Guild Wars 2

Quentin Fields.1295:

dreztina.4820:

You keep saying D/D eles counter thieves as if that’s some indisputable fact. There are more builds than glass cannon thief, and the more utility and heal focused thieves are just insane. They heal themselves even faster than ele’s can, and more often since all they have to do is stealth to heal, and properly built thieves can stealth any time they want to. They don’t have the huge burst dps, but they can certainly either wear the ele down over time (a long time), or stalemate the fight with both sides healing too much to die.

The only fact is that a thief will NEVER die unless they let themselves. Maybe some bad d/d thief who is just spamming heartseeker will, sure, but any decent thief is 100% unkillable. They won’t win every fight, but just about, and even if they lose, they still won’t die unless they decide to be nice and give away the kill.

I’m asuming that you don’t play a Thief from your words.

The builds you are talking about are Condi Thief builds.Which are depending on their condi damages and mild heals.

You can’t wear down a D/D Ele as you say coz they have a nice condi removal setup on their traits.And no my friend a Thief can’t overheal a well built D/D Ele since they can heal themself to full hp within seconds by changing to water attunement and using couple skills there with the right build.Also “IF” Ele isn’t a bad player , Thief can’t run away.Ele can chase you and catch you or can CC you and won’t even let you run away.Your only actual option is shadow refuge but with a lil timing luck if Eles knockback from lightning 5 is not on cd , Ele won’t let you stay on shadow refuge so you won’t be stealthed anymore.

Please atleast don’t flame my words if you don’t actually know about the build you are talking about which is i use %90 of the time.

A well played thief will not lose to a Ele. Likewise, a well played D/D Ele will not lose to a thief. However, if both players are commited to the fight and stay to the bitter end. The condition thief has the advantage over the D/D Ele while the D/D Ele has the advantage over the burst D/D thief after the stun break.