Guild Wars 2

I coulda sworn i heard people saying all thief can do is pick off stragglers, while with my build (D/D, P/P, but i only use D/D) http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mMkMMc0Mz9mk9mk0G0xGzcMaqVc (changed Con. Defeat to side strike, might help my backstab dmg more :o) If i dodge a lot, I can take on, like, 3 people. my record was 1 engineer, 1 ranger, 2 rangers, all in one group. That doesnt mean i killed them all in 1 life (i did), but im saying I killed them all and they were in a group, and i survived.
Either my warrior build sucked (it did >.>), or thief is just freaking amazing.
I killed a LOT, and only die like 2 times (unless its that one underwater map, then i die more >.>). My only downside to my build is that backstab doesnt do a lot of damage, only like 5k >.<

Wow, you must be special. Because looking at that build you posted I’m having a hard time coming up with a build that has worse synergy than the one you posted.

But since I’m constructive, let me tell you why this is a poor build.

1. No synergy between Critical Strikes and Condition Damage

Condition Damage can’t crit and Critical Strikes rarely cause Conditions. There’s little to no synergy between the two trees, unlike say Power, which both scale with.

2. Overlapping traits

Furious Retaliation overlaps with Thrill of the Crime. Both give you Fury making albeit at different moments but they will still overlap roughly 50% of the time. And again, Condition Damage doesn’t Crit…so yeah, poor synergy.

Same applies to Thrill of the Crime and Exp. Dodger. Both those Swiftness boons will be overlapping a lot. Same with Might.

Concealed Defeat while good in itself is one of those skills that doesn’t help until you’re downed. Most people prefer to not get downed at all. There are better skills that will help you while you’re alive.

For 1.
I don’t focus on condition damage, i focus on crits and sustained damage (mostly the latter).
for 2.
I only steal when im fighting warriors or guardians (occasionally thieves too), so i usually dont have my two traits fighting eachother. I might try to use more steal though. And again, I dont focus on Condition damage….. so yeah, I dont really care for that.
Better to have more buffs. Also, did you forget that steal has recharge? WHOA. Buffs cant last forever for my steal! Whats a good way to get away from fights? Oh yea. Dodging. Also swiftness helps. Ohwait…
I do agree with you on that last one though, I will change Con. Defeat
Thanks for the reply though

the fact that 4 people couldnt do anything to you just means they were horrible. honestly, thief may have some balance issues but they are not THAT unbalanced.

Wolfe.3097:

the fact that 4 people couldnt do anything to you just means they were horrible. honestly, thief may have some balance issues but they are not THAT unbalanced.

Alright i kinda stretched the truth on that 4 people thing >.>
another person was helping me lol.
But I did take on me vs 2/3 pretty easily. Im not saying that thief is unbalenced, just kinda wanted to show my build and have others critsize it.