Guild Wars 2

Hi all, I’ve been playing my Thief pretty much as a glass cannon (AP/Perc/Crit DMG) since the game came out, the only Magic Find gear I can find is AP/Cond DMG/MF aka Mad King/Errol’s set so I was wondering if that is the best gear or if there is any AP/Perc/MF gear out there.

If condition damage is the best for PvE, can anyone let me know how they play their condition spec thief (weapons, traits, 6-10 skills, etc.)

Would appreiate some constructive feedback, thank you and happy new year!

I do not think condition damage is necessarily best for PvE as it does not scale well if you have another person in group also doing condition damage.

Magic find armor imo is a waste these days as most people are doing fractals where it is not nearly as useful as farming mobs in Curse Shore and in most cases a hindrance to your group’s success. Also keep in mind that from the armor pieces themselves you are only getting 18% MF, which you need to seriously gimp yourself to get.

More magic find comes from the runes and jewelry, so what I recommend is using armor that fits your build best, then adding 5 rune of the noble and 1 pirate rune, get the jewelry and your good to go. Better, well rounded stats and still pretty decent magic find.

I haven’t worn my MF gear in a month or more, regret the effort I spent building it.

I agree with Niim. I built a set, hated it then salvaged the entire thing because I needed bank space. Wish I never bothered. I’m not willing to deal with playing with gimped stats for an unnoticeable change in drops. It doesn’t work on chests and stuff like that anyway.

I always seem to get better drops running around with my MF set on. I don’t feel gimped nor do I have issues with soloing content. It’s a great thing to have when farming just to increase your chances, also it helps you get more from gathering nodes.

It’s up to personal opinion in the end, my thief uses pow/prec/mf for gear stats.