Thief - The Ninja Medic

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Focused on: Support.

Designed for:

World vs World

Information

This build is a novel interpretation of the thief's abilities. It's a fun build, but sub-par for high level content. Instead of emphasizing the burst aspect, it chooses to heal and revive it's fellow allies. It is currently unviable for Solo / Team Arena and will likely upset your team as you lose capture points. It can be used in Hot Join. This guide is meant for WvW.

Build

First Weapon Set

Shortbow

Utility

Elite

¼

Trick Shot

Bounce an arrow between multiple nearby foes.

Damage: 134

Number of Bounces: 2

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

3

½

Cluster Bomb

Fire a cluster bomb at the target area. Detonate in midair for multiple explosions.

Large Explosion: 353

Bleeding (4s): 170 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 900

4

¼

Disabling Shot

Do an evasive leap away from your foe while firing a crippling shot.

Damage: 122

Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

Evade: 0.5 seconds

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

4

½

Choking Gas

Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.

Damage: 71

Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 4

Field Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Poison

Range: 900

Unblockable

6

Infiltrator's Arrow

Fire an arrow and shadowstep to the target area, blinding nearby foes.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 3

Radius: 120

Range: 900

1

30

Hide in Shadows

Deception. Vanish in stealth and gain regeneration. Cures burning, poison and bleeding.

Healing: 5,240

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Regen (4s): 520 Heal

40

Blinding Powder

Deception. Blind foes in the target area and grant stealth to nearby allies.

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Smoke Bomb Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

¼

60

Shadow Refuge

Deception. Create a pulsing refuge at the target area that heals allies and cloaks them in stealth.

Healing: 1,775

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Pulses: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Dark

Range: 600

50

Shadowstep

Deception. Shadowstep to target area. Becomes Shadow Return which returns you to your starting area and cures three conditions.

Breaks stun

Range: 1,200

1½

180

Thieves Guild

Deception. Call more thieves to support you in combat.

Number of Thieves: 2

Duration: 30 seconds

Second Weapon Set

Pistol/Dagger

½

Vital Shot

Bleed your foe with a shot to the vitals.

Damage: 97

Bleeding (4s): 170 Damage

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

4

½

Body Shot

Make your foe vulnerable with a body shot.

Damage: 122

₅Vulnerability (3s): 5% Incoming Damage

Immobilize (1s): Unable to move.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

4

Shadow Strike

Dual Wield. Stab your foe, then shadowstep away and shoot them.

Damage: 73

Shot damage: 304

₂Torment (5s): 319 Damage, 638 Damage if Moving

Range: 600

3

¼

Dancing Dagger

Throw a dagger that cripples nearby foes and returns to you.

Damage: 122

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Bounces: 3

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

6

½

Cloak and Dagger

Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable.

Damage: 444

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

₃Vulnerability (5s): 3% Incoming Damage

Range: 130

OR

Dagger/Pistol

Double Strike

Chain. Strike your foe twice.

₂Damage: 138

Number of Targets: 2

Range: 130

3

¾

Heartseeker

Leap and strike your foe. The less health your target has, the more damage you cause.

Above 50%: 244

Below 50%: 365

Below 25%: 487

Combo Finisher: Leap

Range: 450

4

Shadow Shot

Dual Wield. Fire an unblockable shot shot at your foe, which blinds them, and then shadowstep to them for a dagger strike.

Damage: 304

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

Unblockable

4

Headshot

Daze your foe with a head shot.

Damage: 61

Daze (¼s): Unable to use skills.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

6

½

Black Powder

Fire a black powder shot, blinding nearby foes with the smoke cloud.

Damage: 62

Blindness (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 3

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 2 seconds

Radius: 120

Combo Field: Smoke

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

Skill Variants

• Haste

  60

  Haste

  Trick. Gain quickness and fury.

  Quickness (6s): Skills and actions are 50% faster.

  Fury (6s): 20% Critical Chance

  Breaks stun
  over
  Shadowstep

  50

  Shadowstep

  Deception. Shadowstep to target area. Becomes Shadow Return which returns you to your starting area and cures three conditions.

  Breaks stun

  Range: 1,200
  - loss of extra mobility, stunbreak, and condition cleanse for a burst rez but the endurance loss is huge if misused.
• Dagger Storm

  7½

  90

  Dagger Storm

  Trick. Spin around, reflecting projectiles and throwing daggers that cripple and bleed nearby foes. You can move while spinning.

  Damage: 266

  ₃Stability (3s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared or taunted.

  Bleeding (5s): 110 Damage

  Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

  Boon Application Interval: 3 seconds

  Dagger Storm Duration: 8 seconds

  Combo Finisher: Whirl

  Range: 900
  over
  Thieves Guild

  1½

  180

  Thieves Guild

  Deception. Call more thieves to support you in combat.

  Number of Thieves: 2

  Duration: 30 seconds
  - loss in distracting thieves for projectile reflection and stability. Useful for staying alive long enough for a stealth/mobility skill to become available.

Weapon

Pistol/Dagger gives the build more killing potential and enemy movement impairment. Dagger/Pistol provides a leap finisher and smoke field for a costlier, more reliable stealth. The smoke field can also be combined with

Cluster Bomb

3

½

Cluster Bomb

Fire a cluster bomb at the target area. Detonate in midair for multiple explosions.

Large Explosion: 353

Bleeding (4s): 170 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 900

or

Blinding Powder

40

Blinding Powder

Deception. Blind foes in the target area and grant stealth to nearby allies.

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Smoke Bomb Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

for AoE stealth.

Traits

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Trait Variants

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Weapons

First Weapon Set Main Hand Shortbow Stats: Dire (Condition Damage/Toughness/Vitality) Superior Sigil of Momentum Superior Sigil of Momentum Gain a charge of +5 toughness each time you kill a foe, five if you kill an enemy player. Superior Sigil of Energy 9 Superior Sigil of Energy Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)	Second Weapon Set Main Hand Pistol Stats: Dire Superior Sigil of Energy 9 Superior Sigil of Energy Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s) Off Hand Dagger Stats: Dire Superior Sigil of Momentum Superior Sigil of Momentum Gain a charge of +5 toughness each time you kill a foe, five if you kill an enemy player.

Equipment

• Rune:
  Superior Rune of Mercy

  Superior Rune of Mercy

  (1): +25 Toughness (2): Gain up to 400 toughness while revivng allies, based on your level. (3): +50 Toughness (4): You resurrect allies with 30% more health. (5): +100 Toughness (6): You revive allied players 20% faster.
  • Increases rez speed by 10% which fits perfectly with the idea of the build.

• Armor: Dire (Condition Damage/Toughness/Vitality)
  • Helps the Condi pressure from Pistol/Dagger and decent Bulk.

• Trinket: Dire/Rabid
  • Fills out extra defensive stats.

• Infusion: Resilient WvW Infusion
  • If a little more vitality is preffered Vital WvW Infusion can be used instead.

• Benchmarks High Toughness for a large amount of sustain
  • Don't forget to include Applied Fortitude which gives 250 Vitality/Toughness and Applied Strength which gives 100 Power/Condi Damage at max stacks (5) if you have the points for them.

Equipment Variants

• Nomads (Toughness/Vitality/Healing Power) Weapons/Armor/Trinkets
  • Much higher sustain when a dedicated Ninja Medic is preferred. 4K armor can be achieved when fully buffed.

Usage

Your role on the battlefield is switching from squishy-chaser to unkillable pain-in-the-butt AoE condition dispenser using almost nothing but the Shortbow and

Choking Gas

4

½

Choking Gas

Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.

Damage: 71

Poison (2s): 67 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 4

Field Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Poison

Range: 900

Unblockable

with

Cluster Bomb

3

½

Cluster Bomb

Fire a cluster bomb at the target area. Detonate in midair for multiple explosions.

Large Explosion: 353

Bleeding (4s): 170 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 900

to apply Area Weakness, which means if it shows up on your screen as hostile, you'll most likely end up tagging it. While you don't get the satisfaction of bursting down single targets, you will get a ridiculous amount of loot from any battle you're involved in. Now for the hilarious fun parts: Reviving allies. You spot a Downed friend or two in distress, surrounded by carnage and 10-50 enemy Invaders. What you do now is

Infiltrator's Arrow

6

Infiltrator's Arrow

Fire an arrow and shadowstep to the target area, blinding nearby foes.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 3

Radius: 120

Range: 900

directly on top of them, then double-tap

Shadow Refuge

¼

60

Shadow Refuge

Deception. Create a pulsing refuge at the target area that heals allies and cloaks them in stealth.

Healing: 1,775

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Pulses: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Dark

Range: 600

, which casts it on your location. 90% of the time, opponent players will now completely forget that you and your friends are even there; what happens now is this:

• Regeneration kicks in from
  Shadow Protector

  Shadow Protector

  When you grant stealth to an ally, they gain regeneration. This effect does not trigger if your ally already has regeneration.

  Regen (10s): 1,300 Heal
  , which applies to Downed allies as well and speeds up the recovery process. If they're already bandaging themselves, this will usually get them up the rest of the way.

• The smart enemy players that actually do catch on to your shenanigans are now too busy chasing off your Merciful Ambush thief, which you can supplement with
  Thieves Guild

  1½

  180

  Thieves Guild

  Deception. Call more thieves to support you in combat.

  Number of Thieves: 2

  Duration: 30 seconds
  to create a total of three expendable dudes that act like giant bait pinatas dancing around your Shadow Refuge. Put on Yakety Sax. Bring popcorn.

• If for some reason you need to rally your friend really fast, use
  Haste

  60

  Haste

  Trick. Gain quickness and fury.

  Quickness (6s): Skills and actions are 50% faster.

  Fury (6s): 20% Critical Chance

  Breaks stun
  . Reviving players is an action, which is now twice as fast. In combination with the Rune of Mercy bonus, you can use it to scrape a dead friend off the ground with a single Refuge and still be home in time for dinner (note that +Healing doesn't affect the revival speed from Death, only from Downed).

• When you're done reviving your friends, we'll use
  Bountiful Theft

  Bountiful Theft

  Stealing grants you and all nearby allies vigor. You rip boons from your target and grant them to nearby allies.

  Boons Stolen: 2

  Vigor (10s): 100% Endurance Regeneration

  Radius: 240
  to not only steal the opponent's dignity, but also two of their Boons just because we can.

• Thanks to Resilience Of Shadows wich also applies to your allies, you will have a damage reduction of 50%, it means you can staay in the middle of the enemy zerg and still not die.

If you're going for a simple ress, just press F and

Merciful Ambush

Merciful Ambush

Stealth yourself and and your target when reviving an ally.

Stealth (2s): Invisible to foes.

will automatically stealth you and you're downed ally. In alternative use

Blinding Powder

40

Blinding Powder

Deception. Blind foes in the target area and grant stealth to nearby allies.

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Smoke Bomb Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

to gain additional stealth. Do not waste your

Shadow Refuge

¼

60

Shadow Refuge

Deception. Create a pulsing refuge at the target area that heals allies and cloaks them in stealth.

Healing: 1,775

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

Pulses: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Dark

Range: 600

Counters

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Video Guides

• YouTube:
  Gw2 Noble Soul Rezzing
• YouTube:
  Gw2 Roaming Medic Thief
• YouTube:
  GW2 Dual Healing Thieves

See Also

• Cawfee's Guide