Guild Wars 2

My first character is a Human Thief and making him a condition (Deathblossom)/steal build and looking for a litle advice…
(I have read some builds and seen a few youtube videos for ideas and come up with this build)
Deadly arts 10 (mug)
Shadow arts 20 (Infusion of shadow + Hidden thief) work well with steal for added initiative and stealth
Acrobatics 20 (power of inertia + Assassins reward) Might to help with damage and assassins for health boot with initiative use
*Trickery 20 *(uncatchable + Thrill of crime) i chose thrill of crime to help give my teammates a boost

I will be using runes of Krait and Thief (agony on weapons)
Skills – (i will change depending on opponents)

Thoughts – i feel thiswould give me a solid condition build with the Acrobatics+Shadow arts giving me health and toughness with added damage from mug. Main use will be to stealth into combat, db x3 then steal, db then stealth away (or dodge depending on enemy) finish off with short bow.
How does this build look? Any glaring problems you can see (remember i am a newbie to GW2)
All advice apreciated..

Assassin’s Reward doesn’t heal very much.

if you get hidden thief trait why don’t you db3x, steal, backstab, then db again..
if i were you, i will change assassin reward with quick recovery for more initiative regen or fleet of foot for survivability

‘’if you get hidden thief trait why don’t you db3x, steal, backstab, then db again..’’

This sounds like fun, but with so little Crit chance, would backstab do any real damage?

This advice will be for PvE

The two big things that you can do to up damage is Condition Damage AND Condition Duration. Trickery is a no-brainer here but Deadly Arts will increase your Deathblossom bleeds by 1 tick per tier or +1% per point. Eat some Super Veggie Pizza and get a cheap Krait and Lyssa rune set on your armor. I don’t have the best setup but I have an 18 second bleed stack with deathblossom that does about 4.5K per 3 bleeds. I can kill stuff using just Caltrops on dodge but it takes a while :P I would suggest 30 in Trickery and 10 Deadly arts minimum to get the most out of Steal and a faster refresh.

I’m running 20/0/10/20/20 and its working well for me. This isn’t too heavy on steal though. I just cant get away from Shadow’s Embrace, I rely on it too much If I could I would run 25/0/0/20/25.

GL
Blood~

Roll a warrior or Mesmer unless you have time and gold to buy new armour, sigils, runes blah blah every update since thief profession gets a nerf almost every update.