Guild Wars 2

Hello guys, I have been playing thief since purchasing the game,it’s been always my class of choice.
I love being able to sneak around and feel like an assassin.
My former build was p/d all carrion gear and it was powerful beyond measure.
Nobody could stop me from roaming, it would take a big group of skilled players to take me down.
My routine was setting up caltrops + dogdetrops + poison fields while staying in stealth and regeninv health.
I still think its the most powerful pvp/wvw build in the game.
So powerful that it got boring very quickly so I rolled a Mesmer got it to lvl 80 and I love it.
However, Mesmer is just not exactly my type, not like Thief. A burst thief.
I know it’s inferrior to p/d cond build, it’s even inferior to my Mesmer, but it’s still my build of choice.

My question is, will it make for a viable w w roaming build?
In pvp it’s weak, I won’t deny it.
But in wvw, due to the more power you can accumulate from gear/food you can crit for a lot while maintaining your defenses.
I’m not talking about a GC thief, in talking about the squishy yet elusive/regen while in stealth thief.
Build looks like 0 30 30 0 10 with Valkyrie armor and berserker weapon/jewelry.
Just like Yishis build if you guys know who he is.
The thing is i seem to do much worse dmg than him.
My backstabs crit for 3k-5k while his seem to be 5k-8k.
I still don’t have enough money or karma to get exotic gear/weapons though,I’m using all blue gear and beryl orbs instead of divinity runes.
What does it take exactly to reach his dmg?
Currently my stats with food are a little over 1900 power, 1300 toughness 80 crit dmg and 41 crit chance.
Thanks for reading this far

The amount of backstab you do depends on your opponent’s armor, and whether they got protection boon up. Yishi does a large amount of backstab because he picks the right opponents at the right time. Oh, and you do even more damage to ascended people as they are squishy as heck.

Getting exotic gear will boost your damage up a lot. For starters you can reach 109% crit damage, and try to keep your crit chance as close to 50% as possible.

Azraeel.1238:

The amount of backstab you do depends on your opponent’s armor, and whether they got protection boon up. Yishi does a large amount of backstab because he picks the right opponents at the right time. Oh, and you do even more damage to ascended people as they are squishy as heck.

Getting exotic gear will boost your damage up a lot. For starters you can reach 109% crit damage, and try to keep your crit chance as close to 50% as possible.

How do I get that much crit dmg? That would make a huge improvement to my backstab dmg.
Does exotic gear have more crit dmg on it?
Other than that how else can I get more crit dmg?

To get that much crit damage you need to limit your gear choices to three, Berserker, Cavalier, and Valkyrie. All three got critical damage on them. As for slot upgrades, either use Runes of Divinity (very expensive), a nice replacement would be either Ruby or Beryl Orbs, depending of whether you need health or critical chance. Same goes for accessories upgrades, either Exquisite Jewel Ruby/Beryl. You can exceed 109% with ascended accessories.

Edit to add: Don’t forget 30 in the Critical Strikes trait tree.

I think it is a viable build. I sometimes bring out the daggers and I have not maximized everything for dagger damage. But you need good gear. I think it is the most fun, but not necessarily the best build.

I agree with the one who said that crit percentage should be roughly 50%. It is not essential to have 100% crit damage, and you can afford a small trade-off to be a bit more tanky. However it should still be around 80% in my opinion.

Exotic gear is a must for this build though (if you want to have fun)