New Players Guide To The Thief In Guild Wars 2

[@anonymanonymus4706]

The opening for the video describes perfectly how I felt about this class before I realized I could put 3 traps in one place, use double guns, summon 3 guild members, stack up 25 might, 25 poison, a bit of bleeding, crippling, immobilization, and bring my critical hit chance to almost 100% using specializations. Then, stand there and solo anything I happen to come across with almost 2k dps when my level is capped by 10.

[@Greymayn]

love the guides man! they make learning the game alot easier. coming from WoW ive fully leaned into GW2 and its been daunting but such a breath of fresh air.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Glad to hear it! I am working on finishing the other classes (guardian, warrior, ranger) for this series!

[@hakenaton9031]

Great guides and short. You learn enough to plan and show you what yo might want to learn deeper once you reach the proper level. Love it.

[@AddictedShuffler]

Very nice video. I would like to add, that if players owns Secrets of the Obscure, you always gets access to axe main hand, which functions as range weapon (900) ranged. Can be paired with pistol/dagger off hand. And button 3 on axe, allows for great burst with 6 stacks of swirling axes. Great for open world content as well.

[@negative4361]

I've had this game in my backlog for months and could never truly decide on a profession forever!! Thanks to this video I think I finally made my choice to go thief, thank you so much!

[@igorcardoso147]

i played the base game with Thief and liked, but it's hard to master haha, buyed the expansions and planning to go back to my thief and try The Specter, loved the shadow things hahaha. Now i'm doing the expansions with my ranger and don't have much problems with the elites in the 1° expansion.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Hahaha going from their to ranger must feel like a slow down! I honestly have enjoyed the specter quite a bit actually!

[@kipperrd8964]

Without looking it up, I’m going to say I thought the new weapon availability was only going to be interchangeable between elite specs. Meaning, the daredevil could use a rifle or the untamed could use a staff. I didn’t realize that core specs while leveling allowed you the use of these weapons too. If that’s the case than I’m even more excited about the expansion!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I'm like 90% certain that will be the case, you can use all weapons across the board. Meaning you can have a core rifle thief!

[@kipperrd8964]

@@CaffeinatedDad That would be awesome. I enjoy the leveling process in any MMO I play and this would bring a new depth and dimension to it for me. I’m most excited about the idea of a “streamlined” sky scale though, because I’ve never been able to get the griffin or sky scale and I want one soooo bad lol. Just to take some of the pain out of traversing heart of thorns and end of dragons maps lol.

[@oliviervoegtlin2606]

Love your videos. There is nothing left, that you didn‘t tell. Have a great weekend🎉❤

[@pokeylope6108]

I'd say running Dagger/Dagger and Shortbow will give you the most understanding to how Thief combat works.

[@LPeck1985]

That's literally my favourite way to play a Thief/Rogue or any other Class name pertaining to stealth based mechanics. I did the same with a Nightblade in ESO.

[@fullmetalathlete]

I've been wanting to play Daredevil because melee staff combat is exactly the playstyle I've been wanting in an rpg and its surprisong how few do it well, or even at all...but boy is there a learning curve...so squishy for me coming from a Firebrand main...really having to learn the mechanics, positioning, and survival tactica well cause i have died A LOT 😅

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Ite a dance basically you have to be able to play like everything is going to one shot you

[@xezzee]

​@@CaffeinatedDadso it is perfect fir all downstate mains 😂 I have not notice thief to be weak in raids strikes and HoT metas. Then again my favored class is Tempest.

[@bencochrane6112]

How to thief: Select build from metabattle or guildjen (guildjen tends to be better). Disregard runes. Buy dolyak runes. Actually survive. ...and spam Headshot when you see a break bar.

[@DarcShinobi]

Thanks again. Could you make a video comparing (or vs) Necromancer and Thief Specter? Cant decide which I ultimately want to invest my time into.

[@KarakuraRiser]

I tried all 9 classes and Thief is the only that works for me :)

[@CaffeinatedDad]

It really is a ton of fun ngl!

[@EnzoVinZ]

This video should have covered Initiative management since this will be the main issue new players will have a hard time understanding. In addition, positioning is very important as well as proper use of shadowstep abilities. Basically, a guide should answer "How to play as Thief?" instead of "What is a Thief?"

[@didoma73]

Why don't you go and make that video instead?

[@tkr63]

here's an initiative management guide for you: 1. use an initiative skill (every weapon skill aside from auto-attack) 2. look at how much initiative it used 3. look at how much initiative is left 4. use another initiative skill (or the same one, thief is dope like that) 5. repeat steps 2-3 6. repeat steps 1-5 now you're managing initiative like a pro! good job!

[@xezzee]

​@@didoma73because you would not watch my boring monotone voice turnin a fun 5min video in to 5 hour lecture about things you didn't ask 😂

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Yes, I of course could have gone into a lengthy discussion about initiative management, but I gave what tips players needed to get started not master. And honestly my best teaching advice is through experiencing hands on practice!

[@banato01]

great video thank you can i ask why thiefs dodge is different than others ? it seems like thief goes into a brief stealth as animation and a sound (whooosh) comes out is thief dodge has a difference or is it just astetic

[@rafael00kl]

just astetic, however there is a deadeye trait that makes the rifle dodge also stealth the thief

[@garregalen83]

Well done :) thx

[@CaffeinatedDad]

No problem 👍

[@SoulmatePrayersDaily]

Caff dad im always missing my dagger 5..... in pvp i can never hit

[@CaffeinatedDad]

It requires a super close like stacking ontop of the enemy to make it hit!

[@GeraldMountaindew]

I'm a new player (level 42) and I've been building my character to maximize crits. Is that bad compared to a conditions build?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Not really! Especially at sub max level. For the most part any hodge podge build can do well in the leveling process!

[@ur4ik168]

,Ķ Oop8​@@CaffeinatedDad

[@sc_3433]

Is there builds for shortbows on pve?

[@icata12345]

ive seen them unlock doors specialy W4 samarog, do you just walk to it and click E? or is there a gimmick?

[@MvpDofus]

I think I saw someone pvp as daredevil using a scepter, is this also possible now? as it wasnt mentioned in the video

[@pokeylope6108]

Yes, when this video was made the SoTO expansion was not yet released. Very short into the SoTO story like first 20mins, you unlock "Weapon Mastery" just by talking to a guy, not an actual mastery. This is account wide, and makes it so now, at level 1 any core profession or elite spec of said core profession can now use all elite specialization weapons. So Thief now gets access to staff/rifle/scepter regardless of spec. Well now at the time I am answering it is live, all profs also just got access to a brand new weapon, Thief got ranged main hand axe. These brand new weps require many chapters of SoTO to be completed to unlock it, unless you WvW, the WvW sells the artifact you need to unlock the weapon achieve to get access to 1 new wep type on all profs.

[@miltakis12]

I am really new to the game can a scepter play with dual daggers and a scepter or only scepter ?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

You can run a scepter main and offset however they would share the same cooldown on skills

[@freshairkaboom8171]

This is a good overview of the class, but I wouldn't say it's a new player's guide at all. I'm so lost lol.

[@stealthcheck]

New to Thief? Don't. Anet hates us.

[@keats27]

hates us...in wvw and pvp....I think you might be doing it wrong...

[@lilbladeknight]

they took away ricochet and and introduced "no visible pathing!"

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Idk 100% about that

[@sergel02]

Every class says this to the point it seems like there’s no point playing anything.

[@Jempai]

I am so sick of hearing this lmao. Every single salty player says this about their class

[@cosmicpotato3214]

I'm still waiting on your guild invite.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I sent you and the Mrs one last night!

[@cosmicpotato3214]

@@CaffeinatedDad tyvm. I got called into work and had no way to check other then bugging you here lol.

[@cosmicpotato3214]

@@CaffeinatedDad hey you busy?

[@eurasiacentertutorials9518]

It is sort of funny, I played the base thief, liked it, but then played Deadeye and I am not a fan at all.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

It does drastically change your playstyle especially using a rifle!

[@benflores8571]

I`m basically Ezio lmao hahahha

[@CaffeinatedDad]

"If you don't look too closely"

[@LPeck1985]

Hey itza meeee a Eziooooo.

[@littlerascle4]

I was here first!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

On top!