Guild Wars 2

I’m building a Thief and I’m really into 0/30/20/20/0.
The issue is that I don’t get fury, will this be a problem?
I really want the “fury on steal” trait from trickery, but I cannot get myself to lose +1s stealth and stealthing steal from shadow tree, nor I can let go the +2i/10s and major endurance boost from 20 acrobatics.
Dropping first strikes / executioner and the crit damage / precision buff seems even less worthy.
These seem the best traits we have and too much of tide-turning traits to just let them go.

But isn’t my crit going to suck if I don’t get fury?
Assuming I can get to 45% with stats, 10% from sigils (5% while above 90%hp).
That means every other backstab will hit for nothing.

If I really have to, I’ll just drop 10 from acrobatics.

Since you aren’t running heavy trickery you won’t be stealing incredibly often anyways. Fury is nice, but if you’re relying on it to keep your crit rate where you need to be, you’re in trouble. Fury from steal is a boost, not something you can keep up. Only time I’d actually encourage relying on having consistent fury would be a situation where you’ve got both heavy boon duration and heavy trickery, allowing quick steals and long fury. That said, if you really want fury and aren’t doing sPvP, you can roll Charr and get it as a utility skill.

So what’s the solution to get reliable crit rate?

Stealing is not something that’s extremely viable once you’re started attacking someone/thing is it? I think it’s best used as an opener because it gets you immediately into melee range and gives you free skill to use right away or save for later.

But I don’t have any PvP experience yet because I’m too busy trying to figure out what kind of build I could make for that and still manage to do alright in PvE.

So can anyone answer to the main post?
Problem still not resolved.

If you absolutely must have the highest critical rate possible, look for beserker equipment and use food that boosts your critical too before fights in addition to putting points into critical strikes.

But I’d like to see someone experiment with a mix of beserker and other equipment that raises your HP and toughness because right now in my head that seems like a good idea.

But then so did making a thief with pistol/pistol at first.

Am I missing something or does Hidden Killer not give you 100% critical hit chance while stealthed? If you’re looking for Backstab crits then that trait should keep you covered.

If you choose Hidden Killer over Executioner then you can gear for Power and Crit Dmg % to make up for it, yielding strong crits on every backstab.

Run 0/30/30/10/0 or 0/30/25/15/0 with Hidden Assassin and Power of Inertia to stack Might on Stealth and Dodge.

The problem is you are stuck with 60% crit chance at best, which means backstab is hitting for joke damage half the time, and thus letting you in a bad situation where you are vulnerable and didn’t achieve anything.
Hidden Killer resolves this issue completely but 20% damage is a big loss.

I guess the only way to get guaranteed backstabs and Executioner is Sigil of Intelligence then.