Guild Wars 2

I’ve tried Shadow Trap during an outnumbered zerg vs zerg fight. It’s a good enough escape (even with the obscenely long cast time, if you put it on a safe spot), but it just means going into the fight with 2 traps. I’ve also tried it in the middle of the fight, which lets me one shot people who trigger my trap. As a stun break though, it’s rather unreliable. If nobody triggers it and you just detonate it, it doesn’t necessarily shadow step you to the trap’s location. If somebody trips it,then you only have 10 seconds left on your stun break, so whether you use it or ignore it you still lose the stun break.

As a trap though, it’s quite fun. I can just set it by the entrance of a keep, go somewhere, activate if somebody triggers it, and kill said somebody. Since it has in built stealth when it’s triggered, I won’t be killed if it turns out a zerg triggered it.

reinforever.8902:

CrossHeart.9145:

Last night was the most fun I had on my thief since last year. The build you shared actually gave me the highest damage output on my thief with 25 stacks of might and 15 stacks of vulnerability (plus 100% crit chance from stealth). I finally felt strong and, not to mention, useful in WvW with this.

I do have to ask though, are you just relying on the condi removal from stealth? Wouldn’t it be safer to have Hide in Shadows as a heal or do you find the stealth from it redundant?

I do rely on the shadows embrace for condi removal, but the cool thing about this trait is that it goes straight to damage condis for removal. The problem with this is that immobilize, chill, and cripple don’t get cleared, so that’s why I take withdraw. Withdraw also has a higher heal to cooldown ratio so I get more hp in a less ammount of time, instant cast, a built in evade, and with the trapper runes and trait it also applies stealth. These are the main reasons I pick withdraw over Hide in Shadows.

I see. Thanks for the response! I’ll try roaming with Withdraw as a heal this time.

Last night was the most fun I had on my thief since last year. The build you shared actually gave me the highest damage output on my thief with 25 stacks of might and 15 stacks of vulnerability (plus 100% crit chance from stealth). I finally felt strong and, not to mention, useful in WvW with this.

I do have to ask though, are you just relying on the condi removal from stealth? Wouldn’t it be safer to have Hide in Shadows as a heal or do you find the stealth from it redundant?

reinforever.8902:

Well as per request by a few, I made a small montage of the build I just came up with. It’s a d/p power build that used runes of the trapper with all traps as my utility skills. It’s a lot of fun and gives a kitten load of cc. I left the build link in the description of the video. If you would like for me to go more into detail on the build or have any questions, feel free to ask away.

Video Link

I’ve thought about using the trapper runes before, but I always dismissed it since I thought the damage output would be too low to be viable. I was amazed when I saw your video and I knew I just had to test it out for myself.

Just like the others in this thread, I found it to be a very enjoyable build. Thank you very much for sharing it!

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All maps are green but DH garrison has held on for more than 5 hours now. Thanks to Flint Iron Fist for insisting on upgrades, and the brilliant and charismatic Andrew Sinclaire for smart, decisive commanding!

Hopefully it’ll push through til the next shift arrives. The battle is still ongoing.

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