Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

I’m trying to make a pvp condi d/p build focusing on Pressure Striking from the trickery line. It relies mostly on head shots and interrupts that proc pressure striking to apply torment.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoaVn0MBFOhFmCmOB8PhlWCbeE2CfhelhI1cQLAcAWAA-TZRHABD8AAAvMAAHBggPFA6u/AA

I’m a complete noob on rune and sigils choice, so if you could help me with that and the build in general.

I don’t know if it would be better to go for sinister or viper, I feel like sinister has more sinergy with the sigils, but power is quite dropped down. What do you guys think ?

EDIT: As great as pulmonary impact is it’s better to go for Escapist’s Absolution, because no condi clear is suicide :p

A condi d/p build without PI would deal less damage and deal it more slowly than a power d/p build with PI.

First of all, drop the torment runes and go with berserker runes. Swap out the torment sigils as well. Thieves are not good with torment, don’t try to force it. Play to your strengths.

Put the hydro-sigil into SB, and take blood as your 2nd sigil there. Reason for this is that if you swap to SB while in combat, you are likely trying to disengage, and those sigils will help you with that. Personally, I have leeching and ice sigils on SB, but I think it’ll work the other way around as well.

For the DP, there are more options. Force, accuracy or bursting are good for 1 slot, I would go with force. Accuracy and bursting feel a bit redundant, but hey, whatever works..;) For the other one, I would go with an on crit sigil like ice or air. Air will add to your dps, but the chill from ice will make it harder for your target to escape, maybe even good for forcing a dodge.

And lastly, I would go with PI. EA is a bit more forgiving of mistakes but if you get condibombed in the first place, you are likely doing something wrong anyway. Maybe use EA until you get off the training-wheels, and swap to PI when you are more confident with your thief?

Yannir.4132:

Thieves are not good with torment, don’t try to force it. Play to your strengths.

I’m ok with the sigil and rune, but I disagree on the torment, on average I manage to get 6 stacks of torment and the most I applied was 11 stacks.

Yannir.4132:

And lastly, I would go with PI. EA is a bit more forgiving of mistakes but if you get condibombed in the first place, you are likely doing something wrong anyway. Maybe use EA until you get off the training-wheels, and swap to PI when you are more confident with your thief?

I will work on that one