Guild Wars 2

I don’t want builds, since I want to construct my own, but I was just wondering how good/bad a thief which focused on poison, bleeding and such, would compare to one built for straight up huge damage through stealth attacks.

Overall, I mean for PVE/PVM, though opinions on all aspects would be appreciated =)

I’m thinking of basing my build around the use of the venom skills, but so far results’ve been lackluster compared to what I’ve seen others do with power builds.

Thanks =)

Condition builds are limited due to the max condition stacks, therefore you’ll perform badly in a large group settings.

While Power builds just keep getting better and better the larger your group becomes.

PvE power is really better, a lot faster anyway.

For PvE, don’t even bother with Condition builds.

• They deal less damage.
• They lower the damage of other condition classes due to stack limits.
• Conditions are already generoulsy applied from various attacks without the need to spec for it.
• They offer no benefits over Power damage.
• Even with a team of full Power builds it’s rare to see a boss without a full bar of conditions.

In PvP however it’s the exact opposite.

Exactly what they said, for PvE go full zerker 25/30/xx/xx/xx.

But in WvW (not sure about sPvP) conditions are really strong. And for a condi thief you dont need precision or crit dmg, that means you can go full dire for 2,8k armor and 20k health, so you’ll be very tanky.

P/D 0/0/30/20/20 is the only way i can survive an 1v3, 2v5 fights.

Since you’re not doin pvp, condi builds are viable but not at all optimal. Pve, pw destroys on a good build and gets your punch in a lot quiker than trying to stack high bleeds on a group.

You dont beed to go full zeker to be strong, especially in fotm where trash mobs hit lile bosses.