Run 0/0/30/25/15 with Zerk or Valkyrie armor and Zerk trinkets. Take the get 2 initiative on steath, clear conditions, and one of the 2 health regens in shadow arts.
Run the "signet of get an extra initiative point every 10 seconds " And whatever else you want. I take shadow refuge and blinding powder to be really cheap.
Use number 5 and number 2 to stealth, try not to use anything else, auto attack and backstab them to death. Easy kills on pretty much anything that isn’t bunker.
Bonus points make a /laugh @ macro.
EDIT: take withdraw for healing. much better cooldown and works pretty much instantly.
The only change they need to make on downed IMO is to make a suicide option. Groups of people love to F with thief’s after downing them. Especially if you just got done picking of a few of their buddies off.
But I think I have a great idea for a class specific skill. Taking over enemy siege. Would take a while and be interruptible, so it would need to be abandoned siege. I think of this everytime we catch some dude with a golem all by himself and all we can do is destroy it after the dude gets out and runs.
condition for 1vs1 trolling with p/d,
power for everything else
To further expand on this, if you go condition you are pretty much limiting yourself to a p/d weapon set. Which is a good setup, but that’s it. I guess people run d/d with it also, but it sucks IMO.
You can make Zerk, PVT or Valkeries work with D/D, S/D.. D/P Maybe not ideal for everyone, but you can make them work.
0/15/30/25/0
Zerk armor, beryl orbs
zerk accessories (cavalier backpiece)
CS:+7% crit chance from the side (III)
SA: Remove a condition every 3 seconds (IV), Gain 2 ini on stealth(V), gain health in stealth (XI)
Acro: Vigorous Recovery (III), 2 ini every 10 seconds (IX)
Does anyone have a link to the thief nerfs? All I see is, “they are goona nerf”, “I saw in this video they talked about nerfs.”
I know they are going to fix Culling, but tbh I am quite happy about that. I can’t count the number of times I attacked 1 or 3 people that turned out to be 50.
Anyone see any good D/P videos? I would say I’m pretty good at it, but far from great, and would love some more tips.
The videos I see out on youtube seem to feature thiefs killing people who are 1/2 dead or have blown all of their cooldowns. I know how to kill those people.
Like I imagine most people, my big problem is balancing survivability with burst damage. I often run 0/0/30/30/15. I can do a 3 on 1 if they aren’t good. It’s a good setup but no way I can kill a good D/D Ele or a guardian. I just can’t burst worth a crap.
I went to 10/0/30/30/5 (Something like that I’m at work now so I’m not sure) for mug. It’s better but not great.
I’m running a PTV chest and the rest Zerk. Shortbow backup. I’m thinking I need to run a sword/dagger backup, PTV more of my gear and spec higher in the fist 2 lines.
Guess if i got my head chopped off I would be too.
I LOL’ed.
Signs of a good software company with mature software engineering processes —> prioritizing fixes for existing content first before releasing new content or changed content, the rationale being that if you do it in reverse, you will keep releasing new content which will always contain bugs, and which will be a nightmare to do NNIT (no negative impact testing) with, and it will be a vicious cycle of new content = more bugs to fix, and the people on the bug fixing team will never see the end of it.
Speaking to devs and to ANet development team in general, please consult best practices as per ITIL, and apply modern project management and software engineering principles PLEASE.
I’m providing you the wikipedia link below. You’re welcome.
Sweet good to see you have a job at the one company in the world that allows devs to decide on the priority of things. You know cause that makes total business sense.
I often tell my internal customers, no you can’t have this new feature because we have to fix these bugs that you have decided are lower priority. Oh wait I do not do any of that because I’m not an arrogant 30 something who read a few books and now thinks he knows better than all the dumb kitten people who pay his salary.
I think I’ve done all of them 4 man after getting DC’s Hell I bet 3 man is hard but possible for many. But ya there needs to be a way to get more people in.
So from that it looks like we get 5 “Fractal Relics” every time we do a fractal, regardless of difficulty. If those things are the goal, why would we ever do anything other that level 1?
“To make Fractals of the Mist even more challenging, every time you re-visit the hub, the dungeon scales up in difficulty. That’s right, a scaling dungeon! The dungeon will remember your progress, and will poll the party’s levels when you enter, scaling the dungeon to the highest common attained level. It’s a true challenge, but as you hit higher and higher scales, the dungeon will get more and more rewarding. You’ll have to have some serious skills and solid tactics to make it through these Fractals. "
This seems like it’s creating a level system for a dungeon. How do I know the other player’s dungeon level? I do not what to group with people that are way higher because I do not want to get wiped all the time. Same thing for people who are lower. The nice thing about dungeons now is PUG’s mostly work.
So I’ve noticed more than a few players disapering after I downed them. With one guy it happned 4 times in a row. He was a warrior so i know he didnt teleport or anything. Whats up with this? Is there i was to report them?
