Guild Wars 2

The story goes like this – yesterday in WvW I met a warrior and had a nice and long 1v1 fight with him. He was probably a mix of carrion/apothecary gear (from what I assume) with +condition duration food.
As a sword/dagger thief with heavy initiative regeneration, condition builds don’t threaten me that much, but he was managing to put enough heat on me and was decently tanky so I couldn’t pressure him back enough and the fight ended in stalemate.
So here is my question, since I have no warrior, but am curious – can you, pro warriors theory craft me his build – he was using sword/sword // sword/shield weapon sets, I also noticed he was using sigils of geomancy, and he put confusion stacks on me several times, so I guess he had at least 20 in Strength for Distracting Strikes(did my research). That is all I can help with.

That’s not really enough info to theorycraft his exact build. He was probably something like 20/30/20/0/0. What I can tell you for sure is that these condi tank warriors are running lots of toughness and regen… obviously. My point being that he is a great counter to your sustained direct dps S/D. If you want to beat a build like this with a power setup, you need burst, condis(poison), or both. Now that warriors have gotten their sustain, don’t expect to just faceroll into melee with us and beat us down anymore. You’re going to have to neutralize his tools (toughness and regen) through some asset that your class has (condis or burst) to set-up the kill. Otherwise, you’re fighting an uphill battle.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help, but without being able to see the guy in action, there isn’t much more that anyone could provide other than an educated guess and some general guidelines for combating high regen/toughness targets.

My direct advice to you would be, try working a reliable source of poison into your build. We can cleanse ourselves a couple times depending on our tools, but against Healing Signet/Adrenal Health (which, in the absence of banners/shouts, is where lots of these builds get all their staying power), once you burn off our active condi protection, many of us have to fall back on using Cleansing Ire which reduces our healing significantly from Adrenal Health; so even though he’s still wiping your poison from time to time, he’s doing it at the cost of HPS… you’re still accomplishing your goal.

Thanks Veritas. I was actually just curious about what his build would look like, because out of 8 months wvw-ing it was the 1st time I saw such one. I am resigned that against some classes/builds I just can’t win with mine.
Actually I dropped combat for a bit to switch some utilities and the offhand dagger for offhand pistol. With S/P I could pressure him much more, but the encounter ended only when 2 passing by players from my server jumped him… and then I saw the major weakness of his build – no escapes at all. After thinking even a bit more – I don’t see it useful even in zerg vs zerg fights… no wonder I haven’t seen such warriors.