Guild Wars 2

I just remembered about this today, but a few days ago I was playing hotjoin and ran into a S/P thief running a really weird build.

Somehow he seemed to be getting off his entire pistol whip chain basically instantly against me. He was obviously using haste as he was only ever able to open with this attack, but I’ve used haste before with pistol whip and whatever he was hitting me with was only a fraction of the haste + pistol whip attack chain that I’ve seen.

It seemed like his pistol whip chain was somehow tacked onto his steal, as he was running the daze on steal trait and as soon as it went off all his pistol whip damage appeared in the combat log.

Is this some kind of trick I didn’t know about? Or was somebody using a lag switch or something? As far as I could, I didn’t seem to be lagging.

You know what, I just tried this gimmicky build out in PvP for myself and I see what he was doing now. He used haste + pistol whip, and then used steal while the pistol whip was running. Ignore this stupid post lol.

Ameno.6813:

You know what, I just tried this gimmicky build out in PvP for myself and I see what he was doing now. He used haste + pistol whip, and then used steal while the pistol whip was running. Ignore this stupid post lol.

Yup, same thing works with Inf Signet and Shadowstep.

Was it effective?

Faeyd.5094:

Was it effective?

It had great opening burst, probably the best I’ve seen on a thief. But after that he was rendered pretty useless for the duration of his haste cool down. In a couple instances he caught me off guard while I had my elixir s on C/D and was able to make quick work of me though.

Thanks Ameno. I had a play around with it a bit myself again and it was a bit too binary (burst works or completely fails).

Yeah S/P can be pretty OP if used at the right time. They have multiple teleports to land that burst and also decent immobilzes.