Guild Wars 2

Feel free to check out a fun spec I have been messing with Hope you enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qehdmw1xRjo&feature=youtu.be

2V1? lol… I have easily done 3v1….

That’s good for you pal, grats Just having fun, but I will try to get a 1v3 in in the near future. Hope I can make it happen, stay tuned!

Haha had a great time watching this – love the whine.

What Veldan said.

And we see two crippled warriors.

Well an OP thief vs 2 Warriors, why im not surprised at all.

Bahahahah glad I could be your giney pig

- Deranged Duck

good gameplay, gay music.

Not sure why this is trolling, check jumper’s build, using double S/D energy sigils, just to perma dodge. Change short bow for S/D and you have an overpowered build for spvp, because you know flanking strike also evades.

It’s “trolling” because it really aggravates your opponents coming from a silly spec. Just checked out Jumper’s duels and wow am I out of the loop haha.
Was unaware you can make a perma evade thief with another weapon set; will definitely give it a go.

Thanks everyone for stopping by and glad it was an enjoyable watch for those that enjoyed it.

P.S Please remember to respect all players in the video; the duels were all for entertainment purposes only with no intentions of insulting anyone in any way, cheers!

Trollwarz.

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This build reminds me of SWAY from GW1 or in general to sticky insects.

Warriors do not count. Play 2v1 against anything other than Warrior, then we’ll see.

I’m mad just watching. Hope this doesn’t pop up in any matches I play, because I might just prefer sticking my tongue in the electrical socket to fighting against this kind of trash.

What are you doing Anet?

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

I’m mad just watching. Hope this doesn’t pop up in any matches I play, because I might just prefer sticking my tongue in the electrical socket to fighting against this kind of trash.

What are you doing Anet?

Nothing truly good, I can tell you that much! I really think evasion / invulnerability / anything of that nature is over abundant in this game. I main thief, and I think it’s by far the most gimmicky trash the game has to offer.

How fun and hard it is to avoid damage … being able to evade more times than a politician being asked serious questions.

It wouldn’t be that bad if they couldn’t break out of CC at will.

Right now, you can’t hit them during FS (evasion), and you need to dodge LS to keep your boons and avoid the bulk of his damage.

Ok, so how do you hit him? CC him between FS and LS, right? But he can just teleport out of that (with no cooldown) an unlimited number of times. It leaves a situation where the thief has to screw up in order to be killed, or you have to sit there and eat LS spam to the face and hope you don’t hand him so many free boons that he destroys you.

People exagerate how powerful it is, but it does need some tweaks to balance it out.

Thank-you for posting 2 great video’s about what numerous players have been complaining about. What happens when high mobility or survive builds meet melee based professions.

It is small wonder every match you see mostly the same professions played over and over again in the same fashion over and over again.

This is funny stuff and is quite embarrassing to the developers.

It’s particularly ironic if you are a necro and remember them saying that the teleport while in DS (which required life force on top of cooldown) made necros “unkillable” in Beta.

They have such a fresh memory of Beta, but don’t even know what’s going in the game right now. Both Mesmers and Thieves (and still some Eles) can be pretty much unkillable if they want to…sometimes even 3v1.

Giving boon stealing to a profession with the highest burst and mobility and stealth and evades wasn’t too much….but a Necro teleport would be…lol

“Thieves are not effective in PvP.” © TheMightyAltroll

Well if you actually look at the whole video, he DOES get killed.

Cry OP as much as you like, but at the end of the day, this kind of build is purely for fun, while you may be able to dodge around like a jumping bean, you just DO NOT dish out enough damage to hurt them enough.
There are ALWAYS ways to counter an evasion thief, you just have to find them and think on your feet rather than sticking to mind numbingly boring rotations that you discovered worked against 9/10 people.
Everyone is so stuck in the mindset that “Thief is OP!! Thief is OP!!”. Why not try playing a similar build to the ones you see in videos and see how much relies on reaction time and visibility. Get em stuck in a corner and they’re screwed, react faster than them and they’re screwed. Play your class better than they play theirs, you guessed it, they’re screwed.
Stop whining and find ways to counter them.

And btw, yes I do play thief. Not evasion based, and not stealth or backstab based.

A big GG to Arenanet to put such mechanics…awesome…great job

Enmity.3428:

“Thieves are not effective in PvP.” © TheMightyAltroll

He’s probably talking about TPvP. This thief will probably be too effective holding back point though.

I had the displeasure of going against a team with 3 of these thieves and two phantasm mesmers yesterday in a 5v5 hotjoin. Oh god, the pain…

If those two warriors waited 15 more days, they could’ve won.

That was quite fun to watch lol thanks for posting. Talk about broken mechanics. I wonder if anet feels its fine for players to be able to spam evades over and over. I guess
since its been like this for ages they approve of this playstyle.

Evade’s and stealths need to be toned down definitely or completely reworked. Practically any fighting game where you have these types of mechanics that is open to abuse, it will never be balanced – ever.

please do not necro. thief is worthless now, and warrior is god mode….

a lot has changed in the span of 4 months.

Excalibur.9748:

please do not necro. thief is worthless now, and warrior is god mode….

a lot has changed in the span of 4 months.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with a thief’s worthiness ._.
It is just for entertainment.
I recently trolled around with this build with Jayvux few days back, and it seemed untouched by Anet and still trolly as evaaa

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

please do not necro. thief is worthless now, and warrior is god mode….

a lot has changed in the span of 4 months.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with a thief’s worthiness ._.
It is just for entertainment.
I recently trolled around with this build with Jayvux few days back, and it seemed untouched by Anet and still trolly as evaaa

a lot has changed. you can try that build vs my warrior. i’ll type /sleep and I still doubt you can do any damage to me.

Excalibur.9748:

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

please do not necro. thief is worthless now, and warrior is god mode….

a lot has changed in the span of 4 months.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with a thief’s worthiness ._.
It is just for entertainment.
I recently trolled around with this build with Jayvux few days back, and it seemed untouched by Anet and still trolly as evaaa

a lot has changed. you can try that build vs my warrior. i’ll type /sleep and I still doubt you can do any damage to me.

A lot has changed in the last few days? 0_0 I am pretty updated with the state of thieves. First off, it isn’t a competitive build hehe; the build is originally made for merely evading and fun not for killing, please refer to the video’s description on YT; dmg output is its weakest link. Challenging someone’s weakness, such an admirable man

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

please do not necro. thief is worthless now, and warrior is god mode….

a lot has changed in the span of 4 months.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with a thief’s worthiness ._.
It is just for entertainment.
I recently trolled around with this build with Jayvux few days back, and it seemed untouched by Anet and still trolly as evaaa

a lot has changed. you can try that build vs my warrior. i’ll type /sleep and I still doubt you can do any damage to me.

A lot has changed in the last few days? 0_0 I am pretty updated with the state of thieves. First off, it isn’t a competitive build hehe; the build is originally made for merely evading and fun not for killing, please refer to the video’s description on YT; dmg output is its weakest link. Challenging someone’s weakness, such an admirable man

oh ok. well why is the thief losing HP if it’s “perma” evade?

Ixl Super Ixl.7258:

2V1? lol… I have easily done 3v1….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baZ9LhGzZvc

Hardly a 1v2.
The guardian was useless and the mesmer walked in with 1/10th health.
I’ve legitimately 1v3’d bads on my trap ranger before, its rare to get a game with that sort of a lineup of bads… but yeah…

Nice video, thanks for posting.

The build / playstyle is not effective against most classes. It takes ages to wear a guardian or warrior down with bow and if they care to wield a bow(W) or scepter(G) it will be virtually impossible.

There is no major role for this build in teamfight and in hotjoin you can really manage with anything you find fun to run.

Excalibur.9748:

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

please do not necro. thief is worthless now, and warrior is god mode….

a lot has changed in the span of 4 months.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with a thief’s worthiness ._.
It is just for entertainment.
I recently trolled around with this build with Jayvux few days back, and it seemed untouched by Anet and still trolly as evaaa

a lot has changed. you can try that build vs my warrior. i’ll type /sleep and I still doubt you can do any damage to me.

A lot has changed in the last few days? 0_0 I am pretty updated with the state of thieves. First off, it isn’t a competitive build hehe; the build is originally made for merely evading and fun not for killing, please refer to the video’s description on YT; dmg output is its weakest link. Challenging someone’s weakness, such an admirable man

oh ok. well why is the thief losing HP if it’s “perma” evade?

I don’t understand why you are so passionate and persistent with attacking this build with all these rainbow of things lol. What has Jay or this build ever done to ya? x3

To satisfy your curiosity, here is the answer,
YT comments:
“Zoran Ostojic 3 months ago
if its perma evasion how come you take damage??”

Jayvux.4128’s reply:
“That is a good question Zoran, I was expecting to run into this question haha. But by “Perma evasion” I guess I am moreso implying that evasions are always at my disposal endurance/initiative/CD-wise as opposed to always being able to evade an attack; of course reflexes play a huge deal in the build as well x)"

So in a clearer perspective, if you were just playing with your skills without any enemies around, you would always be able to pull out countless times with close to virtually no delays. When you are on the battlefield and you couldn’t react fast enough to Knockdowns, etc, it may cost you an evasion or two.

Looking at the video, it does seem Jayvux was tempted to risk his evades to land some damage which seems to pay off in the end

I don’t get why you are so passionate about attacking this build with all these rainbow of things lol.

Well firstly, this video is 4 months old and it paints an unfair picture as to the effectiveness of this build.

Secondly, it’s not perma evasion. Even assuming disabling shot has no after cast which I doubt, it still has 1/4s activation time so at best that’s 75% evasion uptime.

3rdly, this build has no real damage at all if you want to maintain “perma” evasion. If you’re evading, you’re doing no damage. And if you’re using disabling shot you’re basically also doing no damage. If you’re using auto attack or cluster bomb then you’re no longer evading.

Excalibur.9748:

I don’t get why you are so passionate about attacking this build with all these rainbow of things lol.

Well firstly, this video is 4 months old and it paints an unfair picture as to the effectiveness of this build.

Secondly, it’s not perma evasion. Even assuming disabling shot has no after cast which I doubt, it still has 1/4s activation time so at best that’s 75% evasion uptime.

3rdly, this build has no real damage at all if you want to maintain “perma” evasion. If you’re evading, you’re doing no damage. And if you’re using disabling shot you’re basically also doing no damage. If you’re using auto attack or cluster bomb then you’re no longer evading.

O.O Your seriousness is rather amusing. You are looking into this build a bit too deeply. In a basic sense, it does justify the “perma-evasion” aspect of this build.

1.) As I mentioned before in my earlier post, we tried it out a few days back, and still proves to be just as effective. No traits/skills were trifled with by ANET, but if so, it was pretty much virtually unnoticeable.

2.) As I mentioned, you are looking into this too much ._. You can clearly see the consistency of evasions in the video, the end. Y SO COMPLICATED?

3.) What does dmg have anything to do with evading…? It is a troll build. The build description itself states it is not meant for damage and only for evading. Pay attention lol! And you make it seem that just because it is a build based on evasions, it can’t have a hint of anything else added to it ._. Put damage aside, they were eliminated in the end if you are ultimately implying that perma evasion isn’t perma if you can’t kill, “3rdly, this build has no real damage at all if you want to maintain “perma” evasion.”

TLDR; Stop trying so hard to be a party pooper sheesh haha

Excalibur.9748:

Aiblush.3865:

TLDR; Stop trying so hard to be a party pooper sheesh haha

Well some people are taking this video seriously. I mean why would you nerf evade just based on this video? The spec isn’t that OP at all imo.

You are the one to talk about others taking it too seriously? Lol >_>!
And hey, one li’l thing can make all the difference.
Big things come in small packages

Aiblush.3865:

Excalibur.9748:

Aiblush.3865:

TLDR; Stop trying so hard to be a party pooper sheesh haha

Well some people are taking this video seriously. I mean why would you nerf evade just based on this video? The spec isn’t that OP at all imo.

You are the one to talk about others taking it too seriously? Lol >_>!

I wasn’t gonna, but some people made some comment about broken mechanics and wants to nerf evades cuz of it. So I just wanna see if it’s really that broke after all.