Guild Wars 2

looking to put together the typical mmo thief backstabbing from stealth assassin with D/D … ive got a few builds from forums but im wondering about gearing, statwise…
someone told me i should stack heavy +condition damage instead of what i thought would be needed – +precision for more crit and +power for more damage… why is that or why is that not the case ?

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D/D has nothing to do with conditions.
What game mode are you going to play anyway? PvE? WvW? Dungeons? sPvP?

PvE

Thank you…I couldn’t make any sense out of why D/D thief was condi… but didn’t wanna be rude to the guuldy lol..is precision / power the way to go?

gilch.6458:

PvE

Thank you…I couldn’t make any sense out of why D/D thief was condi… but didn’t wanna be rude to the guuldy lol..is precision / power the way to go?

Actually D/D has a reasonable number of conditions (poison, bleed, cripple, vulnerable). I run a PvE D/D – P/P thief and I use Rampager Armor with Superior Divinity Runes, Berserker weapons with life stealing and power on kill sigils, ascended “celestial” amulet and rings, ascended Berserker accessories, and an ascended Karka shell backpiece. Traits are 0-30-10-30-0. I find it to be a good combination of hitting power (~2700 attack)high crit chance (63%)strong crit damage (85%), plus good condition damage (450) to go to if you need, reasonable armor (over 2300), and good health (almost 17K) . . . for a thief. You’ll find the 5-1 combo can be spammed fairly well, and you can spam death blossom 3-4 times in row at times and between those to you can solo just about any PvE vet (Karka vets being an obvious exception).

For a PvE Leveling build you actually can go full condi and spam #3 with caltrops, dodgetrops, might on dodge, and a few other traits and just faceroll absolutely everything.

In dungeons just go for as much Zerker as you’re comfortable with and put Soldiers in the minor slots that you want if necessary.

gilch.6458:

PvE

Thank you…I couldn’t make any sense out of why D/D thief was condi… but didn’t wanna be rude to the guuldy lol..is precision / power the way to go?

Oh well, if it’s PvE then pretty much everything works. You have some access to conditions in with D/D, but none of them are useful in WvW/sPvP (which I thought you were asking for).
Also, for PvE I would suggest carrying a x/P set, those blind fields works really well against anything that is not a Champion