Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been away from my Thief for awhile now working on my Guardian and Necro. Well it’s about time to come back, but I’m tired of the power build. Whats the latest condition build? Which gear set (s) are best for WvW? I see a lot of carrion, and a lot of apothecary going around. I plan on going D/D, P/D to start with.

with d/d and p/d on the same set, either carrion or apothecary work, though it should be noted that full carrion vs full apothecary comes down to damage vs survivability. carrion having better damage, and apothecary better survivability. with any build using p/d 30 points into SA are advised. after that it it really up to you. 20-30 points into trickery can pay off with the extra initiative and condition damage. acro can further ramp up your survivability, DA can give you a bit more non condition damage and give you some more condition duration, though you can break 75% or higher without it and that is usually long enough in PvP and WvW since cleansing is almost as easy as applying depending on what you are fighting. the old 0/0/30/20/20 standby still works to be honest. as far as advice, a geomancy sigil on the off hand dagger can be useful for even more AoE bleeds on weapon swap, and an agony and corruption sigils are more good options. for armor runes, using 2 of each of the rune sets that give 15% bleed duration is great, or 3 from 2 of the sets for a bit more condition damage if you plan on always using rare veggie pizza( sorry I cant remember for certain the names at the moment as it has been a while since I went condition, I believe krait, affliction and centaur are the three right rune sets).

I run 25/0/30/15/0 with DD/PD full carrion gear, I run about 2700 atk with ~800 condi dmg and it works pretty well to play evasively, I try using caltrops but it’s just so horribly ineffective against players with a brain, lol. The other option I like to use is Spider venom, especially since the weakness buff since 15 in DA grants weakness whenever you apply poison, helps with mitigating damage a lot. I think at this point, its pretty ineffective to run a full condi build, which is why I take the 5% dagger dmg trait in DA and use the carrion gear for the power as well as condi dmg. I mostly use DD for evasive play and pressuring them when they’re health is low, which means I’m using Death blossom quite a bit and stacking some good bleed stacks while playing defensively. So far I haven’t had any really tough fights since the patch other than necros(OP >.<) and good mesmers.

Here’s a shot of my stats/traits, I use mostly rare gear so if you have the gold for exotic gear you can get better stats than me. I use berzerker daggers a PVT pistol and I use sigil of energy on the OH dagger, the other two just have gems in them for extra stats(and I’m cheap). I also use Krait runes, 4 superior, 2 major. Hope this helps, I use it mostly for roaming/duels but since the changes to SB I think it might work well in a group. Getting the max bleed stacks out of cluster bomb just takes some getting used to though, and the aoe weakness/posion should help against a group as well.