Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone.

I don’t play this game as much and never did. However all i’ve doing is WvW, almost only roaming, usually in a duo (as thief and ele) and I usually do quite well being a pvp oriented player.

However, I came back after a long break and my skill definitely went down and I don’t know too well how the game state is right now.

Anyway, i still feel fairly good playing my D/D classic power build 2/6/6/0/0 but out of boredome I decided to try a P/D condition build 2/0/6/0/6 with carrion gear / dire trinkets / krait runes and a question started to raise.

Is it just me or P/D is just fairly overpowered compared to D/D?
I mean, I’ve played it for only a few days but it feels like there’s nothing I could do better as D/D
The burst is almost similar (except this way is a condition burst instead of direct damage). The sustained damage better thanks to how easy it is to reapply conds and, mainly, the range you get with a pistol. Blind (which denies melee builds so hard) is not a problem. Survaivability is even better having the same tools for stealthing while having higher armor/vit AND the ability to kite from range.

Not to talk about how any good player can make your life a nightmare simply refusing to give you his back. Which is obviously fair enough, but what I want to point out is that with a p/d build you don’t have any positioning issues.

Also, ricochet (if you want to give up bountiful trait) can give you some AoE dmg which, while not being crazy, is always nice to have.

On the cons side as of now I can only see a bit lower mobility and not much else really.

So, i’m sure it’s been talked before but i couldn’t find any recent posts about it, and I’ve done this so that the players that have been playing more than me could give me their 2cents on the issue. Do you think D/D could use some love as it is now? Is there something P/D actually lacks compared to other builds? Is it just me or it’s just an overall easier / more effective build?

IMO, assuming they are of equal skill, a DD power will almost always lose to PD condition, DD requires you to put yourself at risk with backstab, PD doesn’t need to get in harms way to use its stealth attack. if foes get close Cloak and dagger or Shadow shot, it gives you the tools to do well with its philosophy.
EDIT: PD also has more survivability due to being able to only benefit from Dire gear

Assming that both players are of equal level, the DD power will always beat a P/D player. P/D is a very slow weapon set and requires constant small bursts of damage and condition application – its quite a nuisance and unless the opponent stays around you wont be killing anyone.

D/D on the other hand relies on a quick and easy backstab auto heartseeker and usually just continously playing with the burst and you should drop the opponent fairly quickly.

i’d go for D/P though, much nicer then D/D

Peow peow.2189:

Assming that both players are of equal level, the DD power will always beat a P/D player. P/D is a very slow weapon set and requires constant small bursts of damage and condition application – its quite a nuisance and unless the opponent stays around you wont be killing anyone.

D/D on the other hand relies on a quick and easy backstab auto heartseeker and usually just continously playing with the burst and you should drop the opponent fairly quickly.

i’d go for D/P though, much nicer then D/D

Do NOT listen to this clown.

Peow peow.2189:

Assming that both players are of equal level, the DD power will always beat a P/D player. P/D is a very slow weapon set and requires constant small bursts of damage and condition application – its quite a nuisance and unless the opponent stays around you wont be killing anyone.

D/D on the other hand relies on a quick and easy backstab auto heartseeker and usually just continously playing with the burst and you should drop the opponent fairly quickly.

i’d go for D/P though, much nicer then D/D

lol

good player can survive good p/d
thief can go stealth and cleanse himself
i fought very good dd thief and he always rotate his stealth skills so it was null.
so 2 thieves who just go stealthy no one win (but the d/d has more lucky chance with hs spam)

hmmm… d/d will usually be at an disadvantage against p/d but! if you can get the p/d thief to follow you to an area with very limited room for kiting (e.g. between cliffs, on top of the little walls in areas like EB keeps, BL south east camp), power d/d can overpower p/d very very quickly (even in full dire gear they will be squishyyyy)

Plus d/d is more fun :P