Lyssia Iceblood of Gandara – I sometimes win… but not often :-(
Thief ... wow :-(
Don’t be discouraged! If you’re afraid of being picked out by a thief (like the one in the vid), stay with the zerg. Or stay with thieves. Against many, thieves don’t kill as efficiently as they would against, say…3. WvW is a ton of fun; and it’s a great place to learn how to play your character to its full potential.
Dragonbrand,
Things to consider:
1. The thief in that video uses a build centered majorly, if not entirely, around damage output stats. She has absolutely no defenses. If/when caught off guard, without cover, away from teammates, or even if caught by another ambush build, she’s screwed. As evidence, she twice almost dies to damage from already downed players.
2. The targets shown in the video were cherry picked for “omgfastkills!” as they themselves packed very little in the way of defenses. For a burst oriented ambush character, these players are like candy.
The video showcases a very, very particular build, and should not be considered representative of thieves on a whole.
when you have 10.8K hp and base toughness with medium armor, you are easily the squishiest character there is(gc ele is fatter due to survival abilities. Thieves stealth can not prevent damage directly, and i’ve killed countless thieves by rolling over shadow refuge and then guessing their position based on “1” rotation)
As for enemies in the video: 70% had that green arrow near their nickname. Everyone should know that means they are much weaker because they do not have full bonuses from gear, traits, not capable of using lvl 80 food/wrench buff and some may
not even have all skills learned.
And another 85% (well 60% of underleveled and 25% of not underleveled) were glass cannons who seemed to never really care about a thief(how many times did you see dodge in the video coming from enemy? how many times did you see them using autoattacks in downed state?)
Rest 5% is that warrior…. who tried to melee a thief down with a rifle.
As the post above me said there were 2 cases when thief got almost downed from already downed people, well the difference between these 2 people and the rest that they used “1” in downed state and other abilities instead of laying like a tree.
Bonus quest: count an amount of ambushed warriors, guardians, necromancers.
(edited by Evalia.7103)