Yeah… I’m back again with my theorycrafting nonsense. Sorry!
I’m back to playing around with my thief again as it’s the one class that I tend to always do well with regardless of the situation. After a few hours in WvW last night on a celestial/traveler build, I started messing around with going back to a confusion build kitten many people I ran into simply don’t know how to cleanse it. The story was different with very skilled players but it was still effective none the less.
Anyways, the build linked below uses my current gear items except for the perplexity runes (which cost a fortune). I know it’s a bit strange but I’m just sold on celestial gear. I had also thought about switching out sig of shadows for scorp wire in order to stack more confusion.
After looking at the stats, does this look fairly balanced and effective? My goal was to create a build that stacks massive amounts of conditions (burst condi) but still have enough based damage/crit to add a small bit of pressure. What would you all change around?
Again, this is my current gear setup and I’ve got about 87 laurels to change out the accessories as needed.
My only suggestion would be that since you are using pistol on your off hand and Head Shot qualifies as an interrupt I might consider swapping out Sleight of Hand with Bewildering Ambush cuz then you can get up to 10 stacks instantly however I’m not entirely sure which one would be more efficient. Otherwise a very interesting build and definitely looks relatively strong to me.
Edit: Look strong in terms of concept and execution. Ironing out the fine details of stats on armor and accessories and all that would require me to crank out a notebook and I cant really be bothered currently.
Oh, I should have explained that off-hand swap set instead of the SB. The d/p offhand is what I use when I run into that “OH CRAP” moment and just need to bug out. I like the SB but often find that d/p is better for escaping.
Yes, I’m one of those thieves that if I see I will not likely survive, I stealth and run away. Of course, I do come back to be annoying…
@ Koachanism,
Thanks for responding and letting me know your thoughts! I’ve played around with so many builds lately that I sometimes confuse myself.
Laura Seranus – Mesmer – “Shatter Me!”
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
I love theorycrafting myself so I always love giving feedback on the obscure builds that most would just disregard as garbage without trying it for themselves. I personally use a rather interesting build myself. But if you D/P off hand is specifically for running the definitely keep Sleight of Hand.
