Guild Wars 2

purgatoryz.6038:

Great video. I see you went full dire except for the jewels on the trinkets. If you wanted to apply more pressure you could mix in some carrion and make those sneak attacks hit a bit harder.

Also, with people cleansing so often I wonder if it might be better to go with undead or nightmare runes so the stacks hit harder before they are cleansed?

I’m running with 2x might per dodge (dodgeroll food) and +1 might per stealthing.. so usually in a fight where enemies aren’t constantly running away or me being bothered by skill lag I run with 15 stacks of might, it makes up for lacking that bit of power really.. at full potential my power is at 2K and my condi damage at 2.5.

@ All above, please just shut up if you’re D/P, you have no voice at all. You’re probably all running Yishis build whos running a variation of my old D/P build (I love Yishis but fanboys need to hush really) D/P is easy and stop qqing about how people can’t counter stealth on it, stealth is obviously broken and the blinds even more.

I’ll get back on some other posts later.. gotta work.

Too bad this comment comes a little late, wouldve raised the entertainment value of my video a tad higher if I added that one in.

Have you even watched past the first minute, better yet, have you even watched the video at all? Are you kitten over the title perhaps? lol

I can play any thief build tbh, lately I’ve been prefering P/D which I don’t consider to be easy at all because most people run heavy condition removals and the damage output is LOW. Why do you think there’s a lack of people playing P/D? Because the setup in most cases is not viable, it is for me because I keep high pressure, cleansing or not.. I reapply my stacks within seconds anyways.

“One trick pony” and “singling out inviduals”, I suggest you look up some of my other videos on youtube. I’ve plenty of 1v5 situations where I come out prevailing as p/d.

Those actions lack in this video because this week.. obviously lag and queues are disallowing me to record footage.. and last week we fought Vizunah, which is nearly as bad as this week is lol.

I’m all for opinions really, I just have the feeling you didn’t watch the video.

Best I could produce with the insane skill lag we’ve been having lately, still has some great moments.. and also some troll moments hence the video name.

Your game of golf is in this video [RAGE] ^^ (8:10)

Topic name is just to draw your attention.

Watch Serious Gaming #1, best I could produce with 10s skill lag about 99% of the time. Still worth a watch, possibly one of my better videos entertainment-wise. ^^

Laela Blackbird,
Signing off!

hihey.1075:

If anyone is interested in some duels, let’s meet at 8PM UTC @ Miller’s Windmill.
I’ll try to be there, if queues allow me to enter the border ^^

I might come if the video I’m rendering is finally done.. and if lag is not too bad (which it probably will be tbh lol)..

kribre.9683:

Had some nice fights with CE tonight! Props for them not running huge numbers and running alone, and especially engaging if outmanned aswell.

Yeah, we usually run with 20~ but now it was even less because we had people stuck in a 2 hour queue… we had like 15 max I think.

Good fights.. except that one “fight” near Sunnyhill where we tailed you and our sleepy commander said “pull back” after chasing you up the hill.. we jumped down towards Vale and there VII sat waiting for us basically.. that was so terrible from our side lol. Other than that we did what we could with the numbers we pull, do kinda regret how badly we played near Sunnyhill tho. xD

Commander is forgiven tho, he rarely makes mistakes <3

^

WvW is unplayable. We queue for 1-2 hours (mid tier server) and jump into 10 seconds of massive unplayable skill lag. All you can do is run forward and die, to the point even a sentry nearly killed me.

WvW imo is very broken right now, I don’t know if doing the seasons/archievements (which in my opinion are awesome ideas) are executed at the right time. There should have been some sort of fix in place first. Maybe adding the archievements shouldn’t have taken place at the start of the first WvW season either. Now you have “unfair” and “biased” results because a large amount of the PvE community is playing WvW at this point.

Just my two cents here.. I hope WvW becomes playable again soon because it’s what I love the most in GW2.. consumes all my time playing GW2 and now I can basically not play the game I like to be playing.

Burnfall.9573:

Galandil.9641:

Burnfall.9573:

It is allowed since Guild Wars 2 release and Arena.net honors it.

To answer your second question, yes, only thief class can cheat but don’t call them cheater though, cause they will deny it to the end; yes! even to the end to your sudden deaths.

You’re the guy who stated in another thread that thieves can backstab for 12-27k. Why should we ever, even for a tiny amount of time equal to the decaying time of a bottom quark, take you seriously?

Because i speak Truth; infact i understated the numbers, it is 29k+ backstab.

A little bit of info; i always keep clost eyes on thief forum; in strengthining my ranger yet never works.

You muist’ve missed the thread in Thiefs’ forum 4 months ago—

“Your highest backstab ever?”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Your-highest-backstab-ever/page/2#post2129002

I will quote the thief with the highest backstab clocked at 29,537k

“This thread needs pix!

15-20 Might/Vul… no bloodlust
Attachments:

Highest backstab I’ve had on me was 12K (medium class, 1800 toughness)..I’m doubtful even with full bloodlust & 25 stacks of might you go above 20k lol -_-"

You can’t even maintain 20 stacks of might as d/d, not with dodgeroll food & traits.. 10 is do-able

Warrior at the other hand is able to kill shot you down instantly, I see no one complaining about that (altho it hasn’t happened to me in ages lol, did it get nerfed or something?). 95% of thieves in wvw are able to gank single (probably upscaled) targets or roam in a group.. because solo they cannot do anything. It still puzzles me how many people complain about thieves when you have a million counters to it. Thief is a horrible class, the only “good” and actually really overpowered thing about thieves is stealth. They lack everywhere else, it’s always a huge sacrifice you make.. that thief that backstabbed me for 12K probably had less HP than he backstabbed me for.. with 1200 toughness.

If its not a one hit kill for him it becomes dangerous.

Thieves mobility in terms of chasing down a target is pretty poor tbh, yes I can keep up with warriors/eles but not without using up my initiative/stunbreaker. Which leaves you a sitting duck if they make a turn for you.

Of course if you use INF signet & Shadowstep (which overcomes a great gap between you and a player, you have plenty of ini to charge the person as well.. but as said, if it’s someone with a stun/knockdown, you may be screwed) Out of combat mobility on thief is awesome tho. Overall I do think mobility is balanced enough. It depends on how you build your character. Except Warrior mobility is stupid, you see complaints about thieves all the time but everyday I see groups of 10 players chase down a warrior.. and if the warrior is any good, he even picks them out one by one. ;D

BlueDragon.7054:

Nop, perma stealth it’s not a glitch unless you reduce the leap distance with the camera trick.

I know it ´s not players fault that moving the camera reduce the leap distance, but it’s still a bug and may be some day ANET will fix it (probably not)

It’s not a bug.. what the hell are you on about? It’s a matter of controlling your Heartseekers, pretty much the same way you’d use any leap to improve your mobility (warriors doing their crazy leaps to sprint all over the place, eles using ride the lightning on no targets…)

What you are describing as a bug is about the only “skilled” part about D/P. The perma stealth you GAIN from it is the bug. Because at the start of the game there was said there wouldn’t be perma stealthing yet there is.. and it’s being “fixed” in such a bad way it affects other thieves who aren’t abusing stealth (anti stealth trap in almost all situations means you’re dead, the new ranger reveal trick… )

It’s a pitty it has to go like that though. Not just during reset.. you experience lags whenever a 50 man zerg clashes on the same map with another zerg. It’d be so much more enjoyable if it just ran smoothly. I know Anet is working on it etc, doesn’t make it less frustrating though.

Skill lag entire week vs Vizunah, almost felt like T1.

All I can say is.. and I’m sure I speak for the majority of all 3 servers: SCREW THIS SKILL LAG BIG TIME.

I know it’s reset and all but dying because you’re not being able to use any of your skills is NOT funny.

Big respect to Mos Millenium guild for the amazing smallscale action (not too fond of your perplexity runes tho :P).. and the Moa bit on my teammate as sort of lame too.

But other than that you showed great fairness standing down when it’s 1v2 or 1vX in general, it’s been great and fun fights.. thank you for showing Vizunah is not all about blobbing with 50+ and that they do have skilled roaming players, you were one of a kind this week.. or I just got unlucky.

Keep it up and good luck in Gold league!

vincecontix.1264:

Many times I have capped towers with multiply enemies inside sometimes with 10+ ppl its hilarious really

So have I.. but never with a guy 1 feet away from me and not noticing anything at all lol. But It’s Vizunah, I’ve always suspected them to be bots.

Monkeymonger.9235:

So this was the dreaded Vizunah?
I feel cheated. I was promised gigantic, stupid, squishy zergs! Where were the blobs of VSS that run around in circles without doing anything? Where were the hordes that were willing to get farmed by arrow carts? Meh.

Anyhow, thanks for all the fights we got. It’s a shame that we barely met any kodash outside of eb. We had some great fights against the (surprisingly) strong guilds from Vizunah and two very intense gvg’s. Good luck in gold league!

They were too busy capping Bloodlust stacks with 50. Which I thought was “small scale content” to begin with, LOL.

Well.. WLR was."

Not wasting any words, watch the clip.

Josh Davis.6015:

This is a tooltip error. It still works correctly at 3 second intervals.

Thank you for confirming this is a typo, was pretty hard to believe.. it would have a huge impact on thief.

Valvador.4291:

Sceinna.3561:

Shadow’s Embrace works as it did before.. actually “better” for D/Ps, for some reason I’m cleansing 2 conditions every 3s at several occasions..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T26gZDGWRK8

How are you heart-seeking such a small distance?

I’m crippled & doing a little camera trick there.. it’s not hard.

Shadow’s Embrace works as it did before.. actually “better” for D/Ps, for some reason I’m cleansing 2 conditions every 3s at several occasions..

Shadow Refuge works fine as well….. atleast in sPvP. It’s 1 condition every 3s.

With D/P perma stealthing it’s broken actually because everytime I leap, I remove a condition.. I can’t recall it being like that.

I just tested again in sPvP standing in middle of caltrops & perma stealthing, 2 conditions every 3s (dunno where that 2nd cure came from tbh :/)

I’ve been testing Shadow’s Embrace in sPvP a second ago.. it still seems to do exactly what it used to do. Maybe we’re misunderstanding the tooltip? It’s very unclear to me.. but it still removes a condition every 3s in stealth. Either they messed up the nerf or we’re misunderstanding the new tooltip.

Conditions are the only thing that actually killed me.. I dunno why Shadow’s Embrace got nerfed? Was this thought throught at all? Can a Dev please respond? =.=

Annoying and useless I’d say. I’ll just tail guild groups and spam body shot on their players and then Perma Stealth away since trolling is the only thing thief excels in if upcomming nerfs are true. =.=

I don’t know why the main issue with thief: stealth, isn’t being addressed in a PROPER way. Now you force errors on good players, they will die due to circumstances they cannot avoid (undodgeable). Not only that but also remove our only “reliable” condition removal..

Ele heals every 15s and removes conditions with every pulse (Ether Renewal) for example, they can endure 1v5 fights (not saying they win, they can endure..) for minutes if they want to. Put a thief in the same spot without stealth, dies in 1s.

Stealth capped at 3s would be a MASSIVE nerf but it would also get rid of all the complaints people have about stealth, no more perma stealthing, no more running away freely whenever you want… this would have to come with buffs too ofc.

What is coming to Thieves now is just mindblowing… run into something with conditions and you’re insta screwed. It’s like they force everyone to go D/P, perma stealth around a corner and hope for one upscaled to come by..also hope it’s not a necro/engi or his upscaled condi damage may own you.

Maybe I’m being a bit “dramatic” but I’m sorta worried about what is coming here. :/

Elxdark.9702:

lol come on people, we can get perma-stealth easily and you’re QQing for a skill which reveals you for 4 secs in a CD of 40 secs? come on.

It’s more than 4s if you cnd/backstab (revealed 3s) and then Sick ’Em strikes you.. or get randomly revealed without noticing (since the icons are super duper small) and you land a CnD blowing out your initiative.

I’m not a fan of this skill because it FORCES errors onto you, a way more suitable fix would be just getting rid of perma stealth. Stealth stacks up to 3s (4s with trait).. of course such a nerf would come with more survivability (waiting for a reliable stability skill o.o)

If that Shadow’s Embrace thing is true.. dear god.. our ONLY reliable condi removal.. atleast for me since I don’t use HiS -_-" and Shadowstep I obviously hardly use for condi removal lol..

Moon.6371:

[Psy] has some of the saddest perplexity roamers I`ve seen for a while… you guys just love to abuse the meta or is this still the cool thing to do on Gunnars?

“I can stack 20 stacks of confusion on my target for like … forever, im so strong and such a good player, too!”

Apart from that, nice roaming action this week, very fun and challenging!

Best regards

A lot of players use these runes dude.. I’m fighting them everyday. Especially if it’s an engi.. they can insta stack you with 20 stacks of confusion, if you don’t have the reflex to get the hell out without touching any skill you instantly die.

I’ve fought many Kodash thieves using this and being very trigger happy with “Headshot”.. sad part is I’ve had this discussion with people claiming Engi is finally “somewhat decent” with Perplexity while they were already one of the strongest, if not strongest roaming classes. With perplexity it’s just insane.. but any build that has some sort of a stun/condition damage… gg :/

There will be thousands of people complaining when Perplexity gets nerfed, I guess they don’t mind their 20 stacks of confusion ofc.

Sorry for doublepost, better than making a new topic I suppose:

Funny tower cap.. no idea how that guy didn’t see me. Culling has been fixed and all.

VIZUNAH kitten? Tower left unguarded and no arrowcarts.. but that’s not even the “kitten” part of this video lol.

Zumy.6318:

Are some of you at least happy to be matched up w/ me? :-(

I Love u GH <3. Glad to have you b4 we get zerged in Gold League.

BTW: Viz has more roamers than you’d think and is enjoyable to smallscale with offpeak. Give them a chance, they give good fights and are friendly in the forms.

Oh, we could duel now. ;D

It’ll be an awesome week for our guilds, you just got to look past numbers and score, I had a blast at reset… sooooooooooooooooooo many kills. I’m not kidding, I made 15G. A secret god we worship in CE is a big part of it tho.

@above, yeah.. skill lag was horrible, flashbacks to T1.

Updated with more videos worth watching

Soloing Hills under Heavy Pressure (was expecting a 50 man Underworld zerg to storm in any second, my keep caps are usually a lot smoother as I normally don’t go downed like I did in the vid once, still a good time though)

http://www.youtube.com/OroNeyishi

Dei Veien.2456:

Sceinna.3561:

Dei Veien.2456:

Yay a poem for us ^^ Had a lot of fun on the border today. Watching hills change colours was at first sad but then hilariously funny.

Thank you to all the roamers, I have definitely missed being able to do that these past few weeks.

Were you the dead mesmer in Hills?

Yes, I watched that thing flip three times while lying there, was somewhat amusing

FSP took it from us, I solo’d it from FSP. You guessed it ingame tho Fun times. I’ll try to refrain from soloing keeps from now on.. it’s somewhat boring lol.

Lovely duels @ GH bl

eMoa & some UW guys (forgot guild names), also thank you to MeaN from Far Shiverpeaks to come gank me twice while I’m dueling with 4 of you. Not only you nearly lost the first time 1v4, the second time you came prepared and used Anti-Stealth traps, very very clever. ^^

Maugetarr.6823:

Sceinna.3561:

Oh guys don’t be so naive.. stealth IS a problem in this game and it IS unbalanced.

Actually I’ve suggested that Shadow Refuge shouldn’t stack stealth and stealth in general shouldn’t stack higher than 3s (4s with trait), why do we need perma stealth?

Why do we need a tool to kitten out of a fight? 3s hidden, 3s revealed seems to be a perfect and fair balance to me. During combat this wouldn’t change ANYTHING, it just wouldn’t allow you to get a free out of jail card EVERY fight whenever you want.

It doesn’t matter though, as long as Perma Stealth is there I’ll keep abusing it and soloing keeps and towers all day long. Last matchup I’ve solo’d 10 keeps and atleast 50 towers. Since reset I’ve already solo’d two keeps.

Old video, I now solo keeps in under 5mins (before npcs respawn, p/d)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcDMubyiSac

D/P perma stealth/blind is broken and anyone denying it is.. seriously -_-"

I’m not a random troll that got killed by a nasty thief lately, I’ve actually never lost against another thief in a fair 1v1, I’m surely a top thief player in EU WvW scene without any doubt.

Youtube.com/oroneyishi and youtube.com/thecivilrebels or find me on youtube: Laela Blackbird

You’ll most likely find some D/P videos from ages ago but atleast they’ll prove my point about D/P.

Why aren’t people in your matchups sweeping towers and keeps after they take it? You can certainly annoy thieves enough to push them out if you’re looking for them (assuming you can’t kill them). Also the P/D spec (maybe not specifically the one you used to solo bay and garri, but similar) got a bunch if calls foe nerfs a qhile back to until thieves found something… different (not better, just fitting their playstyle? ). If D/P is changed along with S/D then P/D would probably become more popular again and be on the receiving end of the thief hate. Just something to think about. We will probably always be complained about because we are annoying even if we’re not dangerous.

Because I’m good at hiding, I reposition myself constantly.. I know how far the sound of black powder travels (most people don’t even pay attention to this sound lol), I not only stealth myself but I use the terrain to hide my black powder etc…

All I’m saying is some of the whining is completely justified because people abuse the stealth mechanics (so do I by perma stealthing in keeps/towers, but atleast I don’t mass abuse it in fights).

It’s not only stealth though, it’s also the crazy mobility warrior, still the ranger pet outressing all of your damage underwater… engis being extremely OP with perplexity right now.. d/d eles (if being played by a good player) being OP since GW2 launch…

This is of course just my opinion… and I’m usually speaking from a roaming perspective, WvW isn’t made for roaming.

Dei Veien.2456:

Yay a poem for us ^^ Had a lot of fun on the border today. Watching hills change colours was at first sad but then hilariously funny.

Thank you to all the roamers, I have definitely missed being able to do that these past few weeks.

Were you the dead mesmer in Hills?

Oh guys don’t be so naive.. stealth IS a problem in this game and it IS unbalanced.

Actually I’ve suggested that Shadow Refuge shouldn’t stack stealth and stealth in general shouldn’t stack higher than 3s (4s with trait), why do we need perma stealth?

Why do we need a tool to kitten out of a fight? 3s hidden, 3s revealed seems to be a perfect and fair balance to me. During combat this wouldn’t change ANYTHING, it just wouldn’t allow you to get a free out of jail card EVERY fight whenever you want.

It doesn’t matter though, as long as Perma Stealth is there I’ll keep abusing it and soloing keeps and towers all day long. Last matchup I’ve solo’d 10 keeps and atleast 50 towers. Since reset I’ve already solo’d two keeps.

Old video, I now solo keeps in under 5mins (before npcs respawn, p/d)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcDMubyiSac

D/P perma stealth/blind is broken and anyone denying it is.. seriously -_-"

I’m not a random troll that got killed by a nasty thief lately, I’ve actually never lost against another thief in a fair 1v1, I’m surely a top thief player in EU WvW scene without any doubt.

Youtube.com/oroneyishi and youtube.com/thecivilrebels or find me on youtube: Laela Blackbird

You’ll most likely find some D/P videos from ages ago but atleast they’ll prove my point about D/P.

I’ve asked around in my guild and it seems to be broken for everyone.. not just me. It’s annoying having to manually search the person I need in a list of 300+ people.. :/

I’ve reported this a while ago and I’m not sure if I’m the only one experiencing this?
I can’t search for a specific name in my friendslist anymore, I have to manually check if the person I’m looking for is online.. this feature used to work perfectly fine until LFG was added (for me atleast).

Is this a bug on my part? If so, how can I fix it?

Thank you

Not like it mattered..this week has been pugs vs pugs or pvd, @ people still complaining about blobbing.. we are 12 ranks below Piken for a reason. It’s not like they chose to be matched up against two smaller populated servers. (altho Abaddon at some moments really did have a similar force going lol)

Prime time were good fights though, except for yesterday when WvW was nearly unplayable due to lag.

Stx.4857:

Karolis.4261:

Stx.4857:

Perma swiftness is great, but I would rather take many other rune sets.. such as: Scavenger, Perplexity(even with no interrupt spam they are great damage), adventurer, or the classic bleed duration mix and match.

I would also much rather use hide in shadows for any build with 30 in SA, just too much benefit there. Although withdraw isnt bad, I just dont think its as good for a stealth build.

Shadow strike is great, it really increases your damage when you stack it with bleeds and poison from steal/spider.

Everyone has their preferences I guess, and this setup clearly works for you, was a great vid.

Cant agree that hide in shadows is better then withdraw on p/d build. Even without centaur runes. When traited withdraw lets u reach close to perma vigor. More evades = more survivability, more caltrops laying around + it cleans chilled, cripple and most important immobilise, what lets you get out of those sticky situations when ppl try and lock u in.

I’d rather have the much more efficient healing, the removal of damaging conditions, especially poison, and most importantly, stealth. As far as survival goes, yes evades are great, but stealth is even better. There is a good chance you will remove that root or cripple just by using hide in shadows anyway.

I don’t agree with a bunch of things, HiS is good for direct condition removal and yes, stealth.. but it doesn’t heal more than Withdraw does.

Withdraw 2x 4.5K (15s CD) (=9K healing @ 30s)
HiS 5.5K (@ 30s)

On top of that the amount of damage you OUTDODGE every 15s is insane.

In a nutshell: Withdraw heals more, cures immobilized, chilled & crippled, is a great gap closer, counts as an extra dodge/evade and can be used effectively with runes that grant you a boon whenever you heal. (such as Centaur)

Whenever I go D/D, I’m still using Withdraw.. it’s something I’m too attached to, best thief heal. I don’t like HiS. :/

KarlusDavius.1024:

Spying in TS is something were aware of. TS will be totally reset today and anyone not verified will not be able to enter. Simple as that. GH and AM were always going to moan. Yes we have numbers, but even when we don’t we still school them. Example being today at Vale and at GH garrison. You have 20 ish more than us however we just employ better tactics and better builds than you. In fact, 30% of us today were on alts and low levels.

Blob this and blob that. Jealousy gets you nowhere.

I don’t approve of all the moaning about blobbing because it’s only natural Piken has 5x our numbers, you’re R2, we are R14.

That said I don’t agree with anything you just posted, it’s QUITE obvious that off peak hours you are fighting pugs or PvD.

I didn’t feel like I got schooled this week raiding with CE.. unless we got squished by massive blobs or ganked by 2 guilds maybe.

I believe yesterday there was this community event thing going on for GH, which caused a big increase in numbers, we had a queue on home border first time this week. That may explain the numbers in video posted above.

It’s normal that PS has 5x our numbers, they’re 10 ranks higher.. and as I posted a few pages back, it’s pugs vs pugs as most guilds are having a break or only raiding during primetime, for fights.. not for keeps lol.. we don’t have anyone holding and upgrading our stuff during the day, outnumbered buff until primetime on every border.

Couldn’t play WvW tonight, either stuck in queue or massive 6s skill lag due to 60 man blobs everywhere. Felt like T1 all over again o.o

Thank you guys.

Trying to build up my new channel, I used to have quite some views on my older one but I left it hanging for a month or two. Quite a setback from 5-10k views per vid to 800 views..

Not that views are important, atleast not for money or anything, 10k views is peanuts. It helps me staying motivated doing this tho.

Keep the feedback coming.

Dundir.2853:

Good video, you are easy to understand I enjoyed the commentary.

Thank you.

I might do more of these in the future but I need to find a better technique to comment on my actions, I missed a lot of stuff such as some vital dodges but I can’t talk fast enough lol.

Made a new video, commentary one.. really short, I tried to make a seperate topic for it but the forums are lagging again, soon there will probably be 10 topic of mine again but w/e….

I hope it’s helpful to some people <3

Karolis.4261:

Stx.4857:

Perma swiftness is great, but I would rather take many other rune sets.. such as: Scavenger, Perplexity(even with no interrupt spam they are great damage), adventurer, or the classic bleed duration mix and match.

I would also much rather use hide in shadows for any build with 30 in SA, just too much benefit there. Although withdraw isnt bad, I just dont think its as good for a stealth build.

Shadow strike is great, it really increases your damage when you stack it with bleeds and poison from steal/spider.

Everyone has their preferences I guess, and this setup clearly works for you, was a great vid.

Cant agree that hide in shadows is better then withdraw on p/d build. Even without centaur runes. When traited withdraw lets u reach close to perma vigor. More evades = more survivability, more caltrops laying around + it cleans chilled, cripple and most important immobilise, what lets you get out of those sticky situations when ppl try and lock u in.

^ this

Quakeman.9378:

I run full dire and imho it works much better than carrion. If you’re running p/d you’re a condition thief and thus need more toughness and vitality simply to outlast your opponent. In other words: condi builds can take a while to kill someone so you need to be able to stay alive for that amount of time. The power is also wasted stat, as it won’t make that huge of a difference in my dps since your precision should be low (another wasted stat on a p/d condi build) and you don’t have much to any crit damage. There’s just no real point to sacrifice your defense for some extra power- you don’t need it.

Nailed it.

@Above, why would you go for 100% condi duration? 90% of your opponents have condition removal of some sort, I run with 65%, it’s plenty enough imo.. I keep my opponents stacked with about 10~ stacks of bleed, you can’t go much higher vs condi removal anyways.