Guild Wars 2

I’m considering finally breaking down and getting a full Zerker set on my S/D thief and I was wondering, if the gear would still give me a decent dps if I went 0/0/30/20/20?

I normally run Knights 0/20/30/20/0. My rune choice is also up in the air if you have any suggestions.

Thanks.

Depends on what you consider “decent”.

If you can survive being (almost) full Berserker, then you should just go with that, and maximize its potential with 30 in CS. If you primarily rely on stealth and/or dodging to survive, or even trying to tank damage w/ toughness, then that alone significantly reduces your effectiveness (IMO).

I’m Valkyrie armor with the rest Berserker, and when Ascended armor becomes available, I’ll probably still craft Valkryie. At-a-glimpse, it looks like I’ll only lack Precision, but with consumables/fury/etc. I still maintain 80%+, so yeah.

My suggestion would be to break loose from the 30 points in shadow arts.
Shadow’s Rejuvenation and 2 might on stealth is only good if you spend a lot of time in stealth, and if you spend a lot of time in stealth you’d need greater burst or condition damage.

And place 10 more points in trickery for 1% dmg per initiative and cooldown reduction and daze on steal, and while at it 10 points in deadly arts for mug since it gives pretty much same heal as what shadow rejuvenation would over those 20 seconds.

This one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlHuP3eNfmU

It’s an incredibly fun build and survivability on troll levels, your damage will be much lower than the damage of 30 CS, but I surely found it viable for outplaying and killing other players. And what you can’t kill, some of those warrior roamers mostly, you easily escape from.

I actually don’t have 30 in SA for Shadow Rejuvination. I have it for Shadowed Protector, Shadow Embrace and Cloaked in Shadow. Shadow Rejuv didn’t fit my rotation so the lingering Shadow Protector was much more enticing. (A lot of short stealths vs a long stealth.)