Guild Wars 2

You give us precison, nice!
You give us Condition damage! Nice, cond dmg and precision are okay for some Cond dmg builds.

And then you go ahead and give us 10% dmg from behind on a cond based rune set? Which imo is not even decent compared to other cond rune set.

My suggestion would be change cond dmg for normal power, this way Power based thieves will be able to use this runes!

/discuss

Yeah, 10% higher Backstab damage.

I’m sure that would go down well with the community.

Point being, yes, this rune-set would be awesome for Thieves if Condition Damage was replaced with Power.

But it would also be best-in-slot, at least in terms of DPS. And I’m not sure if giving Thieves even more front-loaded damage is currently the best way forward for the class.

So while you are right, the rune-set does not make much sense for a Thief, fixing it would make it overpowered.

^ Not all thieves backstab. Secondly, a good thief can’t land backstab on a good player more than a third of the time they attempt it because of the setup it requires. However bad players don’t understand the concept and unintentionally open themselves up for the damage spike.

Taking the hit is essentially their punishment for making it easier to land the backstab.

On Topic: They were better when you only needed 1 and be a thief to get all 6 tiers. :c

Dee Jay.2460:

Yeah, 10% higher Backstab damage.

I’m sure that would go down well with the community.

Point being, yes, this rune-set would be awesome for Thieves if Condition Damage was replaced with Power.

But it would also be best-in-slot, at least in terms of DPS. And I’m not sure if giving Thieves even more front-loaded damage is currently the best way forward for the class.

So while you are right, the rune-set does not make much sense for a Thief, fixing it would make it overpowered.

Don’t think it would make it OP, Stronger yes, maybe changing 5% from the sides 10% from behind would make it not as Best in slot.

meanwhile anet adds more sigils and runes to support warriors lol

OH YEAH, that

15charsss

I used this rune to try a hybrid build, backstab dmg was ok but there are much better runes out there….

Scholar >> ogre >> divinity ….

It would be a great rune if it added some crit dmg or power.

Unfortunatelly hybrid builds dont work, you have to go full zerker or full cond, we cant have both….

Yeah, it’s a shame tbh Hope they get an eye on this and make some changes

Eh, most runes of (insert profession here) suck for that profession, with the exception of runes of the ranger, which are actually pretty awesome for power build rangers.

I have used them before and I liked them.
10% extra dmg on a backstab no matter how much HP you have is great... at least for me. I tend to get hit a lot.

Ye but i dunno if it’s worth losing 1xx+ power and crtdmg plus situational % dmg

It would need to be 10% on #1 skill attacks from stealth, not 10% on just backstab.

Stooperdale.3560:

It would need to be 10% on #1 skill attacks from stealth, not 10% on just backstab.

It’s already like that, it’s 10% damage from behinf with any kind of attack

This suggested rune is way better rune than Runes of the scholar.

No.

runeblade.7514:

This suggested rune is way better rune than Runes of the scholar.

No.

Well, not really since the 10% damage requires position. But well, gonna give a try to this runes anyway.

Sons.5493:

runeblade.7514:

This suggested rune is way better rune than Runes of the scholar.

No.

Well, not really since the 10% damage requires position. But well, gonna give a try to this runes anyway.

as a D/x thief we try to land backstabs, with the 10% whenever we hit from behind will always give us the damage boost. yes we loose some power and crit dmg but we gain some crit chance and a guaranteed 10% damage from behind no matter how much hp we have.

D/D is the generic common weapon set for Thieves and this rune supports that set.

Specialized Thieves will not take this runes.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

D/D is the generic common weapon set for Thieves and this rune supports that set.

Specialized Thieves will not take this runes.

This doesn’t even make sense, try harder.

Sons.5493:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

D/D is the generic common weapon set for Thieves and this rune supports that set.

Specialized Thieves will not take this runes.

This doesn’t even make sense, try harder.

Yeah it does. This is best for condition builds (mainly d/d conditions +backstab) that also rely on on-crit effects. Otherwise you are wasting half of the set. And backstab is weak in a condition set.

Troll harder.

Zacchary.6183:

Sons.5493:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

D/D is the generic common weapon set for Thieves and this rune supports that set.

Specialized Thieves will not take this runes.

This doesn’t even make sense, try harder.

Yeah it does. This is best for condition builds (mainly d/d conditions +backstab) that also rely on on-crit effects. Otherwise you are wasting half of the set. And backstab is weak in a condition set.

Troll harder.

This makes even less sense tbh, D/D cond builds are so initiative hungry you can’t even cnd, 4% crt rate WONT change anything in a cond build whenre there’s stuff like undead or nightmare out there which is way better in ANY kind of cond build.

This runes doesn’t make sense amd you make even less.

You do know there are some condition sets that use full rabid right? Aside from the last bit the runeset really only helps with sets that use rabid. However thief runes suck in general.

You guys realize that scholar runes exist right ? Changing this rune would not make it OP, otherwise you are saying scholars is OP.

i use it on my power necro and it does real good aoe dmg and nice condition with staff is always nice add

Not every rune set needs to be hyper specialized towards one specific attack. Runes of the Thief pretty obviously increases multiple aspects of the Dagger/Whatever set. I think it’s fine how it is.

Sons.5493:

Zacchary.6183:

Sons.5493:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

D/D is the generic common weapon set for Thieves and this rune supports that set.

Specialized Thieves will not take this runes.

This doesn’t even make sense, try harder.

Yeah it does. This is best for condition builds (mainly d/d conditions +backstab) that also rely on on-crit effects. Otherwise you are wasting half of the set. And backstab is weak in a condition set.

Troll harder.

This makes even less sense tbh, D/D cond builds are so initiative hungry you can’t even cnd, 4% crt rate WONT change anything in a cond build whenre there’s stuff like undead or nightmare out there which is way better in ANY kind of cond build.

This runes doesn’t make sense amd you make even less.

Condition build is not a generic build, that would be the Specialized Thief I mentioned thus Rune of Thief is not needed.

Generic D/D benefits from this rune because the high Prec allows it to gain Init from auto-attack, the condition damage for Death Blossom, and the +10% dmg for backstab.

It’s a well rounded rune for generic D/D.

Or just replace the condition damage with crit damage % or MORE PRECISION!