Compared to dagger pistol, sword pistol has more steady brawling power. Seems quite similar in how it plays to dagger pistol. However, like dagger pistol, it lacks good ranged attacks. Is useful in both PvE and PvP as an upfront brawling set. Sword pistol: Has a balanced combination of good melee damage and good tanking abilities. Compared to sword pistol, dagger pistol has higher вЂfinishingвЂ™ damage against low health targets. Also has no real ranged damage, despite the pistol offhand вЂ“ dagger dagger does more ranged damage. Has no condition damage, making it good for power-critical builds, but poor for any build that focuses on condition damage. Has a lot of blinds, a daze, and a fairly expensive stealth combo. Is kindof clunky to use, and Jon Peters from ArenaNet has said it is slated to be reviewed (probably due to the aforementioned moving target problem).Дagger pistol: Has some of the direct damage from dagger-dagger, but has offhand pistol tanking abilities. Mostly a PvE set, as the main damage dealer of this set requires your target to stand absolutely still. Sword dagger: Has OK damage, some range, and a condition removal. Has a mix of direct damage and conditions. Pistol Pistol: A mix of single target damage, support, and tanking abilities thatвЂ™s good for sustained damage at range. Is also excellent for ranged kiting, though you need to be careful to not kite too much, as doing so will waste its excellent burst damage.

Useful for taking pot shots at ranged before quickly doing high melee damage to a single opponent, though not as much sustained damage as dagger dagger. Pistol dagger: Hit and run combination of high direct damage and high condition damage against a single target. The variety in attack styles make this a good primary or backup weapon set for any build. Useful as a general attack set, but no tanking ability. This set has a mix of direct damage, condition damage, stealth, and ranged damage.

These are all fairly versatile and let the thief play every role in the game.Дagger dagger: An aggressive but balanced set. Thieves have seven weapon set combinations. In particular, traits in the Deadly Arts and Trickery lines can buff steal up to be quite useful, with initiative regen, poison, weakness, and boons. To make steal truly good, however, you need to trait it. Regardless, steal is very useful as a mobility move. Your best bet here is to memorize the icons for the best steals, so you know when you can safely apply them without something stupid happening. The weapon steal is sometimes useful (if you get a stealth, immobilization, or condition attack), and sometimes horrible (the whirlwind move is rarely useful, and the blunderbuss catapults you backwards). When you reach the target, you вЂstealвЂ™ an environment weapon that you use by pressing F1 again. The thiefвЂ™s class skill attached to the F1 key, steal is a 900 (medium) range teleport towards the target on a 30-45 second cooldown (depending on traits). As youвЂ™ll see, many of the skills rely on traits to be most effective. Once you know what skills do, and what skills you like, then you build traits and gear around them. Knowing skills is how you understand the thief. But after reading this you should know everything there is to know about thief skills (apart from water skills, but these are a little limited). This includes steal, weapon skills, heals, utilities, and elites. I wrote this to give you an overview about all the different thief skills. Guild Wars 2 Thief Skills Complete Guide by PriestessLara

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