Guild Wars 2

Few days ago i was in tPvP with PUG playing elemetalist d/d semi glass cannon build. I was going to cap one of the bases, but there was one thief guarding it. He never seen me coming, so i basically downed him in 2 secs. He managed to damage me for 2k maybe (and cripple me), before he went to downed state.

Immediately after that he started throwing knives at me and dealing massive damage. While i was crippled, I couldn’t get to him so fast to stomp him, he just teleported and was hitting me again. When i was near him for the 2nd time, i went down :S. I could’ve used my heal utility skill or even water attunement skills to heal up….but still i don’t think that someone should do that much damage from downed state…

I was playing thief for some time, and i know there’s a trait to increase your downed damage, but i didn’t know it’s that powerful…

I can’t say on the thief thing, but I know that my glass cannon mesmer can hit for 3500-4k with the 3rd downed state attack illusion. Some of us are nasty on the ground. shrug

You’re probably fairly squishy – thieves only down state attack is a knife that bounces across targets, and cripples – it works for what its intended for, but it isn’t anything to write home about against 1 target. Its possible they were a high might/crit spec, with the 50% more downed damage trait, but even then there’s no way he was doing 8k-16k (i dont know your HP pool) damage with knives unless you made a number of mistakes.

50% dmg increase in downed state is alot when you’re heavy in power,crit, and crit dmg.
Like the above poster stated you probably made a few mistake, on top of being an ele… I assume since you killed him quick you’re glass cannon with the lowest base hp in the game.

I’ve never encountered a thief who does decent damage while downed. My attacks barely scratch anyone and it’s usually better to teleport away and try to rally.

Yeah i’ve done uber glass cannon specs that go all out on crit/power with fire proc sigil.

Could easily finish off squishy people with 1 spam.

Mesmers do more damage then thieves when in downed state but i do agree both of them do way too much damage.

I had like 16k morale when he was downed, as i said, semi glass canon, but still, he did massive damage compared to other thiefs i encountered, and he died so fast (estimated…he had maybe around 12-13k morale pool), so i guess he was class cannon too. I did make some mistakes, can’t deny, but still, it was nothing I’ve seen ever before, 1k+ per hit.

About mesmers…yep, their’s illusions are dealing massive damage even when they are downed, it’s kinda lame, in my opinion they should vanish when mesmer is down.