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I run P/P mostly because I like to be different than every other person playing said class, and I pretty much only WvW.
Now burst damage? Even when I traited full crit damage/power, Unload was fun but wasn’t very effective in any fight lasting over 10 seconds.
I have since switched to full condi build with perplexity runes, now this is fun. Interrupt people with #4, toss in #2 for debuff and slow, rinse and repeat. The dots stack up quick even when they cure them and the confusion is fun for watching heavy damage classes blow themselves up.
I trait for stealth condi removal/speed, steal range and stealth. On my pistols I use a +condi on kill and a AoE torment sigil (may try a condi duration on one and swith the +condi on kill to another weapon just for stacks).
It’s a great setup for killing people trying to run away, or to be able to wreak some havoc in a group of people and still get out alive and leave a few downed or close to it for your buddies to finish off.
I use Shadow Refuge, Blinding Powder, Dagger Storm and the backwards dodge roll heal, the other skill is usually run speed or harpoon to gank people off keeps.
It’s not pretty but it works and must be annoying as hell to people I fight as I don’t die very often vs how many people I kill, definatly NOT a burst build, for that I like Sword/Pistol or spam shortbow #2 in a crowd of people and watch the bleeds stack like crazy.
As a full time P/P thief, I have always scoffed at the flavor of the month builds, sure I have tried it, but I realize with my play style I can win a lot easier and help out my team with my build. It is condition based (of course) and heavy on Toughness. I may not have burst damage but I can stay away from my targets and bleed them hard, with traited Steal I can get to them when they run and it’s always nice to have when you need to escape, stealth on steal.
I love when I get jumped by a HS thief, just Withdraw for a quick heal and pew pew away with my dots while they try to catch back up with me, usually by the time they stealth again they are bleeding out and it’s just a waiting game for stealth to break.
Or make the portal itself targetable so opposing players can destroy it if its seen. Gives both sides a chance that way.
Just do what they did to some of our Thief skills (dropped DPS on them ONLY in PvP) and make it NOT work in PvP or limit it to the caster ONLY, we know its doable because they changed our damage output in PvP only and in PvE it works normal.
And here I felt bad that my wife drug me out of the house after a long day of work to see Twlight, when I could have been punching my monitor all night long for nothing!!!