Guild Wars 2

I mained a thief (Gee if i had a dime every time someone started a post like that) and he is now lvl 80 with full exotic and very fancy looking etc. etc. For those interested i really liked the PvE so i tried to get the best possible build and went for high survivability + condition damage, using the D/D Death Blossom for extra dodge + aoe bleed and full carrion for vitality.

Now, was that a mistake? I invested quite a lot of gold in getting all that armour but now that i have rolled some other classes and seen some videos of eles bursting down groups of 5 mobs with 3k+ dmg aoe attacks, i feel like it’s all been for nothing.

I manage in dungeons (unlike the glass cannons i see floating around the cof entrance) but it’s been a while since i looked at any new builds and i was wondering if there are any viable new PvE builds out there now? With which i can still do dungeons and actually making a difference in damage during boss fights because cond dmg is nice but i don’t know if it’s actually comparable to other classes.

Or should i just screw it all and make my thief a petty D/P WvW roamer so that i can burst down unprepared players into oblivion, because that seems to be the only thing we’re good at?

If you want a Condi Thief, I’d recommend Rabid over Carrion. A P/D, Sb thief in my guild sees a lot of success with those stats, doing everything from Lvl 4x fractals, to arah to WvW. I think he said he took 3 runes of krait and 3 runes of afflicted.

Okay but would u recommend this 0/30/20/20/0 or 0/30/10/20/10 builds that i see lying around? I’m starting think that a more burst damage build would be much better for the thief.