Hello, I recently tried out pvp again, I played before and had a lot of fun as Mesmer which is a very good class for me in pvp, I’ve always had a fascination with Thief though and I liked the bleed ability so I went condition thief.
Now I also have my Thief at level 80 for wvw and I ran into an issue. Thieves that are condition build reek havoc on NPCs in WvW, I can clear camps solo, not easily but I can do it if I focus on what I’m doing and dodge A LOT (I <3 Vigor)
However in WvW I noticed a trend when I fought other players, other players seem to do one of three things, they either run away from me and since I have no chase aside from steal and don’t want to burn the ini on my leaping attack, I just have to let them go. The second thing is they just heal, which works AMAZINGLY well to mitigate bleed damage based on how bleed mechanic works with intensity or they just cleanse which is what they are supposed to do anyway. =P
My issue though isn’t all the ways a person can survive an encounter with me, its that people don’t have to actually evade me to win a fight. DB is my bread and butter, I try to space it out though so that it’s timed for when I know I can land all the hits and in wvw I can do that except in the case where the enemy is simply moving to the left or to the right even to the slightest degree, they will just walk out of the range of DB, at first I thought I was just seeing things but then I realized people in their attempt to get away from me after they exhausted their dodges simple had to walk away in order to completely make me blow 4 ini and look silly at the same time.
Is this how DB is supposed to work, or maybe I’m just doing it wrong? Sometimes I have to spam DB in spvp because a mini zerg is always just around the corner.
Anyway considering that I am a pure condition build thief the fact is that my opening strikes make the big difference and so I try to spam db until my target(s) realize I’m there. For me that is a total of 17k damage after 16 seconds or 1.1k damage a second. Most of the times this wont happen though since that requires 9 stack bleed within 3 seconds and most people are already walking when I see them so even if they don’t see me and aren’t trying to dodge they simply walk out of the db.
There might not be an issue here and I might just be a noob though. =/
So after all that my question is, is this how Death Blossom is supposed to work?
I would like to know because I do find condi theif to be much more fun that back stabbing thief but I don’t want to invest heavily in a character that really can’t do much in a major aspect of the game in my hands, I’m sure there must be someone out there that isn’t having the same problems I am, there always is and again I might just be a noob.