Escapists Absolution and traited Withdraw will cleanse all conditions on a thief in about a half second without them losing any damage.
As a condi Pistol Dagger Thief, thieves are among the slowest for me to kill. I need to stop attacking so the cleanse on successful dodge doesn’t kick in. And that assumes they aren’t running secondary cleanses that can extend a fight almost indefinitely.
Quite true. I stated before thieves have some of the best condition removal out there. No class has as many removals that are targetted against specific conditions and this makes the thief very efficient at it if they are “aware”.
Thieves have removals that ignore covers and go after the damaging stuff.