I noticed there wasn’t any thread about what would be a good Silverwastes build for thieves, so I’ll go ahead and provide an in depth explanation of my own with viable trait/utility variations for you to choose from based on your preference.
What I usually run during the time till Breach is 5/6/0/3/0 with D/P (Fire/Air) + SB (Bloodlust/Fire), full Berserker gear with Centaur Runes on armor (Scholar Runes are also just as good).
For Traits:
Deadly Arts: Mug and Dagger Training.
Mug makes use of Steal with a 2k heal and being able to damage and poison your target.
Dagger Training provides a flat damage increase to dagger attacks.
Critical Strikes: Side Strike, Practiced Tolerance/Furious Retaliation, Invigorating Precision/Executioner.
Side Strike provides better critical hit chance from behind.
Practiced Tolerance provides you 1.5k extra HP in a Berserker build.
Furious Retaliation provides Fury (20% criticial hit chance) when you strike an enemy below 50% health for 10 seconds on a cooldown for 30 seconds.
Invigorating Precision returns 15% of the damage dealt from critical hits back as health.
Executioner provides a flat 20% damage increase to enemies struck below 50% health.
Acrobatics: Assassin’s Retreat/Vigorous Recovery/Power of Intertia.
Assassin’s Retreat provides 20+ sec of Swiftness (33% increased movement speed) on kill on a cooldown for 5 seconds.
Vigorous Recovery provides Vigor (100% endurance regeneration) on healing for 5+ seconds.
Power of Intertia provides Might (30+ Power and Condition per stack) on dodge for 15+ seconds.
For heal, utilities, and elite:
Withdraw, Signet of Agility, Assassin’s Signet/Shadowstep, Shadow Refuge, and Thieves Guild.
Withdraw is an instant heal that cures immobilization, cripple, and chill, two of which are extremely commonplace in Silverwastes that can easily kitten a thief up. Also a long distance dodge when paired with swiftness so you can easily get out of bad situations with it.
Signet of Agility provides 180 Precision on passive. Provides a condition cleanse and refills your endurance completely on active. Also does the same to 4 other allies if they’re in 360 range.
Assassin’s Signet provides 180+ Power and Condition on passive. Increases damage by 15% on your next 5 attacks on active. Wouldn’t bother using the active.
Shadowstep teleports you anywhere within 1,200 range. Returning to the spot you teleported from will cleanse 3 conditions. Both parts of Shadowstep work as a stunbreaker, which is what you’ll primarily use it for if a Teragriff knocks you down with a charge, which more often than not will down and defeat you if you don’t have this equipped.
Shadow Refuge provides 10 sec of stealth to you and 4 other allies that stand inside the AoE for the full duration. Also heals each pulse, but it’s not what you’ll want to use it for. A must have during Vinewrath to stealth the carriers, but otherwise used to just save yourself from being overwhelmed by enemies like Mordem Wolves.
Thieves Guild spawns two thieves to help you in combat for 30 seconds or until they’re defeated. They have some abilities like scorpion wire and blackpowder, but you’ll just use them for extra DPS. They don’t attack enemies until you do.
Might be a lot to take in and read, but I find this to work especially well. Hope it helps!
