Guild Wars 2

Hi guys.I was thinking of going for a thief as my alt and I wanted to build him for condition damage.I spent an hour of two looking at the traits and here is what i managed to put together:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQRAqY4YlUmCNXay9E+JFB3Dji0m6V4raKkpN7KgVA-jEyA4sBRTBCN1Bg8AlCLiGb9tIasKZioa1NGA-w

So now i am looking for some professional opinion on this.All tips and suggestions are welcome

What are you doing with it? PvE/PvP/WvW?

I don’t know much of PvP and WvW. But for open world PvE, you cant go wrong with anything. But for dungeons, conditions are great, IF you are the only one applying conditions. That is pretty much never the case.
If you do decide to go that way, go 0/0/30/20/20. Lose the venoms and bring caltrops. With Ricochet, you can spread out your bleeds even more with Sneak Attack.

I was planing on going wvw.But the pve tips will help for lvling me up

Use either a power s/p build or a d/d condition build for levelling they are by far the easiest IMO and quickest as for p/d condition in wvw it’s very popular ATM so there’s loads of builds out there, I’d suggest having a look at a few get an idea as your stats look a bit too spread on first glance and the point bun made about ricochet could be really cool actually.

You wont like my 2 cents.

I could post the list of over 50 skills that remove condition then explain the meta to you and everything, but im not.

Just put on zerker gear and spec 25-30-0-0-0 and toss 15 points were ever you want, use D/D in PvE and D/P in PvP.

Go 10 (mug)/0/30 (shadow’s embrace/hidden thief/shadow’s rejuv.)/0/30 (uncatchable/bountiful theft/sleight of hand)

P/d for wvw, sb for zergs and sieges

Shortbow for pve: cluster bomb+caltrops for leveling.

For leveling I used d/d with caltrops on dodge and the caltrop skills, I aggroed groups of mobs, layer down caltrops and then deathblossomed and dodges until everything bled to death.

You have a pretty decent build! The only things I would change are that Caltrops>>>Venoms. Venoms are poorly implemented right now and I wouldn’t invest in them or use them when you can pick another stunbreaker or Caltrops. The only other thing I would change is the runes, since Nightmare runes aren’t really that great. Most condition thieves use a 3X afflicted/krait runes, but I use perplexity runes with D/P in offhand and daze on steal for interrupts. Traitwise make sure to get condition removal in stealth.

I personally usually run 0/0/30/10/30

For accessories, using come settlers or apothecary gear goes a great way towards improving your sustain through stealth, my build heals for 400 per second in stealth on top of 167 HP signet of Malice Ticks.

Oh and don’t listen to Zepiedel, he tells everyone that zerkers the only viable gear choice. I posted a video to a P/D thief owning in WvW on one of my earlier threads about P/D thief and he didn’t reply.

DreadRaven.3046:

I was planing on going wvw.But the pve tips will help for lvling me up

For leveling up, as you explore the map and complete hearts use S/P and surround yourself with mobs, then only use initiative on black powder and keep auto-attacking (take multiple mobs so you kill them faster as the sword strieks multiple targets, and keep reapplying the smoke field when the blind goes away instead of when the field ends, as many times they land their next attack some seconds after).

This doesn’t work against Dredge as they’re inmune to blind.

For group events take a Shortbow and start auto-attacking and throwing bombs and poison fields to “tag” a many opponents as possible so you get experience from all of them.

Until you define your build that’s a great setup for levelling on early PvE.

After that it’s up to what you want to do (you can mix some weapon sets and utility skills while leveling and see which ones make you more comfortable).

Personally I run a support Thief P/D + Shortbow in all 3 enviroments with great results so far, so the Thief can excel at more things than zerking.

nearlight.3064:

You have a pretty decent build! The only things I would change are that Caltrops>>>Venoms. Venoms are poorly implemented right now and I wouldn’t invest in them or use them when you can pick another stunbreaker or Caltrops. The only other thing I would change is the runes, since Nightmare runes aren’t really that great. Most condition thieves use a 3X afflicted/krait runes, but I use perplexity runes with D/P in offhand and daze on steal for interrupts. Traitwise make sure to get condition removal in stealth.

I personally usually run 0/0/30/10/30

For accessories, using come settlers or apothecary gear goes a great way towards improving your sustain through stealth, my build heals for 400 per second in stealth on top of 167 HP signet of Malice Ticks.

Oh and don’t listen to Zepiedel, he tells everyone that zerkers the only viable gear choice. I posted a video to a P/D thief owning in WvW on one of my earlier threads about P/D thief and he didn’t reply.

I will look over the changes you made to it and experiment a little in spvp and I am not planning on going zerker any time soon(got my mesmer for that).With all these 2 cents I can be filthy rich now :P