Guild Wars 2

So what armor attributes are you guys going for with your thiefs?
I have just started upgrading my armor since I got to lvl80 but I am not sure what to go for.
The interesting ones I guess are the ones at the end of this wikipage: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Knight%27s#Prefixes

Prefix Suffix Attributes (Main, Minor, Minor)
Berserker’s Power, Precision, Critical Damage
Carrion Condition Damage, Power, Vitality
Cleric’s Healing Power, Power, Toughness
Explorer’s Magic Find, Power, Precision
Knight’s Toughness, Power, Precision
Magi Healing Power, Precision, Vitality
Rabid Condition Damage, Precision, Toughness
Rampager’s Precision, Condition Damage, Power
Shaman’s Condition Damage, Healing Power, Vitality
Soldier’s Power, Toughness, Vitality
Traveler’s Power, Condition Damage, Magic Find
Valkyrie Power, Critical Damage, Vitality

My thinking has been to mainly get alot of Condition Damage since it is so easy to apply bleeding and poison. And since Thiefs are not that tough I have been getting some with +vitality and toughness. But I don’t really know how to value those two against each other. Would it be better to go for Toughness?

From the beginning I thought the Thief would be like the Assassin in GW1 and I looked forward to a high crit rate. But that doesn’t seem to be the way the Thief works.
So how do you value precision and power against each other?

First off I want to point out that there really aren’t bad builds in this game. Keeping that in mind I want to stress that some builds/armor setups are more advantagious for certain situations. For example if you are focusing on keeping high conditions on while producing as many critical hits as possible use the Rampager’s. This only being supported and ‘most’ useful if traits are spec’d correctly in same areas. If you want condition damage while keeping a larger amount of servivability (if it seems you cant survive to see your damage go through) then Shaman’s is a decent acception. These both being more useful if you focus more towards double-dagger setup with shortbow/dual pistal (skill 1 and 3 pistals, skill 2 and 4 shortbow).

Me personally carry with me 2 complete sets of armor. I have a full set of exotic Rampager’s armor with Superior runes of the Thief equiped for throwing out my dual dagger dps. When going against tougher mobs and I want to stay mobile and more agile I have a set of exotic Cleric’s with Superior Runes of Divinity.

Keep in mind that everything works well in specific situations. There are no bad builds or setups and a well built toon can do what you want it to do rather than building a toon for what people tell you to do. I hope this helps.

Condition damage with Toughness/Healing

Power/Precision/Crit dmg

Those are the only two I really care about as a PvPing thief. Straight up damage or outlasting my target.

I’ve been playing with a power build myself (25pwr/30prc/15trk) because I like the bonuses. Planning on using Carrion Armor to boost my vit (haven’t decided what runes yet) after that ‘ll use my Jewelry/Accessory’s to boost whatever I’m lacking, Most likely more vit.

I’ve been eying a full set of Exotic Valkyrie Armor since I’m running a 0/30/0/20/20 build. The crit damage bonus per item would be significant to offset the lack of power traits, while I’ve found that since the thief can sometimes find himself under a lot of conditions without many removal options, more raw HP from Vitality will probably help there.

I have found that reducing damage from conditions is much more important to me than direct damage, so I pretty much gear for vitality over toughness. In my condition damage/survival set I have 18k HP/1100 cond damage.

I use a mix of carrion and shaman, because I also like having extra healing power to keep me alive via signet of malice/assassins reward.

Been using knight armor myself along with berserker rings and the remaining trinkets as valkyrie.

100% Magic find ftw