Guild Wars 2

I fought a thief the other day who was only going after Yaks, but I could NOT kill him, because he was all over the map. He would mug or something, then retreat, shadowstep, disappear. He constantly* had a way to shadowstep or something VERY far away from me. He kept doing quick burst on his target yaks like Jumps in, attacks, back out, then repeated until he killed it. There was at least 6 of us chasing him and we couldn’t get him.

Sooo, I’m really wondering if anyone knows of a setup that would allow this sort of in and out burst technique? I want to try it so bad because it is slow, but very effective and trollish :p

S/x 30 in acrobatic trait line.

Well you need the dodge trait out of acrobatics and the init on crit out of precision line.. then with S/D you can do alot of evades. The high initiative recovery S/D build is kind of popular in tpvp atm as you very hard to hit.

LuRk, do you know of any places that I could find that build that you mentioned?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-cF3F3;0Vwk0-J5JOFd0;9;49T-T-2;027A;128B;1UNk65;1KJG4KJG45Bv

This sounds more like a S/D + D/P stealth build to me, S/D with 30 Acro is always visible, so if they were vanishing as you saiid then it was a stealthy build.

0/20/30/20/0 is a good one. Its possible he was using the standard s/d evade build, but if he was stealthing a lot then probably not. He may have just been using stealth utilities with a random cloak and dagger thrown in. 0/30/10/30/0 can still stealth a lot even if they don’t really get any bonus from it.