[9] Guild Wars 2 Builds - Thief - Theme: Black Widow's Spy Tactics |PVE

By: Soul Step (Updated 7/7/2012)

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Do you like Black Widow from the Avengers? Here's your chance to be like her! This build uses dual daggers and pistols for melee and range damage.

Weapon Set:
Primary: Dual Daggers
Secondary: Dual Daggers

Healing, Utility, and Elite Skills:
Healing: 
(6) Hide in Shadows - Good healing skill and allows you to go into stealth and set up your next rotation or escape if you're dying.

Utility: Black Widow is a master spy. This build uses tricks to reflect that.
(7) Scorpion Wire - Good gap closer and fun to use.

(8) Caltrops - This is just a great skill to have on your bar in general.

(9) Haste - Overall a great steroid boost.

Elite:
(0) Dagger Storm - This provides great damage and can be used to escaped if you're cornered or surrounded

Traits: This is a 30/0/0/20/20 as the focus lines are in Deadly Arts, Acrobatics and Trickery providing lots of physical damage and boost in your condition effectiveness.

Deadly Arts:
(I) Back Fighting - when you're downed, this gives you a better chance to rally

(X) Combined Training - Must have since you're using dual weapons.

(XI) Panic Strike - Useful when finishing off an enemy and they don't run away.

Acrobatics:
Two options for the Adept trait:
Option 1:
(IV) Assassin's Retreat - Nice boon reward for killing off an enemy.
Option 2:
(V) Fleet of Foot - Great survival/condition remover skill trait that comes when using dodge.

(VIII) Pain Response - Another great survival/condition remover skill trait.


Trickery:
Two options for Adept Trait:
Option 1:
(III) Uncatchable - Choose this if you want to have a better chance in surviving and keeping your distance. This also fits with the theme.
Option 2:
(V) Thrill of the Crime - Steal away! The boons you get gives you a great advantage

(VIII) Trickster - Must have since all your utility skills are Tricks.