Guild Wars 2

I was playing around with guildies last night in a PvP arena and was having trouble with a engi. Toolkit pull, shield push, bombs/nades. I could survive, taking full advantage of mobility and terrain, but that was about it. And that was very difficult.

I’m the never say die version of P/D, 0-0-30-20-20, carrion.

I’m pretty sure I’m not supposed to win that matchup, especially 1 v 1, but wanted to check here just in case I was overlooking something that’ll make me feel silly.

Hi,

in short: yes, the odds are not in your favor.

- Pressure him with multiple conditions

- caltrops(big and small ones) should be used to force him use condition removal, while u wait in stealth to reapply new ones; may be this time with a covering condition.
I believe skale venom could do the trick, even though it is not the strongest utility by itself.

greetings from a fellow thief and engineer

Against a friend I used:

Smoke Screen whenever he put away nades and switched to pistol, if he switched back to nades I spammed blind projectile finisher through it.
Shadow Refuge for Sneak attack + Life Steal, or long stealth waiting for HiS.
Shadowstep for burst condi cleanse.
HiS for extra condi cleanse.
Daggerstorm for projectile reflection and stability.
Blind and condi cleanse on stealth.

Was a long and tough fight, but got him down in the end while having 3k hp left myself.

Other tactic, venomshare + thief guild, nuff said, didn’t use that since it’s OP 1v1.
But I get quite torn apart while on my engi by thieves performing that combo, unless
I carry “convert all conditions into boons”-elixir.