Guild Wars 2

I’ve got a Norn theif up to level 23, and I’m stuck on his personal story quest “The Championship”, where I have to go 1v1 with Mikkel Toivosson (level 19 quest). I’ve got decent equipment for my level, since this is an alt with plenty of hand-me-down drops. I’ve tried a couple of builds, and can never take off more than about half of Mikkel’s health bar before being downed.

I am not fast enough to keep him off me and he turns so fast I have not been able to land backstabs. I’m going down in about 30 seconds, so I only get to use each 6-0 skill once, though I’m not that dextrous at hitting those keys with my left hand anyway.

I’m feeling like I’m simply not good enough to play a thief, and that’s not a fun place to be.

Latest build I tried is this: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAoaVlUmCPHcS6E95Ex2jeqTe6zgsjV/ANB;TsAg0CnoixEjIGbMuYkxssYYxECA

with 0/10/0/3/0 and Power/Precision and some vitality bonuses on equipment.

Helpful advice appreciated.

It’s not you, it’s the quest. I’ve seen a lot of Norn complain about how hard it is to beat that guy. That it’s nearly impossible even. And most of them have done a good 5~10 tries to get him down.

In the end it will come down to luck I think.

I was able to do it on my first try with engineer. Been a while, i can’t recall the build i used. Was probably the classical Net turret + Rifle, and kiting to oblivion.

As a thief, how would pistols+caltrop skill+caltrop on dodge traits work? His mobility was pretty bad iirc.

I’ve never done that mission, but is he a melee boss? Because if so you should be able to just kite him pretty easily with a shortbow making use of DS or P/D with CnD and sneak attack.

pistol whip haste build might be able to do a good amount of burst while keeping him weakened, or sword pistol and just beat on him while standing him in the blinding puddle…. when you go out of init then just evade and run away for a bit before re-engaging or like Incurafy said run a p/d kite build and he will never touch you if he’s melee.

As far as I know norns get the summon ice worm racial, although it doesnt move it tanks really well so that might be a nice utility for you.

good luck

Eastwind.7209:

I’m not that dextrous at hitting those keys with my left hand anyway.

I can’t help with the quest problem, but I thought I’d offer a suggestion for this problem.

Not sure if it will work for everyone, but what I did is reset my Q,E,A and D keys.
Q became a secondary for 7, E a secondary for 8.
A became strafe left and D became strafe right.

I never really used keys to just turn, instead I’ve mouse turned, and it makes my first two utility skills easier to activate.

Thanks for all the responses and good suggestions, I decided to just level a bit more and get lvl 25 equip and try again (a few more times) later.

Caltrops, keep poisons /bleeds up and dodge like a mofo.

I would avoid backstabs in personal missions. Backstab thief is hard under even the best circumstances, and a one on one fight is the worst. If you’re going dagger/dagger, load up the conditions and run around in circles as he bleeds out a bit, then repeat. You want him bleeding while you’re healing. If you have a short bow, load up poison fields and cluster bombs, picking away.

Hmm i did it on my first try, rolling a sword/pistol build, when i got low just when ranged and kited him with pistol/dagger