Guild Wars 2

Recently in wvw I had a random 1vs1 with another thief and the fight quickly ended with both of us downed.
At this point I thought I was going to win, as I had my Thieves guild up hitting him and he did not, with no other players around. However, the silly downstate duel was over in a few seconds – he was spamming me for over 2k with each trail of knives, while mine was doing the usual crappy damage.
Im lvl80 in full exotic with a balanced-survival build (around 1700 toughness), no glass cannon.

- So, how can someone achieve such high downed dps? The + 50% dmg trait is certainly not enough. Is it really intended to have a spammable bouncing 2k+ damage skill on a class that is already hard to stomp? I am not sure I would have won the duel even if I had downed him with some hp left, 2-3 hits and I would be down too.

+50% downed trait + glass cannon could easily achieve that. I’ve hit that hard with it without the 50% downed trait.

Plus they bounce around your thieves guild guys and back to you twice…

^That right there. Nothing I enjoy more than an enemy thief using thieves’ guild when I’m running any sort of bouncy attack (shortbow, dancing dagger, downed attack).

im more surprised you were downed by a glass cannon thief with survivability