Guild Wars 2

So earlier today I can across this thief in SPVP that I actually wasn’t able to kill, he wasn’t able to kill me either, but it is the first person I have fought in a very long time that I wasn’t able to kill.

He was a heavy bleed thief, had caltrops on dodge, I’m guessing he had to have return endurance on dodge, as well as sigil of energy, because every time he wasn’t fighting he was dodging spamming caltrops. Question do caltrops have a internal cool down or a stack limit? Now I’m guessing the thief had 15 initiative as well, because when he wasn’t dodging he was spamming leaping death blossom stacking bleeds like a champ lol.

Now I’m not complaining or QQing I’m coming to your forum to ask for some advice and learn.

I’m a D/D heavy water specced (lots of condition removal) ele.

I tried to keep him as cc’d as often as I could but none of my attacks were connecting between all the dodges and LPD.

Anyone have any advice on how to beat this guy? I’m not just ok with stale mating an opponent I want to be able to kill him and win, no matter how much work it takes. Thanks in advance!

Edit: also this guy was getting initiative back really fast.

My guess he was traited heavy into defense, and those thieves are hard to kill. The upside to fighting them is they don’t hit hard at all, and their only real threat is leaving the stacks of bleed up for any amount of time.

The utility skill Caltrops has a CD, the weaker version we can trait into on dodge doesn’t have a CD.

Best way of killing this kind of thief is to out last him, or get someone else to help. This game wasn’t designed on 1v1 situations and you might have to deal with a stalemate if you meet him 1v1.

Edit: You could also change your traits to be a little less defensive, but I don’t think you would want to do that just for this 1 encounter possibility.

AoE fields are the best way. There are openings between dodges and blossoms and by the fact that he needs to be on you to apply bleeds you should try dropping fields around yourself. Other incredible almost to the point of cheating counter is any limited open space – cliffs, ledges etc. Let them fall.