Guild Wars 2

So I main a d/d condi thief (yea yea haters gonna hate, it’s a perfectly viable build!). stealth is primarily my means of gtfo out of a bad situation or to heal. I know they changed something about stealth but I can’t find it with my play style can someone explain? I was planning on trying out the p/d condi variety, I imagine that’s when stealth will really become key.

I am quite enjoying the 10 sec cooldown on caltrops and I never realized the caltrops radius was that huge. And like the new radius on uncatchable trait too!

With the reduction in haste in addition I can’t help but think its only the burst thieves that got the shaft in this patch.

Moral of the story: Join the dark side, give condi thieves a whirl (of both the p/d and d/d variety)! I’ve read a lot of posts from these BS burst thieve pundits bashing the condi build like its some sort of gimmick reserved for players with less skills… comeon now ur better than that!

well the stealth nerf only really effects people utilizing it offensively, though does have a fair impact on p/d conditions that try to utilize sneak attack for bleed stacking (before hand you had a base 5 stack of 4 second bleeds that gets reapplied every 4.5 seconds, your now at every 5.5 seconds)

Not sure where the 10s cooldown on caltrops comes from, they reduced the duration not the cooldown so it now lasts 10 seconds with a 24s cooldown (with the 20% tricks cooldown trait)

Overall condition builds got slightly nerfed at least options wise if not exactly damage wise.

Death Blossom didn’t quite get a hit. But like Dasorine said, even keeping your bleed stacks up on a higher number will be hard with p/d. The change took damage harder than defense, and PvE more than PvP.

Ur right about the caltrops I totally misread that… my bad. And hmm yea across the board we got PvE nerfs when I think most of the ppl griping was PvP and WvW issues with thieves…