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I'm definitely finding it the most challenging profession I've tried to level. Everyone complains about Mesmer being hard to level, but I found it to be pretty smooth. Thieve's active defense definitely presents a challenge. Can't really provide a defense for you, Ursen, with your conditions...

If you haven't seen, Jon Peters has responded a couple of times on the official forums about the speed of the scepter auto-attack. Big news for Guardians who have been complaining about it since launch.

Makes sense. On my Mesmer I did all Rabid gear for Prec/Toughness/Condition Damage because I was running a Cond build. On My Ele I use all Knight's for Power/Prec/Toughness for damage and tankiness. But for some reason on Thief I keep thinking maybe it would be best to balance rather than...

Leveling in my 50s at the moment, and liking S/P, but I've been using SB as my other weapon. I'm liking the teleport for covering distance and ranged AoE. Can you explain a bit about your choice to go all Valk gear? Looks like huge crit damage, but only 20% crit chance. Of course, all the...

I think the trick is stealthing with combos, not skills. Blinding Powder and Shadow Refuge cooldowns are too long to perma-stealth a group. A blast finisher into a smoke field, however, causes area stealth. So the thieves use Pistol #5, Black Powder to put down a smoke field at a cost of 6...

Interesting. The stealth-revealing traps sound interesting as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rc5ksQN3M This is a video of thieves sneaking into a tower while one of their enemy servers takes it from the other enemy server. They then wait inside stealthed until everyone leaves and they can take the tower in peace. Since they are using area stealth, I...

Looks like we're also going to be getting the chance to buy permanent sickles and axes, and that we are going to have a Canthan New Year celebration, rebooted as "Dragon Festival". Nevermind the weirdness of a "Dragon Festival" while the world is being decimated by... dragons. There's also a...

Kinda weird that they added a new mini-game when they haven't finished the others that have had place holders from launch. That private party that rented the shooting gallery in Divinitys Reach has been going forever! I guess when the plates and cups are dirty, they just move down the table...

Oh, yeah, sorry. Unload hits hard. Was thinking of P/D. I've also seen warnings on getting too reliant on /P #5 blind, because it isn't as easy-mode at high level.

Had a lot of fun in WvW last night. LoL at Helm's Deep. Gotta figure out what's going wrong with my mic...

Yeah, since very early in the game I've wanted to try alternating D/P and P/D for that reason since they seem to be designed as opposite. Stepping in with D/P for melee, then popping out with P/D for range. In my limited experience, though, pistol feels kinda wimpy. So far I'm just doing...

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/82438-sd-or-dd-for-wvw/ The fourth post down is one by Phenn, who has been an s/d advocate before the update, with three different builds to check out.

With so many thieves going on, we might need to have an all-thief WvW night down the road and do some of those tricks like stealthing inside towers and capping them after the enemy leaves.

What kind of build did you run with S/D? On Guru there's a player who's been a frequent poster about using S/D before we had news about the update, and he has several different builds he recommends. One of the key points I've seen him make several times is that S/D is more sustain than the...

Been doing a bunch of reading on thieves, and am wondering about venom sharing in WvW. The ability to hand out CC and healing suppression to a team seems like it would be awesome for zerg busting or even small roaming team/supply camp capping, but I'm seeing mixed reviews on different forums...

You're right! I totally missed that. It's only up for 13 days! That's crazy. Why in the world... I wasn't really speculating on who's developing what, just saying on the dungeon front there is something new. Not a fix to the old ones, but a new one added. For two weeks... :P

Well, we do get a new dungeon that can only be run for the next month and a half, and supposedly specifically designed so that it isn't worth the hassle to try and skip content to speed clear it. Also some significant changes for Thief, Ele, Mesmer, and Engie. The idea of creating some...

Won't be able to make it this week, but I'm definitely looking forward to it! Running with a coordinated group makes such a big difference in how effective you can be.

Definitely check out the guide at https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-The-Comprehensive-Mesmer-Guide-all-Parts. It links to his youtube guides, and part 2 goes into his build as well as has a great bit on how to cycle in mobs. Mesmer's have a ramp up time, so if you...