Guild Wars 2

Trickery last trait should be the new one that causes 5 stacks of confusion on steal.
This build has a very high amount of condi burst while sustaining a large amount of health and has a very strong disengage and engage. If you catch a character with this build before they are aware of your presence you will win a large majority of the time. This build may require a very good sense of positioning and creating distance between you and your opponent. Also, you must be able to know whether you should use steal or not. This is a key to most of your damage as confusion dmg adds up to 1000 per tick with 5 stacks. As many of you are wondering why i take poison duration for weapon sigil and trait is because of the 100% up time on poison if you can. This will lose alot of sustain to the overpowered warrior signet and the buffed ele heal on skill use signet.

USUAL ONE SHOT COMBO:
Basilisk Venom
STEALTH IN ANYWAY POSSIBLE
APPLY Skale Venom
USE STEALTHED P/D #1 FOR CONDI PRESSURE
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AT THIS POINT YOU SHOULD HAVE A STUN 3 STACKS OF TORMENT AND 5 STACKS OF BLEEDING
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USE D/P 3 TO CREATE DISTANCE
USE STEAL TO CLOSE DISTANCE AND APPLY CONFUSION
USE CND TO STEALTH UP APPLY BLEED AT VERY SHORT RANGE
USE D/P 3 TO CREATE DISTANCE AGAIN
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at this point the target will have 10 bleed stacks 7 torment stacks 5 stacks of confusion blind and situationaly immobilize
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This build also has alot of survival aspects to it! With 24500 effective health this build can take a massive amount of damage! Also it has 2.7k armor which is very good compared to a full zerker set which has 1.9k armor and 11k effective health!!!!!! This is a massive boost. I have experimented with this build ever since the feature pack and it wrecks most classes. Warriors and Guards are the hardest due to hard condition clear they have. This can be completely avoidable by making them pressured into using those abilities. I feel thieves are in a very good place in this patch you just need to use your head a bit more !! Good Luck out there hope to see you guys in WVW!
-WODO

Thanks for posting the build! It’s a fairly common one even before the patch. There were multiple variations of it — the most popular being dire, and second more popular being carrion. You should also consider trying mug, since your steal recharge time is reduced mug grants you more damage AND a 2k heal every 20 seconds

CnD → Steal → Sneak Attack → Shadow Strike/CnD → repeat

Or you could just run Loperdos’ Tormentor

And grab the new trait and see how fast they go down.

Dirame.8521:

Or you could just run Loperdos’ Tormentor

And grab the new trait and see how fast they go down.

will not work on eles and guardians, not to mention that you will kill yourself if fighting a necro

Nice build by i really don’t like to play with venoms. You loose a lot of the survivability a thief got. I love to roam and there it’s neccessary to engage when there are too many enemies.

I play my condition thief like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQRAoa6YlsMp7plOx8JsPNRw9gpOtpeP+6YNbXBsC-zEDBoODimCAiWAm6AkEBITqIasl1FRjVJDQ3ATlKpKWR2jgRrmUAwMHA-w

Trait Trickery i use the Skill XIII not XII. With this OP Skill you are able to put 12 confusions stacks on your target. Plus the incredible survivability and movement u won’t will have problems against any class. Even PU mesmers are easy to kill. Only a diamant skin Ele is hard to kill.