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A competent player will never eat your torment, it’s very telegraphed skill and easily avoidable, its also easy to clean it.
And the OP has 1.7k condi dmg, I doubt Sword/sword will help him a lot…
BTW, I’m not saying it’s impossible to kill thief(same or better skill than you), it’s just hard for me to belive someone will actually autoattack with 14 staks of confusion or run all over the place with 5 stacks of torment… thief has generally more stealths than mesmer and also better access to poison/conditions in general…
A good thief will not eat my torment but like I say 80% of them just eat it.
Mesmer will not burn a thief but the thief can’t burn the mesmer too in this configuration.
Usually i play with sceptre/torch and sword/focus. I use sigil of fire on my sword, sigil of Doom on my sceptre and rune of perplexity on armour.
All this equipment help me put some more condition.
I don’t kill the thief in 10 second but the combat will take sometimes and in long run I kill a lot of thief like this.
Sword and focus help me to chase ppl who run.
But I know against a power thief it’s more about who make a mistake first. Against condition thief just run … I don’t know what to do they put a lot of condition in short time.
They key to kill thief with this build ( i run sometimes same build ) is the timing.
To mitigate the attack, u can use : 2 sceptre, F4, Stealth ( with PU you have one block free too ), 2 from sword and 4 from sword.
It’s a lot of utilities. The best one in your setup is 2 sceptre which apply a 7k torment if you are full Dire armour.
80% of thief just attack without thinking and timing. When thief stealth, you wait 1 or 2 second and use your sceptre. If he hadn’t attacked you when block is active, you stealth with torch or other skill. Try make some clones to brain him. If he kills them he gain some condition on him.
Try to heal in stealth and with 3 clones up if you use the active heal or just put almost every time 3 clone up if you use the signet.
2 sceptre is 10 second cool-down which is very short, use it a lot but with timing. with experience you will predict more easily when thief will attack and you can counter it.
Most of time with this simple tactic I kill them or they run off. I’m not a very good messmer but power thief are easy in this build. Condition thief is another problem …