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Full zerker gear, S/D, D/P, 0-30-0-30-10
Basically, the thought is capitalizing on the evasion and blinding capabilities of the thief class while ditching stealth almost entirely.
Withdraw is a great heal on 15 sec cd with a built-in evade. We combine this with Acrobatics (III) which grants us vigor on heal to have a spammy source of vigor and evades. To capitalize on our defense, we also grab Assassins Reward, which heals us every time, we burn some initiative.
By maxing out the acrobatics traitline, we also get access to 3 initiative on weapon swap and +10% damage, when endurance is not full, which gives us the edge in prolonged battles.
On the damage side, we got +7% crit chance and +5% damage, when flanking, +20% damage against foes below 50% and some minor traits from the critical hits trait line.
What I am unsure now is, what runes to get.
As we are not built for a one hit combo out of stealth and we certainly will fall below 90% health, the runes of the scholar, I am currently using, just don’t cut it.
Runes of the eagle are pretty lackluster, considering, we get +20% damage against low hp targets anyway and we’d do better, increasing our damage base, so these 20% are as big as possible.
Of course, I could always go with runes of divinity, but they are kinda meh… Like “didn’t know any better”…
An interesting idea would be completely ditching the idea of offensive runes and grabbing Runes of the Dolyak or Runes of Dwayna instead to further boost our survivability by boosting our health gain.
Also, I am unsure about sigils.
Currently, I run sigils of battle, but I found myself not switching weapons for quite long at times, mainly because thief got no cooldowns which press you into swapping. Maybe Sigils of Energy for an emergency dodge or Sigils of Nullification would do better here.
As I am still kind of unexperienced with thief as a whole, I’d like to hear the opinion of some experienced thieves about the issue.
