Come on…it does not make sense that that build would work in PvP. There are tons of condition removal skills available. I play thief too and I hardly get damaged by that build at all unless I do a terrible mistake. The little damage I take I can easily heal.
As for good builds there are plenty. But gear, weapon sets and utility skills need to be planned too. If you have the wrong gea/set up for a build it won’t work.
I actually run the same build in PvE and WvW. I am probably not top damage in PvE, but my damage is more than good enough to help my group to get through a dungeon without any problems. When I solo mobs go down fast and in WvW I can easily kill a lot of players 1v1 and do a great job with supply camps etc. And if I don’t manage to kill I can usually escape 9/10 times. But don’t expect all that to come by itself. It takes planning and trial and error. At lvl 20 I almost gave up on my thief. I am glad I didn’t. I have even stopped playing my alt characters.
