Guild Wars 2

Folks, I have been toying around with my thief a good bit lately as I really just don’t enjoy the common P/D perplexity builds. I hate playing something that is so common and with all the anti condi builds these days, I wanted to try something a bit different. That being the case, the build below uses a similar play style as the condi P/D builds though it’s all power base with conditions as an added bonus. My concern with the build is the that since the armor is below 2800, I’m afraid that it will be too squishy. I also built this based upon the gear I currently have – the traveler’s runes.

What do you all think of this build and is it something that would be effective as a roaming build? Will there be enough survival traits?

Power P/D Roaming Thief

I think you can tag P/D on anything other weaponset – build as long as it has some stealth support, it’s always really useful as fall-back set, you see it often as secondary to S/D and similar high risk roaming builds

Valkyre & Cavalier are not so useful for this build, but you probably already knew that. Maybe craft or buy some secondary exotic gear pieces, well matched exotics are better then mismatched ascended pieces.

The build is fine should work. I think you could swap the valkyrie pieces for CARRION and only lose out on some prec/ferocity which isn’t THAT useful for P/D since you will not be critting that hard but you gain some ConditionDmg to make those bleeds hurt a bit more. Then again you use D/P on your second set. Just some food for thought but should work otherwise

i’ve played for a bit pd power spec
its fine, not recognize and not so common
your build lake the dmg it needs to burst enemy.
i know you afraid from being low on armor but thats all the point for going into power builds (high risk high returns)

here is what i used
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZEQRAqY4al0MpppdPx0J8PNBORs9SUC3txraFA-TFCEABLq+zI7PQwJAYLlgMp8zgHAQb6HA4gAQGgqtA-w

the idea – your pistols doing more dmg so you got 10% from pistol (20% if you enemy below 50% hp) 10% when ini not full, about more 10% from vulnerability
you have swiftness (almost perma) you got 40% endurance return and nice 5 stacks of might
the venom stealth health (also shadow refuge) so you can burst just from steal health around 2k dmg
your sigils will do 2k more dmg
you can mix knight armor for more toughness if you like

the rotation should revolved around shadow strike and shadow shot as they can hit 3k-5k each and also put distance between your enemy
sneak attack can do nice 5k dmg and cnd 4k dmg

play with it and change trait if you like (mug for exp)