Guild Wars 2

This would be for dungeons and fractals, not raids, as well as the usual open world stuff. I’m at a loss, and have been since venomshare became baseline and all the venoms were weakened in an attempt at balance. Suggestions?

Edit: Also I had a thread on here where I theorycrafted a build that was focused around evasion and making your evades/dodges do as much as possible and tanking (direct damage/condi damage/heal/condi cleanse/gaining initiative and endurance/etc). Not sure if the recent changes made that build unviable now or not…

I don’t play my thief as much as I used to, so I don’t really have a perfect build laid out to share, but D/D DB condi with an emphasis on bleed stacking and poison is way more effective than people give it credit for, and always was even before the buff to poison. I run it with Caltrops, and nothing in the game is as effective at dropping massing amounts of bleed damage in PvE.

Necro marks……just sayin

Here is what I use:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoYVn8lCdmiNNBGNB8PhlWCbeEuCfhaBgQ0CY7QFdSUA-TBSAQBBUfA2U+FtHAQEV/RBHCgXs/AAODA2UJIpAWUZF-e

Works pretty well. I’ve set the utilities for 5-mans, if you’d do solos-duos, I’d swap ID for Ambush and BV for TG due to the extra share-targets. Caltrops viable for stationary bosses in the place of ID.
The build editor doesn’t count all the condi duration, both poison and bleed should be capped around 98-100% with the right food.

Here is my version of it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZUQNAoYVl0MhimYnTwpJw/ELtEmXZoNMHmLhrwXoWA4AsAA-TxBMABir+zMK/G9JA6DAYfARPFA+oEk3FG6GEAwqKpAWUZF-e

Kite with shortbow, try to throw as many whirl and projectile combos as possible with your SB4 aoe, use daggers to burst out tons of bleed damage, evade everything. . . simple

Not great for team utility, but at least the 3 venoms give you an option to add condi/cc pressure to your party, and basi venom is great for tearing down break bars.