Guild Wars 2

Ok as the title says. How do you 1vs1 a decent Thief? Pistol Whip and Death Blossom give me major problem if the Thief has a clue.

Their passive speed is to fast to really kite, even without initiative their damage isn’t all that bad and whenever you think you’re getting somewhere they just stealth. Or you bump into a Death Blossom build and bleed to death.

So yeah, what kinda build and tactic do you guys use to fight Thieves?

Distortion is instant win for me (since I use dual swords I have a low cool down source of it as well as an illusion from a block that I can just cast F4 to get)

the scrubs will spam their initiate away and never hit you, and if you trait for the retaliation they’ll kill themselves

they also kill themselves off confusion aswell.

1) Bring dual images or something on your utility bar to break the stun(blink works as well but in this instance, for vs. this one class, dual images is better).
2) Use any clones you have to, as Tigger said, confuse them (which is why dual images is arguably better here against the scrub thieves who only know pistol whip and such).
3) Take advantage of things like your f4 for distortion, the sword’s blurred frenzy, dual sword’s block, sword + pistol’s magic bullet etc. while trying to keep confuse up.
4) You’ll have made the thief kill itself, essentially, while not allowing it to damage you much.

There are probably other strategies for other weapons, but against the pistol whip scrubs just do what Tigger said. All I’ve written above is what he said + some extra info. Now, what can they do to counter this in turn?

Well, run away. They can exit their combo, switch to a ranged weapon and proceed to outrun you as they flee to get a better position. You’ll have to either give up on them or use some other strategy, being happy that you’ve at least stopped them from scrubbing you.