Guild Wars 2

I’m going thief condition build with Pistol main-hand and Dagger off-hand (sometimes another pistol too). I have caltrops as one of my utilities because it’s my favorite and it stacks bleeds and slows (I think?). What I do in PvE is set up any trap utilities I currently am using then just keep 1-ing them. When they are up close or when they are about to trip my trap, I throw down my caltrops, then the bleeding begins. Most of the time I just auto attack them with 1 to keep bleeds up.

This is pretty much all I do. I don’t like using daggers main-hand because my pc is pretty slow so when I’m up close, my fps drops more than when I am further with my pistol.
Any suggestions for my other two utility skills? I like doing DoT damage the most. I even considered switching to warrior profession going Sword/Shield and Rifle since they both do bleeds.
I really want to strictly stay condition damage with Thief. Any suggestions?

With “1-ing” you mean you don’t use skills 2,3,4,5? The main combo with Pistol+Dagger is using 5th skill to become invisible, then unleash the pistol bleeding attack for 5 fast bleeds.

This (along other similar combos) was recently nerfed as the revealed state post-stealth now lasts 4 seconds instead of 3. Before you had to wait 2 auto-attacks before repeating the chain, now you will have to wait 3 and sometimes 4 depending on the timing, but this is the main combo with the set to bleed out your opponents. The second skill is garbage, the third one is nice when you’re overwhelmed and can’t use stealth and the 4th skill is good when someone is running away from you.

I hope a-net reverts the recent nerf and instead do what they planned which was completly logical (apply reveal even if you don’t attack, instead of increased on attack reveal by 1 second) because right now I’m starting to find my Shortbow far more comfortable even if I can’t bleed my opponents with the same efficency.

Oh right I forgot about the stealth dagger skill. When was this nerf to the stealth?
So for 4 seconds post-stealth, no skill whatsoever will stealth you? None at all? Not even a teammate’s team utility that stealths you?