Guild Wars 2

Hi. I’m a new level 80 Thief. I need some advice in regards to buying exotic armor and traits.

Currently I use Knight’s armor with Emerald Orbs on my armor, while I use Ruby jewelry. So I am Knight-Berserker Hybrid.

My traits are 0-30-0-20-20.

However, other players frown upon me using Toughness on a Thief. Some tell me to use Valkyrie armor, and others tell me to go full Berserker. (And don’t both lose out on precision?)

I am a PvE player, and I enjoy doing instances.

Why is Toughness bad on Thief? And could someone please elaborate on how to spec my Thief properly? Thanks!

Toughness is the same for everyone. It’s just that you want enough vit to make good use of toughness so Thieves tend to just go mostly vit. I like to shoot for 2500 armor on any build. Most of my builds use 30 in shadow for the regen. I’d think toughness isn’t as useful for non regen type builds.

It seems like you want more direct damage so condition is out. An easy simple build set for PvE would be Valk armor (if you don’t care about toughness) or Power/Vit/Tough (Karma/Badge and/or Vigil) Armor, Zerker everything else. Put full Beryl Orbs in the armor if you want more vit or Ruby Orbs if you want damage.

it isn’t that toughness is bad, it is just that with our low base HP vitality can benefit us more. in PvE there are attack that can still kill a high toughness thief that a high vit thief would be able to live through. as far as build help, what weapons do you like to use? do you prefer to be tankier, or to give up some survivability for higher damage? give us a bit more information and we should be able to help you find a build you like.

Gungnir Grimm.7123:

it isn’t that toughness is bad, it is just that with our low base HP vitality can benefit us more. in PvE there are attack that can still kill a high toughness thief that a high vit thief would be able to live through. as far as build help, what weapons do you like to use? do you prefer to be tankier, or to give up some survivability for higher damage? give us a bit more information and we should be able to help you find a build you like.

I do like giving up some damage for survivability because I am mostly interested in the support and utility a thief brings to the table. Such as Poison, Weakness, Blind, and AoE/Bouce, boon-stealing, etc… Some power is necessary for destroyer structures and such.

For gearing I have 2 sets, full Carrion and then a hybrid Berserkers and Knights with Vitality runes. For me this covers most builds that I would run in PvE. Zerker/Knight/Vit set works for everything other than D/D Bleed and P/D Bleed builds. Heal on Crit food is great for direct damage builds also.

Knowing your preferred weapons and play style would be helpful as Gungnir said.

GL
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