Help skill rotation
Open with precast Cloak and dagger into steal (hit #5, half second later steal and CnD should land), then back-stab. People expect this so its really helpful in 1v1 situations especially to have “stow weapon” on a hot-key. hit #5 then stow weapon right after to cancel cast at no initiative. This can cause your enemy to blow a dodge/utility before they need to. Use 4 for those guys out of range of CnD, this will also make the subsequent back stab easier to land.
Now, after you open with the initial back-stab, if its a 1v1 keep the pressure on, you should be able to keep blind up nearly the whole time with cloaked in shadow. More likely than not when roaming though its not a 1v1, and you’ll spend most your time out of stealth avoiding damage. pretty much the goal is to keep stealth blind up as long as possible and of-course backstabbing. If already stealthed and steal/infiltrators is up, you’re going to want to precast back-stab a split second before teleporting so they get hit instantly.
I see you have speed signet, and hide in shadows on your skill-bar. If you don’t mind withdraw (i actually love it) I highly recommend going centaur runes for almost perma-swiftness (also give 175 power) so you can ditch the speed signet. You can replace the speed signet with Infiltrators signet. a 30second CD teleport to your opponent that also stun-breaks in emergency is so valuable on a backstabbing focused thief.
also- don’t be afraid to blow shadow step teleport offensively (even open with it) to land a CnD or backstab. The shadow return portion breaks stun ad clears condis. For the longest time i would blow steal infiltrator’s first, and save shadow-step as me GTFO card which it is still good for, there is just more potential to use it offensively (and return defensively, when using it to escape, there is no reason to use return function)
tl;dr: there aren’t any skill rotations, d/d is about creatively finding ways to safely stealth and backstab.
(edited by Cam Ron.4170)