Guild Wars 2

I’m a 0/20/30/20/0 Glass Cannon D/P & SB Thief. I really have trouble against good P/S Engineers in a 1v1 Duel. This engineer I faced out-healed my damage and My self healing wasn’t doing great against his conditions (Bleed, Burning, Confusion) and everytime I went stealth he knew when to use grenades on his area which made it very hard to land a backstab.

Should I treat P/S Engineers like Bunker Guardians and just avoid them or am I doing something wrong?

Interrupts. That’s it.

You’re probably not doing anything wrong, Engies overall have always been more or less of a stone wall for any kind of Thief, and they will often outheal your damage if you don’t put a ridiculous amount of initiative in attacks (which often results in death if it fails and they have ALOT of tools to block direct damage).

However outside of the Magnet they have poor chasing abilities, if you really don’t feel it at all you can just ignore it.

You don’t need to outdamage their healing if you have a pistol offhand. Healing denial will do a lot. If you by any chance use S/P or S/D, stunlock works wonder.
Hide in shadows would solve the both bleed and burning. Remove condition on stealth the confusion.

Don’t use D/any in a duel with an engie, its kinda useless. Go with sword instead.

Shortbow is a similar story since it won’t bounce as most engies won’t use turrets, plus some use supply crate as a finisher. Also engies range will kill you faster.

You need to keep extremly mobile and constant stuns/dazes will help.

Don’t stand behind him or near him constantly doing melee damage. They can create a ton of condition fields, blinds and snares to keep you stuck.

I honestly don’t find thieves much of a threat as my engineer, I kinda feel like I’m fighting a war and often tone down my skill. I seldom if ever lose in 1v1 situations to thieves (or wars).

I wouldn’t say avoid engineers but it might take some time to get to a position where you can beat them comfortably. Also fighting with help always helps.

Engies who running grenades and know what they doing going to nuke you everytime you even remotely go for a backstab , you’re timing is going have to be quite good or you’ll be hit with ample amounts of conditions / direct damage before you know it. Dagger is quite terrible against us but only thing lately thats even worth its weight in salt is that S/D daze out of stealth..tampers with rotation like no other lol

A good way to land that backstab is to use shadow shot and immediately follow up with BS. You’ll shadowstep to the enemy and do backstab instead of shadow stab