I use the D/P, and things never seem to go well for me. Every time I encounter an enemy, it’s always the same thing. Go in, activate Black Powder, try to stab enemy and realize they have 3000 toughness and 2000 power, get hurt badly by enemy, and then get ganked by 3 other players out of nowhere.
If you want to deal high damage while still have some defensive stats, try knight gear. It has power+precision+toughness, but it will dumb down your crit damage.
The problem with that is then I will not have enough Vitality to survive conditions from Shortbow Rangers and Necromancers.
Hey guys, recently I have been having trouble dishing out enough damage to kill some players and have been getting killed by everyone too. The picture attached shows the Stats of my Thief and below are my Traits:
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Deadly Arts 0
Critical Strikes 30
Furious Retaliation – Signets of Power – Executioner
Shadow Arts 20
Cloaked in Shadow – Hidden Thief
Acrobatics 20
Fleet Shadow – Assassin’s Reward
Trickery 0
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I commonly use a D/P + P/P combo, and I’d really appreciate some advice on what I should do with my stats.
Please don’t say for me to get full Berserker’s gear, that is exactly what I am trying to stay away from. I am trying to actually survive with my Thief while still putting out damage.
EDIT: Edited the Traits, they were not correct.
I went in a group with my Thief earlier in the day (about 7 players) and we managed to storm through about 3 different camper areas by Sea of Sorrows in our matchup as Isle of Janithir, Sanctum of Rall, and Sea of Sorrows. The run was fairly easy, we probably managed to only succeed because we had good players.
The next time I went in by myself on my Engineer. Sea of Sorrows spawn camped every entrance into the jumping puzzle area blocking us and Sanctum of Rall from entering. About nearly up the fighting pit, a Thief pulled me all the way down, shadow stepped, then used the notable burst backstab build against me. After waiting a few moments, I was t-bagged, slept on, and my grave was danced on.
My real question is, is the Eternal Battlegrounds Jumping Puzzle meant to be done with a huge group of players in order to survive kittens camping?
I was busy completing The Hatchery objective to go and round up the surviving Skritt and their main leader Tchchick after he realized his friend had just died. The objectives said finding all the Skritt had been completed without having another step to continue on in order to finish the mission. Attached is a picture of what was going on. Also, a bunch of Oozes would keep on spawning which I thought may or may not have been intended.
This has actually happened to me once; with the two Thieves both using Dagger Storm at the same time, their daggers would be continuously reflected back and forth from each other unless there are allies near them which could be hit by these daggers to cancel them out. Keep in mind that the flying daggers of Dagger Storm can not bounce forever, only about 2-3 times. By the time the Dagger Storm was over for one Thief, then the daggers would finally do damage against him and the fight would continue normally.
I use Dagger/Pistol quite a bit and it is awesome for 1v1 battles, but more than one enemy against you can get a little tricky to pull off. I go with:
Deadly Arts: 0
Critical Strikes: 30 Furious Retaliation, Practiced Tolerance, Executioner
Shadow Arts: 20 Cloaked In Shadow, Hidden Thief
Acrobatics: 20 Fleet Shadow, Assassin’s Reward
Trickery 0:
Utilities: Withdraw, Signet of Shadows, Roll for Initiative, Caltrops
I prefer to use it in any battle by first using Steal to jump right in, and get an immediate Backstab. Then I throw up a Black Powder to keep my enemy from missing me and put up a Caltrops to stack bleeding and keep them from getting away. If things go well, I use a Heartseeker to go straight through the Black Powder to grant me more Stealth, which will allow me to get a 2nd backstab. If things dont go as I hoped, I get out as fast as possible by using Withdrawl and Roll for Initiative. I like to use D/P and P/P with this build with D/P when I’m alone and P/P for when a ton of random stuff is going on. I prefer to keep my stats around:
Power: 1500-1600
Precision: 1450-1550
Toughness: 1300-1400
Vitality: 1300-1400
Keep in mind this is level 80 stats.
Hope I could help you :)
I would say that Steal at first isn’t one of the most useful skills since there are usually environmental weapons around to pick up, but it becomes very useful once you add the Trait which allows you to deal damage and even apply poison while Stealing from an enemy.
