Guild Wars 2

IT seems since the update that thieves are all running super mobile\cloak builds in spvp and I’m finding it very hard to kill one I’ve tried condi builds but their heal always removes my burning and bleeds and so I switched to squishy burst build and it works allright I can deal with them alittle better but they still tend to get away then come back over and over till I’m dead … I don’t think I’m the only person having trouble with them cause the other day my whole team was trying to kill one and she kept shortbow teleporting away

Also I’ve wondered this since launch why don’t we have an elite underwater that benifits powermancer? Like flesh golem should become an undead shark

One dose not simply kill a thief. Or a Mes/Eng.

Spear also is pretty useless underwater as you have to guess where the melee ‘spot’ is that doesn’t ‘miss, miss, miss’. It usually seems to be don’t bother hit the body, or even brush there teeth, just brush there hair and you actually hit them, unless they move.
Oh, then there’s the LifeForce gen, 3% 3rd attack if Spear’s auto-attack didn’t miss that pixel.

Underwater tho, minions attack lots faster, and your weapons actually get combo finishers!
But yeh, condi weap/elite is only sort of viable underwater we have.

As condi:
Drop reapers mark, Swap, /sit on it, wait for 99% of thieves, spam tab if you saw him pop stealth, when you get target on F1, 3, 2, 5, F1, do rotation for condi with golem in the middle, Drop swall on his kitten , move trough it, swap, drop all marks – in 4/5 cases thief dead or will bleed to death in next 3 seconds, 1/5 he ran away

Power
Drop reapers mark, Swap, /sit on it, wait for 99% of thieves, spam tab if you saw him pop stealth, when you get target on F1, 5, 3, F1, Dagger 3, Drop wells, (optional offhand skills/warhorn to interrupt skull/his handwave), spam 1;

gratz you just learned how to kill almost every thief that is trying to gib a necro (smart ones just instagib the guardian/ele or make your life a living hell with decaps or whatever else jumper and co do).

in WvW is even worse. most of them running " Perm Stealth" at this moment.

It’s nothing you can do if they stealth and then run away to reset. unless u got some

lucky shot or put your trap down.

I run condition Fear duration build, if I see a thief stealth I switch start scepter/dagger, he hits me I switch to my staff with Sigil of hydromany to apply chill, stack conditions with staff and fear, switch to death shroud shackles and fear, that might be enough to take them down depends on the opposing players skill/build. if not rinse repeat stacking conditions with scepter, remember to stand in their smoke field to keep them from stacking stealth from heartseeker