He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal , he went whap with a leadfilled snowshoe and he hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin and <| sep |> Thief plays slightly differently to every other class as its weapon skills don ' t have individual cooldowns , they use a pool of initiative points . The playstyle revolves around DPSing Sword and Staff autoattack , DaggerDagger is 5 1 Auto chain Repeat , and using your other weapon skills for utility or survivability . Constant repositioning is also important for both damage and survival purposes , and as such thief has the highest mobility both in combat and out of combat . I wouldn ' t say it ' s complex , but it ' s not overly simple either considering how squishy thief is if you ' re just facerolling and not positioningusing skills on reflex . If you ' re worried about using the exact same rotations over and over again , then you probably shouldn ' t be playing MMOs . Every class in every MMO has optimal DPS rotations . There ' s a little more variety in rotations in combos in sPvP compared to PvE , but they ' re still there . Elementalist and Engineer are considered to be the more complex classes in the game , with Ele generally being more desired in group content . Mesmer does have a very high skill cap as well , and performs a utilitytank role Chronotank in raids , but its solo DPS is rubbish compared to other classes It makes up for it by buffing their team instead . You can still play it fine solo in the open world , but it really shines in a group .