Guild Wars 2

I’m coming up on 80 with my thief and I can’t decide on a final build. While leveling I used P/D and SB pretty much the entire way. Lately though i’ve been wanting to switch to D/D and SB. I’m wondering what gear is recommended for this build? Can I get cond/prec/vit gear? Or is toughness more important than vitality for thieves?

While looking for gear, trinkets, runes and sigils i’m a little lost at what stats are the most important. I like stacking bleeds, so is power really all that important or should precision get first priority?

The build is really only for PvE farming and map completion. Dungeons and WvW aren’t really my thing. Any tips for gear, runes/sigils, slots, stats?

I used the SB for a long time but for PvE I’d ditch that and switch to pistols. They have the option to do AOE and single targets and get massive damage. For skills, a thief can never go wrong with Shadow refuge and Hide in shadows (great for commune SPs). Also, since you’re running around a lot Signet of Shadows is nice. The rest I’d say varies based on what you’re fighting.

I like precision because then you can always crit for big damage and it works nice with sigils of air, earth, fire, and water. If u like bleed, earth is probly best for u but I do major rune of fire for my pistols because its AOE, cheap and no need for superior due to the cooldown.

The big problem I have with condition is that it takes more time to kill because it’s a tick kill instead of 1 or 2 hits to the back

I did world completion on my theif entirely using dagger/dagger pretty much. Full carrion gear for CD/Power/Vit, so high health, then pretty much have traits to give me as much initiative as possible, have signet of malice as my heal. Then get a whole heap of monsters all attacking me at once, then spam death blossom! steal for more initiative, then more death blossom. Also, caltrops. Pretty much non stop healing, and a crap load of damage from the bleeds. And super enjoyable.

Hey, thanks for the replies and sorry it took me so long to get back on the forums.

So what i’m working with now is full carrrion armor, working on crafting exotics. I’ve got a set of full beserker trinkets and a full set of carrion trinkets, both MW (greens).

I’ve been jumping between two different builds 0/30/0/25/15 and 0/10/20/25/15, the later for a P/D & SB and the former for D/D & SB. Any ideas on which would be better for general PvE? Or any ideas for a better build? I like D/D for a more single target feel, with SB for groups and zergs, but I feel pressured to go for more GC stats or it’s a waste. P/D makes me feel a bit more sturdy, but the kill speed seems a good deal slower. I can’t really decide which one to keep and start buying exotic weapons for.

I’ve built 2 gear sets that seem to cover most builds. My first set is full Carrion with Superior Rune of Nightmare and my second set is Berserker armor with Knights trinkets and Superior Rune of the Wurm. I prefer to have 17K hps minimum, I know thieving can be done with less but its my preference for PvE.

Carrion supports D/D Conditions and P/D and the other set supports most other builds.

My condition build is D/D 0/20/0/20/30 with Signet Use, Hastened Replenishment and Signet of Malice loaded. This gives a ton of dodge and evade while giving you a good Initiative refill for more Deathblossoms by triggering Signet of Malice every 12 seconds. Use sigils and food that lengthen your conditions. Shortbow for your 2nd weapon. This lacks condition removal so Shadow Step and Signet of Agility are good utilities here. Or simply bring your GSword Guardian friend along to cure conditions.

Zerker/Knights set does well with direct damage. I’m enjoying a 0/30/25/15/0 build that does well with S/D, D/D, P/P and Shortbow. Omnomberry Pie or other health on crit food is great here. S/D is my default loadout, it trails D/D Backstab in damage out put but not by a whole lot, when you have 2 or more targets it does a lot better. I’ll switch to Backstab on single target bosses though. Sword has good condition removal but you can re-trait for removal on stealth if you run Backstab. I switch between SB and P/P for 2nd weapon set depending on what’s better at the time.

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