Thief WvW | Large Group Shortbow, Dagger/Pistol | Assaulter Sang's DPS Zerg Build

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Summary

I am lazy and only putting a summary.

 

I. Pretty simple, SB is required in zerg for blasts and your poison field properly traited to do weakness. The other weapons you use do NOT matter.
II. Longer poison duration is op. Every zerg thief build should have 15 in Deadly Arts. Everything else shouldn't need to be explained really.
III. This is a dps build really. Not much to explain.
IV. Food is power on kill + crit dmg,really strong dps food and power sharpening stones. PTV armour for a bit more surviving + wurm runes for bit more dps with ascended zerker for mad deeps.
V. This build requires you to be a bit more safe, hang in the back aa, throw in cluster bombs for blasts now and then and choking gas whenever theres a good clump of them for weakness, not much else.


I. Weapons and Skills

Berserker's Shortbow
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 239
  • Precision: 171
  • Ferocity: 171
  • Weapon Strength: -
Berserker's Dagger
  • Weapon Strength: 924-981
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Pistol
  • Weapon Strength: 876-1029
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Harpoon Gun
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Spear
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
  • Hook Strike¾
    Attack your foes with stealth, knocking enemies down.
    Damage: 163Knockdown: 2sRange: 130
  • Trick Shot¼
    Bounce an arrow between multiple nearby foes.
    Damage: 185Number of targets: 3Combo Finisher: Projectile (20% chance)Range: 900
    • Surprise Shot¼
      Stealth. Shoot an arrow that immobilizes your foe.
      Damage: 202Immobilized: 2 sCombo Finisher: ProjectileRange: 900
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  • Cluster Bomb½ 3
    Fire a cluster bomb at target area. Detonate in midair for multiple explosions.
    Large explosion: 487Small explosion: 168x3Bleeding: 4 s (510 damage)Combo Finisher: BlastRange: 900
    • Detonate Cluster1
      Detonate your cluster bomb in midair.
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  • Disabling Shot¼ 4
    Do an evasive leap away from your foe while firing a crippling shot.
    Damage: 168Crippled: 2 sCombo Finisher: ProjectileRange: 900
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  • Choking Gas½ 4
    Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud.
    Poison: 5 s (420 damage)Duration: 4Radius: 240Combo Field: PoisonUnblockableRange: 900
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  • Infiltrator's Arrow6
    Fire an arrow and shadowstep to the target area, blinding nearby foes.
    Blind: 5 sRadius: 20Range: 900
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  • Hide in Shadows1 30
    Deception. Vanish in stealth and gain regeneration. Cures burning, poison, and bleeding.
    Healing: 5,240Regeneration: 4 s (520 health)Stealth: 3 s
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  • Shadowstep50
    Deception. Shadowstep to the target location. Becomes Shadow Return, which returns you to your starting area and cures three conditions.
    Breaks stunRange: 1,200
    • Shadow Return
      Return to your starting location and cure three conditions.
      Break stunRange: 1,200
  • Shadow Refuge ¼ 60
    Deception. Create a pulsing refuge at the target area that heals allies and cloaks them in stealth.
    Stealth: 3 sHealing: 1,420Combo Field: DarkRange: 600
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  • Signet of Shadows30
    Signet Passive: Grants a 25% increase in movement speed.
    Signet Active: Blind foes near your target.
    Blind: 5 sRadius: 240Range: 1,200
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  • Dagger Storm 7½ 90
    Trick. Spin around, reflecting projectiles and throwing daggers that cripple and bleed nearby foes. You can move while spinning.
    Damage: 244Crippled: 2 sDuration: 8Bleeding: 5 s (213 damage)x3Stability: 3 s (per pulse)Combo Finisher: WhirlRange: 900
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Weapon and Skill Details

Shortbow OP. Blasts weakness n shit.


II. Traits


III. Stat Specifics & Effects

Primary Stats

  • Health 17355 (+5710)
  • Vitality 1487 (+571)
  • Armor 1980 (+0)
  • Toughness 916 (+0)
  • Attack 3111 (+1195)
  • Power 2111 (+1195)
  • Critical Hit 44% (+44%)
  • Precision 1835 (+919)

Secondary Stats

  • Boon Duration 25% (+25%)
  • Condition Duration 15% (+15%)
  • Critical Damage 73% (+73%)
  • Damage 1000 (+0%)
  • Defense 1064 (+0)
  • Experience from Kills 20% (+20%)
  • Ferocity 1107 (+1107)
  • Movement Speed 25% (+25%)
  • Poison Duration 33% (+33%)

Boons

  • Aegis
    Block the next attack.
  • Distortion
    Allows mesmers to evade attacks for some time.
  • Frenzy
    Increases damage taken by 25%. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Frosty Armor
    Chills foes that hit you.
  • Fury
    20% critical chance increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Haste
    Regenerate endurance at 50% effectiveness when under the effects of this skill. It's typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Invulnerability
    Prevents the target from taking damage or receiving conditions. It is also placed on rallied players for one second.
  • Might
    X damage per attack increase. Stacks intensity.
  • Protection
    33% damage reduction. Stacks in duration.
  • Quickening Zephyr
    Prevents healing. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Quickness
    Makes all skills and actions 50% faster.
  • Regeneration
    Regenerates X health per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Rejuvenation
    Regenerates health. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession through the Virtue of Resolve.
  • Resistance
    Resistance temporarily negates the affected target of all effects caused by conditions.
  • Retaliation
    Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. Stacks in duration.
  • Smiting
    Causes every fifth attack to apply burning. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession.
  • Stability
    Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, or feared.
  • Stealth
    Allows the user to be invisible to enemy players and avoid being spotted by enemy NPCs.
  • Swiftness
    33% movement speed increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Vigor
    Faster endurance regeneration. Stacks in duration.

Conditions

  • Agony
    Agony is an effect unique to Fractals of the Mists that removes a percentage of the player's health every second and reduces received healing by ~50%.
  • Bleeding
    Bleeding is a stackable condition that deals damage over time.
  • Blind
    Causes the target's next hit to miss instead.
  • Burning
    Inflicts X damage per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Chilled
    Reduces movement speed and skill recharge by 66%. Stacks in duration.
  • Confusion
    Inflicts X damage each time a foe uses skill. Stacks in intensity.
  • Crippled
    Crippled is a condition which decreases movement speed by 50%. Stacks in duration.
  • Fear
    Causes the target to run directly away from the caster.
  • Immobilized
    Immobilized is a condition which prevents movement and dodging. Victims also can't turn. Stacks in duration.
  • Poison
    Inflicts X damage per second. Reduces outgoing heals by 33%. Stacks in duration.
  • Slow
    Slow is a condition that reduces the activation time of skills and abilities.
  • Taunt
    Taunt is a control effect that forces the affected target to run towards the source of taunt with all skills except stun breakers disabled while using their auto-attack skill.
  • Torment
    Deals damage every second; deals additional damage if moving; stacks intensity.
  • Vulnerability
    Increases damage the target takes by 1%. Stacks in intensity.
  • Weakness
    Causes 50% of attacks to be glancing and reduces endurance regeneration by 50%. Stacks in duration.

Control

  • Break Stun
    Stun break is an effect which can break control effects on a character.
  • Daze
    Interrupts and prevents the target from using skills for a period of time.
  • Float
    Forces the affected target(s) to move towards the surface.
  • Knockdown
    Interrupts and causes the foe to be unable to move or use skills for a short duration. Knocked down foes fall to the ground.
  • Launch
    Interrupts and tosses a character into the air.
  • Pull
    Shortens the distance between the user and the foe by drawing one of them to another. If a foe is pulled, this can result in an interrupt.
  • Push
    Physically pushes foes away from the player and interrupts them.
  • Sink
    Forces the affected target(s) to move away from the surface.
  • Stun
    Interrupts, immobilizes, and incapacitates foes for a short duration.
  • Teleport
    Teleport to target location.
  • Teleport
    Teleport (alternatively, flash) is a mechanic that causes the user or target(s) to instantly move from one location to another.

Fields & Finishers

  • Dark Field
    Dark Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Blindness
    Leap Finisher: Blindness
    Projectile Finisher: Life stealing
    Whirl Finsher: Leeching Bolts
  • Ethereal Field
    Ethereal Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Chaos Armor
    Leap Finisher: Chaos Armor
    Projectile Finisher: Confusion
    Whirl Finsher: Confounding Bolts
  • Fire Field
    Fire Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Might
    Leap Finisher: Fire Shield
    Projectile Finisher: Burning
    Whirl Finsher: Burning Bolts
  • Ice Field
    Ice Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Frost Aura
    Leap Finisher: Frost Aura
    Projectile Finisher: Chilled
    Whirl Finsher: Chilling Bolts
  • Light Field
    Light Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Retaliation
    Leap Finisher: Retaliation
    Projectile Finisher: Remove Condition
    Whirl Finsher: Cleansing Bolts
  • Lightning Field
    Lightning Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Swiftness
    Leap Finisher: Dazing Strike
    Projectile Finisher: Vulnerability
    Whirl Finsher: Brutal Bolts
  • Poison Field
    Poison Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Weakness
    Leap Finisher: Weakness
    Projectile Finisher: Poison
    Whirl Finsher: Poison Bolts
  • Revealed
    Revealed is an effect applied when stealth is broken, for example by entering combat or exiting a Shadow Refuge circle prematurely.
  • Smoke Field
    Smoke Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Stealth
    Leap Finisher: Stealth
    Projectile Finisher: Blindness
    Whirl Finsher: Blinding Bolts
  • Super Speed
    Activate your slick shoes, enabling you to move at superior speeds.
  • Water Field
    Water Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Healing
    Leap Finisher: Healing
    Projectile Finisher: Regeneration
    Whirl Finsher: Healing Bolts
Combo
  • Blast Finisher
    Blast Combo Effects

    Dark: Area Blindness
    Ethereal: Area Chaos Armor
    Fire: Area Might
    Ice: Area Frost Aura
    Light: Area Retaliation
    Lightning: Area Swiftness
    Poison: Area Weakness
    Smoke: Area Stealth
    Water: Area Healing
  • Leap Finisher
    Leap Combo Effects

    Dark: Blindness
    Ethereal: Chaos Armor
    Fire: Fire Shield
    Ice: Frost Aura
    Light: Retaliation
    Lightning: Dazing Strike
    Poison: Weakness
    Smoke: Stealth
    Water: Healing
  • Projectile Finisher
    Projectile Combo Effects

    Dark: Life stealing
    Ethereal: Confusion
    Fire: Burning
    Ice: Chilled
    Light: Remove Condition
    Lightning: Vulnerability
    Poison: Poison
    Smoke: Blindness
    Water: Regeneration
  • Whirl Finisher
    Whirl Combo Effects

    Dark: Leeching Bolts
    Ethereal: Confounding Bolts
    Fire: Burning Bolts
    Ice: Chilling Bolts
    Light: Cleansing Bolts
    Lightning: Brutal Bolts
    Poison: Poison Bolts
    Smoke: Blinding Bolts
    Water: Healing Bolts

IV. Food, Armor, Trinkets & Upgrade Items

Food Nourishment

Plate of Truffle Steak Dinner
Duration: 30min
Gain +200 Power for 30 seconds when you kill a foe.
Ferocity: 70
Experience from Kills: 10%
  • (30min)
  • Gain +200 Power for 30 seconds when you kill a foe.
  • Ferocity: 70
  • Experience from Kills: 10%

Utility Nourishment

Superior Sharpening Stone
Duration: 30min
Gain power equal to 6% of your toughness
Gain power equal to 4% of your vitality
Experience from Kills: 10%
  • (30min)
  • Gain power equal to 6% of your toughness
  • Gain power equal to 4% of your vitality
  • Experience from Kills: 10%

Armor & Runes

Invaders Rawhide Mask
  • Defense: 97
Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.
Invaders Rawhide Shoulders
  • Defense: 97
Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.
Invaders Rawhide Vest
  • Defense: 338
Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.
Invaders Rawhide Bracers
  • Defense: 157
Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.
Invaders Rawhide Leggings
  • Defense: 218
Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.
Invaders Rawhide Boots
  • Defense: 157
Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.

Armor Stat Totals

  • Defense 1064
  • Vitality 175
  • Ferocity 100

Rune Bonuses

Superior Rune of the Wurm
  1. Vitality: 25
  2. Ferocity: 35
  3. Vitality: 50
  4. Ferocity: 65
  5. Vitality: 100
  6. 7% of vitality is converted to ferocity.

Accessories & Jewels

Bud of the Pale TreeUtility Slot
  • Power: 157
  • Precision: 90
  • Vitality: 18
  • Ferocity: 108
Berserker's BackOffensive Slot
  • Power: 63
  • Precision: 40
  • Ferocity: 40
(Infused)
Ring of Red DeathOffensive Slot
  • Power: 126
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
(Infused)
Crystalline BandDefensive Slot
  • Power: 126
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
(Infused)
Althea's AshesOffensive Slot
  • Power: 110
  • Precision: 74
  • Ferocity: 74
Magister's Field JournalDefensive Slot
  • Power: 110
  • Precision: 74
  • Ferocity: 74

Accessory Totals

  • Power:692
  • Precision:448
  • Vitality:18
  • Ferocity:466

Weapon Set Sigils

Berserker's Shortbow
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 239
  • Precision: 171
  • Ferocity: 171
  • Weapon Strength: -
Sigil of Superior Bloodlust
You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)

Weapon Set I

Sigil of Superior Bloodlust

You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)
Berserker's Dagger
  • Weapon Strength: 924-981
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Pistol
  • Weapon Strength: 876-1029
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Sigil of Superior Force
+5% damage.
Sigil of Superior Accuracy
+7% crit chance.

Weapon Set II

Sigil of Superior Force

+5% damage.

Sigil of Superior Accuracy

+7% crit chance.
Berserker's Harpoon Gun
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85
Berserker's Spear
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Power: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Ferocity: 85

Water Weapon I

Water Weapon II


V. Basic Gameplay

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