Guild Wars 2

So I had this idea for a s/d pve thief build. I wanted some feedback as to whether or not this would be viable at all. So the build would be 6/6/2/0/0.

III, VI, XIII from Deadly Arts
VI, III, XI from Critical Strikes
V from Shadow Arts

So basically much like d/d you just use Cloak and Dagger and then autoattack until revealed is up (1 sword autoattack chain), and then Cloak and dagger again. My reasoning behind this is that the + 200 power from revealed training should make auto attack cleaving with s/d stronger than with s/p.

However I’m not sure if the time it takes to cloak and dagger and use tactical strike lowers the dps substantially enough for this build to not be useful. Also s/d does lose the permanent blind utility that comes with s/p.

Thoughts?

For single target encounters, I believe d/d still does more damage than s/d. For multiple target encounters, s/p brings more utility with the evade and blinds, without sacrificing much dps.

It seems like I’d get the best of both worlds by taking d/d and s/p, so I have a little trouble seeing where s/d would fit in.

Every build can work in PvE, just that we do the best damage with S/P and D/D depending on the situation.

That said you can certainly use it for PvE and practice timing #3 and try to maintain 90%HP as much as possible with the build. The right timing and usage can be transferred to PvP/WvW situations.