Guild Wars 2

Most are Backstab build, and i’ve been testing out new food sources.

anyway

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Loaf_of_Saffron_Bread

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Natures Protection in Natures Line = almost their entire burst doing squat.

P/D ones will probably still kitten you though.

LB/GS That’s my suggestion. Skill # 4 is your friend.

Would think even better vs Warriors. Everything they do seems to start from a stun/knockback.

LB/GS if you are running with others in WvW, Signet of Stone or Protect Me utility, Lightning reflexes.. We got plenty to use against thieves

Thieves got a hate for rangers I have found out :p

lay traps at feet…
attack the air in hopes of hitting them..
be ready to dodge..
go keybind the the 180 turn key..
use knock backs..
LB 2 can track through stealth..
listen for the combo if u cant see straight away..
burst the hell out him..
use pet f2 if he downs you.. amount of times thats saved me..

Thieves are pretty easy to kill for the most part. Just takes a while sometimes with them jumping in and out of stealth, which is fine with me it just lets my cooldowns come back up.

The only thief that can bother me is one that jumps me with 5% health or a PD thief, and most of the time they can’t kill me either, I have too much condition removal. They tend to give up.

Not giving them your pet to C/D off helps, forces them to blow cooldowns instead to stealth, but cuts your DPS down.

Nothing more annoying than an almost dead thief using a bunny to C/D off though.

Yea, multiple suggestions could work, I just found the one I posted to be quite interesting, I was having Thieves not even take 5k damage from me when they did their chain.

Was quite interesting.

You’re definitely right, I run NP in all my builds other than a single PVE DPS build and it’s great. Useful when you’re hit by a ballista as well, 5 seconds is an age for protection when you follow it up with another 2 second on dodge for 7 (more with runes like runes of the forge).

It works really well with runes of the earth as well (15% duration and 25% chance on being hit for another 3 seconds of protection).