Guild Wars 2

I play a burn guard and i insta incinerate thieves the moment they decloak because i have a 1800 in total teleport as well as constant aoe burn. When i have tried thief myself i was insta roasted by ele’s ring of fire. How do you thieves avoid to get smoked short of staying away and capping empty points all game?

Taking trickster over bountiful theft helps. Cleanse conditions on dodge too, dodge through the field that applied the burn to cleanse again. Other that that, never 1v1, +1 instead basically.

Thief really should have been named assassin, as that’s the only build style for direct damage that really works tbh.

SA+daredevil+traited 16s heal+revenant runes+shadowstep+sigil. Burn guard is basically a free kill.

A really good tip as a daredevil with EA is to vault/dodge through their purging flames. Very easy condi clear.

I see. I build my burn guard wrong. Because i dont even have purging flames ahaha so thiefs cant dodge out.

Generally a Burn Guardian only has that one condition for damage. EA can often keep up with this albeit there should be another source of cleanse in the build.

In my s/d build I just use #2 in quick order to flush out the burns.

D/D condition is EA coupled with shadowstep.

Staff build I use stealth with SE and shadowstep.

Generally against a guardian you can do ok. Issues arise with classes that can load multiple types of conditions in short order and against these you have to boost your cleanse sources.

SlayerSixx.5763:

SA+daredevil+traited 16s heal+revenant runes+shadowstep+sigil. Burn guard is basically a free kill.

Interesting use of Runes. I was also thinking Runes of leadership coupled with one of our shorter cooldown elties (impact strike) would be nice here.

Infiltrator’s Return. Since they’re only applying burn, this can be re-used repeatedly and the disengage allows for better sustain in general against core guardian.

I just…yolo… I love burn guards, same combo as when I met em (though I hate em to death) Steal+ Pistol whip or the fun one was Unload/Unload/Unload.

babazhook.6805:

SlayerSixx.5763:

SA+daredevil+traited 16s heal+revenant runes+shadowstep+sigil. Burn guard is basically a free kill.

Interesting use of Runes. I was also thinking Runes of leadership coupled with one of our shorter cooldown elties (impact strike) would be nice here.

But the loss in power just makes me cringe, although the increased vigor uptime sounds nice.

SlayerSixx.5763:

babazhook.6805:

SlayerSixx.5763:

SA+daredevil+traited 16s heal+revenant runes+shadowstep+sigil. Burn guard is basically a free kill.

Interesting use of Runes. I was also thinking Runes of leadership coupled with one of our shorter cooldown elties (impact strike) would be nice here.

But the loss in power just makes me cringe, although the increased vigor uptime sounds nice.

A lot would depend on weaponset and other boon sources. As example if you can keep three more stacks of might up , coupled with more regen/fury/vigor/swiftness just because of that thirty percent boon duration , you make a big dent in that loss of power.

Don’t get hit.
I engage only on my own terms (stealth allows me to do this), I just make good use of the environment to avoid getting hit and I keep my dodges ready as soon as I see the guard precasting a skill from a distance as it means he’ll likely teleport onto me.

Basically, I always keep a route of escape at hand because I like to think ahead.

Vornollo.5182:

guard precasting a skill

Wut? Both JI and s2 were instant a minute ago when i last checked^^