Guild Wars 2

Scythe staff, the weapon – not the skin, is obtainable via MF, chances to get it are at least on par with chances to get a precursor. Few weeks ago I spent around 600 gold on rares, over course of few days, I was trying to get Legend and Lover, I got Lover but instead of Legend I got Scythe staff weapon that I sold for 3570 gold…I had crazy luck that day because I got lots of exotic weapons as well ( around 80 gold after sold on TP). Since then I spent around 200 gold on MF gambling and got really just yellow junk and few exotics…In my guild few were thinking I was joking when I linked the Staff since they also thought it cannot be obtained via MF – but obviously it can… https://s22.postimg.org/uan9ihfgh/Capture.jpg

No Walking.6349:

Ran into this build in WvW, he couldn’t kill me but he kept doing the same thing.

1) he was perma stealthed, this went on for about 20 minutes, he was never out of stealth unless he wanted to be.

2) He could load you up with condis really quick, one with a big circular AoE, and another with a trip wire looking trap that rooted you.

3) He would just stay perma-stealthed and repeat this AoE/tripwire combo. Never came out of stealth once.

Is this an exploit? A hacker? Or is it just an OP build? As far as I knew thieves didn’t have literal perma stealth. Wasn’t a problem because I had condi removal and he was going full force coward cheese mode, but still… kind of ridiculous.

IMO There is no OP build ATM for Thief and yes it’s ridiculous, you can have perma stealth with trapper runes if you use D/P as second set instead of SB (maybe even with SB if you use smoke screen), it’s useful for scouting purposes or if you play in PUG, Party or Zerg and then can cause confusion and distraction among enemies especially if you team up with a mesmer or another thief but alone if focused strictly on remaining in stealth he really should not be able to kill anyone, needle traps alone without stacked bleeding from pistol burst won’t do it… P/D condi thief with trapper runes to be able to duel well should use stealth after dropping a trap to fire the burst that stacks bleeding on enemies and it breaks stealth, dropping traps won’t break stealth, you get stealth and super speed each time you drop them…
This is test I made with my trapper thief today ( I play trapper, condi thief and new meta D/P depending on my mood… ) so you can see how it works:
https://youtu.be/Ib48f1uCvJA

Condition P/D builds, My experience is that compared to before it’s still viable just you can’t hold your ground as before 1 vs 2/3 players. I don’t think it can be considered Meta anymore but there are players that adapt and just don’t give up on it, once cheese always cheese lol Here’s a recent example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlzRCoMFpnU

Valvador.4291:

Not really sure what I’m doing wrong. I have a build with 2400 power, 40% crit, and 207% crit damage and its just been frustrating. Trying to ambush another Thief ends with them simply stealing after my initial hit (which is up to 7000 on average) but then I get hit for 10k on a returning backstab.

Do my stats suck? Does food and utility make THAT much of a difference? (I’m not running food for testing out these builds)

Is there a good post-june video you guys can recommend to watch? I seem to have more luck running a condi-venoms build.

I am new to thief (well used it for long time for farming in SW but recently started to play with it in WvW) and I have had the same issues as you do and after lots of testing and gold spent on various armors sets and runes and trinkets I run D/P now ( use Dragon’s Breath Buns food and Sharpening stones as well as Furious Maintenance oil..).

I wear Exotics only (SR of Vampirism, sigil of cleansing on SB and Sigil of Energy, Accuracy & Air on D/P set), toughness around 2200, hp around 15k , build is CS/DA/Trickery (trickery traited for condi. clean), I use No Quarter and in attachment you can see stats after and during fight, it crits A LOT, I don’t depend on backstab with this build. I ran SA and Acro D/P builds and found them all to be well…impotent I’d drop players down to 20-25% and then they would either escape or would kill me in return. Also for me It works well now with D/D as a second set and for giggles even with P/D as a second set because most of players will for a sec think you are a condi thief
Lack of mobility is the only problem now and I use Signet of Shadows but change it to Signet of Agility if I decide to camp an area. Other skills, Withdraw for healing, Blinding Powder, Roll for Initiative and DS elite most of the time.

You could try tanky, sort of relaxing, build relying on backstab ( It’s my alternative set) and see if it works for you,full Berserker armor, all soldier trinkets with Ruby , Wurm Rune set, SA/Trickery/Critical Strikes build with Hidden Killer trait and foods that increase precision and ferocity. Here is recent video of a guy who plays with it.