Guild Wars 2

I’m a returnee to pvp.
I don’t want to have to test this out, I should be able to find this information somewhere right??

I was chastised for using ranged from inside the capture point to cleave a downed player. My teammate indicated you get 1 point for cleave, 5 for a stomp.
Is this true and is there some place I can read about specifics like this?

I really appreciate your help and hope to see you on the field.

Not true at all.

they were probably just incentivizing you to stomp over cleaving. which if the enemy has either 2 engies ranger or 1 ranger and engie then stomping is a smart move as they can outrevive alot of cleave.

Merril.7620:

I’m a returnee to pvp.
I don’t want to have to test this out, I should be able to find this information somewhere right??

I was chastised for using ranged from inside the capture point to cleave a downed player. My teammate indicated you get 1 point for cleave, 5 for a stomp.
Is this true and is there some place I can read about specifics like this?

I really appreciate your help and hope to see you on the field.

Your teammate is quite uninformed. I don’t usually say that but it’s provably false that you get more/less points if you cleave or stomp, they’re spreading false information for no good reason. It’s the same amount of points for all kills, 5.

Sometimes stomping is better than cleaving and vice versa. Power revs, power GS warrior, and symbolic guards are better for cleaving, most anyone else should stomp if they have the chance. That being said, if you’re stomping thief or mesmer then you’re doing it wrong, thief will teleport out of range, mesmer will negate the stomp. So it’s very situational.

It gives the same amount of points, but it depends on the situation whether its better to cleave or to stomp. If the downed player is going to get rezzed anyway, just cleave to delay it. If you are a necro and your teammate is a druid or ele for example, then you should cleave and let the druid or ele stomp. Always decide which profession is better at cleaving (good damage and AoE) and which one at stomping (access to stability). You can even decide to lure the enemy team into rezzing, so that you can cleave down multiple of them.

He’s probably thinking of the point system in wvw. That point system doesn’t apply to PvP.

sometimes cleaving is the best, other times go for stomp.
i play zerkers and its not uncommon for one downed enemy to turn in to 2-3 finished enemies because they tried rezzing inside my damage

Liewec.2896:

sometimes cleaving is the best, other times go for stomp.
i play zerkers and its not uncommon for one downed enemy to turn in to 2-3 finished enemies because they tried rezzing inside my damage

It’s awsome when you’re a Warrior and they try to rez through 100b + Arc Slice.

sephiroth.4217:

Liewec.2896:

sometimes cleaving is the best, other times go for stomp.
i play zerkers and its not uncommon for one downed enemy to turn in to 2-3 finished enemies because they tried rezzing inside my damage

It’s awsome when you’re a Warrior and they try to rez through 100b + Arc Slice.

muahaha yes

i even play full glass fire staff ele in unranked sometimes for fun and i’ll have people standing under 7k ticking meteor showers, in a 5k ticking lava font while i hurl 4k damage fireballs at them….and they expect to finish rezzing XD

Kako.1930:

He’s probably thinking of the point system in wvw. That point system doesn’t apply to PvP.

PPK in WvW is still 1 point regardless if you cleave or stomp.