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[hemmingjay]

I picked Sylvari for my thief once I discovered you can have a mushroom for a head. It's fantastic.

I'm now level 9. Thieves definitely don't have as much burst damage as I expected, but I guess that's why they're not called assassins.

Change your weapons to change your role. Different weapons give you different skills, including more of burst damage. On topic, I dislike the Sylvari starting area as I find the over saturated green colors to be disorienting and difficult to navigate. I just used the gates to get out of there as soon as I could.

[penguinofhonor]

I know, I've experimented with pretty much every combination I can get my hands on besides the bow.

I think maybe the sword is bursty sort of? I like double daggers since I feel it's the trickiest combination, although maybe dagger/pistol is close.

[Burnt Pies]

I dislike having a dagger as my primary weapon on the Thief; I'm not convinced it hits everything in the front arc like the sword does. As such, I play Sword/Dagger and Shortbow, although I'm looking for a replacement for the shortbow; its' nowhere near as powerful as it could be. Ideally it'll be either another, better shortbow, or a pair of sweet pistols.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Actually, thief shortbow is probably one of the most broken combinations in the game, and the source of many nerfs in the beta.

I don't want to give away all my pvp secrets yet, but stack venoms and +condition damage and immobilises. Don't just sit around pew-pewing without doing anything. Nothing will be able to touch you.

[Burnt Pies]

It's a very nice set of skills, don't get me wrong, it's just that my shortbow's a blue level 16 weapon, and most of my others are blue/green level 22-25s

[SeaBee]

Shortbow is incredible. I'm almost always roll with one equipped, even if I'm using something else as primary. With the right utilities selected, it makes you ridiculously powerful (and grants you tons of mobility).

That said, I still enjoy using pistols a lot. Every weapon set on my thief has been really enjoyable, to be honest, which is why I play it so much. Being able to completely change the playstyle and feel of the class so dramatically is a strong benefit for me.

Also, thief healers.

[Ozyton]

I'm a level 100-ish huntsman, I can craft you a bow if you want.

As for my weapon set, engineers get the fewest weapon combinations available, and they can't even swap weapon sets. However they do get a bunch of kits that make up for it, but that means any stats your weapon has doesn't apply to the kit. I'm relying mostly on armor to get condition damage and put precision on my rifle, so that I get more chances to bleed (with level 5 firearms trait) and do damage at long range (with rifled barrels trait). I can unload a whole bunch of skills while swapping between different sets of weapons to unload different skills.

I can snare an enemy and shoot for a bit, then do a jump shot to an enemy, then blunderbuss for extra close range damage, then use overcharged shot to knock them down while pushing me back. Then I can swap to elixer gun, Elixer F them to cripple them, fumigate them when they get close to poison and put vulnerability on them, then do acid bomb to launch myself backwards while switching back to the rifle whose skills should be ready to use again.

Then there's the flamethrower which is really good for groups since it can hit thing sthat are standing beside you too. The only problem I have with the engineer kits is that the primary attacks are not set to auto fire when you equip them, even if you do it yourself it won't save the setting next time you equip it.

EDIT: Haven't done PvP at all and not too interested, this is just something I've figured out with PvE.

[etgfrog]

honestly...i'm finding it very fun to use a burn/spirit weapon focused guardian, do a single rotation of skills(except elite) to queue up 10 seconds of burning+damage burst from spirit weapons will usualy cause most enemies to go down, but thats talking about 1 vs 1, which honestly doesn't happen that much, its usualy 1 vs 2+ in wvw

[Moogie]

How are people using alts for storage space? I just tried mailing something to my alt, and it said "You cannot send to yourself." This is BS; bank space is pathetically small, wtf are we supposed to do? Nm, I'm an idiot. Stuff goes in bank -> Alt takes from bank.

[Jimmy]

Just finished getting my level 35 Thief through his first dungeon.

Ascalonian Catacombs: Story Mode

Wow, what an amazing experience. seriously tough but doable fights, each requiring teamwork and alertness to complete. The Lovers took us awhile but we finally got there after zerging from the spawn to complete.


Ascalonian Catacombs: Explorer Mode

Incredible. Words cannot express how insane the difficulty on this one was. It took my group 3 hours to take down the first sub-boss. We spent most of that time learning his attacks and how to avoid his pull-spin-death combo. looking forward to completing this one. I'll consider it a really memorable achievement when I do.

Right now I'm using dual pistol/shortbow. I hear you recommending venoms eh? I'll need to try those out.

[Bluerobin]

Yeah... I need to get a couple more characters set up as bank alts. I keep forgetting until I go to cook and whoops every inventory ever is full.

Really looking forward to dungeons, too.

[Ozyton]

What are you guys filling your inventory and bank with anyways?

[Bluerobin]

I made the mistake of opening about 5 of those black lion chest things and ended up with about 8 slots of random bonus things. On top of that I average about 5-8 slots of equipment I want to pass between characters or save for transmuting, about 7-8 slots of food (on top of the food my characters are already carrying), and then some cooking intermediates that don't have collectable slots. Really, I'd say avoid cooking until you have way more bag space than you know what to do with it because if you want to discover things without using internet references your inventory will be full of intermediates.

[hemmingjay]

I didn't really pay attention when the game warned me that cooking uses much more Karma and gold than other skills. The upside is that some of the food is pretty awesome!

[penguinofhonor]

What armor crafting thing do thieves use? Leatherworking, armoring, or tailoring?

Also I'm liking the sword as a primary weapon on thieves. Sword/Knife is pretty great but I'm going to have to try Sword/Pistol out a bit.