Guild Wars 2

Why do people keep trying to make Death Blossom/Condition thieves good?

They’re just terrible. P/D is better in almost every single way, trying to go D/D condition build is just sad and I don’t understand people’s fascination with it.

/facepalm

Have fun AoE’ing with P/D.

P/D is only good for trolling 1vX in WvW. For anything else D/D+SB is better.

You can also switch weapons and do both if you have mad skillz.

I know you love your up leveled 1v7’s but when that friendly jumps in to help a few DB’s will wreck face. Those things do about 4.5k per target if the bleeds aren’t removed.

D/D DB can be fun, which is probably why people play it. Really any weapon set can be fun in WvWvW.

Scootabuser.4915:

Why do people keep trying to make Death Blossom/Condition thieves good?

They’re just terrible. P/D is better in almost every single way, trying to go D/D condition build is just sad and I don’t understand people’s fascination with it.

Sounds like you are comparing a D/D condition thief vs a P/D condition thief. I think any thief that has any semblance of playing skill it is a wash on the matchup.

A D/D condi thief and P/D condi thief probably both have remove conditions on stealth so the matchup then becomes skill. Though I think in this matchup a P/D comes out ahead since they are blowing less init. Its all style though play what you like. Some find P/D boring and same can be said with D/D condi.

I roll with PD and DD condi. When I am 1v1 I go PD and when I am outnumbered I switch to DD for the AOE condition stacking.

Always using my stealth to build up some more Initiative and wiping my conditions.

Because it’s so good that is should be a bannable offense if some people have their way. Who would not run something that can apply 25 stacks of bleeding in seconds, doing 8k+ dps per second and if someone happens to bring condition removal (and use it in time, 8k per second leaves them with less then a second to react) simply apply 25 stacks of bleeding again.

frans.8092:

Because it’s so good that is should be a bannable offense if some people have their way. Who would not run something that can apply 25 stacks of bleeding in seconds, doing 8k+ dps per second and if someone happens to bring condition removal (and use it in time, 8k per second leaves them with less then a second to react) simply apply 25 stacks of bleeding again.

Where did you got that 8k dps? Show your math please.

frans.8092:

Because it’s so good that is should be a bannable offense if some people have their way. Who would not run something that can apply 25 stacks of bleeding in seconds, doing 8k+ dps per second and if someone happens to bring condition removal (and use it in time, 8k per second leaves them with less then a second to react) simply apply 25 stacks of bleeding again.

8k per second?
Are you out of your mind?A condition thief tick varies somewhere between 105 and 135(roughly depends of how many might stacks and corruption sigil bonus .
25 stacks(which are the max cap) would make 25 dots per second=3370 damage/sec.
I will not even comment that it is impossible to add 25 stacks just from DB,but it is useless cuz since you are claiming this,you don’t know anything about thief anyway and its like to talking to a wall…

They sayz it in ze thread.

Off course you can’t do 8k per second with bleeds, that’d be 320 per tick on 25 stacks

Looks like someone has mistaken Agony with Thief

Thaz no mistake!

lol what? did I just see a thread that said death blossom was OP? you casuals crack me up with your QQing all over the forums

thank you for the endless hours of entertainment, showing me just how whiny people really can be

Condition thieves are pretty good at handicap fights. Stacking poison and AoE bleeds on multiple targets automatically means high overall dps across all your targets. 8k is a bit too high but 6-7k is not unusual against 3 ppl.

25 bleeding to a group of stupid PVE mobs or a dumb zerg of WvW with 0 condition removal.

Worthless indeed. And we all know how great Pistols are at the moment.

LOLOLOL