Guild Wars 2

I’m deciding to switch my ascended gear to full mara or full valk for wvw on my thief, but i dont know which one would be better for overall damage + vitality, any of you guys have these sets and willing to share opinions?

I ran valk a long time before mara was released, and then swapped to mara after, and never looked back. Mara just had a very nice stat spread on it, valk I always felt…. is limited with sigil/tune setup due to the lower precision. Just my 2 cents though

ok.. new guy.. What do I have to do to get the marauder armor? Could not see it for sale.. is it expansion gear?

seems like a huge upgrade and be willing to craft etc to get it.. My google skills failed me.. Just saw something that said only via story mode, but the stats on wiki had healing

Marauder

You get the recipe from vendors for karma.

I´m not thta much in wvw anymore, but still changed my thiefgear to marauder. Far better than valky imo. If you want more health, just use zerker/valky trinkets, too.

Coronit.. Thanks.. Took some time and gold but I got crafting up enough and made a full set.. much much better

I very much prefer Marauder gear due to the fact that you actually get very solid Precision → Critical Hit Chance of it. Besides, if you play your Thief right, you shouldn’t need much more than 17K Health. Even 14K is enough for most of what you’ll face in WvW.

^ Vornollo nailed it, i played a thief completely viable in wvw running around 14-15k ( sometimes as low as 13k) depending on the food n such i ran, marauder just gave a better stat range to play with allowing me to freely choose what runes/sigils to run without feeling limited. Dont forget thief is about avoiding dmg not tanking it, the extra vit for me is just more defense against conids that melted me so much faster before. Now i get a few more seconds to counter/combo dealing with that burst, which can mean the difference between winning or losing, thats how i see it at least. At least thats how i feel im no pro by any means but i notice the differnce in the few thousand HP i get.

Hey guys thanks for the support with the responses. Despite the marauder popularity i see from you guys, i am rocking full valk right now and i like it. It gives me as much power and fero as berserker but i have around 17.5-18k hp. I also dont have a problem with crit aswell because i have around 47% – 50% crit with sharpening stone and precision+vitality food. Plus fury brings me up to 70% crit, so all and all im doing great with valk atm.

can you please show us your build

this is my current build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAsYVl0MhCnYpTw7Jw/ELwE2cH8E2C1SABgdjXa4M0GA-TVBPABUpEsg9HCR5nw6DAQ9HSBIoOL-w

this is another one i came up with a while back:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZEQNAsYVl0MhCnYpTw7Jw/ELwEmWCIAsb8SDnh2wcH8E2CB-TlBPwAgU+FUfwLlgAUVRgaFN2fgUACqzC-w

Vornollo.5182:

I very much prefer Marauder gear due to the fact that you actually get very solid Precision -> Critical Hit Chance of it. Besides, if you play your Thief right, you shouldn’t need much more than 17K Health. Even 14K is enough for most of what you’ll face in WvW.

My goal in WvW is to have enough HP to survive Basilisk Venom followed by a burst from another thief. My base HP is a bit under 16k, and it’s perfectly fine, except the very first day after the reset (aka before you get WvW HP buffs), unless I go full Vitality food and oil (which I do). A thief with full berserker / food / omni-infusion could probably still kill me in 2 seconds, but that’s pretty much it. 14k sounds too low for me, at least the first few days after the reset.

darkaheart.4265:

can you please show us your build

this is my current build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAsYVl0MhCnYpTw7Jw/ELwE2cH8E2C1SABgdjXa4M0GA-TVBPABUpEsg9HCR5nw6DAQ9HSBIoOL-w

this is another one i came up with a while back:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZEQNAsYVl0MhCnYpTw7Jw/ELwEmWCIAsb8SDnh2wcH8E2CB-TlBPwAgU+FUfwLlgAUVRgaFN2fgUACqzC-w

Hey this is exactly what i am using http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoaVn0MBlOhVmCGOB8PhFYCTLBEAyAzdwSYL0LMcGaDA-TlCFQBpRHQhUFAJKzUoSDB8AAWj2gas/wVUCeI1eAwJAgQACWAA-w
nice health and you still get 10k backstabs. crit is no problem if u have fury.

i see what you did there, it looks pretty good!