Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!
Are you a PvE, WvW, or just a new player wanting to try out PvP? Well you are probably bad! But it’s ok because everybody was bad when they first started playing PvP! People will let you know you’re bad! Ignore those people! Those guys are silly anyway and probably not much better themselves! That’s probably the most important rule for anyone coming into PvP! Have thick skin! People are unfrandly on the internet!
Okay frands! First thing’s first! If you are new to PvP, first check out this thread made by Grouch! https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/New-to-PvP-Start-here/
What that thread doesn’t tell you though are some tips on how to play when you get into a game! These are some basic tips that apply to all classes! For class specific information, check out the builds in Grouch’s thread or visit your class appropriate forum! Wahoo! Here we go!
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Don’t double dodge, meaning don’t dodge then immediately dodge again! Dodging is a huge part of how you stay alive in this game! If you blow both your dodges, you’ll be extremely weak to the incoming burst that will most definitely come! Obviously there are exceptions to this rule that are situational but generally you don’t want to double dodge! What many good PvPers do is to include the Vigor boon and/or Sigil of Energy into their builds! Having more dodges greatly improves your chance of survival!
You only need one person to cap a point! Having more than one person cap a point doesn’t make it cap any faster! If you stay to cap a point while someone else is already capping it, you are effectively giving the opposing team a numbers advantage in a team fight that is happening elsewhere on the map! By the time you cap the point and run to that fight, it could be already lost!
Your score does not matter! As long as you have 5 points, you will gain rank, and you will gain the same amount of rank as someone who has 500 points! It’s extremely, very, super dee duper rare to end a game with 0 points! Don’t sabotage your team just to gain points! Just because a person has the highest score doesn’t mean he’s the best! If someone has the lowest score it doesn’t mean he’s bad! Often the low scoring people contribute most to the team because they are constantly roaming!
Be aware of the opposing team’s whereabouts! If, for example, all 5 players on the opposing team are at mid, then their home point is empty! Someone, generally a high mobility class like Thief, should go neut or even cap that point! If you don’t, then they are just getting free points! If there is a teamfight happening elsewhere though, don’t full cap it! Neut the point and head back to the team fight! If you spend time to full cap the point, your team could very well lose a teamfight elsewhere on the map and your team will lose that point! Then as your team is respawning they’ll just go easily reclaim the point you just took and you probably won’t be able to stop them! You’ll lose more than you gain! A lot more!
If you are teamfighting, always have someone on the point! Usually this role falls to the bunker as the bunker is extremely tanky and can take quite a few hits! You only need one person on the point to contest it! You cannot contest a point if you are stealth or invulnerable (Elixir S, Mist Form, Renewed Focus)! If the opposing team captures a point, it can be extremely difficult to reclaim it! If they manage to get a decap, you lose all those free points! Make sure these things don’t happen!
If an opposing team member goes down, focus that person! Cleave him down! If you have the Poison condition, use it on the downed person! Poison reduces healing by 33% which includes attempted teammate revivals! If you have any kind of cc, use it on the people trying to resuscitate the downed player! Do not let him get back up! If you have Stability, try to stomp them out! You only need one person to stomp! If multiple people stomp, that’s just less cleave being put out and the downed person has a higher chance of being revived!
There are some neat tricks you can do while stomping! Stability will usually guarantee a stomp on certain classes! If you have any instant cast Blind skills (Smoke Vent, Blinding Flash), you can use those skills as you are stomping to blind their interrupt skill! The same thing applies to Aegis! You can block their interrupt skill! It’s very important to watch for animations so you don’t waste these abilities! You can also cancel your stomp and dodge the interrupt! Every class’s downstate interrupt skill has a very obvious animation! Watch for these before you Blind, Aegis, or dodge! If you can go invisible, you can stomp while stealthed!
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(edited by ArrDee.2573)