Guild Wars 2

This evening I was (almost) killed 2 times with a single backstab hit defending North Camp in WvsW.
No zerg ,only 2 Gunnars Hold player (thief + necro) vs me.
How is possible to achieve a such hard hitting single backstab shot ?
And who is the Gunnar’s Hold player named “Unknow” hitting me for 3k ?
Thanks in advance.

How is it possible? You are a glass ele with a staff…. That’s pretty much a free kill for any class, not only thieves.

“Unknown” is the sigil of air.

Various ways to ramp up one’s spike damage through buffs, traits, armor stat combination, runes and sigils.
I have seen some glass cannon thieves do some stupid damage before, so this doesnt surprise me much.

a t s e.9614:

How is it possible? You are a glass ele with a staff…. That’s pretty much a free kill for any class, not only thieves.

18000 health not that glass

Thanks for the reply =)

There aren’t many classes that can do that kind of damage apart from a thief and, if you’re -*really*_ unlucky or bad, a warrior rifle kill shot. In the early days of wvw, I downed 2 eles with kill shot in obsidian sanctum, admittedly from below so they couldn’t see my telegraph. Full adrenalin bar shot which crit’d, popped healing surge for another full adrenalin bar, moved around and took down the second with another crit kill shot. The third ele I didn’t see got me though

17.3k from Backstab is easy to do with a D/D thief. In fact my thief often hits for more than that when doing some PvE world bosses and champs.
My thief runs with zerker armour with scholar runes, zerker trinkets with ruby orbs, in a 6/6/0/0/2 build.
MH dagger zerker with sigil of air; OH dagger zerker with sigil of force.

Seriously? Another Backstab topic?

Spoiler: Backstab is not the highest damaging skill in the game. Backstab has a 2.4 damage coefficient, whereas things like Volley, Eviscerate and Final Thrust are 3.0 and Kill Shot is an even higher 3.25.

Since we’re talking about big damage, traits like Executioner won’t be applied at all. And no, Thieves don’t an exceptional amount of +damage% traits either.

This thief would Backstab the OP for an average of 16,527 assuming that all things align perfectly.
This warrior would Kill Shot the OP for an average of 19,222 assuming that all things align perfectly.

Mishandia.2087:

This evening I was (almost) killed 2 times with a single backstab hit defending North Camp in WvsW.
No zerg ,only 2 Gunnars Hold player (thief + necro) vs me.
How is possible to achieve a such hard hitting single backstab shot ?
And who is the Gunnar’s Hold player named “Unknow” hitting me for 3k ?
Thanks in advance.

For some that’s our whole health pool – it’s not that squishy at all.

That isn’t balanced and one shotting isn’t the point in WvW or so we thought.

cephiroth.6182:

“Unknown” is the sigil of air.

Therein lies the problem.

Anet needs to attach the signet to the player not to the weapon otherwise every shot or hit would say the weapon and not the player.

Logic needs to be applied in the game as soon as possible – it’s getting old to try to explain these to players who are understandably upset by being hit by “unknown” when the gun they are being hit with almost always says "*insert server and rank here* and not “unknown”.

It’s a bit of sloppy programming that really needs to be tightened up.

Oh and back to the main point, a 17k+ hit isn’t WvW worthy – we should have to fight another to kill them, not just bash them over the head once and be able to call it good. Certainly no skill in a one shot.