Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have a good match up guide for thieves to learn from?

I’m mainly looking for match ups for my d/p build but I think it will benefit all thieves if we came up with one for all our metas atm.

Bad 1v1 matchups are Guardians and Engineers. It’s hard to find a reason to 1v1 these, so in general don’t. A lesser opponent is the only reason to regularly take this matchup.

Hambow and D/D ele aren’t favorable matchups for D/P when they’re being driven by highly skill players. A good hambow will always wreck your day as D/P, you have no shot to 1v1 a top tier hambow. D/D is winnable, but you have to land the ice shard chill while they are in or have just left water and hope it doesn’t get cleansed. This will keep the skills on cooldown long enough for you to widdle them down and hopefully down them, but it’s a rough tall task vs top tier D/D ele’s.

Shatter mesmer can be an interesting matchup for D/P. Utilize shortbow, Avoid the shatter, and go on the offensive when the shatter is down. If you can avoid the shatter it’s a favorable matchup for you.

Rangers should be a favorable matchup, so long as you avoid wasting your steal on blocks/evades depending on the build. Vs Power Ranger in Longbow stick to them like glue with shadow shot and infiltrator’s signet and you’ll out dps them, vs greatsword avoid the the knock block and bear bash. Use stealth, but don’t try to be too tricky vs a power ranger with your stealth, just out dps them.

Vs skirmisher or trap ranger builds it should be favorable, it’ll be a longer fight, but you can win as long as you condi cleanse correctly, meaning don’t miss your steal, against those evade heavy builds. Regardless of ranger build always be aware of the pets and their skills.

I don’t feel like I’ve played enough good necro’s to guage whether it’s a favorable matchup or not. It depends a lot on their death shroud. What I will say, is you don’t want to charge it for them. So stealth and avoid hitting them while they have spectral armor up, watch for spectral armor to trigger when they’re at 50% health. Have your condi cleanses available and don’t waste them. The fear from steal is hard to land, it’s best to use it immediately after you stealth. Vs terror chains, let them stack fear before stun breaking.

Thanks for your reply! I agree with everything you’ve said. Condi heavy builds have been giving me trouble lately but the generosity sigil on my short bow helps a little.

Bkkills.2174:

Thanks for your reply! I agree with everything you’ve said. Condi heavy builds have been giving me trouble lately but the generosity sigil on my short bow helps a little.

Save HiS to be your condi removal. Use Shadowstep as a condi removal too. There’s no simple way to explain when to use these properly vs condi specs.

A good rule of thumb for HiS is if you’re at 2/3 or lower health with a lot of condi’s you want to use it.

There is no rule of thumb to follow for shadow step, other than once you’ve initally casted save the return for as long as possible in case you get condi’s on you.

If you get loaded up with confusion, torment, bleed, burning, and poison, then use HiS first, and if you have too many stacks of torment and confusion use shadow step.