Guild Wars 2

How do I not get 2’d to death every encounter?

Shocking Aura is your friend.
Don’t have Armor below 2500

I run this and thiefs are prey. It´s WvW and thiefs are most common there.

One thief that tried to finish his attack combo died after 5 seconds while trying to stealth and disengage … In the begining i lost to the constant attack and disengage tactics. Not annymore … He runs or dies if trying hard.
Food varies. I prefer precision oil but crystals are fine.

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The build has only FSG for higher mobility. It has constant swiftness just get used to sweping :-). Its a boonspaming machine with high protection uptime doing considerable hybrid DPS. Last duel after about 30 sec fight the thief accidently ran into dragon tooth that i placed left of him and it was over a few seconds later :-). You have scepter burst and a constant burn/bleed DPSstream. Not full burst but staying in air overload is still enough to get a beatdown and a good phönix rips half life from a thief giving you vigor …. and go for might … 10+ stacks is common 20+ after fire overload (which is usualy my downcleaver). And its a build that kites a lot, you are constantly close and far.
I run in troubles against the perplexity mesmes and necros are very hard matches due to their boon corrupting bombs …

It’s a kinda funny topic. Generally thief shouldn’t fight with you alone when you stand on your node, especially if you run meta build. He will lose some time, he needs to be very cautions for your cooldowns. Generally you should outheal him and he will be slowly eaten by your fire auras and earth overloads.

Best tip is not to use your overloads (only earth) and skills with long castimes. DD interrupts are painfull. Just be aggressive and force him to run. I lightning whiped so many bad thiefs…