Kallist.5917

Yes. All venom's will apply using your stats for the damage tic, and credits you with the damage/heal/CC's.

Try Rune of the Aristocracy, That 6th tier bonus is awesome with Scepter 2 on a full Ritualist set with Boon Dur Sigil. 2 taps for 10 might at 20 seconds and 10 might at 8 seconds to give you a nice pump to not just the torment, but an awesome pump to bleed and poison as well, for a 6 initiative investment. If you also apply your siphon to them, you will be at a 25 stack while running Deadly arts.

I know it's already been dismissed as nonviable, but I've been having a lot of luck and fun playing condi/tank/support using a mix of plaguedoctors/apothecary, with scepter/pistol. Let's me apply conditions to a large group, while also handing out regular 2.5k heals and barrier. Running it with the heal well, condie well, and elite well, scorpion wire, and thousand needles, we've been doing well two-manning a lot of fractals. Not a great as a full on damage spec, but it lets me keep other players in the fight, while not giving up too much myself. Now if only they could find a way to get players to stop running out of my healing wells. 😭MMy advice is to forget about stealth entirely. Utilize the surplus of shadowstep's to do the same thing.

Really wish we could get Peripheral Vision back. Made the Condi Deadeye very viable.

That was such a nothing reveal. Condie and Barrier? Thats all you can tell us?

So would the Guild Wars 2 launch hat count?

I get it, so like a Function kit, same as Holosmith. Ok.. they didnt show us the Utilities though, would have been nice.

I dont think its a new burst, guys. They kept it out through all their attacks. That's a Kit.

If anything, Seeing the power of the preview has me hopeful for the power they'll end up giving the Thief. Lets just hope they dont kill the fringe builds for it like they did with Rifle. Still upset about the AOE Condie being nuked by the rework.

I'm curious what you are basing this assumption on, is there a balance patch preview that I missed? Or was there something said in the livestream?

There are no trash classes, just trash plays and strats. If Thief doesnt do it for you, move on. If you insist on playing thief, I suggest you scrap your build and come up with a new one.

I could deal with a Sword Offhand, if it meant the return of the combo system. Downplay the Initiative system for it, and allow us to do the old chains again. I'd go for it in a heartbeat.

Buddy and I are usually very good at piecing together someone's build from watching them fight, and if we did that, it should be pretty easy to find the weak point in the build. Is there any way you could record it next time you come across this build?Also, if you do record it, please turn on your attack feed, the one that tells what they hit you with for what amount. That's basically the key to ID'ing someone's build.

That's a blast from the past, I had an extremely similar build back when Theif still had traps. Timing it all correctly, and using the trap Thief summon, I could just manage to get 6 summons up and going. Very fun build that let me overwhelm people in WvW. Had an absolute blast with it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PawAUhjlNwYYHsN2JO2StNPA-zxQYrIG4RBfhUQIkZG0RBY+BJIyA-eSo I came up with this guy while Sparring a Guildmate in our GH. We dubbed it the Farting Thief. Basically he plays keep-away while stacking poisons, daze, and Pulmonary impacts with the bows Choking Gas.I enjoy it, but definitly not that useful in anything outside of 1v1's in the Guild Hall.