Guild Wars 2

I am about level 33 now. Been running p/d for last 5 or so levels. I enjoy it. I play pve, eotm and little wvw (too low to help much there).

I like the #3 with torment and shadowstep back. fun style.

What should I use for 2nd weapon set? I tried d/d for the death blossom, but felt ehhh about it. Do I have to have melee for off hand or do I run Shortbow.

for wvw at 80, anyone have a spec for p/d and whatever alt weapon?

Any input? Thanks

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This is the build I run sometimes in WvW. Pretty much usual full dire p/d condition damage build (yes, it is a cheeser build, I know). It is probably the strongest and most annoying WvW thief build atm. Don’t worry too much about the alt weapon, it is not really needed for the most part. You should be able to fight the whole fight without switching weapons. I prefer to use Shortbow for some aoe bleed, poison field and Infiltrator’s arrow to flee from the fight when I have to. You could use also use D/D for the Death Blossom and Heartseaker (for the mobility, not damage). Other weapon sets are not worth using with P/D due to the lack of condition damage on them.

As P/D, you have 2 options:

1. Shortbow – for mobility and aoe
2. D/P – for access to stealth without needing to land a CnD

From my limited experience, the lack of cool downs on our skills actually leave little incentive for swapping weapons, unless you choose to use traits that benefit you. However, most of the time swapping weapons doesn’t benefit you as much as other classes with Cooldowns.
For example: most thief builds are X/X and Shortbow because that one weapon set is usually the only set specializing in an area.
Take your P/D. That’s the best Condi set, hands down. So why would you take something like D/D when it’s primarily a power set (death blossom is horrible, the consensus), over shortbow, which is used in almost every build because it’s the best weapon in the game for running away!

would you make any changes to the build for spvp?
its pretty fun btw

There’s a guy on my server that runs P/D & D/D in WvW. Seems to work well.

At level 33 though you’re not going to be able to flesh out a build. PvE really isn’t an issue. For EOTM I hate to say it but just grab a shortbow and ride the train trying tag as many as possible while not getting yourself killed. In WvW at that level see comment on EOTM for zerging, otherwise just run supply and try not to get yourself killed.