Guild Wars 2

In between the heartseeker spam and the infiltrator arrows, and their speed signet, how do you catch one?

Or is it just impossible?

Depends on the class. HS spam is simple, just hit em with an immobilize (HS does not give an evade). Infiltrator’s Arrow is a bit more tricky, best bet there is just forget about it unless you’re an ele or warrior.

Roll an elementalist or another thief…

quite impossible but as swinsk stated, Roll an elementalist or another thief.
In addition these two classes seem to walk toe to toe, therefore u get a better shot at catching a thief.

Lyndis.2584:

In between the heartseeker spam and the infiltrator arrows, and their speed signet, how do you catch one?

Or is it just impossible?

Follow classes can catch a thief:

Ele
Warrior
Ranger
Another thief

There are 8 classes total. Out of those 8, 4 can catch you. Balance I say.

Yea, I didn’t really mention warriors because I think they suck for my type of playstyle.

They can certainly catch a thief especially if they are S/S + GS and leg spec.

HS is generally not going to get them that far if they are using it to escape the speed it actually gives isn’t exactly brilliant and could only be used 4-6 times depending on traits before waiting on initiative. Just cripple, chill or immobilize them during that time, immobilize roots them in spot the other 2 reduce the distance HS travels to the point where its almost pointless to have tried.

Then you have Infiltrators arrow, which can be used twice back to back if you have full initiative then its approximately 8 seconds between each extra one, so if they have been trying to use HS (or attacking) before switching they most likely will only get 1 off, utilizing repeated infiltrators arrows will give a speed of around that of swiftness (perhaps a tiny bit faster) if you just chase them once the run out of initiative they won’t really get much further without utility support (for another shadow step and such)

Against signet of shadows just use swiftness, you’ll move faster than they will unless they use swiftness too at which point you’ll both be moving swiftness speed.

Worst case scenario is they are using signet of shadows AND infiltrators shot AND shadowstep utility at which point they have a good chance to escape through the 3 shadowsteps generally being enough to break LoS and annoy people, actual speed wise though, running at swiftness speed would eventually catch them up unless they have traited and built for lots of initiative regen and/or are using swiftness themselves (again requiring a fairly specific trait build)

Of course if you have any “mobility” moves yourself you’ll be able to keep up or in some cases overtake them easily, as others said profs like Ele, warrior and ranger can general keep up if not overtake completely.

No class can catch my thief, he’s built for speed.
And no class can escape my thief as well, unless same thief with similar build, but I doubt.