Guild Wars 2

In WVW d/d thieves are pretty much extinct. It is all d/p perma stealth cheese.

Against these guys I am finding a straight up zerker power mantras interrupt build GS/S/S effective. You can blow them up within seconds.

Against a d/d build you would be dirt napping eating 12k bs but it owns d/p SA builds

quercus.9261:

In WVW d/d thieves are pretty much extinct. It is all d/p perma stealth cheese.

Against these guys I am finding a straight up zerker power mantras interrupt build GS/S/S effective. You can blow them up within seconds.

Against a d/d build you would be dirt napping eating 12k bs but it owns d/p SA builds

Are you sure about the effectiveness of GS+S/S vs D/P thiefs? I think most good thiefs will just switch to their shortbow and kill you without taking significant damage. I usually play X-X-30-0-0 interrupt builds with GS+S/S and if a thief wants to win the fight, he will due to shortbow evade spam and stupid phantasms.

You both say interrupt builds. Can you give me numbers on halting strike? I was experimenting with it yesterday in WVW. Fully zerked GS5 and pistol 5 newer hit anything over 3k. Halting strike on guardian was under 1 k. I wonna see what mantra gives and F3 but so far as i can tell empowered illusions tops halting strike any time.

My halting strike does 1k – 3.5k @ 2.3k power and 95% crit damage

3,6k was the maximum I found on a screenshot, 2k power + 5 stacks guard leech, 85% crit dmg, but I´m not sure about might and vulnerability on target. I have seen over 4k with 20+ stacks might from Bountiful Interruption and 15+ stacks vulnerability on a squishy ele but I don´t have a screen to prove it.

TBH when I play my thief Mesmer is the one profession I prefer to run away from rather than fight… :S