Thief - Core P/D Condition

• Thief - Core P/D Roamer - WvW version.

Slot Changes

Weapon(over dagger/pistol)

• Shortbow - higher damage/mobility in trade for survivability/cleanse.

Utility

Viable choices for the optional slot (or even over 暗影纹章):

• 致盲药粉 - another stunbreak and easy stealth / 致命偷袭 access.

• 暗影庇护 - longer 潜行 but on a higher cooldown.

• 毒蝎钩索 - adds much needed CC to the build and perfectly sets up melee skills like 阴影打击 or 隐秘突袭.

• 鳞爪毒液 - a bursty option that could also be shared with allies (including pets).

• 准备千针万箭 - AoE burst damage that can cover an entire capture point on some maps.

• 暗影传送门 - better map control.

Elite

This slot largely depends on personal preferences, every skill is viable to some degree:

• 石蜥毒液 makes it easier to land your burst and can be shared with your allies.

• 同仇敌忾 is a bit of a meme option, but if you share 鳞爪毒液 with them their combined burst could catch people offguard.

Variants

• 隐秘潜行 trades condi cleansing for some defensive conditions, could be an option if you expect Power damage to be the bigger concern during a game.

Equipment Variants

Runes

• - optimial for damage. Can still rely on passive for mobility bonus.

• - good stats and the the anti-condition aspect could help in mirror matchups, or against any other condi build in general.

Relics

• - a relic that frequently applies several different conditions at once to serve as covers for your more important ones, while also slightly improving your damage.

• - the healing reduction could help you wear down the more tanky builds, but doesn't really add more raw damage to the build as the build only has 1 CC skill by default.

General

• Share your venom(s) with as many allies as possible, including pets and minions.

• Use to move between capture points. Your job is to roam the map and +1 fights by bursting down targets who have no cleansing / no cooldowns left.

Stealing

• is going to be used more freely here compared to other builds as it's not an interrupt in this build. Steal applies various cover conditions such as from or from , fitting nicely into your burst combos.

Pistol/Dagger

• Most of the damage in this build comes from the ⇒ chain and the occasional . You should spend most of your initiative on these skills.

  • Once you have access to it's possible to spam this skill 2 times in a row without having to refresh with Shadow Strike.

• is more of a niche skill. It could be useful for rooting targets in place, making it easier to land Shadow Strike, but you should try to do it without Bola Shot to save initiative whenever possible. Another thing you could do is root targets in place to make sure your brust doesn't miss, or that they don't catch up to you while spamming Repeater.

• is okay for some ranged poking vs multiple targets if you can't get in range for Shadow Strike and don't want to switch to bow just yet.

• provides relatively easy stealth access which could be followed up with . While this combo does less damage than the skill #3 spam, it costs next to nothing because of and could heal you for quite a significant amount through various Shadow Arts synergies.

• Using in the middle of or makes these melee skills easier to land by improving their reach.