Guild Wars 2

This video is not mine. I just wanted to share it with other players who like to test new builds/playstyles.

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and than the warrior have resistance and stability
ele great condi cleanse and ranger the same
engi good reflects

so as always 1 trick pony with a condi thief. if you didnt manage to get them down move along to another location

The warrior multi-stun builds are difficult enough to fight with Acro, Bandits and Shadow Step. I cannot imagine going in without at least one solid stun breaker on the bar. Whew and no condi-removal… hmmm…

Rending Shade strips resistance easily in combo with bountiful theft.

I’m working on another video now to explain the benefits of Rending Shade for thieves. Basically though, if you watch the video in my signature, it works by stripping boons each time I sneak attack and each time I steal.

I can kill any warrior that over relies on resistance rather quickly.

saerni.2584:

Rending Shade strips resistance easily in combo with bountiful theft.

I’m working on another video now to explain the benefits of Rending Shade for thieves. Basically though, if you watch the video in my signature, it works by stripping boons each time I sneak attack and each time I steal.

I can kill any warrior that over relies on resistance rather quickly.

so you lose deadly arts and poison dmg immobilize weakness etc… just for 2 boons removal when stealth?….

If you are constantly re-stealthing and attacking you can boonsteal a lot of benefits for yourself. And the boons you want to steal, such as resistance, protection, aegis, quickness, are a huge loss to your opponent as well.

saerni.2584:

If you are constantly re-stealthing and attacking you can boonsteal a lot of benefits for yourself. And the boons you want to steal, such as resistance, protection, aegis, quickness, are a huge loss to your opponent as well.

talking pvp were boons can easily reapply. so while you stealth to steal 2 boons or every 20 sec 5 boons you lose the point and not doing much dmg…
if using oh dagger you will lose some ini time to time. so your stealth ability coming from utilities or bound with oh pistol or d/p combo and with reveal gonna be hard for you…

maybe in group play where you are the boons stealer and your team is the dmg

messiah.1908:

saerni.2584:

Rending Shade strips resistance easily in combo with bountiful theft.

I’m working on another video now to explain the benefits of Rending Shade for thieves. Basically though, if you watch the video in my signature, it works by stripping boons each time I sneak attack and each time I steal.

I can kill any warrior that over relies on resistance rather quickly.

so you lose deadly arts and poison dmg immobilize weakness etc… just for 2 boons removal when stealth?….

In my own build I keep DA/Trickery and SA for that rending shade. Now here is the thing when it comes to warriors.

You are NOT just stealing two boons in a p/d condition build. You are stealing 5 in a quick burst and then 2 more every time you stealth unless that stealth attack avoided. Now I had issues with the warrior resistance build prior to switching to rending shade in that the BT was not enough to get at it. With rending shade I can now peel it away.

More importantly many of the warriors I meet have taken less condition cleanse in favor of Resistance with boon duration to combat condition builds. I can stack a whole pile of conditions on them but with that resistance they just ignored those conditions.

Now I can stack them on and steal that resistance and those conditions now tick. As importantly my Immobiles will now work. As a triple whammy , they no longer have that healing off that signet if they used it for resistance and must rely on adrenal. (which as a always stealthing thief you can prevent them from getting my avoiding their burst attack)

If you are talking PvP it immaterial as the mechanics of PvP do not favor stealth builds and from what I did watch of the OPS video, the fights were in WvW.