Guild Wars 2

Guys since a week I have problems especially with the rangers’ entangle (also others from that kind). Cleaning condition does not work and it holds you super long, and as we all know thief without mobility is a dead thief. How do you manage it?

If you have sword main hand, Infiltrator’s Strike works. I’m also fairly certain Withdraw works well, as does ROI but I don’t think many people use that( I do but whatever). Or if you happen to be using Sbow and you have allies around, throw a cluster bomb or two and free everyone. The immobilize pulses every 1.5 seconds so if you do use something that requires porting back to remove the condition(shadowstep or infiltrator’s), make sure you dodge out of the area quickly. Or just wait till the 1.5 sec immob wears off after teleporting and get to killing that ranger.

I find shadow’s embrace usually removes the immobilise from binding roots pretty consistently. I do have problems with other types of immobilise though, such as pin down from longbow warriors or the immob from venom share thieves. There not only is the duration super long but I usually get stacked with a buttload of other conditions, which I can only remove one at a time in stealth. So it is a bit random luck which ones get removed. In those situations Shadow step will get you out of the trouble area, and if you really need to get rid of conditions after that shadow return is useful too but as Necrotize said make sure to dodge straight away! Hide in Shadows works really well too as it will remove most of the damage conditions freeing shadows embrace up to remove the immobilise. It really depends on how many other conditions you have on you at the time ^^

You can also use steal to get out of the area too, it won’t remove any conditions but it will get you out of the roots. As will shortbow 5

Looks like everything has been covered here but another tip for good measure; if a Ranger is using Entangle and doesn’t have Signet Of The Wild he doesn’t have any stability. Even if he is using SOTW he only has 8seconds of stability so if you have access to CC make sure to abuse it. I love Entangle on my Ranger but it’s a very situational elite that means if I’m using it I have no stability, so I have to be careful how I use it.

Thieves are the best poised to escape entangle. Any blink will escape it (steal, infiltrator signet, shadow step, infiltrator arrow, infiltrator strike). Any stealth will escape it. You can CnD the roots (seriously, just hit 5 if you have an offhand dagger equipped — don’t even have to aim). Withdraw will cleanse it, as well as shadow’s embrace + hide in shadows.

Entangle is pretty much useless against thieves.

Dagger offhand thief laughs at entangle, not only the ranger just wasted his elite on me, but he also provided an easy target for CnD!

Like I said, it’s been happening for a week or so (before that I could escape easily with blinks). It happened several times that the animation for the skill starts and I don’t move at all just appear on the same spot still in entangles. But if you are saying that it’s still OK with you guys maybe it’s lag from my connection.

It could also be a bit buggy for you. If you happen to use the “jump dodge” combo, I’d remove that. If you jump and then get immobed, sometimes you end up caught just above the ground and sometimes you can use skills, sometimes you cant, and it messes with hit boxes.

Also skills that have cast times can be affected by immobilise if you haven’t dropped target. For example sometimes my black powder won’t trigger if I have a target selected that is behind me. Have to either spam to keybind to get it to cast or drop target. This shouldn’t affect instant skills like most of the shadow steps though so probably not what is causing trouble for you

Entangle doesn’t provide a 5 or w/e secod immobilize, it applies a 1 second immobilze per second for 5 seconds. That is probably why you might cleanse it and still be stuck because it is reapplied.