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I’ve had a lot of success with sword/pistol on my thief in PvE thus far. The teleport ability on the sword is great for specific target removal or getting through a chain of lower enemies to attack the veteran in a group. I think pistol is a much better off hand, however, because the 5s blindness from black powder gives the slower tempo of the sword a very necessary few seconds free from retaliation to use the 3 slot skill, which hits as an aoe for the highest concentrated straight damage the thief can put out. Daggers with multiple stacks of bleeding can put out more damage over time, as potentially could the poison from the shortbow, but if you’re on your own in the wilderness thief armor doesn’t often let you survive the time necessary without a lot of dodging and expenditure of endurance. Sword/pistol removes that necessity entirely. I find it very effective to stack poison on top of the high damage output as well.