Guild Wars 2

My thief is D/D (with short bow) and has rabid stats (mostly). I have 3 ascended armor and all ascended weps with all ascended trinkets. I was sure that rabid was good and helpful but after seeing raids I am concerned. I really don’t want to have to redo my ascended armor and weapons because $$$, Im not the richest player. for skills I also use hide in shadows, shadow refuge, spider venom, skale venom and thieves build. any good?

You can make it work, but it’s technically inferior to dire or sinister since the crit chance is kind of a waste while dire gives you a nice hp boost and sinister allows for good direct damage on top of condi. Zerk is also a good thing to have as a thief. Good news is you can get sinister trinkets for free doing living story achievements, but armor and weapons can get pricey.

For raiding no because it involves playing a thief. Thief lacks so much raid utility that druid, engineer, and revenant could bring so don’t handicap your team.

The skills aren’t that great, signet of shadows gives you a passive speed boost, spike trap applies a long ticking poison and cripple (but it’s situational) and haste is good for breaking crowd control. Shadow refuge and signet of shadows aren’t optional, that leaves either haste or a trap (trip wire or spike trap) for your other skill.

For an elite you want either a racial (I go with Avatar of Melandru because it fills in some major gaps because it has an excellent AoE heal, crowd control, and the form has stability, all of which thief lacks) or sometimes the dagger one. The dagger one can get interrupted so that’s no good mostly while basilisks venom can be okay but it’s situational (some classes have weapon abilities that stun like warrior hammer) and underwhelming. Not to mention that it doesn’t work on champions.

I’m gonna assume that’s satire. Nobody takes haste. Run shadow step for a stun break/condi cleanse/mobility on a lower cooldown. And who uses signet of shadows? If you’re in a group, you’ll likely have plenty of group swiftness, besides thrill of the crime or dash if you take daredevil. Needle trap is ok, but in a group setting, venomshare is far superior if it’s condi damage you want. On that subject, sharing basilisk melts break bars, and is also the most used elite in PvP. Racial elite? Only grenth for condi ghost in WvW is even worth thinking about.

We’ve also only seen one raid instance, so we don’t know yet how thief will fit in, but sinister venomshare is quite strong, as is daredevil zerk staff. I wouldn’t say we’re a “handicap.”

D/D and Rabid go together like oil and water.

As others have noted if your plan is to run raid groups, ditch the thief altogether. It has always been a relatively weak contributer to groups. You can use your ascended gear on an engi which has more group build options.