Guild Wars 2

Before anyone goes off the wall on me telling me to QQ this is not a complaint or “nerf this plz” thread. I do a lot of roaming and I enjoy having duels. Although most people don’t seem as enthusiastic about it as I do, for instance jumping on my corpse after I had bowed to them at the beginning of the fight, there are still some people who enjoy the sport.

Anyway, I came across a Thief who was milling around our spawn picking off people making their way to the keep. 95% of the time I can burn a Thief down before they know what hit them. I don’t consider myself above average but I think I can confidently say I’m a good fighter at the very least. So I approached this fellow not too concerned of the outcome but my lord.. I’ve fought plenty of Thieves and I’ve never fought one with so much stealth uptime. Either he was invisible for 20~ seconds or he’d be visible for less than 1 second. I’d see him in one place, he’d disappear, and reappear somewhere else before vanishing again. I was trying to peg him with a Corrupt Boon but he’d vanish again before the animation would even finish and I’d just end up poisoning myself. Is there some way I can counter this? He managed to down me but fortunately a few people were nearby to give me a res. I’m currently scouting around hoping he’ll come back, I enjoy a tough fight but I don’t know how to defend against someone with this much stealth uptime.

And for reference, I’m almost certain he’s using Lyssa runes, and he’s definitely using a Pistol.

Uh… there are some thief builds, that allow the thieves to stay almost perma in stealth, as long as they don’t engage(which is fine by me). So trolling is easy – and no, you can’t kill these guys if they just stalk you around and don’t get close.
However – you shouldn’t be chasing 1 guy in an empty field, wvw is objective based(go to a camp/tower/etc) – if you are doing that(or any other), then the thief is doing it’s job.
And the 3rd thing – unless he picked you off by chaining cloak and dagger off you in the right times(like 0.4-0.2s before stealth ended), he still should have been visible after initiating on you for at least 3 seconds, which even for my condi warr is enough to fill them with conditions and you are a necro. If that is not the case, then it might have been a new hack or something.

He’s engaging. What he’s doing is stealthing off of mobs. I’m trying to avoid the thick of enemies he’s using to his advantage but he won’t fight me in a clearing.
Also, I’m not chasing. I enjoy challenge and this guy is giving me a hard time. I want to beat him. If he thinks he’s trolling me that’s fine. I’m not upset until a ragequit and if anything I’m having fun.
On the subject of conditions, I’m a heavy condition build. 70% duration and 2,369 condition damage with all my buffs. Still can’t burst this guy down and I can do it to anyone else. So what ever build he’s using it’s good.