Guild Wars 2

Thieves right now dont have any group support skills so all they can give is fast down stranglers with d/d or d/p burst which they do best.
thus i think thieves dont need to support group with boon,condition as other class just do it better

venom share doesnt add anything special. if anet want venom to work they need to rethink the condition thief again

basic trait for condition thief are 20,0,30,20,0 or 0,0,30,20,20

base condition dmg is 1300-1500 and with buff it can go to 1900 while other classes can go to 2000 easily without companset their vitality or toughness . sure thief can go higher but his defense will be useless not like any other class. and again 2000 condition dmg doesnt give thief any edge over necro, enigneer or mesmer burst and make the thief to use Shadow’s Rejuvenation instead of Venomous Aura
so if we want to change that we need to make Venomous Aura more appealing

the condition thieves put are mainly bleeding, poison with weapon skills but can be cleanse easily with no cover conditions.

i love the condition thief but these day its hard to kill good player with conditions and if it take me 5 min i rather change class to necro or mesmer or go d/d d/p power build

as d/d or d/p setup are burst dmg why not to make the thief burst condition

2 options i can think instead of venom share

1. give him more conditions with shorter duration like skale do for example:
devourer- immobilize and confuse 3 stacks 3-5 seconds
spider- poison and weaken 5 stacks 10 seconds
ice- chill and blind 3 stacks 5 seconds
fire venom- which put burning and cripple 3 seconds
and also fear venom which break stun and aoe fear for 1 seconds
Basilisk Venom will put all condition for 2-5 seconds as elite beacuse now its pretty useless without lysa runes

this way it will harder to cleanse all the conditions used.
thief will use 2 venoms skills and 1 or 2 stun breaks like shadow step ROI etc

so this way you wont get OP class as thief still need to escape fast and stun breaks in hands

or

2. if not adding more condition we need to buff the conditions thief using by giving more stacks and duration to each venom by
insead venom share go with venom buff trait which give 100 condition dmg and 10% duration to each venom skill used – so when u using venom you will get with 2 venom skills 200 condition and 20% duration buff (like Malicious Sorcery for the mesmer and Lingering Curse for necro)
and also the Residual Venom i would put in the adept as condition thief go with 20,0,30,20,0 or 0,0,30,20,20 so it has never been used and you rarely see build which uses 30 points in DA

dont forget thieves are mastery of deception and escape this is why i like this roll so why not giving us more conditions uses