Guild Wars 2

I just hit 80 on my Thief alt 2 weeks ago. I love it for scouting in WvWvW but I’m having an extremely rough time in Dungeons. My main is a Guardian so adjusting to the squishiness is really hard.

HotW P1 is the hardest Dungeon for me so far. I just can’t figure out how I’m supposed to be useful. On the stairwell fight all I can do is use shortbow but even then I have to hang over the edge and get hit by ranged attacks. Then on the Final boss the only thing I felt useful doing was killing the retaliation totem.

I’m currently 0/20/30/20/0 and I use d/p or s/p and shortbow.

Smoke Screen Aldus to stop his projectiles and melee the crap out of him, or use S/P to time PW and regular evades against his attacks, retreating back up the stairs when minions spawn.

Against the Butcher, switch out to S/D and constantly remove his boons. In your current setup, you have a copious amount of evades at your disposal, so you should be fine in melee. Totems pretty much become worthless when you constantly remove his Protection and Regeneration over and over.

Have you played sine they buffed the Butcher? His boons reapply almost instantly now and his Totems respawn fast. I went S/D thinking the boon removal would help but they “tick” back on every 2-3 seconds.

I have. It takes some precise timing, but if you have sufficient initiative regen (Quick Recovery, Kleptomaniac etc.) it’s possible to have a very high downtime of the boons. Ie. you have to try and hit Larcenous Strike just as the boons refresh. Since his build doesn’t have Kleptomaniac, I’m not sure how it will fare, but it should be fine. You will never have 100% downtime, but you will have a very high downtime at least, enough to just allow teammates to ignore the totems and focus DPS.