Thief - Condition Preparation Roamer
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Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Overview
A condition Thief build for WvW. Made to set a trap at objectives controlled by your team (such as sentry points) then wait patiently in stealth to spring it on unsuspecting roamers.
Archival note: sigil stacking nerfs killed the damage
Skill Bar
Slot Changes
Utility
- over - this is an option only for Sylvari players. Grasping Vines has great synergy with if you can move in range and use it in your burst combo.
Template Code
Specializations
Equipment
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Rabid
Rabid
Rabid
Rabid
Rabid
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
Trailblazer
x6
x18
Consumables
Food
- Condition diversity: - this adds 2 new conditions to your arsenal, Chill and Burning. To make sure this procs, take on Trickery for the Fury and right before doing your burst combo. Ideally you'd steal on the target, but it's also fine to steal without a target just for the boons.
- Best stats:
- Budget option:
Utility
- Optimal: or
- Budget: or
Usage
General
- The premise of the build is simple. You want to camp a location while permanently stealthed, set up preparations, and wait for someone to walk into them. Unfortunately mounts made gimmicks like this a bit harder to pull off, but we just have to adapt to them. The ideal camping spot is a place that attracts roamers and forces them to dismount at a very specific location - such as a Sentry controlled by your realm!
Making Preparations
- Get into combat and proc both of your Doom sigils and . Just get into combat but do NOT hit anything, then swap weapons twice and leave. These sigils have no set durations and remain active until consumed, boosting your spike damage. Major and Superior sigil of Doom can be active at the same time, while two Superiors would override each other.
- Once you've picked your spot, set up and .
- Leave the spot and hide somewhere where you can maintain vision of it. Do your permastealth rotation and wait.
- While stealthed, you're passively accumulating charges of through .
Stealthing
- next to a wall, preferably in a corner
- without a target to proc
- x4 while holding the right mouse button to make sure you keep facing the wall while doing the leaps
- Repeat whenever you're near the initiative cap
- Note: once you get ahead in Stealth duration, you no longer have to incorporate stealing into the rotation
Killing
- Once the target is where you want them to be, AND they've dismounted, spring the trap! Apply
- Swap to short bow once your sigils went off to proc them again.
- to gain Fury and Might. If you are not in range, deselect the target first.
- Optional: start spamming any weapon skill to stack .
then activate and .
- Sometimes this is enough to get the kill, but if you want to make sure.. Reapply your preparations in the area then spam
- Optional: Poison in AoE for more burst. should be used defensively most of the time as the build doesn't really have much else for sustain, but it could also be used in Choking Gas to stack dozens of stacks of
. Spring the preparations for a second burst the moment they are ready.
Videos
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Counters
- Revealed - being denied stealth access is a death sentence most of the time.
- Mounted players could easily survive your burst.
- Mass condition cleansing, can't do much against it.
Ratings
Comments
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