Guild Wars 2

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Itching to try it later today. Not sure how it will compare to 10/30/0/30/0, but it certainly seems like fun.

Possible Trait swaps –
Hastened replenishment (instead of slight of hand) – Longer Steal CD, but absolutely insane Init regen. Between Steal, 15 base init, quick pockets, quick recovery, and hastened replenishment, you should be able to just spam skills relentlessly. The 20% steal CD reduction might be too valuable though, with bountiful theft, kleptomaniac, thrill of the crime, mug, and serpents touch all being tied to steal.
Power of inertia (instead of vigorous recovery) – Vigorous recovery + Bountiful is way more than perma vigor, so maybe drop Vigorous for Might on dodge.
Long Reach (instead of Thrill of the crime) – maybe 1500 range steal will be better than fury/might/swiftness?

I spend a lot of my time in Acro and Trickery, so this patch was a godsend! Check out my vids in the sig for some examples of these concepts in action.

Post patch, I’m running a very similar build 10/0/0/30/30. I’m also trying out the new Skale, but I’m underwhelmed.

A 20 second steal is very fun indeed! With Sword/Dagger you can steal+cnd+tacstrike and stack a longer duration daze, enough to get in 3 auto attacks and cast basilisk, then 3 more swings.

Best of luck with the build, post some vids!

That does looks like fun.

But I personally don’t like not having at least 2k armor and not having Shadow’s Embrace. They’ve become a staple in my playstyle.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

That does looks like fun.

But I personally don’t like not having at least 2k armor and not having Shadow’s Embrace. They’ve become a staple in my playstyle.

I’m coming from 10/30/0/30/0, so my armor and lack of SE have been ingrained in me for a bit. It’s overall alot less damage, which might be what kills the spec (since you’re clearly glassy), but I’m still eager to try.

Perhaps switch the Zerkers for a Soldiers and focus less on killing people and more on stripping boons hassling other players?

evilapprentice.6379:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

That does looks like fun.

But I personally don’t like not having at least 2k armor and not having Shadow’s Embrace. They’ve become a staple in my playstyle.

I’m coming from 10/30/0/30/0, so my armor and lack of SE have been ingrained in me for a bit. It’s overall alot less damage, which might be what kills the spec (since you’re clearly glassy), but I’m still eager to try.

Perhaps switch the Zerkers for a Soldiers and focus less on killing people and more on stripping boons hassling other players?

I was actually thinking of trolling with the Endless Dodge build with a spice of boon stripping. :P

With a mix of zerk and valk, you can get around 16-17k hp, with around 40% base crit, and 65 or so base crit damage. With food and perception stacks you get that to around 60-70% crit chance and 75% crit damage, which still hits hard for sure (this is wvw obviously). In spvp, it’s best to go bunker IMO, and harass as you say, being a boon stripper/node holder, like the esteemed double S/D player, Jumper.

My armor is around 900-1000 depending on if I swap a few soldiers in to replace valk.

10/0/10/20/30 keeps shadows embrace, which can certainly come in handy. But I typically just keep up infil strike and conserve my lyssa rune basilisk (which removes all condis), though I do get caught with my pants down sometimes. I’m thinking of trying this build tho, with the passive stealths from instinctual response and last refuge helping a lot at the top and bottom of a fight, and making blinding powder that much more boss. http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mckmzc0zzmbrlmMrlvma0aGxcmMsMkb

edit: also, with a lack of armor, the only class that really hurts you is the instagib thief or glass warrior. They recently fixed instinctual response to properly apply a blind. Which means the thief misses their cloak and dagger=dead glass thief. With shadows embrace, it will also cure your poison and weakness that they apply on you! Potent indeed.

Woaden.9425:

With a mix of zerk and valk, you can get around 16-17k hp, with around 40% base crit, and 65 or so base crit damage. With food and perception stacks you get that to around 60-70% crit chance and 75% crit damage, which still hits hard for sure (this is wvw obviously). In spvp, it’s best to go bunker IMO, and harass as you say, being a boon stripper/node holder, like the esteemed double S/D player, Jumper.

Last time I saw a Jumper vid (admittedly, weeks ago), he was running zerker/burst, not Soldiers/longevity. Something change recently?

From what I recall, when he is dueling he goes zerker, when he’s tourney he goes soldiers, but I could be wrong— it’s a common affliction of mine.

Was thinking about something like this with Soldier’s and Doly runes… maybe SoM, mostly just for the lulz.