Guild Wars 2

Pretty much the title. I’m looking to play D/D power as I’m bored and nostalgic, but backstabs with my current gear (mara weapons and armor, zerk/cavalier trinkets) aren’t as good as I hoped for. I got a 5k CnD and a 7k backstab on a longbow ranger earlier, I’m assuming he was glass as they normally are when not playing druid.

I’m thinking mara weapons, valk armor with scholar runes and zerker trinkets would be best, I kinda just want to check if it’s worth it before wasting a load of gold again :P

This is what I’m thinking of playing:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoYVl0MhCnYpTw7Jw/ELEF2WWa0EAmrf9vCoXQ4HUEA-TFCEABurJYLlgAcIAI4JA4i6PmrHwgTAAT7PK/IEggxA-w

Thanks for any replies ^^

Here’s how I play D/D power:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoYVlsMhOnYpTw8Jw/EHwE1OQXuUg3D5wMoTgAIDA-TVCEABAcEA2SJ4DHCgFVNwgTAQb6DI4BAkoaOMt/o8LAACwNbz28mBO6RP6RP6R7m38oH9m3sUACqzC-w

I very much prefer core thief over Daredevil when it comes to D/D.
Shadow Arts’ Cloaked in Shadows is an excellent defensive trait which I’ve always considered paramount to D/D’s survival, moreso than Shadow’s Rejuvenation.
Picking up Revealed Training in Deadly Arts is also an option to increase your Backstab damage even more, but I simply prefer the immobilize of Panic Strike.

Vornollo.5182:

Picking up Revealed Training in Deadly Arts is also an option to increase your Backstab damage even more

Interesting. Does Revealed Training affect Backstab? Or only the attacks after a Backstab? I guess it would affect a pre-cast-Revealed-Backstab in either case.

It procs after the effect which reveals you. So directly, it doesn’t.

However, if you perform a Mug while doing the Backstab animation, you’ll get revealed by Mug which will proc RT for the outgoing backstab. It’s very risky and in most cases not easy to do. It’s better-suited for the outgoing AA chain since it does so much, now.

Yeah, I probably should’ve mentioned that it’s a tad hard to pull of at first…
But yeah, Revealed Training can boost your Backstab damage like DecieverX said.
Fair enough, the AA chain also does greatly benefit of the extra power.

Ah, awesome, thanks very much ^^ I got as close to your stats as I could and the damage was markedly better, it’s surprising how much ferocity effects dagger builds tbh. I’ll get full valk armor next time I play and see how that works too.

I was planning on running DD in place if SA for a more mobile build, the blind on stealth is really good but I’m not sure it’s worth dash and a better condi cleanse trait tbh. I didn’t have many issues running it last time I was in a blob v blob, maybe SA is stronger for 1v1 situations?

I’m having a hard time giving up trickery as well, with marauder armor and TotC I found I had enough crit chance to take no quarter over hidden killer to make up the ferocity and still reliably crit on backstab, while bountiful theft helps with removing protection before a burst. It does mean I miss out on deadly arts though, which probably isn’t worth it. It might just be me being too used to 15 ini that’s throwing me off, so will play around with that.

Thanks for all the comments ^^