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Taimi is a great character !
The only thing i can criticate is that her looking is a bit too “human”
About her jokes :
You should notice she mostly is joking while she’s under pressure .. that’s her way to remove stress. Sadly she’s got huge responsabilities and still is a student thats why i think she’s always joking since the first Episode of LW S3
You can notice her young age when she lose control of events around her.. she’s crying.. she’s fleeing..
For all of this. She’s an awesome character
I hope she’ll graduate soon ! She deserves this
Some friends decided to try tribulation mode just for the boomboxes.
Really great songs ! Thanks Dusk
I would have wished “Lost Sessions” have been implemented with a Mystic forge recipe…
Hey !
I m coming here to share a build i created. Its really powerful in roaming and small group. You can use it in a FP too if enemy Zerg is not too huge. You’ll be even hard to down enough to hide in the frontline.
I think this build is a counter to any offensive build in WvW and a good alternative to D/P
Advantages :
Really impressive condition Burst
Frontline armor
Very good survival.
Drawbacks :
Short range
Hard to deal with heavy Resistance or condition clear builds.
Weapons are Dagger/Dagger. You’ll use often timed Death blossom and dancing dagger for more cripple.
Short bow for mobility.
For the utility skills you’ll need Withdraw, Shadowstep, Roll for initiative.
The last utility skill can be picked within these ::
- Impairing Daggers For a strong and hard to clean initial condition burst.
- Spider Venom For a more sustain poison condition.
- Infiltrator’s signet For another gap closer.
- Bandit’s defense For more survival.
Now Elite skill. It’s hard to not pick Basilisk venom to be sure your initial burst will not be blocked
However if i had to pick another i suggest Impact Strike for an easier finish on downed target.
About the build, theres really few tweaks available. In the DD tree you can pick Havoc Mastery if you dont have physical utility skills.
You can pick Bountyful Theft instead of Trickster but you’ll trade good survival for just a little more dodge and boon stealing.
In Deadly Arts you must pick Mug if you’re using Basilisk Venom, if not you can pick Dagger Training for a little more poison.
Common burst sequence is :
Basilisk Venom > Steal > Impairing Daggers > dodge roll > Death blossom x2
If your target has no condition cleaning or is slow to react, it may die in few sec. More over with this initial burst you apply so many differents conditions that’s hard to clean the damaging ones.
More Tricks :
- Play with a condition necromancer/reaper Epidemic on your main target may surprise some people.
- In a Focus Party Your burst may be able to force condition cleaning.
P.S. Forgive my english i m not native
Feel free to comment or give suggestions. I’m still improving the build !
Hi,
Playing DD Staff/shortbow in PvE. (and viper condi too… but staff mobility was so fun and missed me..)
Armor : Marauder
Weapons : Marauder
Rings : valkyrie + zerker
Amulet : valkyrie + zerker
Back : Zerker
Earrings : Zerker
Runes : Wurm (I have to test Rage ones)
For even more survivability in PvE pick Signet of Malice, Invigorating Precision and Unhindered Combatant and enjoy all these little green numbers on your screen.
Also, did you try the Trailblazer armor stats? (expertise is a waste)
I did not looked at the Trailblazer armor because it’s more a Condi-Tank gear and PvE thief is not fit to be a condi tank.. but you can make a good power one.
To improve the survivability of my build i have just to switch some trinket for Dire + Rabid ones.
Expertise is not a waste its condition duration ! Viper and Sinister are both the best PvE stats for a condition build.
Hey,
How would you compare sinister to vipers dmg? I thought Viper could be an improvement ( especially because we dont have muc condi durration in our utilities) have you trested other runes too? Do you use that build in Fractlas/ plan to use it in raids? How do you think it compares to condi engi?
Thanks:)
Viper is a slight improvement to Sinister. I ve just compared weapons however. I can share the stats if you want but as you said thieves dont have much condition duration in our builds so its even hard to have 100% poison duration unlike warriors with fire for example.
(atm a full viper armor + weapons gives 21,6% duration.. with a signet of malice (10%) , Potent poison (33%) and right consumables (30%) you’ve got 94,6% duration on poison and 61,6% on bleeding)
I’ve not tested other runes but if i wanted more condition damage i would have picked Krait runes. The idea behind the Adventurer runes is to have more synergy with the Daredevil specialization.
About fractal and raid.. the answer is Yes. Why ? Because its the purpose of a Venom Share build ! The more people you’ve got around you the more damage you’ll do. (5×6 poison stacks for 1681 poison damage each.. )
Moreover breaking a defiant bar with basilik venom dont need to coordinate .. just gather each-others and hit the skill .. you’re done.
If you were wondering why a thief could be picked into a raid the answer is here .. condition burst and easy way to break a defiant bar.
Finaly it’s my opinion and the way i think Anet is trying to go for the condi thief role in raids… but i may be wrong
Edit: oops forgot to answer about the condi engi.. but sorry i have no idea as i dont have an engineer character :s
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Im running 30 earth with stoneheart atm and berserkers amulet..and im actually tanking kitten .
Yeah i’m so happy being no longer a thief’s snack X)
I’m working on a build using Stoneheart and conjured weapons to keep the pressure while being in earth stance……and it seems quite good
Hi there !
Sorry for my bad english, i’m not native.
I m testing a new build thanks to the patch and i wanted to have some advices.
It’s a WvW build
I was trying to think about a way to optimise the new earth trait : Stone Heart
Every elementalist know that earth skills are underpowered except for rare condition builds but…. you can still benefit from this trait while wearing your conjured weapons.
With this build you can benefit from the burst of D/D weapons, switch to earth when things are going hard or when you know your opponent will be a crit fanboy and draw your conjured weapons to melt his face
I’m still tweaking the build and stats, wondering if 2 conjured weapons is enough..
I’m wondering too wich one to take , Hammer for blind, explosions and stun field or Axe for its high mobility and fire field.