Guild Wars 2

This trick relies on shadowstepping, whether it’s from Steal, the signet, or whatever. Shadowstepping will not interrupt skills that are currently in animation or channeling. Cloak and Dagger (Dagger 5 skill) has a rather noticeable animation time before it actually hits, it takes a moment. Anyways, because of that casting time, you can begin to use CnD and then immediately Steal and you’ll step to the target, your CnD will hit and you’ll stealth.

Trait Steal to do dmg (it’s actually a fairly decent amount of dmg).

try out this combo.

Start channeling Cloak and Dagger -> Steal -> Backstab.

I’ve had some pretty decent success with this build. Any foe with 60% or under HP will probably die near instantly, but if they happen to evade when you steal it’ll fail miserably.

Just something to add to your repetoire of thief skills.

I 100%-0’d a necro doing this, although he very obviously had no investment in Toughness or Vitality.

There is an entire build based on this …

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Jinzu-s-Burst-Backstab-Build/first#post139741

Nice, that’s pretty much exactly what I’d been doing. I disliked the playstyle though, because if you fudge your opener, the whole thing just doesn’t work, and you become such an easy kill.

Yea, kinda fail because the bright and intelligent designers added a positional on a staple ability for a class with very limited stealth even when specced for it. So unless the target has their back to you when you steal+CnD, you still gotta move around them, and if they move at any time, or if they dodge, or if there are a ton of partical effects flying around so you cant tell front/back.. you are porked

Yea, kinda fail because the bright and intelligent designers added a positional on a staple ability for a class with very limited stealth even when specced for it. So unless the target has their back to you when you steal+CnD, you still gotta move around them, and if they move at any time, or if they dodge, or if there are a ton of partical effects flying around so you cant tell front/back.. you are porked

I’m fine with all of this except for the particle effects. For kitten’s sake, let me turn those off.