Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the comments.

Malicious, I’ll try the vigor stacking and Withdrawal, didn’t realize it was only a 15s CD. Blind on stealth has been pretty good for stomping downed players though.

Ravnodaus, Shadow Protector grants me regen as well? Tooltip says when I stealth an ally, they gain regen.

You’re right the build isn’t too ini intensive, but with more ini I could throw in some Body Shots for good measure so I’ll try that as well.

Thanks guys.

Hm true for WvW, sPvP doesn’t have map layouts that keep ranged dps far enough from me for the most part. Steal, cripple, shadowstep, infiltrator’s arrow, swiftness on dodge keeps me near them.

For condition removal, Hide in Shadows and Shadowstep handle that, sometimes I take the trait to remove conditions while stealthed.

I don’t often have survival issues, and I can outlast 1v3 around a cap point until reinforcements get there, staying stealthed and casting caltrops when it’s up. Granted I may not kill them in those cases, since I can’t attack from stealth while doing that but I keep them from capping.

I just wish thieves had more abilities that bleed…

Hi,

New to the GW world, and was interested in playing a condition thief, but I don’t like having venoms in my utility slots (I find it hard to go without Shadowstep and Shadow Refuge) so I decided to try a bleed build instead.

Here’s the build

0/0/30/20/20
Shadow Arts: Slowed Pulse, Cloaked in Shadow, Shadow’s Rejuvenation
Acrobatics: Vigorous Recovery, Pain Response
Trickery: Uncatchable, Thrill of the Crime

I run Carrion amulet with Shaman jewel. I end up with about 18k hp, 2400 armor, 1150 condition dmg, +65% bleed duration, and regen on stealth.

Been playing with this build for the past couple of days, I like it but still looking to make some tweaks. I’d like to incorporate Scorpion Wire to pull enemies into my caltrops, or replace the shortbow with D/D for LDB… something to speed up killing a tad.

I can survive most fights, when in doubt, CnD and let stealth run out to CnD again and again to get a little hp back and/or wait for heal/shadow refuge CD to be up.

I like roaming, backcapping, and keeping enemies busy while waiting for reinforcements.

Any thoughts on the build? Thanks in advance.