Guild Wars 2

Like many of you, I checked out the new dps benchmarks after the recent patch. Saw D/D was around 30k and I wanted to check my personal dps out versus the 4 million hitpoint golem in the training area.

I am full berserkers ascended gear, minus two exotic berserkers accessories, and an exotic berserkers back piece. My build is the same as the one listed here: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_DPS_Dagger/Dagger

Rotation was:
CnD/Backstab
Steal
Double Strike/Wild Strike/Lotus Strike x3
Rinse repeat.

I couldn’t crack 15k dps in several tries. What gives? I know I’ve got fine tuning to do but to have half the dps is depressing! Anyone had a similar experience or have any helpful insight into how I can improve?

Also, I have 60% Crit. Where should this be to be most effective?

Thanks for reading and the feedback.

What buffs did you use for your benchmark ?

I used the realistic ones. Fury, might, quickness etc.

Surprised DD with Havoc Mastery and Bounding Dodger isn’t better than Trickery and Lead Attacks especially since DD is two multipliers to one.

Straegen.2938:

Surprised DD with Havoc Mastery and Bounding Dodger isn’t better than Trickery and Lead Attacks especially since DD is two multipliers to one.

It could be due to the possible down time of Bounding dodger procs and the damage from Bounding Dodge not landing due to positioning, and the lower Cd on Steal for more Mugs,

DPS classes should aim for about 65% crit chance. With spotter, banner, and Fury this would result in 100% critchance. If you run SoA this can easily be achieved with full zerkers iirc.

Benchmark testings usually also use raid specific buffs. Spoter, 2 GotL stacks, both warri banners and Forst/Sun spirit are added to “realistic” testing. You can ignore Alacrity, since it doesnt do anything for D/D thief anyway.

Make sure to factor in 25 stacks of vuln.

This seems very backwards to me. Why would you list an overall DPS measure when it isn’t true during regular testing without any boons or aids?

Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to first list what the thief could do on his own, then add more as you factor in various buffs and scenarios? You avoid a lot of confusion that way.