Guild Wars 2

Okay, so I was thinking of leveling an alt and thought that thief would be fun and the stealth useful in some parts of the game. I am an avid fractal runner, doing lvl48 quite often, so it got me thinking I could put my alt to good use and learn to solo the switch in the first part of dredge fractal. I would keep running fotm on my main (ele) but thief alt could come in handy whenever the dredge fractal rears its ugly head.

The thing is, I’m just starting the thief class and in need of guidance that what skills and traits people generally use to achieve the stealth required to use the switch. IIRC the switch activation time is 20s (?) + 5-6 seconds of stealth running through the dredge masses. What exactly is required to be able to solo this?

not entirely true nika. If you have 15 points minimum into shadow arts (the extra 1s on stealth), smoke screen, hide in shadows, haste, and shadow refuge, you will be able to do the entire duration with max 1s sealth down time. That isn’t a problem because it takes longer than 1s for the only in range dredge to hit you.

Combo is : spam cluster on smoke screen, run in, hide in shadows, shadow refuge, haste (very important to do shadow refuge BEFORE haste) right before you press the switch. Your total stealth with the shadow refuge should be about 15-16s and the haste will cut off a few seconds from the pannel channel.

Side note, time warp does NOT help with the channel here. No idea why.

Most helpful. Thank you!

So this implies that I should level the thief at least to 40 to be able to get that minor trait before trying to solo that part.

or you could get it to 80 and get to see how amazing the class truly is

Nikaido.3457:

I completely forgot about haste, the fact that it depletes endurance has always put me off from ever considering slotting it in.

I agree, it’s a situational skill… and this is its situation.

Hide in Shadows + Ash Legion Spy Kit + Shadow Refuge + Blinding Powder.

Also, ask your party NOT to kill any dredge..just kite them instead.