Guild Wars 2

I play Necromancer and why of that I’m weak against thieves (why I have not a single defensive skill, unlike all the other classes), but I was always able to figth them, winning or not.

Then I found that thief and I was totally Unable to hit him.
Simply spamming dodge and D/D skill 3, he was able to spam 25 bleed or more over me, killing me easy without make me able to remove the conditions (a necro with signet heal can’t clean conditions, only transfer them).
He killed the same way a teammate with Chronomancer and made my friend with Revenant have a really hard time against him (losing and winning at 50%).

After that match I was really curious about that build, so easy to use (3333333333 dodge 3333 dodge 333 Roll for Initiative 3333) and with a really high damage.
Then I tried to make a similar build. The result is that I killed really easy any necro, scrapper, warrior, mesmer I fought.
Really really easy!

I was barely untouchable and at the same time able to deal high direct and condition damage, without caring about enemy skills why I was able to evade every single enemy attacks.

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I was unable to use that build like the one that made me think about that build, and i’m not shure that it’s similar enough.
But if a player totally unexperienced in the use of the Thief class can kill easy a so large amount of classes, really really easy, I have only to think to what a good player will do with a build like that.

High damage, evasion spam (that also heal and clean conditions on you, if the enemy is good enough to stack any on you), and also a unexperienced player can use it.

I heard time ago about a condition build with D/D, is that the one?

Yeah, it’s cheap and easy to play, I can’t tell you how to counter them as a necro because I don’t play a necro, nor do I play that vile build. As a staff theif If they spam #3, then I also spam deliberating arc #3 as they finish their evade frame, what that does hit them for around 2K dmg, evade their last attack and also cure any condition on me as I am traited for escapest absolution. They tire them self’s out in the end and then I burst them down.

I have seen d/d thievs do this vs DH but get rekted hard.

Is this a serious post?

His build is actually horrible.
There are better ways to spam death blossom.

That said you almost only stack bleeds, a few confusions, poisons and torment here and there, it’s not that good against proper players really.

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The playstyle is very slow, but can be effective against various matchups. I had to constantly rotate to bail out a druid trying to hold home with my zerker berserker. Had to time those heavy burst shots between his evade spams, then dive in for a headbutt lockdown into burst. Miss, and he’d just keep on going and going.

When I play necro I find them easy to kill. Just put down staff 4 where they land and bam, condis transfered. Ez pz.

If you run around unpredictably and force the d/d condi thief to change directions to keep after you, there will be at a minimum a ~1/4 second window where you can land a transfer as they reposition. If you get a fair number of condis on the thief, don’t attack them because each evasion will remove a condition. Although they dodge more than any other build in the game, they can’t dodge forever. The more dodges you make them use trying to catch up to you, the fewer they will have to kill you with. You can also stick to team fights where teammates can easily kill the condi thief with DH traps, slick shoes, air overload, immobilizes, etc.

Have you tried playing Mesmer? rumors says Powerlocked can interrupt evasion when traited and have a chance turning him into a Moa.

poor Thief.

power block is even able to increases treb shot cooldowns on interrupts

just trait into curses for an auto plague signet on crit and then stop attacking him when you land it and watch him die or burn shadowstep

place a fear or putrid mark at your feet when you believe his second steel is off cooldow and perhaps it will do them in.