Guild Wars 2

So i decided to spend some more time on my thief since engineer is bugged to hell.

Struggling quite badly with mesmers and eles, I know that Ele’s should be avoided but historical I have never had issue vs mesmers on my thief.

The last few days I noticed that I am struggling A LOT vs them. It just feels like they always have distortion when needed and can ALWAYS counter burst me without fail, even when I bait CDs from their big skills like mindwrack.

What am i doing wrong? Any advice?

What build are you running? In general if it’s a straight 1v1 fight against a mesmer, I prefer playing s/d. I find a good spot that gives me line of sight blocking to initiate my infiltrator’s strike from, get in, cnd+tactical strike, get both air/fire procs, then port back out while they waste cooldowns trying to counter. After a few seconds go back in again. The idea is not to spend an extended amount of time vulnerable to their attacks… because they’ll out damage you. Use infiltrator return as an opportunity to consume plasma in relative safety as well (Improv >>> exec when fighting mesmers).

When playing with d/p the idea is similar. You might start by doing a shadowshot backstab, get a few autos in, dodge out, and stealth through blackpowder (consider multiple HS through the field to ruin their timing). Shadow refuge can be used to give yourself a big reset for steal to come back off cooldown and combo backstab+steal to restart the engagement right.

“Meta” D/P. Pretty much the strat I was trying, guess my timing is just off, I just never got a gap.

Just burst and stealth longer. If it’s condi Mesmer just give up unless you outnumber him…

swinsk.6410:

Just burst and stealth longer. If it’s condi Mesmer just give up unless you outnumber him…

Uh. I don’t have issues with PU Condi at all.

If the fight takes too long, i just leave, no reason to drag it out.