a bunch of gold. Maybe, 60-80 gold worth of items from farming for long periods of time every other day (university classes are every other day).

In that time period, Every 2/3rds of the gold I made went into buying Gems and becoming a Gem Hoarder. I maxed out my bank, my bag, and character slots.

Now, my girlfriend wants to increase her bank, bag, and character slots, but I’ve already spent all the Gems I collected on halloween skins and chest keys, halloween fashions, buying her level 80 equipment, and working on getting myself a legendary scepter…

We’re broke now. Both of us.

“It’s going to cost you 10g to increase your bank size, babe.”

“WTF? I only have $3.50 and it took me forever to make that…”

“I’m sorry, babe. I only have 3g, too. It gets worse though, the price is going to increase every single day…”

“-.- What the hell…”

**
So basically, I knew the price was going to steadily increase and never stop (This is how it was in Jade Dynasty) and I prepared ahead of time. For everyone else, it is going to suck very hard. Even for me NOW, on a new character, it is going to suck just trying to increase my bag slots. I wish it wasn’t like this. Sure, stuff may sell for a bit more than before now that the bots are gone, but it is still a lot of gold just to buy gems in-game.

It sucks.

That’s so cool! I didn’t know I could do that. Thank you.

http://i.imgur.com/y0esP.jpg

*I can’t pick the trainer that I want because they are all stacked.

*The Bank NPC has been moved into a nook in a space about this big:
|___________| between stairs and a wall.

*In the Bank NPC’s place is the Guild Bank…

Is there anything ArenaNet can do to prevent this from happening? It is fairly annoying. According to Map chat, it is a guardian using skills.

:( What if people start doing this to event NPC’s and I can’t get quests completed?

I just thought of this now, but the bear elite from Norn allows for some crazy +movement speed as skill #5.

I did not expect those answers. Thanks so much! I’m going to need to practice trying new things in sPvP now. I think the answer to #5 surprised me the most, as I thought those sigils were worthless to elementalists because we can’t switch weapons.

I played all day yesterday on a character that does not have Magic Find, from 6 AM until 4 AM (that’s a 22 hour session), and did not receive a single unidentified dye. 22 hours, and no dye…

They reduced the drop rate to an impossible rate. I am not satisfied. It should be changed.

I didn’t do the monthly for November because it required me to do the Fractal dungeons. It sucks that I am required to do them again for December.

If I quit the party after the first part out of three parts of the dungeon level, I’ll get a bad reputation and people won’t want to party with me because I am a “dungeon quitter” or “dungeon ruiner”. And if it is a party in Overflow, they can’t invite new people back in without having to quit the path and go back out. So really, I’m screwing up EVERYONE if I leave.

Making it a monthly requirement is really stupid. It is nothing like WvW where I can come and leave anytime I feel like it, so comparing the two like the 2nd poster did is nothing alike. The requirement should be “Do any 7 dungeons”, not do 7 parts of a long and difficult 3 part dungeon. I need to do Twilight Arbor, but all I ever see in Lion’s Arch are people screaming to do Fractal dungeons. That nonsense is unappealing.

Okay, so I am in love with Scepter/Dagger and decided to watch the video you listed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpuU6d_A8M (11-26-2012 Ele Free Tourney Round 3-2).

I started to try to figure out what questions I want to ask at about the half-way mark on the video. At around 9 minutes, I noticed that your utilities are set to Q,E,R,T and the mouse keys… I facepalm at this point. Why hadn’t I thought about doing that to my character?? -.- That is definitely what I will be working on in the Options menu once I return to the game.

I’m new to elementalist and I have a handful of questions about your choice of utilities, and equipment stuffs.

1.) Why do you use Ice Bow conjure? I thought all conjures are pretty much crappy, I read about people saying conjures are “sub-par” often. You only use 2 skills and then drop it? Will you please explain this?

2.) I’ve thought Lightning Flash, the teleporting cantrip that you used to teleport from the ground up onto the ledge @ the windmill was genius! I did not know I could even do that! wtf… The range for this utility seems to be kind of short. It would be nice if I could increase the range.

3.) …Why do you have so many runes/sigils in your bag? ?_? Do you switch between sets depending on what you’re fighting? That’s pretty smart. I might have to start doing the same.

4.) Do you prefer the +power per kill buff over the +condition damage per kill buff? I’ve recently been using Corruption Sigils and thinking that maybe I’ve been doing it wrong and should be using the Bloodlust sigils.

5.) Why does your scepter have the Sigil of Superior Battle? I can see the weapon info between 0:07 and 0:09 seconds marks in the video. Are you able to get the benefit from this sigil somehow? Was it just an accident that this was the sigil? Did you change it mid-game and I spaced-out while this happened?

6.) Your videos are nice and play just fine for me. Do you use FRAPS or a different program? I’m not too fond of FRAPS or Sony Vegas, but I always end up using FRAPS anyway.

7.) I really enjoyed watching you play. Thanks for uploading this video, I haven’t seen many other Scepter/Dagger players in-game. I hope I can see more

Taurethion.7302:

I went Norn, solely because I wanted a female character and decided I’d look silly as a human with things… hanging out. Norn run around bare chested in snow areas, so I feel more like their clothing is fashion instead of protection.

Yea! It’s all about Fashion. I went for Norn for the same reason. Female Norns are the sexiest!

This is one of the things that interested me the most during closed beta.

Why am I not sharing cutscenes with my girlfriend on the beginning Priory story quests? She’s slyvari, I’m Norn, and we finally have the same quests, but… But we aren’t sharing cutscenes, meaning we aren’t switching back and forth between characters (her and me) during conversations.

We are getting a pop-up at the end of each quest asking if I want to continue with my quest as if I just did mine.

This is how it worked in the past, right? Am I crazy? What’s going on here?

I specifically remember this kind of thing working when I did story quests in closed beta with my friend who lives in Israel during the Norn personal stories… I think… Man, now I’m starting to second guess myself…

The moment they add something to the cashshop to create an imbalance, I’m going to immediately decide never to spend another dime on Game Cards from GameStop. I played Jade Dynasty for 3 years and was absolutely horrified the whole time at how the cashshop offered such a pay-to-win advantage over other players.

Personally, I’d love to see more fashions. I need more Town Fashions and replacement armor skins.

She’s Sylvari and I’m Norn. Will we eventually start to get the same story quests that we can do together, or will they forever be different?

We’re both the same level and both joined the Priory. Any hope for us?

I left thief to play elementalist. It… It’s a terrible class, in my opinion. Elementalist is the most fun I’ve had since I played the game. I wasted 10 weeks playing thief.

But that’s just my opinion.

Dee Jay.2460:

Yes, this is intended but it only applies to sPvP.

WvW follows the PvE rule set which is why the special PvP rules don’t apply there.

This was done I assume because reaching full stacks of any Sigil would be almost impossible in sPvP otherwise.

It appears, Sir, that I have been using the wrong sigils then! Thank you for filling me in on this mystery. I can’t wait to tell my guildmate who I did spvp last night with!

I was fighting an Elementalist last night in 1vs1 sPvP. He was dagger/dagger and I am Scepter/Dagger.

As he was attacking me, I was more curious into figuring out his playstyle than killing him. I wanted to see if he did something I’m not familiar with so that I can learn to play my class better. That is when I noticed the 20 stacks of Bloodlust.

As he killed me, I noticed he gained 5 stacks of Bloodlust, bringing his total up to a capped stack of 25.

1.) Is this true for ALL sigils of that provide specific buffs like this? Like the +Condition Damage sigils? Even the ones that make you invulnerable for a few seconds or summon pets after xx amount of kills?

2.) Is this in sPvP only? The last time I killed someone using this sigil in World vs World, it only gave me 1 stack. I know I don’t get 5 stacks in PvE…

3.) Is this normal? Is this a bug?

4.) Nothing is wrong with my eyes. It said 20 before I died and 25 after he slammed a spike into my body.

5.) Please forgive me if this is noobish information and everyone already knows this. I’m new to sPvP and it is really starting to gain my interest these past couple weeks. There is no information on this on the GW2 wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodlust

Well, I use Scepter/Dagger and I’m incredibly pleased with how my character performs. I get that ranged stuff, but I also get melee stuff, too!

I’ve found a few builds by searching these forums, but I’m not sure if I like the Utilities they suggest I use, or maybe I think one of the traits is better used elsewhere.

Since it appears that the OP asked for some builds before prematurely ragequitting a few posts above (please come back?), here is a build I found here on the forums, that I’ve been practicing with in sPvP:
http://en.gw2codex.com/build/21560-s-d-tpvp-build-burst-and-survive

Here is another, but I’m not so sure how I feel about it:
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/elementalist#6|3|2771|630|2817|100|4480|20|917|918|0|15|1887|0|0|10|2255|0|0|15|1684|0|0|10|2250|0|0|0|0|0|28032|28017|49981|49981|49981|49981|49981|21025|21080|0|0|0|0

I’m sure there could be better ones, but you might find the best one by trying something out for yourself. You don’t HAVE to play dagger/dagger to win, you know.

I like Norn, because I can turn into a bear and werewolf. The Norn racial skills are pretty cool.

ALSO, being BIG in size means you get to see your fashion much better than if you were an Asura. Asuras are so kitten small that it is difficult to really enjoy what they are wearing. Afro’s on Asuras are kind of cool though. I definitely suggest a Norn or Human Female though. Humans are big enough that they can show off their fashion easily. Looking good is half the battle.

Elementalist because I have 20 completely different skills to use, depending on what weapons I use, AND it’s ranged. AND I get to summon elementals. AND I shoot fire/ice(water)/earth/and electricity! I get shields to help me take less damage, the ability to remove 12 conditions in a 4 second window every 15 seconds, and because it is colorful. Healing people is a fun perk, too. I like the Earth elementals as pets the most, because they look like walking mounds of poop. Poop monsters, bro. Poop monsters.

Budchgon.2108:

In my few months in game i have yet to come accros a black dye… which is very fustrating for my Thief :-(
And they go for 6-8 gold on the trade post !!!

You will have more luck taking Rare (yellow in name, not yellow in color) Dyes from the Trading Post, and taking them to the Mystic Forge. I’ve managed to create 4 or 5 Abyss Dyes and a handful of the Celestial Dyes. Chances are slim, but since it costs very little gold to buy dyes it should not take many before you get what you are looking for.

From my experience, I’ve found that I almost break even after selling the abyss dyes, or I find myself getting an abyss Dye on the first or 2nd try and making 6-8 gold in profit.

But seriously, you’ll have a MUCH better chance of getting it by forging rare dyes into the Mystic Forge. I hope this helps.

I’ve done the fractal dungeons for the monthly and I log on to open up WvW chests daily, but that’s all I do on my thief. I convinced myself that maybe when I get to 80, I’ll enjoy Thief more. I was wrong…

Things started out great! I loved the invisible stuffs. The Venoms really looked awesome, but they are not… The Venoms suck hard. I’ve tried using the traits which allow me apply Venoms to my teammates, but the Venoms suck so much that even using that trait is not worth the effort. a

Really, the only thing outside of big spike damage and big DPS that my Thief seems to be able to bring to the table is how I can avoid taking damage by going invisible and that I apply a Blind debuff onto targets (these blind skills have a huge cooldown compared to elementalists! HUGE!). Oh, and I’ve got swiftness almost 24/7… And if I’m in a group I can get 20-25 stacks of might pretty easily (traits & runes cause this)…

But wait! My Thief can grant invisibility to a party… How does that really help outside of Sneaking past monsters or players, especially when your teammates are just going to attack immediately after going invisible which causes your attempt to be completely useless.

Don’t even bring up farming, since Shortbow’s #2 skill, Cluster Bomb, is all you need to farm Orr events. I’m not talking about farming at all in this thread, specifically pve/pvp (more PvE than PvP though).

When I started playing the Thief, I expected something similar to my experience on Final Fantasy XI Online. A class that helps other party members do crits by working together or has skills to help the party like +Magic Find. It isn’t at all what I expected the class to be. I think the only thing I’ve found to be exciting is the Thieves Guild skill, which allows me to make clones!

My Elementalist is crazy fun for me. I can bust out 20 completely different skills in 36 seconds, and even have time to cast a couple of them TWICE… As a Scepter/Dagger user, I have two Group heals and an inherent heal that removes 12 conditions in 4 seconds with a 15 second cooldown. I can summon two pets out with my two Glyph of Elementals. with both glyphs giving a different sized pet than the other, and if I summon two of -+the same element, they apply different buffs/attacks! If I’m not mistaken, it looks like the Ice Greater Elemental actually HEALS nearby allies?? I can even turn into a crazy looking tornado for a few seconds (even though I don’t use it, ever, it is still AWESOME to have in my arsenal for if I ever need Stability).

If you notice, I haven’t even mentioned MOST of the Utility skills I can use on my Elementalist. Conjure skills (dropping temporary weapons like Ice Bow, Flaming Greatsword, Lighting Hammer…), Catnip (Cantrips) skills, The cool Arcane skills.

This isn’t my first experience with the Elementalist. My girlfriend has an 80 Elementalist now and she seems to like Dagger/Dagger even though I’m trying to show her the perks/downsides to other weapon combinations. She kind of wishes she could have pretty butterflies like a Mesmer and is convinced she picked the wrong class. Then again, her idea of fun in this game is harvesting plants, chopping down trees, and collecting dyes…

Elementalist seems to have all the things I really enjoy from past games.

In other games like FFXI, I played Summoner/white mage and Samurai to the max levels at the time (70). Jade Dynasty had had max level (150 ascended) Forta, Celan, and Arden. It City of Heroes before it turned super lame, I had max level (50) Tank, Stalker, Peacebringer, Warshade, Widow, and Controller. I’m not necessarily new to MMORPG’s. Still, I find the Thief to be the least useful class in this game.

ArenaNet can nerf the Thief all they want, I’ve already moved to a BETTER class. Until I see something really usefull come out of the thief class I’m just going to be using this 80 Thief as an extra chance to open Jumping Puzzle chests.

TL;DR – I just wish I had leveled up something else in the past 10 weeks instead of this Thief. What a waste of my time. I just don’t find it fun to play. Compared to all of the other classes, it is by far my least favorite.

I found a Moa farm in Queensdale! It has that “Chocobo Farm” kind of feel to it.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e71/muse100/gw027.jpg

That being said, I’d like to see a feature in this game where I get to raise a pet Moa, and ride it around. But, don’t let people attack while riding it and don’t let us enter the Main Cities on it (and no WvW with them!). And it would be great if there was only one farm so that people would all have to come to a single place instead of having it spread out over the maps. If someone has a Moa question, they can ask the people nearby, instead of having to go from city to city until they find someone who knows anything about it!

That’s what I’ve been thinking. I’d like to see this.

MrDmajor.7084:

… I’m not a big fan of Guilds because they tend to be just a generic group of 5-6 friends and 40 strangers that are fodder for somebodies crafting dreams or popularity.

Really? I seem to enjoy the social aspect. For the 40 strangers, if they can get to know me or say nice things about me, I’ll start paying attention to them more. Often, I find they feel the same way. I leave a few compliments here and there and then we’re best friends, playing the game together! …It’s way more fun than just playing alone or with strangers 24/7. For me atleast…

I’ve transmoged my body skin from the cashshop’s Profane armor skins across multiple armors (at least 4 times as I leveled up). Just keep the picture of the equipment that has the design you want, when in the transmog window. At least, that is how it has worked for me. It would surprise me if the shield skin from the halloween event works differently in any way. If someone else can also verify that it should be safe, I’d say go for it.

Good job soloing this.
It looks like these mobs are really easy to kill. I think the speed at which their health decreased as you attacked surprised me the most, which allows you to solo it as a thief. I guess they either have very low defense or just low health… That’s kind of disappointing to see. These mobs could use a buff to make it harder.

I think if you used Short Bow, it could have bounced the attacks onto the mobs and caused you lots of unwanted agro from the surrounding mobs. This is a situation where Pistols work well over Short Bow.

Two people would have no trouble with this at all, I’m sure. I duo’ed the champion inside the pirate ship at the southern end of Orr with my GF, night before last, as 80thief & 80elementalist. It was really fun. Did the same with the Champion inside the maze @ Orr, that same night. I’m usually playing with her so I don’t get the time to attempt to solo things; we’re always playing together.

Question, do you use mostly Tough/Vitality stats on your equipment?

& LOL @ the guy crying “nerf”. He must be new around here.

What problems ?

I don’t know anything about ascended gear, except what was inside the Kraka box. I’m still very pleased with the game. Maybe I’ll get interested when my Elementalist is level 80, but until then it is not effecting me at all and the game is still very pleasing. I’m sorry you are not enjoying it like I am…

I got 5 drops, all crafting material, while being in a full party, for 2.5 hours of killing Kraka during the event. Excluding the final chest.

I’m very disappointed in this.

kamizefrog.3421:

There’s nothing wrong with selling portal services to the top of the puzzle if people are willing to pay for em. :P

That’s a cool idea!

Hardcore player, reporting in!

…I’m leveling an alt. I’ve stopped playing my level 80 thief, as I am finding it is no longer fun to play. I am now an almost-40 Norn Elementalist.

I’m enjoying every second of it. My thief is just… It feels like all I can do is Backstab. Venoms are not worth anything. I find myself only using my 80 Thief to go invisible 24/7 and open end-game chests where monsters/people can’t see me like Cursed Shore and WvW maps, then logging off and going back onto my Elementalist. I wish there was more to the class.

Merlin Murchadh.4730:

The one thing I am glad after the one time event is the invite for free access for three days. I hope this does not keep occuring. I was tired of seeing the advertisements for website or selling gold or getting email for this crap.

I invited my friends to play GW2 with the invite-a-friend and I hope it happens again, but with better rewards for the inviting party. You may not have friends to invite, but I do.

I agree, we need more titles. I was looking at titles today and I’m kind of let down. There just aren’t enough.

Combat Healer, the Halloween title, and… And something else, are the only ones I have. I don’t feel too proud to wear them. Someone said to me the other day, “Ew, the halloween title sucks you should change it,” so now I can’t help but feel not significant when I wear it. Tons of people have it and I don’t feel like I stand out when I wear it.

Maybe I should PvP more, but I’m definitely more of a PvE kind of person. To be honest, I’m kind of surprised that there aren’t titles for Jumping Puzzles…

This is a great question. Is there a centralized VoIP server for WvW? I’m in Sanctum of Rall and I only use my Guild’s Ventrillo (WarFreak) chat to talk to people in our guild. I’d like to know the answer to this question, too.

I’ve been reading on Reddit that Jumping puzzles can give Legendary precursor weapons, the ones needed to finally make the Legendary weapons. For example: the WvW chests.

Is there a chance to get legendary precursor weapons in ALL jumping puzzles, or only the end-game area puzzles?

I want to know if there any incentive for me to go back to attempt them again outside of some random low level items that sell for almost nothing.

That’s exactly how it’s set up. I’m on Wifi, she’s on Ethernet. Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll give that a try tomorrow morning when I can get a new cable!

I can’t cooperatively participate in parties this evening! I don’t understand what is going wrong here.

It started in WvWvW this evening, where I partied with a guild member. We were in the water and I was following him around killing under water monsters. I fight a defender on from another server and go back to him in the water…

But instead of using a trident underwater, he’s using SWORDS underwater and attacking monsters and getting killed. I look at him for about 5 solid minutes, wondering if he’s botting or using a hack, but then he teleported away. Convinced he was using a hack, I open my map to see where he teleported to.

His character was at a PvP fight vs tons of other characters the whole time, and he tells me he’s killed dozens of people. He was on the other side of the map, the whole time. He wasn’t hacking, it was just my computer being out of sync… WTF?

ANOTHER SCENARIO:

Tonight I want to play with my Girlfriend. We made new characters and start to play, but… She’s 20-something yards away from me at all times. On her screen, I’m right next to her. BUT ON MY SCREEN, she’s incredibly far away.

Sooo, I’ve relogged, restarted, dropped Party and Reinvited, but nothing seems to fix the situation permanently. Relogging is only a temporary fix. I don’t know what to do.

I want to play with my Gf, but I Can’t if this continues. I play on a laptop and she plays on a Desktop right next to me and we have not experienced this kind of issue in the past.

Can someone help? Any suggestions? Maybe someone else has experienced something like this in Guild Wars 2?

Doomdesire.9365:

Honestly scabies, that is my biggest concern right now, is that I’ll have to focus on condition builds using venoms and bleed because that’s all we have left. I hate that. Cannot stand condition builds. I like direct damage, that’s where I shine, not hitting someone and watching their health go down slowly.

Yes, I love the direct damage I have. It makes me feel like a thief. I’ve heard of a thief that gives love taps.

I supposed the only way I’ll be interested in going Venom builds is if they buff it really really hard. And I mean buffed to the point where I won’t get LAUGHED AT in a party for fighting like that.

I have might duration runes and eat % to gain might on crit foods. I also have might on dodge and receive a bit of endurance back each time I dodge. When I do wvw or even Pve in large groups, I can easily pick up might boons from other players. I get an instant 5 stacks of might when I use a signet. I have a % to gain might on crit sigil on my dagger and a sigil that gives permanent (until downed) power bonuses to my stats.

I use a CnD build where I have 100% crit rate when attacking from stealth.

What I’m trying to say is that I can easily get a full stack of Might (25 stack cap) and reach 4000 power quite easily.

My armor is all power/vitality/toughness on the stats to help keep me alive. A glass cannon build is NOT fun in my opinion. Without the ability to survive an attack as a thief, the class is terribly boring and not worth the effort.

…I FEAR Guardians, engineers, mesmers, warriors, elementalists, necromancers, and thieves. But, I when I say I fear them, it is because there is always a chance I will come across a player that KNOWS how to play their class.

These people who are crying for nerfs are NOT skilled at PvP. Learn to play YOUR class vs other classes.

YES, I can understand how Glass Cannon Thieves can be OP, but nerfing backstab could going to hurt every backstab build there is. Tell me, what do I have after backstab gets needed to hell? Venoms? I didn’t make my thief to have Venoms as my only useful purpose in PvP…

Daecollo.9578:

Cool, meanwhile the warrior’s banners are doing AOE healing/buffing your stats and curing all your conditions with warhorn and stacking up 25 vulnerability on the target and doing good damage.

Elementalists are AOE healing twice and giving you swiftness, and just surviving and doing good damage, while also providing protection.

Rangers are giving you all critical chance/swiftness/vigor and doing good damage.

Necromancers are throwing down wells to make everyone do more damage and healing them, they are also healing everyone and doing decent damage, probably even tanking the name and debuffing it with blind, chill, and weakness.

Engineers are throwing down condition cures and group heal stims and area regeneration and protection while doing really good damage.

Guardians are throwing down condition curing, group stability, aoe fire, aoe healing and protection and regeneration while doing decent damage.

Your doing 20% more damage under 50% HP, grats.

Looks like your group is pulling you, because there is no way your surviving melee without some kind of group buff helping you.

A group buff from Thieves would be cool I can spare a utility slot for a group buff.

I think I understand what you mean. When I had focus on Venom traits, I liked how Venom boons could transfer to my party members as well as my thieves. It felt like I could actually contribute to the group like that. It doesn’t really feel like it is enough to me though.

dani.1956:

My gear worth over 300 gold mate and i make around 40g/day , you didn’t found the right person to call poor hahaha !

If you’re so rich than invest that money into gear that isn’t focused on Healing strength and Condition Damage or something, Mr. Gates.

OP says nothing about farming and MF gear. He’s talking about thieves being poor DPS and little utility. How do you help your teammates with Magic Find, bro?

dani.1956:

Mate its about PvE you got wrong thread ! We talk about farming , that means MF gear , MF runes , DPS with those to get a drop w/o getting killed … you can’t farm events with condition dmg or you are leeching your party ( that could explain it ) !

Since when is PvE only Magic Find gear? I’ve completely summed up WvW and PvE all in one…

If you are going to PvE in only Magic Find Gear because you’re poor, that’s your problem, not the Game’s. Go buy some all damage gear for a glass cannon that dies easily, or got vit/tough for a tanky damage dealer that can actually kill and live to tell about it.

*I dunno…
I’ve got 4000+ Power (when I’m buffed and not starting from scratch) on my Thief when I use +Might duration runes, even while I’m wearing only Power/Vitality/Toughness armor.

*I think that’s pretty good considering I have 100% chance to Critical Strike when stealthed (which is every 4 seconds or something, right?)…

*Plus the traits that allow me to get Might + Swiftness when I dodge are really cool.

When I’m grouped with 4 other players, I can easily get 25 stacks of Might on my character if I’m dodging on time, and using *(that one signet that gives +movement speed and blinds nearby foes when activated; I can’t remember the name as I’m on my Elementalist right now) which gives an instant 5 stacks of Might. Throw in a weapon Sigil that gives Might on critical strikes and lv80 food that gives might on critical strikes, too. Also, take a few minutes before you go out and look for a fight, to kill non-aggressive monsters to work on one of the Sigils in your weapons that gives you +power per kill.

It’s a great class. I am VERY pleased with how my Thief plays. My only suggestion is to NOT go for the Glass Cannon type of equipment. Having 11,000 HP as a Glass Cannon V.S. having 18-22k HP in Vit/Tough equipment; Vit/Tough builds will live through sticky situations and ambushes in WvWvW way more often than. This stays true in every PvE situation, ever.

I can still crit my way through more than 1/2 of a decked out Warrior or Guardian if I catch them while their guard is down…. But why would I come at a player that is buffed to the chin and ready to kill? I won’t. I’m not a tank. I am a stealthy melee damage dealer. There is no player that will see me coming towards them EVERYTIME.

Anyway, this is my advice. Heed my advice or not, it’s up to you. There are Condition Damage (CD) thieves that I know almost nothing about how to play. Maybe you can ask around for what a good CD build is and ask for playstyle tips. You might find it to be even better.

TL;DR: I’ve described how to wear Vit/Tough gear, still get 4000+ Power, have almost 24/7 swiftness, and 100% crit every 4 seconds. Just look at your traits, guys. There are multiple play styles for Thieves if you think outside the box.

Broken in Sanctum of Rall, too.

I bought 6000+ Vanilla Beans in bulk (21 Karma each; 25 beans per bulk package) during my Cooking phase (I’m rank 400 now). I bought them as a joke to send Vanilla foods to my guild members.

I Didn’t want to sell them because I spent so much karma buying them, so they collected dust in my Bank.

Today, I took them out of my bank, and was selling stuff, trying to make room for my new set of armor when I found out that if I move non-tradable Vanilla Beans from my back and into Collectibles, then back to my bag, it sets them into Tradable mode.

Those of us who collected 6000+ Vanilla beans are able to make a serious amount of gold now… I’m looking at a possible 120 Gold profit for the small amount of Karma that I spent buying them.

My guild says I could get banned if I do this and asked me notify the forums about it, and stop what I’m doing until I get the green light to continue selling them on the Auction house. I don’t want to lose my character.

I hope I’m placing this in the right place. I’ve never used these forums before.