Guild Wars 2

In WvWvW, I took a few shots at an Asura, who I later figured out was a thief. He disappeared, then showed up next to me. Immediately I’m down, reduced to throwing rocks.

I thought I was one-shotted, but a view of the combat log shows
5093 stealth
427 Double Strike
5500 Cloak & Dagger
9501 Backstab
…various other strikes on the order of 1,000.

Jeez, I think I’ll try rolling a thief. It looks like fun!

You should drop berserker’s gear for knight’s gear.

a few suggestions.
1. Use Fear me Shout
2. Get some more Toughness-Vitality gear
3. Use a warhammer to aoe cc
4. Endure Pain
5. Fall back till his stealth is gone.

Ah pesky thief, you will have to have "endure "pain or “shake it off” ready. As op suggest fear me seems to work the best.
I have given up totally on berserker gears on my axe/warhorn , rifle warrior. You may pump out good Dps , but u are gonna die really quick and fast against a thief even if the thief is half decent. Move around . Oh #5 on rifle is a life saver against sneaky players if u can master and time it right.

Never have any issues with thief before, they usually get tore up 1v1 in WvW.
I’m an sword/axe warrior, using knight accessories, rampager gear with chest & legs being power/vit/cond. dmg.

If you’re still using signets time to drop em & get some real ultility skills. Fear me, shake it off & endure pain really helps ALOT in WvW.

Equip a shield, a stun break, when you get hit once swap and hit 5. You’ll take about half your HP in damage but you only need like 3 attacks to kill a thief.

MH sword is funny, just turn around and press F1 to win. He stun breaks? Swap to bow and press 5. Or use a hammer and daze/knockback/knockdown, or OH shield and hit 5 when he stealths, the block should last as long as the stealth iirc. Many options to deal with thieves 1V1. Only real annoying thing is the rendering issue.

Thieves are delusional, man. There’s no counter to this outside of gearing tanky. Even then it’s not going to help much unless you can flee to allies.

I feel like that rendering issue is what really makes them a bit imbalanced in addition to the speed of their attacks and how often they can use it. People complain about 100b wars but that build requires AT LEAST 2/3 of your utility skills and you always SEE the warrior coming and bulls charge is an ez dodge. While thief burst does have counters it basically REQUIRES having one of those skills. If you want to run burst as a warrior you are VERY exposed and it is just a fact that thief burst>Warrior burst.

Running a warrior geared for survival will have little trouble with thieves, but a more damage based war will have a lot more problems. I have a set of Berserker armor and like to run a burst build now and then especially in WvW where movement speed is important and running around with a hammer and CC build won’t kill people so fast 1v1. Thieves may be squishy but got so many tricks that setting up their burst is much easier than a warrior.

Silly question, but is your warrior lv80?

I have met so many of them in WvW and they were like toufu!
If they can’t get you down on the first strike… return a few chop chop and they are dead!

Go full knight gears with soldier runes, berserker accessories and weapons + crit dmg sigil.

I thought I was one-shotted, but a view of the combat log shows
5093 stealth
427 Double Strike
5500 Cloak & Dagger
9501 Backstab
…various other strikes on the order of 1,000.

That Thief did not crit his Backstab.

Also, for the peanut gallery that hasn’t encountered this build: you have no time to cast Fear Me!. All the damage above lands within 0.5 seconds (with good macros or practice, it lands within 0.2 seconds).

So your only options are to trait for Endure Pain at 25%, get heavy Toughness (at which point you will have about 20% of your HP remaining after the combo, which won’t save you since the Thief has >8 initiative left), or to use EP prior to actually being attacked (e.g. predict a 0.5 second burst that can be initiated at 900 range), etc.

Poor options.

Note: the reported log doesn’t even have a Sigil of Air proc, lulz.

Absolution.2851:

Silly question, but is your warrior lv80?

Yup. So i should have access to all the skills & traits.

Try this build, it has been invaluable for me. Feel free to tweak it around

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Anfuhrer-s-warrior-build-to-maximized-spanking/first#post486881