Guild Wars 2

Hiya, thanks for taking the time to give me feedback.

I recently got the game – going on two weeks now – and I have had my thief to 80 for well over a week now, but I still am unsure on a few things.

Now, to start off, I want to say my playstyle is more glass cannon – I don’t really mind much for survivability, since chances are if I have 12k health verse 15k health(As example) and get hammered by something, either I am going to live.. or die.

Anyway, all that aside – currently I have myself 4/6 for my armor exotics, which I currently have afflicted on it. I’m unsure if this is the best choice or not, so I am looking for feedback on this. Also, for glass-cannon method, I could be doing condition damage/power/precision, correct?

I just made new exotic daggers today, even if they have vit(Giving daggers, if you’re curious). But, I slapped a corruption(I think the name is) into one, and a earth(For the bleed on crit) in the other. My offhand are double pistols, one with bloodlust, the other.. I forget. I think a lower tiered earth. Anyway – I am curious what runes I should slap into weapons! I assume one set with bloodlust the other corruption, to stack 25 on both power and condition damage.

And the final thing I am unsure on, is traits to choose for pve. Now, some are no brainers. Taking dagger damage up when using pistols is useless, and pistol damage up with daggers on is useless, ext.

For daggers.. I mainly use…

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/thief#0|0|0|0|0|0|0|30|2355|1704|1715|30|1195|1727|1728|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|10|786|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Alterations I do depend on situations. Mainly, If I change out, I swap out Thrill of the Crime for Flanking strikes, and Furious Retaliation for Side Step(If I can stay behind/to the sides of the mob for periods of time.

For pistols, its fairly similar…

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/thief#0|0|0|0|0|0|0|30|2355|1143|1715|30|1719|1727|1728|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|10|786|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Again, I swap out a few moves on this, but far less. Only thrill of the crime for something else, where stealing is far to dangerous.

Anyway, long post aside – any input on all of this would be helpful. Mainly the sigils/runes, but maybe traits, too.

This is a general question I had recently!

I play a thief with 30 points into the one tree, which gives me 30% base condition duration up. Ontop of that, I have +15% bleedpoison duration up from my armor.

Tonight, I made two “Giving” daggers, which are each +10% duration up. Does anyone know if these stack in with the rest of it all?

Also, I was curious if anyone could tell me what the 6 sigil bonus for “Afflicted” set does. It says "(6): Create a death nova when you go down. ". I assume that means when I’m downed, some sort of aoe triggers. But, what is it? Does it do fairly good damage? Does it justify the 6th bonus? (I was considering getting 2 set bonus on another one for another +10% condition duration.)

Ok, to start off I want to say I am not complaining about the game in any way, or am kitten. I’m enjoying the game, and this is only a minor issue to me.

I just bought the game 4 or 5 days ago, and then there is the reduced cost thing for the holidays. Is there a way to get credit for that and “Upgrade” so to speak without having to pay? Not to be greedy or whiny, I do feel a tad bit jipped since if I had waited 4-5 days, I would’ve gotten MORE for less. :c