Guild Wars 2 > The Game > Professions > Thief Thief Experts at stealth and surprise, thieves move through the shadows, vanish into thin air, or steal items from their opponents and use them as weapons. Torch Proficiency. You can wield torches . Minor Adept. Mantle of Sand. Gain the power to craft sand shadows and command them using your life force. Gain access to Punishment and Shade skills. Shade skills inherit the effects of traits that affect shroud skills. Major Adept. Abrasive Grit. Now about the choice: of the three you name (Guardian, Revenant and Thief): Guardian is the easiest to level of the three and is paired with Revenant in terms of build diversity at the end game. The main drawbacks at the begining are a lower base HP and lack in mobility for the core class, but you can deal with it. Druid is typically preferred as it provides good unique buffs along with healing. The only core class that has decent healing potential without its subclass mechanics is Elementalist but it's primarily run as DPS glass cannon. For support, Mesmer (Chronomancer) and Warrior are the most common. 2 Illusionary Counter: 2 6 Clone. Block the next attack, and counter by inflicting torment and creating clones that cast Ether Bolt. 2 Counterspell: ½: Shoot out a bolt that blinds enemies in a line and summons a clone to attack the first foe it strikes. 3 Confusing Images: 2 ¼: 9 Channel a beam of energy that damages and confuses your foe Profession changers are NPCs who can change your character 's secondary profession. They will only offer to change your secondary profession once you have fulfilled a one-time requirement for each secondary you want to be able to switch to. In order to change secondary professions, you must be Ascended or Weh no Su, or must have completed the Untamed is the spamm build. It refunds ability cooldowns when usinf CC on an enemy. It uses hammer as a melee weapon and then basically constantly rotates through its damage abilities then all its stun abilities to reset all its damage abilities. If you want a spamm away meta build this is it for open world. Blood Magic is also fine. This game is not so stuck on set builds like other games. You can make most classes and skill combinations work. OP needs to just experiment and have fun. Don't discourage him from experimenting. That was one of the best things about Guild Wars 1. If you'd like to support the production of more videos on my channel please consider visiting Patreon: Mesmers are the trademark class of the Guild Wars series and are one of the most unique, subtle and deadly classes in any game. Specializing in manipulating foes and countering their opponents strategies, a good mesmer will generate more hate in PvP chat than all other classes combined. smEol.