Carrion is the only gear, which you get at level 55, that will give you an option of having power and condition on the same piece. If you’re a condition thief, check out the runes of undead. It gives Toughness and condition.
You can also mix up your trinkets to make up for toughness losses.
carrion is your best bet, and the vitality is a major bonus seeing as thieves share the lowest base health pool with guardians and elementalists, with less access to damage mitigation. that said I do believe there is a healing power/toughness/condition damage set. you will get lower bleed damage but combined with carrion accessories you would have better survivability. 2 krait/2 afliction/2centaur runes will give you the most bleed duration, while 3 krait/3affliction will give you a bit more condition damage. one important thing to note is that pistol bleeds only get an extra tick every 25% durations, and DB gets an extra tick every 10%
Maybe wear full Carrion gear? but, Vitality? ewww… =( any tips?
Vitality is what thiefs want in PvP. It gives WAY more survivability then any amount of toughness.
And to answer OP’s question. Yes full carrion gear. Carrion has condition damage as a main stat, that mean’s your getting ALOT more damage out of it. Along with power (the next best thing to improve damage), and vitality (what rogues want for survivability), it’s the perfect gear set.
If you want to go look up the math, feel free to, but a thief should NEVER have toughness on ANY of his gear…
There you go, near-perfect P/D build for WvW. You can swap out the Shortbow for a third Dagger to have a D/D off-hand with another Agony sigil on the third dagger if you please.
Remember that it goes: 5, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1 repeat. Hit 5 after downing an enemy to blind their interrupt and get a free stealth stomp.
master tuning crystal (this is not your normal food, this is a different type of consumable that stacks with your food, it is crafted with artificing not cooking)
effects: gain condition damage equal to 6% of your toughness, gain condition damage equal to 4% of your vitality, +10exp/kill
Gives you close to 20k HP and 1800 condition damage…
You can also try apothecary gear with undead runes, there’s no vit if u go all apothecary but all the toughness with the healing should cover for that , even through a Gs hundred blades or bs while getting shot by a siege cannon from my experiences
I used to be P/D thief and I had a lot of success with full Carrion. Unless I made a mistake and missed a C&D on an opponent then I would rarely die. Sometime you miss a C&D but hopefully you have some utility to back you up incase that happens.
With C&D having a huge impact in this build I’d rather have more vitality than toughness as if you are getting hit a lot in this build I think you are doing something wrong.
My problem was having conditions on me. But trating the condition cleanse on stealth easily solved that issue.
Runes I did 3 Krait/3 Affliction but I would definitely change that to 2Krait/2Affliction/2Centaur for the longer bleed durations.
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