Guild Wars 2 Thief Builds

Thief : Skills

Weapon skills
- Rifle
- Shortbow
- Staff
- Dagger
- Pistol
- Scepter
- Sword
- Harpoon gun
- Spear
Slot skills
- Healing skills
- Utility skills
- Elite skills
Downed and drowning skills

Weapon skills

Rifle Deadeye - Twohands summit

	Skill	Blazon				Clarification
Deadeye
	Brutal Aim		¾			Fire a shot that inflicts vulnerability on your target. Applies boosted vulnerability when used against your marked target.
	Deadly Aim	Kneel	¾			Fire a shot that inflicts vulnerability on your target. Applies boosted vulnerability against your marked target.
	Death's Judgment	Stealth Attack	½		1	Reveal yourself and fire a powerful shot at your target. If this attack hits your mark, it consumes all malice and deals increased damage for each malice consumed.
	Skirmisher's Shot		½	3		Burn down a bullet that inflicts conditions on your target and grants yous a boon.
	Spotter'due south Shot	Kneel	¾	iii		Fire a bullet that grants you boons and inflicts conditions on your target.
	Double Tap		¾	six		Burn down ii bullets that grant might if they striking your target.
	Iii Round Burst	Kneel	ane	half-dozen		Fire three bullets that grant might if they striking your target.
	Death's Retreat		¼	six		Shadowstep away from your target and lose conditions. Poisons foes at your starting location.
	Sniper's Comprehend	Kneel	¼	4		Create a bulwark of shadows that blocks incoming missiles.
	Kneel			1	½	Go immobile and gain admission to kneel skills, which have increased projectile velocity. You tin can yet dodge roll while kneeling. Kneel is canceled if you swap weapons or become disabled.
	Gratuitous Activeness	Kneel				Terminate kneeling and move freely.

Shortbow Twohands meridian

Skill	Type				Description
Fox Shot		½			Burn down an arrow that bounces between nearby foes and inflicts haemorrhage when striking poisoned enemies.
Surprise Shot	Stealth Attack	¼		1	Shoot an arrow that bleeds and immobilizes your foe.
Malicious Surprise Shot	Stealth Attack	¼		1	Shoot an pointer that bleeds and immobilizes your foe. If the arrow hits your marked target, it consumes all malice and splinters, firing new arrows at nearby foes for each malice consumed.
Cluster Bomb		½	3		Fire a cluster bomb at the target area. Detonate in midair for multiple explosions.
Detonate Cluster				1	Detonate your cluster bomb in midair.
Disabling Shot		¼	5		Leap away from your foe while firing a crippling shot.
Choking Gas		½	seven		Fire an arrow that dazes enemies on bear on and poisons the target area.
Infiltrator'due south Arrow			8		Fire an arrow and shadowstep to the target area, blinding nearby foes.

Staff Daredevil - Twohands tiptop

	Skill	Type				Description
Daredevil
	Staff Strike		½			Strike your enemies with your staff.
	Staff Fustigate		½			Swing your staff a 2nd time, hit multiple enemies.
	Punishing Strikes		1			Whirl your staff around, hit nearby enemies.
	Hook Strike	Stealth Set on	¾		i	Set on your foes with stealth, knocking enemies downwardly.
	Weakening Charge		½	iii		Deliver multiple strikes, weakening foes.
	Debilitating Arc			5		Strike enemies in front of you and roll backward, breaking immobilizing effects.
	Dust Strike		¼	4		Sweep the footing, blinding enemies in front of you.
	Vault		¾	6		Leap toward your destination, dissentious foes upon touch.

Dagger Both easily tiptop

Skill	Type				Description
Double Strike	Chain				Strike your foe twice.
Wild Strike	Chain				Strike your foe again, bleeding them. Proceeds endurance with a successful strike.
Lotus Strike		¼			Strike your foe and inflict Toxicant.
Backstab	Stealth Assault	¼		1	Assail your foe from the shadows, hit for double damage if you hit from behind.
Malicious Backstab	Stealth Attack	¼		one	Attack your foe from the shadows and strike for double the damage if yous hit from behind. Consumes all malice when hitting your marker to deal bonus impairment.
Heartseeker		¾	3		Spring and strike your foe. The less wellness your target has, the more than damage you lot cause.
Twisting Fangs		½	4		Spin in place, hitting nearby foes. Each hitting causes bleeding.
Death Blossom	Dual Wield	½	5		Do an evasive set on over your target, striking nearby foes three times. Each hitting causes bleeding.
Shadow Shot	Dual Wield		5		Fire an unblockable shot at your foe, which blinds them, and so shadowstep to them for a dagger strike.
Dancing Dagger		¼	iii		Throw a dagger that cripples nearby foes and returns to you.
Cloak and Dagger		½	five		Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable.

Pistol Both hands top

Skill	Type				Description
Vital Shot		½			Drain your foe with a shot to the vitals.
Sneak Set on	Stealth Attack	1		1	Sneak attack with rapid fire from your pistol and make your foe bleed.
Malicious Sneak Attack	Stealth Set on	one		1	Sneak assault with a rapid burn from your pistol that makes your foe bleed. Consumes all malice when striking your marker to inflict torment with a elapsing equal to twice the consumed malice.
Bola Shot		½	four		Fire a set of immobilizing bolas at your foe.
Repeater		1¼	iii		Blast your foe with rapid fire from your pistol.
Unload	Dual Wield	i½	6		Blast your foe repeatedly with both pistols. Proceeds initiative if all attacks hit.
Shadow Strike	Dual Wield		4		Stab your foe, and then shadowstep away and shoot them. Unlock Repeater for a short time.
Repeater		i¼	3		Blast your foe with rapid fire from your pistol.
Head Shot			4		Shock your foe with a caput shot.
Black Powder		½	six		Fire a black-powder shot, blinding your target and nearby foes with fume.

Scepter Specter - Main mitt summit

	Skill	Type			Description
Specter
	Shadow Bolt		¾		Fire a projectile that hinders foes and helps allies. Enemy Target: Torment foes. Ally Target: Missles track and grant barrier to allies.
	Double Bolt		¾		Fire ii projectiles that hinder foes and assist allies. Enemy Target: Torment foes. Marry Target: Missles track and grant barrier to allies.
	Triple Bolt		one½		Fire iii missiles that hinder foes and help allies. Enemy Target: Torment foes. Marry Target: Missles runway and grant barrier to allies.
	Shadowsquall	Stealth Attack	two½		Unleash a avalanche from the shadows toward your target. Enemy Target: Inflict atmospheric condition. Ally Target: Heal your target and grant boons.
	Shadow Sap		¾	three	Hurl a commodities that hinders foes and helps allies. Enemy Target: Weaken foes and gain might on hit. Ally Target: Fire a homing projectile that grants barrier and might.
	Triple Threat		1½	4	Burn down three missiles that hinder foes and assist allies. Enemy Target: Torment foes. Ally Target: Missles track and grant barrier to allies.
	Twilight Philharmonic	Dual Wield	½	5	Fire a boring-moving projectile, then burn a quick shot that accelerates the first. Enemy Target: Chills and poison foes. Then, fire a quick tormenting shot. Marry Target: Grant swiftness and bulwark. Then, burn a quick healing commodities.
	Measured Shot	Dual Wield	½	three	Shadowstep and fire a shot that hinders foes and helps allies. Enemy Target: Shadowstep away from your target and launch a shot that immobilizes enemies. Ally Target: Shadowstep toward your target and launch a healing shot.
	Endless Night	Dual Wield	2¼	3	Burn a beam that hinders foes and helps allies. Enemy Target: Deal damage and inflict conditions. Marry Target: Grant your target barrier and boons.

Sword Main hand summit

Skill	Blazon				Description
Slice	Chain				Slice your foe.
Slash	Chain	½			Slash your foe once more.
Crippling Strike		½			Cripple your foe with a concluding strike.
Tactical Strike	Stealth Assault			i	Blind your foe past bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind. Applies vulnerability.
Malicious Tactical Strike	Stealth Attack			1	Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt, or daze them if you attack from backside. Applies vulnerability. Consumes all malice when striking your mark to restore endurance based on the malice used.
Infiltrator's Strike			three		Shadowstep to a foe and strike them. Utilize Shadow Render to shadowstep back and cure 1 status.
Infiltrator's Return		¼	two		Return to your original location. Cure one condition.
Stab		½	4		Stab your foe.
Pistol Whip	Dual Wield	¾	6		Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, so slash repeatedly with your sword.
Flanking Strike	Dual Wield	½	4		Evade and stab your foe.
Larcenous Strike	Dual Wield	½	two		Stab your foe and steal boons from them. Deals increased damage if it hits a foe with no boons.

Harpoon gun Aquatic superlative

Skill	Type				Description
Piercing Shot		¼			Drain multiple foes in a line with a piercing shot.
The Ripper	Stealth Attack	¾		1	Fire a shot from stealth to bleed your target.
Malicious Ripper	Stealth Attack	¾		1	Fire a shot while in stealth to bleed your target. Consumes all malice when striking your marker to add together boosted haemorrhage stacks.
Deluge		one¼	5		Fire four shots at your foe.
Escape		½	iv		Shoot a harpoon and retreat, leaving a trail of poison.
Crippling Shot		1	iv		Fire a harpoon that cripples your foe.
Ink Shot		¼	five		Shoot an ink shot that blinds foes in a line. Detonate the shot and shadowstep to it.
Smoke Trail					Detonate your ink shot and shadowstep to it. Proceeds stealth if enemies are struck by this skill.

Spear Aquatic top

Skill	Blazon				Description
Stab	Chain	½			Stab your foe.
Jab	Chain	¾			Strike your foe again.
Poison Tip Strike		¾			Poison your foe with a final attack.
Deadly Strike	Stealth Set on	½		1	Attack from stealth, bleeding and weakening your target.
Malicious Deadly Strike	Stealth Assault	½		one	Attack while in stealth, bleeding and weakening your target. Consumes all malice to deal bonus damage if it strikes your marker.
Flanking Dive		¾	3		Evade your foe and then strike, dealing increased damage from the side or behind.
Nine-Tailed Strike		1½	5		Block your foe and counterattack with a series of strikes. Proceeds initiative if y'all are not attacked.
Break Opinion			2		Spend initiative to break your blocking opinion and immediately initiate the ix-tailed strike.
Tow Line		½	4		Throw a spear that pulls enemies to you. Gain stealth and access to Hooked Spear if this skill hits.
Hooked Spear		¾	3		Spin around quickly, bleeding enemies caught in your spear'due south path.
Shadow Set on		¼	5		Strike your foe repeatedly with a shadowy assault. Evades while active.

Healing skills top

Skill	Type			Description
Hide in Shadows	Charade	one	twoscore	Vanish in stealth and cure conditions. Then gain regeneration and heal yourself.
Signet of Malice	Signet	1¼	15	Signet Passive: Heals when you attack. Signet Agile: Gain health.
Withdraw	Trick		25	Cure conditions, and then roll astern while healing and evading attacks.
Skelk Venom	Venom	1	thirty	Heal yourself. Your next few attacks heal yous.
Daredevil
Channeled Vigor	Physical	¾	30	Aqueduct your free energy to gain endurance and health per pulse. Heal for more if your endurance is full.
Deadeye
Malicious Restoration	Cantrip	¾	xxx	Transfer your conditions to your marked target so heal yourself.
Specter
Well of Gloom	Well	1	xxx	Shadowstep to your target location and drop a well that cripples foes and heals allies.

Utility skills top

Skill	Type			Clarification
Blinding Powder	Deception	¼	50	Blind nearby foes and grant stealth to nearby allies.
Shadow Refuge	Deception	¼	60	Create a pulsing refuge at the target area that heals allies and cloaks them in stealth.
Smoke Screen	Deception	½	45	Create a smoke screen that blocks missiles and blinds foes.
Shadowstep	Deception		50	Shadowstep to target area. Becomes Shadow Return, which returns you to your starting expanse and cures three weather.
Shadow Return	Deception			Render to your starting location, and cure three weather condition.
Prepare Pitfall	Preparation	½	25	Marking your electric current area with decision-making magic, readying the location to crush enemies when Pitfall is released.
Pitfall			3	Unleash your pitfall on the area, knocking downwards foes and delivering constant harm over time.
Gear up Seal Area	Training	½	35	Marking your electric current area with stifling magic, readying the location to seal enemies in.
Seal Expanse			three	Create an area that blocks projectiles and prevents enemies from entering or leaving.
Set Shadow Portal	Preparation	½	60	Marking your current area with shadow magic, which can be detonated.
Shadow Portal			three	Unleash shadow magic at your prepared location, creating a one-way portal for you and your allies. Allies traveling through the portal gain stealth. Weakens foes around the portal's exit.
Prepare Chiliad Needles	Preparation	½	xxx	Mark your current area with inhibiting magic, readying the location to poison enemies.
Yard Needles			3	Unleash a hail of needles that immobilizes enemies on impact and poisons the ground, inflicting conditions over time.
Assassin'south Signet	Signet		30	Signet Passive: Grants increased power. Signet Active: Power is massively increased for a curt duration.
Infiltrator's Signet	Signet		35	Signet Passive: Regenerate 1 actress initiative every 10 seconds. Signet Agile: Shadowstep to your foe.
Signet of Agility	Signet		30	Signet Passive: Grants increased precision. Signet Agile: Refill endurance and cleanse conditions from nearby allies.
Signet of Shadows	Signet		twenty	Signet Passive: Grants a 25% increase in movement speed. Signet Active: Utilise conditions to foes virtually your target.
Caltrops	Pull a fast one on	one	30	Besprinkle caltrops that drain and cripple foes.
Haste	Fob		45	Proceeds quickness, fury, and swiftness.
Roll for Initiative	Fox		50	Evade backward to regenerate initiative and recover from bedridden, chilled, and immobilized.
Scorpion Wire	Trick	½	1	Throw a scorpion wire and pull your foe to you.
Devourer Venom	Venom		40	Your next few attacks immobilize foes.
Ice Drake Venom	Venom		36	Chill foes with your next few attacks.
Skale Venom	Venom		30	Apply vulnerability and torment with your next few attacks.
Spider Venom	Venom		thirty	Poisonous substance foes with your next few attacks.
Daredevil
Distracting Daggers	Concrete		one	Fire a dazing dagger at your enemy. If this ability interrupts a skill, that skill'south recharge is increased.
Impairing Daggers	Concrete	½	25	Fling multiple daggers at a single enemy, inflicting conditions.
Bandit's Defense	Physical	1½	30	Briefly cake incoming attacks. Blocking an assault grants access to a retaliatory attack.
Reflexive Strike	Physical	½		Deliver a massive boot that knocks enemies down.
Fist Flurry	Physical	1	20	Strike your enemy multiple times. If all attacks hit, gain access to Palm Strike.
Palm Strike	Physical	½		Strike your foe once to deal massive harm and stun them, mark your target with a Pulmonary Impact.
Deadeye
Bounden Shadow	Cantrip	¾	30	Reveal yourself if you are stealthed and immobilize your target after a curt delay, while also removing boons. If the foe is your marked target, it is also knocked downward.
Mercy	Cantrip		30	Lose all malice, instantly refresh Deadeye's Mark, and gain initiative. Gain additional initiative for each stack of malice you had prior to using this skill.
Shadow Gust	Cantrip	½	30	Knock abroad nearby foes with a burst of shadow magic, then stealth yourself. If this skill hits your marked target, they'll be launched instead.
Shadow Flare	Cantrip	¾	xxx	Throw an orb of shadow magic that damages nearby foes at your targeted location. You may reactivate this skill to swap places with the orb. Deals increased damage to your marked target.
Shadow Swap				Swap places with your shadow flare.
Specter
Well of Bounty	Well	½	xx	Shadowstep to a targeted point and create a well that grants any boons to allies that they don't already have. If allies already have all boons, grant might instead.
Well of Silence	Well	½	50	Shadowstep to the target area and lay downward a well that dazes foes that it hits. Foes that are using skills when struck are inflicted with any conditions they don't already accept.
Well of Sorrow	Well	¾	25	Shadowstep to your target location and create a well that inflicts foes with whatever dissentious conditions they don't already accept. Foes that already have all conditions volition be inflicted with torment.
Well of Tears	Well	¾	30	Shadowstep to the target location and drop a well that repeatedly strikes foes.

Aristocracy skills top

Skill	Type			Description
Thieves Guild	Deception	ane½	180	Call more thieves to support you in gainsay.
Dagger Tempest	Play tricks	2¾	90	Spin around, reflecting projectiles and throwing daggers that cripple and bleed nearby foes. You can move while spinning.
Basilisk Venom	Venom	1	40	Your attacks are unblockable and turn foes to stone.
Daredevil
Impact Strike	Physical	½	xl	Strike your enemy and stun them.
Uppercut		¾		Deal a heavy accident with your fist, sending enemies flight.
Finishing Blow		one½		Bargain a downward strike on your foe. Downed enemies struck with this power are finished.
Deadeye
Shadow Meld	Cantrip	½	5	Remove revealed and stealth yourself.
Specter
Shadowfall	Well	½	60	Shadowstep to your target location and drop a well that continuously pulls foes to its center, increasing intensity with each hit.

Downed and drowning skills top

	Skill	Type			Description
Downed skills
	Trail of Knives		¼		Throw a knife that bounces off nearby foes, crippling them.
	Shadow Escape			15	Teleport to the target location.
	Fume Bomb		½	xx	Drib a smoke bomb and vanish in stealth.
	Bandage		49¼	5	Call your allies for help. Restores health while you channel it.
Drowning skills
	Diving Knife		½		Throw a knife at your foes, haemorrhage them.
	Cheap Shot		¾	5	Knock dorsum your foe with a kicking.
	Vanish in the Deep		1	20	Stealth into the depths.
	Bandage		49¼	5	Phone call your allies for aid. Restores health while you channel it.