Guild Wars 2

Here’s a link to the current build that I’m using as my WvWvW thief:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYQQNAsaVlcmaOHfS4E9JFxmCfKUOFF1o+HIb/hrC

You guys are smart, you can figure most of it for yourselves. Let me just give a brief overview:
- Built as a sustained damage build, with Deception skills/Signets giving initiative boosts, might stacks, invisibility, etc.
- S/P because Infiltrator’s Strike/Shadow Return is amazing (good cond. removal, stun breaker, immobilize, and a good start to the following Pistol Whip). Pistol Whip is fantastic- it dishes out tons of damage in just a little time, as well as a nice stun at the beginning of the animation, and Headshot is a great interrupt tool
- SB because it gives this build a little more backbone with AoE attacks, a neat combo field, etc. (can also be swapped for P/P, which is a neat little weapon set to have on you)
- I have the acrobatics/ trickery trait as 15/15 for 1) mobility 2) might stacks and 3) extra initiative for the relatively costly sets of attacks that I will use with my S/P

There’s the extremely shortened version of the explanation for my build. Now, for my question:

I’ve been swapping builds insanely quickly as of late on my thief- I can never seem to find one that I find to be all that good for my style of play. I started with a 0/30/20/0/20 build a little bit ago, with traits tailored to allow for real versatility in the utility skills that I used, but I found that this versatility came at the cost of me being unable to specialize in any particular area, so, for example, I’d get crushed because I wasn’t doing enough DPS to opponents.

Then I tried a no-share venom build (30/0/20/0/20), and while it was quite survivable and respectable a build, I felt like it did next to no damage, so I dumped that one as well.

Skipping around a bit- a few builds later, I got to the one I posted above.

So, if you guys could give me suggestions as to equipment I could use to make this build better, or trait changes I could make, I would be extremely grateful, because I’m going insane from swapping builds every fifteen minutes.

I use a 10-30-30-0-0 build, but I won’t suggest you that. Instead, I’ll try to make better your actual build. This is what I suggest you:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYQQNAsaVlcmaOHfS6E95Ex2DfKUeypooGtTxV1KA

As you can see, I removed 15 points from Trickery. This way you can choose either to put them in critical strikes (to deal more damage) or in shadow arts (to gain regen while in stealth). Depending on what you choose before, you should replace signet of agility with shadowstep or shadow refuge. Also, I put 5 points in acrobatics in order to get assassin’s reward. In my personal build (10-30-30-0-0) I chose both dps and stealth regen. You may want to try this too.

try a 0/30/0/20/20 build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYQQNAsaVlcmaOHcy9E+5Ex2DfKUe6pgsjtTxV1KA

Thanks guys, this is great.