Guild Wars 2

Can thief no more be used to contest enemy keeps ?

I tried following but the enemy keep just would not get contested ..

.. I went to enemy keep, used shadow refuge for loads of stealth, went to the door, dropped caltrops on the door [ that doesnt take stealth off] , then hit backstab on the door to come out of stealth .. obviously, all the guards near the door attacked me, so shadow stepped away for reveal debuff to go off .. used dagger pistol stealth for safety .. .. by this time, 30 secs pass and the caltrop skill is refreshed .. so generally ran around dodging a few players who were there, again went to the door, hit it, dropped caltrops… ran away .. I tried this MANY times, .. BUT .. on mini map, the keep just would not show swords as contested .. checked for 30 secs delay before the swords appear etc etc .. what am I doing wrong?

or , for a thief, what all he can hit to contest keep? [not talking about siege weapons] and how much dmg is needed to be done to say door, guards etc?

thanks

Caltrops dont do any physical dmg, and gates can’t bleed

Carpboy.7145:

Caltrops dont do any physical dmg, and gates can’t bleed

Agreed, but then what of the backstab that I hit on the door?

Probably either need more damage on the gate or not hitting it long enough.

One hit on the door does not contest a tower or keep. I don’t know how much damage is needed. But it often requires about 5-10 hits. And the crosses appear much later usually.

i know some things influence this.

Time
amount of people attacking
dmg

i have seen many wierd things when it comes to contesting

Just trick shot the guards a bit, that always works for me.

Seriously? What thief mechanics has to do with it ? You smash the gate/guards then it either gets contested or not. How can you possibly think that it would have something to do with “thief mechanics”?

It does only take one hit to contest a keep. However, there is a 30 second delay between hitting the gate and swords appearing on the map. The waypoint immediately becomes unavailable though, and the 3 minute contested timer will appear for any friendlies in the keep.

This is coming from a “Let’s see how long I can kill every yak and keep every structure contested” thief