Guild Wars 2

Hi, i just wanted a quick advice from fellow condition thieves. I’m playing your classic PD thief, wearing at the moment full Power-Condition-Vitality gear (armor, weapons, trinket).

I’m saving to buy Errol’s armor (dire stats), which would cost me arround 30 gold. I’m never farming for anything so even these 30 golds are quite a bit of money for me (and i have alts to gear) so before i made this investment i wanted to know if other conditions thieves are using dire stats and found it worth it.

My main concern is that i’m already low on DPS with no burst so i’m concerned that gimping my power will hurt my dps too much.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks in advance.

2 of my guildmates have never looked back from dire

power damage is really only worth it when you put significant amounts of stats into each multiplier (power, prec, crit%). condi damage is balanced around only 2 multipliers (damage, duration), 1 of which you can get more than enough of from just food, so.. well… just stack damage and get whatever other stats you want. surviving is good for sustained damage builds. too good. but this thread isnt about how imbalanced dire as a stat set is is it.

While I agree that Dire armor is an excellent set of armor for a condi-bunker and to some extent a thief, going full condition on a thief is problematic given the heavy condition removal baked into most builds today.

insanemaniac.2456:

power damage is really only worth it when you put significant amounts of stats into each multiplier (power, prec, crit%). condi damage is balanced around only 2 multipliers (damage, duration), 1 of which you can get more than enough of from just food, so.. well… just stack damage and get whatever other stats you want. surviving is good for sustained damage builds. too good. but this thread isnt about how imbalanced dire as a stat set is is it.

Power is on a linear scale so it needs no other stats to be useful. There is actually an inverse to sustained DPS when power is shifted towards crit (somewhere around 50% crit and 100 magnitude) course that depends on a number of factors. Unlike condi damage every point spent in power equals more DPS. Unless a thief can drop multiple types and stacks, condi damage and duration are less useful.

I can say with a great amount of certainty that if a thief hits like a wet noodle by over amping condi damage, they are going to be in for a very rough fight against any kind of skilled player.

Hey thanks both of you i guess these are both sides of the argument and i will have to spend the money to playtest it myself and see which one i prefer