Guild Wars 2

Hye.

I’m actually working on improving my build for WvW with my thief.

I’m playing a Venom/Support build with condition damage, but i hesitate between getting all Condition and no critical, or getting nearly 20% critical rate

This is the different kind of build i’m thinking about : http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.3|5.1c.h4|5.1o.hz|1h.7i.1h.7i.1h.7i.1h.7i.1h.7i.1h.7i|4u.d1g.3y.d1e.3w.d1e.3x.d1e.2x.d12.2u.d1e|k48.0.u29c.0.k57|30.d|57.5r.5t.5q.5u|e

I’m also thinking about getting P/P as secondary.

And what you do think of the combination Lyssa/Venom?

Thanks for advice.

1) I do run Lyssa on my own Venomous Aura spec and it’s not a bad choice. The unstated 50 second cool down means that the proc will only happen on every other Basilisk proc. However the buffs are nice and it’s another source of condition removal, which is usually needed in a VA spec.

2) My issue with the spec is that your sources of condition damage aren’t enough to personally satisfy me. Perhaps I’m just biased, but I’ve not had the best success using Cluster Bomb as my primary source of dps against moving human opponents. The poison damage from Spider Venom won’t be a lot, so that’s not a strong reason to go condition heavy. Player tests have shown that AoE Spider Venom actually uses each player’s personal +condition values for calculating their poison proc damage. This means that you’re heavy focused into condition damage for only using the Shortbow. That is the crux of my problem.

If you were willing to use a 2nd weapon set (other than the extra SB) that also did condition damage, then your spec could be really interesting. However the double SB usage just isn’t enough to go heavily into condition for WvW. (I might do it for PvE, but that’s another subject.)