Thief - Core P/D Roamer

Thief - Core P/D Condition - sPvP version.

Variants

• 手法娴熟 lowers your damage but adds an instant interrupt to the build that goes through 稳固. This could be a lifesaver in many situations.

Skill Variants

Utility

Viable choices for the optional slot:

• 暗影庇护 - great sustain tool that adds another 潜行 access to the build. Lets you reset fights or heal yourself back up a bit, even has combo potential with 致命偷袭 for health siphoning.

• 暗影纹章 - the active could either serve as an instant cast source of cover conditions for your burst or as a defensive skill with damage mitigation.

• 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.

• 准备千针万箭 - strong burst skill but it could be difficult to make ranged enemies get in position for it. It's great at flipping camps however, if you can get all the NPCs to ball up.

• 束缚之藤 - Sylvari players could also take this skill along with 惊惧打击 on Deadly Arts to keep targets in place for burst combos while applying 中毒 stacks via trait synergy.

Equipment Variants

Stats

• A full set of Celestial gear would also work, but it's not optimal.

• Replacing a few Dire pieces with Rabid to bump up your crit chance allows you to play with slightly better sigils but lowers your sustain.

Sigils

• Replace the Pistol/Dagger sigils with 超级慷慨法印 and 超级折磨法印 when playing with Celestial or Rabid stats. These could work with the current setup too to some extent, but their effectiveness would be tied to 激怒 uptime and various map bonuses that are out of your control.

• Take 超级能量法印 if you don't want to bother with building 超级腐化法印 stacks.

Runes

• 超级唤灵师符文 - easier to obtain than Trapper and retains all of the condition damage stats.

• 超级潜行者符文 - worse damage but quite a large crit chance upgrade, much like Rabid gear this could also allow you to run better sigils.

• 超级阴鬼符文 - cheap option with great stats.

Relics

• 瘟疫使者古物 - frequent condi procs with great variety to act as cover conditions.

• 寻路者古物 - better mobility.

• - the extra healing reduction could help you wear down tanky Celestial specs.

Consumables

Food

• Optimal:

• Budget:

Utility

• Optimal:

• Budget: (found in Canned Food Crates looted from WvW Skirmish Chests)

General

• Swap to shortbow when you're about to finish off a downed target in order to build 超级腐化法印 stacks. You could also just kill mobs during downtime to build some stacks.

• Use shortbow when taking camps, not just because of the Corruption sigil but also due to the AoE skills. Try to ball up enemies behind a pillar and spam 窒息瓦斯 + 集束炸弹 ⇒ 引爆集束炸弹.

Stealing

• 顺手牵羊 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 易伤 from 扳回劣势 or 流血 from 致命伏击, fitting nicely into your burst combos.

Pistol/Dagger

• Most of the damage in this build comes from the 阴影打击 ⇒ 倾泻射击 chain and the occasional 致命偷袭. You should spend most of your initiative on these skills.

  • Once you have access to 倾泻射击 it's possible to use this skill twice in a row without having to refresh with Shadow Strike.

• 链锤射击 is more of a niche skill. It could be useful for rooting targets in place, making it easier to land important skills or kite enemies, but it costs too much for what it does so usually your initiative is better spent on other skills.

• 匕首之舞 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.

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

• Using 顺手牵羊 in the middle of 阴影打击 or 隐秘突袭 makes these melee skills easier to land by improving their reach.

Burst combo example

1. Precast
2. just before CnD is about to go off
5. x2

Short bow

Utility weapon, secondary set

• This is generally the weapon you use for running away from fights or cleaving downed enemies if they are being revived. Otherwise just stay on Pistol/Dagger the whole fight.

• is a bit of a weak filler skill in this build that you can spam when weapon swap is on CD and you're out of initiative.

• being a spammable blast finisher has high value in group roaming when it comes to blasting fields.

  • Its chain skill is a solid source of downed cleave.

• provides access to some evasion in case you're being focused by the enemy team and your defensive skills are on CD. Remains usable even while d, but it's somewhat expensive.

• Use on downed enemies especially if they are being revived - Poison decreases healing received by 33% which affects resurrecting speed and the initial strike interrupts foes.

• is the #1 skill for disengaging from a fight in case you start losing.