Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen (or known) a lot of people who have thieves that do a good amount of burst damages (which I may say is a build focusing on burst damages ), but why don’t you try an evasive, bleeding based build. I know that some of you are already using this type of build, but I’m saying this to those who don’t. This type of build focuses on bleeding and evading instead of doing burst damages.
So, if you want to try the build, use dual daggers, with dual daggers you’ve got Death Blossom that lets you both evade and bleed your foe.
Then you’ve got the slot skills. I use Hide in Shadows, Shadow’s Refuge, Caltrops, Blinding Powder(for some extra stealth), and Dagger Storm.
The sigils that I use are 2 sigils of agony, or if you want a weapon-swap sigil, sigil of geomancy is pretty good.
Then you’ve got runes. I prefer Rune of the Krait or an alternative, Rune of the Afflicted.
And finally, the traits. The traits that I use are :
20 on Trickery. Using 3. Uncatchable, 7. Bountiful Theft.
20 on Acrobatics. Using 2. Power of Inertia, 7. Fleet of Foot.
20 on Shadow Arts. Using 6. Cloaked in Shadows, 8. Hidden Thief.
10 on Deadly Arts. Using 3. Mug.
I use this build with the traits, skills etc. above. You can use the traits you feel will do better.
Ultimately, this is a build that works best in PvP. It is also useful when you have to fight a huge number of enemies that are clustered and grouped together. It’s not bad at PvE though, but better at PvP. It is a good class. You should try it.
Thank You.

Hey there, if you like condi d/d specs you should check out my build! Here is a link to the build/discussion: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/TPVP-Thief-Condi-Build/first#post2335424

Your build is nice, but it has some optimization problems. Same sigils can’t stack so you’re wasting a second sigil you could be using (unless by 2x agony you mean 1 agony and 1 minor agony (the stacking sigil), which would work just fine). I find if you are a condition build relying on d/d stealth is not worth the utility slot (if you have p/d off hand then it’d obviously a different story, and you would probably want some points into the shadow arts trait line). Check out the thread I posted and tell me what you think! It’s the same idea you have in your build, but with some small changes I think would benefit you.

distpheonix.8341:

but why don’t you try…

I know why I’ve never tried this, because I’ve never even come close to dieing to a condition thief while playing a balanced d/d build, so it seems weak to me.

I’d rather not share my build simply because I don’t want it to get nerfed to the ground. When I run this build in PvP though, I get 1 of 2 responses:

• “Looooool bleed thief no skill” – after they spend 13 minutes at a single point 5v1 attempting to kill me
• “Wow, you’re really good!” – generally people resort to the first one, though.

Honestly, people hate bleed thieves not because they’re hard to kill, but because they’re elitist kittens who get kitten ed off when they can’t just zerg you to get kills.

The one big issue I have with every bleed build I’ve used is that they lack stun breakers and that conditions are most effective against opponents with a low health pool.