Guild Wars 2

I recently made a thief and leveled him quickly to 80. I was trying a P/P build with rune of the trapper, but I’m having a hard time getting the sneak attack to work. I have done P/D, and no problem with cloak and dagger followed by sneak attack, but a lot of the times when I put down a trap my next shot is a regular attack, not a sneak attack.

Is there some rule or trick to this?

-Jeff

try to put your trap where the enemy wont stand on them then you have few seconds to sneak attack

like run backward and lay down trap use sneak and then you enemy proc it by standing on it

I think i figured it out – cloak and dagger stop your auto attack, traps don’t. So you have to deselect, trap, then re-select. Real pain.

or just face away from the target or disable auto attack.

jaif.3518:

I think i figured it out – cloak and dagger stop your auto attack, traps don’t. So you have to deselect, trap, then re-select. Real pain.

A technique I like to do is forcibly sheath my weapons. The “draw weapons” function (I think it’s called that) is not bound by default, but you can set to to a particular key combination. For instance, mine is shift+z. This makes it so that you can make your character draw or sheath their weapons. In general play, there’s not much use to it, but if you forcibly sheath your weapons during combat, it will actually stop your auto-attack from occurring. It’s helpful with stealth abilities since it prevents accidental revealing.

As messiah mentioned, you do also need to be a bit careful about trap placement. Shadow and ambush traps won’t reveal you if the enemy touches them, but needle and tripwire will. Of course, if you drop it right on top of them, it will stealth you after it hits them, but if you stealth before they hit it, then you will get revealed.

I know there’s a bug with ranger traps where they fail to stealth you sometimes, but I don’t know if that occurs with the thief traps. Note that I said “fail to stealth”, not “reveal”, as the stealth buff is never applied in the first place. I haven’t seen it happen to me with thief traps though.

jaif.3518:

I think i figured it out – cloak and dagger stop your auto attack, traps don’t. So you have to deselect, trap, then re-select. Real pain.

just dont put your AA on auto that you must press a botton to attack so it wont reveal you