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Zerker to Marauder?

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what if instead of going through the trouble of swapping bezerker armor to marauder, (assuming you’re in ascended), could use stay with zerker armor and weapons and run runes of dolyak? and if you’re still having trouble maybe soldier or knight amulets and what not.

PVE P/P CnD now viable?

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Condition* sorry I thought that was the acronym for it lol.
Noob here
So with poison utilities and condition damage equipment with p/p wouldn’t be as viable as say bezerker s/p d/d?

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PVE P/P CnD now viable?

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Hey guys I’m thinking about changing my ascended set from bezerker with dd/dp to (carrion?) Condition P/P. Is Condition more viable now in pve? I just wanna try something different but still be able to dish out the amount of damage necessary in fractals/raids/open world. What do you guys think?

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Be zerker P/P post buff

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What do you guys think about p/p bezerker for fractals/living world now that the pistols were buffed? I tried it last night and I personally loved it. I could easily survive, but I just spammed unload and blinded when needed. At one point I was hitting 25-30k back to back on a champion with unload. I’m not really sure how to stack unload, is it just the more you use it on a target the higher it hits? Also I was told that p/p is more for cnd. Is the damage for zerker p/p up to par with other ranged classes now?

Fractals as a thief

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Hey guys I just started doing fractals recently on my thief, and I have a couple questions
I find myself constantly getting 1 shot and honestly, it’s really annoying. I running with full zerker armor (2 ascended/4 exotic) I have +5 agony but I find myself getting crushed even in 1-9 fractals. Is zerker optimal for fractals? And what weapon sets should I be using? Right now I’m using d/p and shortbow. I’ve seen posts of people saying to use p/p, but does the ranged dps of shortbow or p/p on thief even get remotely close to what a ranger does? If not, then I really just feel like a handicap. My utility’s are signet of malice, shadow refuge, smoke screen, signet of agility, and dagger storm.

Craft ascended or wait for HoT?

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Hey guys. Just hit 80 this weekend on my thief. I’ve read a lot on " is ascended worth it". But I would like to get an updated response on this. My initial plans were to craft a few ascended pieces of zerker, to make grinding my pvp gear easier. And I’ve already crafted my pants. So my question is, is the stat difference still only 5% better than exotic? I was told it was buffed to a higher stat increase then 5%. And if the new HoT gear comes out, will exotic gear be enough to efficiently run the dungeons for it?

New thief with some questions

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Ah okay. So I should have the invisible rev/faster rev in my build?

No need, you just place a shadow refuge. That way you and the downed guy are stealthed long enough for a rev.

Normally in PvE you take deadly arts, critical strikes and trickery. Maybe shadow arts if you have to stealth your group for a extended time. And unless you find the niche where Acrobatics is actually good and viable just forget that traitline exists.

Ah okay cool. Yeah I’m 99% sure I’m rolling with those things right now.
I buffed up the f1 skill to give the 3 buffs for 10 seconds, heal me, remove a condition, and lowered its cool down to 20. I also grabbed the trait that reduces cd on tricks so I use haste, shadow refuge, the precision buff, and for the elite I use dagger storm.
Excuse my lack of knowing the actual skills names haha. I’m at work atm.

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New thief with some questions

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1) D/D or anything that pleases you.
2) Berserker. Most damaging stats for us Thieves.
3) everybody is wanted in dungeons, this isn’t WoW. Yes, thieves are needed to stealthly pass a few unwanted groups or do emergency ressing in the midle of fights, which is extremely important.

Ah okay. So I should have the invisible rev/faster rev in my build?

New thief with some questions

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Alright so I’m a l72 thief right now, and I play to be 80 by atleast Sunday.
But I have a couple of questions.

1) What are the most viable weapons for pve/dungeons? Leveling up I went through d/d, s/d, p/p, and I am now on d/p (which I’m liking the most). But my issue is that I don’t want to spend time/gold/whatever on a weapon that honestly isn’t the best I could be using. I’m focusing on precision and power. I know everyone says that it’s personal preference. I get that. But I just don’t want to waste time on getting a certain weapon, when I know there is a better option.
Also if you could throw In a rotation that’d be great. Right now I’m doing d/p, I do
F1 #5, #2 for stealth, #1 for backstab then I let it go through a rotation on #1 and repeat unless the mob is around 25% hp (if it is I spam #2 until it’s dead)

2) For dungeons, what stats should I be selecting? I’ve been choosing bezerker for the power and precision. Good choice?

Lastly, 3). Are theives ideal in pve? I mean honestly, I’ve read that we do the most single target dps, but are thieves really wanted for dungeons? I’ve watch a couple different videos and it really just seems like people like to have thieves to make everyone invisible to pass trash mobs.

if I could get some constructive feedback on this that’d be greatly appreciated.

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