Guild Wars 2

…a hambow warrior? I have downed very few of hambow warriors, but that was because they were just terrible. But against a good hambow, how does a thief beat them? My friend replied with “you can’t”. Are they really this OP?

Shows you what kinda people play it, eh.

Just for the record, that “good warrior” was probably on an alt.

Zacchary.6183:

Shows you what kinda people play it, eh.

Just for the record, that “good warrior” was probably on an alt.

Hambow is THAT op, eh?

pd condi kill them all
also p/d power
dp would take some time
d/d have hard time
s/d boring for both

Condi work great against them, a.k.a p/d. You can kite their hammer for days and only dodge “pin down”. The rest is either to slow to reach you by strafing or doesn’t do anything significant.

Power all you can do is boon steal and evade hoping for the best, because its hard to bait their low cooldown mayhem.

P.s boon stealing for w/e reason does not prioritize their 20+ stacks of might, so it “might” be a while. If it’s pvp I just move to another location, almost always the hambow kittens come in packs.

NinjaEd.3946:

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P.s boon stealing for w/e reason does not prioritize their 20+ stacks of might, so it “might” be a while.

I see what you did there.

I should mention this is for pvp, mainly duels. I don’t run into too much problems against warriors in WvW.

a Hambow’s animations are really easy to see, dodge the stun, and the knock back.. the fight is pretty easy from there out.

Tengu.5267:

a Hambow’s animations are really easy to see, dodge the stun, and the knock back.. the fight is pretty easy from there out.

Stun, knockback, knockdown, pin down, arcing arrow. Then from there you can feel free- oh wait cooldowns are back.

Depends what build you run and what sort of hambow they run.
S/D Acro shouldn’t be too difficult.
D/P on the other hand doesn’t win vs Hambow warrior 1v1 right now, especially if its to contest a point.

Its not about hambow warrior being “OP” its just about matchup, and right now D/P thief doesn’t have a good matchup vs hambow warrior. (Probably 3-7 in favor of Warrior)

Yeah, i don’t run d/p, I run the same traits but with s/d

Tengu.5267:

Yeah, i don’t run d/p, I run the same traits but with s/d

Then I think you’re still at a disadvantage.

26006 S/D is probably also about a 4/6 matchup vs Hambow, advantage Hambow, especially if the Hambow is running Soldier’s setup. Better than D/P though. Berserker is easier to kill 1v1. Probably 5/5.

The issue with the matchup basically comes down to Combustive Shot. Especially on a smaller point, this skill is very strong. It makes melee combat vs a decent hambow warrior quite difficult as anytime you try to pressure the warrior he gets free pressure back onto you, and his superior sustain will basically allow him to tank the damage you can put out, while you just die to burning of combustive shot.

How I would deal with fighting a Hambow warrior is basically use your Sword #2 very well. Whenever combustive shot is on the ground, just back out of LoS, and re-engage once its gone. Save your Whirling Axe for his Pindown.

At the end of the day though, its still not a “good” matchup for the thief IMO.

You might have a hard time killing them, but you should be safe against them with D/P.