Guild Wars 2

whats a good alt weapon for this? I used pistol dagger back in november-jan and never went back to it until now. Rabid or Carrion? Traits? I searched the boards but I dont see much in P/D except for old builds that im not sure are still viable. also, this is for pve and wvw

Between Rabid and Carrion, always go for Carrion (mathematically Carrion curbstomps Rabid potential, specially on a Thief that doesn’t ven have the condition on crit potential a Necro would have, and even then the Necro is better mixing Carrion with Rampager and Rabid).

There are multiple builds where you can use P/D effectively. Most of them use 30 SA either for WvW roaming and all the benefits while stealthed, or for Venom Sharing builds.

As for good alternate weapon, Shortbow is always great to have, it gives a lot of team support, fast transport and is perfect for target tagging in events and WvW for more rewards and spamming 2 and throwing 4 benefits from your investment on conditions.

awesome thanks. what runes and sigils????

Azure.8670:

awesome thanks. what runes and sigils????

For WvW I wou;dnt go with the typical dirt cheap undead runes since we have lower toughness due to carrion over rabid. I’d go with either the new perplexity runes or tormenting runes from the new queen event. They’re a bit pricey now but they should drop, and you can craft them yourself. The tormenting runes give us more torment and enhance the torment duration on P/D 3. Perplexity runes would give us access to confusion, which although nerfed for WvW still increases our chance to pressure the enemy. For spvp Id go krait/afflicted for bleed duration.

For sigils, theres a lot of personal preference, but Id say either geomancy sigils, battle sigils, or condition duration sigils (malice, agony etc.)

Here’s my P/D gear: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYQQNAqYVlUmiu3cS6E+5EB3Dnm0m694rj1saFwJA-jEyA4MioRaBI9RRjQAkCLiGrmBTlSEV75LiWtUAQsGA-w

I like Perplexity Runes since I daze on steal and run Technobabble (Scorpion Wire might work, but it’s been a while since I’ve used it). I also tend to mix rabid in with my carrion. Power > precision for condition Thieves, but I like toughness better than vitality, too. I found a mix that works for me.

I use 3*Afflicted Runes, 3*Krait and 2 sigils of agony, which gives 50% extra bleed duration (and I have another +25% from deadly arts) and still give a good amount of condition damage thanks to each rune giving its tier3 bonus (as opposed to using 2 afflicted, krait and centaur). If you try to aument condition duration, remember to always go for full seconds, as 4.5 seconds of bleed will do the same than 4 (it will last 0.5 more seconds, but won’t tick a fith time).