Guild Wars 2

Rescuing Quinn in Claypool seems impossible. As a level 8 thief, I just can’t do enough damage to complete this before dying. And, restarting from a checkpoint, unlike earlier parts of the instance, puts me back in front of a fully restored NPC, instead of one who still shows the damage from earlier attacks.
Any help?

Never had any big issues with this one, but you can try Dancing dagger skill (dagger #4) for kiting the mobs and quite effective killing. I hope that helps ;-)

Had similar Issues, tho I chose to abandon Quinn. Poor guy got cut in half after
Dunno if its thieves being weak in the early stages or the human story being harder than the rest.

Try the following:
Pistol main, dagger offhand, short bow alternate, slot skill venom.
Just stack up bleeding and poison while spamming the kitten out of your dodge key, using stealth-attack to stack up even more bleeding and switching to shortbow if it gets really dangerous(especially against ranged condition builds, shortbow is way better for getting away.) I don’t know what kind of opponents you face but in the “abandon Quinn” storyline, Doc Howler was a real pain in the kitten stacking bleed and poison like there was no tomorrow.