Guild Wars 2

Last night I was testing a new build on my Necro in solo que and the one build I just could not seem to beat was a S/P thief. I just could not make any headway at all against the frequent headshots and pistol whips. Utility-wise, I know he was using smoke screen and blinding powder. No signets.

I know the build has weaknesses, but I’m not sure which ones I can exploit. Any suggestions?

On a necro it may prove a little trickier as cc is kind of a counter to your lack of mobility. There aren’t any huge tips I could give you that would cause you to win fights against an equally skilled s/p thief. There is a brief moment of aftercast on pistolwhip that you could take advantage of but as I said before, it’s kinda just a bad matchup for you.

Blind him so he misses the stun of the pw, allowing you to move away or take the trait that gives retaliation on death shroud and watch him die in the middle of his 333 spam (retal only works if you are geared for power).
Immobilize also works well, use it after he casts infiltrators strike so he has to port back to remove it – after that he will want to infiltrate again to get to you, dodge it and he is out of initiative – procede to melt face.

You have to take the advantage of s/p disadvantage, which is the inability to be mobile (in comparison to thief weapons) and heavy initiative costs so avoiding infiltrators strike/basi venom is the way to win.

play terror necro, you don’t even need to be good at that

Stand on the point from which the thief used Infiltrators Strike

Watch S/P gameplay

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Blind him so he misses the stun of the pw, allowing you to move away or take the trait that gives retaliation on death shroud and watch him die in the middle of his 333 spam (retal only works if you are geared for power).
Immobilize also works well, use it after he casts infiltrators strike so he has to port back to remove it – after that he will want to infiltrate again to get to you, dodge it and he is out of initiative – procede to melt face.

You have to take the advantage of s/p disadvantage, which is the inability to be mobile (in comparison to thief weapons) and heavy initiative costs so avoiding infiltrators strike/basi venom is the way to win.

Thank you. I will try to keep these tips in mind as I fight them in the future.