Guild Wars 2

Hi. My thief is almost level 80 and I have been thinking about the gameplay. High burst damage is always fun but I don’t want to be a 2shot kill, even though I know that the the class is squishy.
My gameplay will be go in stealth whenever it’s possible with the spells and regenerate vitality. maybe with a rune that fits it well.

The armor stats I was thinking about are:

POWER/precision/condition damage

PRECISION/vitality/healing power

precision/POWER/critical chance

POWER/toughness/vitality

You already answered your own question.

Silver Brown Redmoon.4368:

…. I don’t want to be a 2shot kill, even though I know that the the class is squishy…..My gameplay will be go in stealth whenever it’s possible with the spells and regenerate…..

It would be best to understand what each stat does and what kind of effect it has on you. So I would suggest to go out and play an easy dungeon like AC, SE or CoF with rare items which will give you a better understanding and feeling what stats fit each playstyle.

yeah true. It is meant for wvw soloing. power/toughness/vitlity seems the best because toughness turns into power right or am i mistaken? and precision/power/critical chance might do to, if I will still be squishy with my vitality build. any players have experience with these build?

Honestly, IMO, Power precision and crit damage. Its what I roll with. It is completely unforgiving though. But if you run deception skills it gives you some leverage. I mean I have absolutely no vitality or toughness in my armor/weapon build and 10k health total and I will run at the front of my zerg in WvW and dive in with dagger storm and run right through the enemy zerg and still be alive to kite them from the rear. Your going to be squishy as a thief no matter what, so why not max your damage output?

sostronk.8167:

Honestly, IMO, Power precision and crit damage. Its what I roll with. It is completely unforgiving though. But if you run deception skills it gives you some leverage. I mean I have absolutely no vitality or toughness in my armor/weapon build and 10k health total and I will run at the front of my zerg in WvW and dive in with dagger storm and run right through the enemy zerg and still be alive to kite them from the rear. Your going to be squishy as a thief no matter what, so why not max your damage output?

I was thinking about that. I will give it a shot:)

Why not have a balanced build. I run using Power/Vitality/Toughness on my armor and Power/Precision/Crit Damage for my jewelries.

Its not high burst but good enough to make your opponent be defensive.

Overall with food, runes and weapon sets, I run with 16k HP, 2.5k Armor, 3.2k Attack, 44% Crit and 88% Crit Damage or pretty close to these numbers as I am at work and can’t provide you with the exact stats.

I recently switched from a full condition build to a crit build and put together a full exotic set prior to switching, I opted to start with a more balanced gear set, mixing in Berserker, Valkyrie, Soldiers and 1 Knights piece for survivability and plan on swapping out / replacing the Soldiers pieces and knights piece for Berserker or Valkyrie as I get better at playing the spec. So far it has worked well, Dungeons I am still doing great dps and I’m not dying, and WvW I can make a few mistakes and still survive.

If you decide to do something similar there are certain pieces of gear you will want to have the % crit damage stat on over other pieces because of the ratio of stats lost vs % crit gained. I would be happy to share the piece by piece breakdown I did.