Guild Wars 2

Hello thiefs, I’m having some problems with some of you

I dont have a clue what to do against condi thiefs, I presume it’s something with d/p of perhaps something else. Problem is the amount of invis it has and how it can unload condis on you/me.
Its even worse if it’s inside a tower or something because anet thought it was wise to let them stealth from walls now?

So care to tell me what the big secret is? It’s not condi’s itself, they clean them in stealth I think?

Dire P/D thieves are easily one of the hardest specs to kill. Especially if you’re a thief yourself since you have limited condi removal. How to beat them? You’re gonna need to stun/immobilize and blind them as much as possible. They rely on CnD (offhand dagger stealth skill) so if you can blind them before they use it, they’ll blow their initiative. And the stun/immobolize is to keep them from dancing around you.

That’s about all the advice I know how to give unless I know more about your particular spec and stuff. Hope I helped!

Just /laugh and run away, thats what im doing.

Run. Pretty much if they have even a single brain cell the build will carry them to beating you. Even SE will not remove the conditions fast enough in most cases.

Well that doesn not sound promesing But what if one is in your keep? It might be annoying enough to even kill the lord with so much stealth.

I have the problems with not just my thief, but also on (power)ranger. i wondered if going full condi solves this but they must have pretty good condi cleanse with so much stealth.

Pretty much it’s just restricted to getting more people to burst it down.

What class are you playing? There’s not much you can do, but it’s probably class specific.

inside a keep? lure him into a stealth trap. preferably in the middle of npcs and lord for teh extra lulz. watch him q.q as he uses all his ini on 333333

godofcows.2451:

inside a keep? lure him into a stealth trap. preferably in the middle of npcs and lord for teh extra lulz. watch him q.q as he uses all his ini on 333333

LOL…. best plan ever.

When I played P/D condi I found out really quickly that my lack of closers and burst damage pretty much prevented me from taking down any target that didn’t want to fight me.

A P/D spec is one of the closest things thieves have to a viable PvP bunker. It’s going to be very hard to kill. Unlike other bunkers, however, P/D doesn’t have any really good ways to make sure you stick around long enough to get killed, or enough burst to kill you before you can decide to retreat and get some friends.

The core weakness of P/D is reliance on stealth. Cut off the stealth, either by making him waste init on failed C&D, blocking/reflecting his pistol bursts so he has to waste init or cooldowns to clear conditions, or otherwise kittening up his attack chain, or forcibly applying revealed with traps/skills. and you’ll make short work of him, or at the very least scare him off.

P/D condi is one of the builds that you can walk away from, he can kill you only if you have no burst condi cleanse and you get condi bombed.

If you want to kill a condi thief, you need tons of condi cleanses and burst to kill him fast. Usually what I do when I bump into one, I keep avoiding his attacks/try to deal dmg and see what he does for a while. Most are very predictable and once you figure out his attack pattern and make him think your burst isnt that high, CC/immob him and burst him down.

OP needs to tell us what class he’s using to fight