Guild Wars 2

Yesterday me and my friend went throught the new traits Dungeon Thief to see what could be the next meta. Today, I looked at Metabattle and saw some stuff that just don’t seem right.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_D/D_S/P_Shortbow

- Dagger Training over Mug : Steal is not an important skill and you should use it on cooldown (or almost). In that situation, Mug will always give better dps than the poison of dagger training.

- Side Strike over Flawless Strike : 1% Crit Damage is usually better than 1% Critical Chance. It’s even more true with a PvE Thief which already have such a high critical chance %.

- Sundering Strike over Practiced Tolerance : Practiced Tolerance is a better choice in solo situation or when your group can max out vulnerability. But since it’s a Dungeon build and in most team composition, you shouldn’t be able to max out vulnerability, Sundering Strike should be the default choice.

- At 0 Might, Dagger Training would need to be able to maintain at least 2 stacks of Poison to outdps Mug. That’s certainly POSSIBLE, but unreliable. I can’t find the co-efficient for Mug so I can’t say what happens when they scale up to 25 Might, but I imagine Mug only gets better, so I’d agree there.

- Yup, pretty much. The difference is fairly small between the two.

- I’m surprised that the description doesn’t mention this. Increasing everybody’s damage > increasing your own. However, I have seen the Vuln cap being hit a lot more often in dungeons as of late, so you could get away with Practiced Tolerance in a reasonable group.

I would also say that most PvE content doesn’t require group Vigor (much preferred for high Fractals, though), so you could just take Trickster and reduce the cooldown of Flanking Strikes instead.

Yeah, all of the points you make are supported both by some personal testing and the updated [DnT] thief build video. Shame on you, Metabattle.