Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry if this is a rather noob question. Especially for someone w/300+hrs on my thief, though I haven’t played her much for the past 3 months. I tried to search but couldn’t find the answer.

Last night while fighting a thief I was downed by another thief (d/d). When the thief, came to stake me, predictably she cnd’d me for stealth. I waited a second, then shadow escaped away in a random direction. Then once I landed in my new position, I was immediately staked and she appeared over me. Obviously, she could not have predicted exactly where I was going to land to shadowstep that fast (or maybe she did), so I figured there must be a trick to it. I vaguely remember this maneuver back when I used to play my thief exclusively, but I’m not sure I ever had the right tools to do it. Can someone remind me of the exact way to do this? I know on my mesmer I can do it with blink, but I’m never quick enough, and usually I just burst the downed enemy anyway. Thanks in advance.

either used f1 steal or infiltrator signet which shadowsteps to the targeted person.

Most likely stole to your location. That’s pretty much essential when you want to down a thief. Or infil signet as Logi mentioned. They probably had their finger on the button to press the second you dissapeared

Thanks, that’s what I figured. I guess I incorrectly assumed Shadow Escape dropped targetting.

As a little side note, this requires extreme luck on the account of stupidity, but if you are about to stomp an ele, and they do mist form, get shadowstep ready while you are in the stomp animation, hopefully they will stop in range and you just warp and finish them.

@RedSpectrum: That is the hardest one to land out of Mesmer/Thief stomping xD

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@RedSpectrum: That is the hardest one to land out of Mesmer/Thief stomping xD

Excruciatingly difficult…..