Guild Wars 2

So I was fighting with these two people on Sea of Sorrows “Better Luck Next Time” guild tonight and I have never seen this thief spec this thief was. Somehow she would stack confusion on me. I had 8 stacks of it really quickly. I cannot figure out how she was doing it. As a thief how can you pump confusion? She would also burst me down with attacks and the only thing that was showing up was headshot and vital shot. no unloads ever in any of the fights. Im not sure wtf build it was but it was very powerful. First time I have lost a good fight in a long time. I am a wvw rank 165 thief myself.

She only hit me with vital shot, head shot, dagger storm in my registry the entire time and never for much dmg either. dagger storm wakittenting for 500 to 600 and the others for less than 300.

Not to mention the elementalist was impossible to do dmg to and was burst o matic too.

Crazy.

Assuming you were in WvWvW, then probably runes of perplexity.

Runes of perplexity + D/P headshot. It’s not that great with headshot since it’s easily condi cleared, but a REALLY good thief, who has his timing down, using P/D w/ scorp wire & basilik can really mess your day up.

a player by the name of koroshi has a video of his engineer using 6 of these runes, he applies 25 stacks of confusion in literally 3 seconds. He fights a bunker warrior who kills himself simply because he moved and tried to heal himself(?!!?!?) its pretty nuts.

Tie in torment on top of this and you have your “I win no matter what” buttons.

Running runes of perplexity has its pros and cons but can work pretty well will be posting some vids soon.

Lol @Better Luck Next Time. I’m run a confusion P/D thief on kaineng so I’ve gone against people from SOS and BLT..

Its a strong condition build, and to beat it 1v1 you need to outstealth it, since If you stealth before it can, it wontbeable to CnD unless theres a nearby mob/pet/ambient/towerwall.

I love how people still run P/D. Try something new, like S/P with runes of perplexity built for high mobility. Stack 25 stacks of confusion within a short duration, letting them waste their CD’s to get out of your multiple stuns, let them chase you. They’ll have to use a movement skill to catch you. At that point, the confusion’s taken 1/4-1/2 of their health and you use Shadow Return to finish the fight, just to let them think they ever had an edge.

It’s always great letting them think they control the fight.