Guild Wars 2

I’m playing S/D Thief and I can’t seem to find any guides or videos where it’s explained the basics of a 1v1, looking around I found a custom match called “1 v 1 arena” or something similar to that, long story short people there where really hostile no one I whispered wanted to even give me a single tip. Maybe some of you who surely are more experienced than me know where I can find this kind of information.

I’m aware that SPvP it’s not based on 1v1 and that there’s some match ups I won’t be able to win 90% of the time, a clear example of that is a DH, but I would love to know how to act on those scenarios whether is while I’m playing WvW or in SPvP where I have no other choice but to engage on a 1v1, if it serves of anything the profesion I’m currently having most trouble is D/P Thief.

This guy gives off a pretty nice breakdown on S/D but keep in mind it’s been heavily nerfed since then. The Sword 2 trick doesn’t work anymore and 1 second cd for stealth attacks makes timing all the more critical.

1v1 arena is really where people go to hone their skirmishing skills or to stroke their own egos, it’s where a lot of elitists/ hardcore pvpers go. It’s not surprising that they’re a little hostile, the drama that comes out of those arenas are fairly entertaining to watch. It’s the saltiest place in the game next to Ranked arenas

Oh yeah, I already watch videos from this guy, he’s really good, the only problem it has is that the videos where you can truly learn are those where he duels but in none of them he commentates anything, if he could, after showing the duel, slow down the video on the important parts and explain a couple of things it would be exactly what I’m searching for.

I see, so 1v1 arenas are a bad place to search for advice, good to know hahaha, it’s a shame since just a couple of tips from those players would have helped a lot but it seems that I’ll have to do this alone by trial and error during a long time, anyway, thanks for the help, it’s nice to see that there’re friendly people in the game.

you can add me in game, if your hardest matchup is d/p thief, here I am …

also in the times when I was learning playing thief I really liked this dude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oVYcBxa0M

it’s fosho outdated, but mechanics havent changed so much and this clip has some really cool slowmotion actions to let you see what’s happenin

gl mate

Oh, thanks! That would help a lot if you don’t mind doing a duel session, what name should I add in-game though? The username that’s shown on the forum?

there is often a bunch of 1v1 weirdos roaming around the castle on eternal battleground with their own awkward honor code and stuff so you might try to spar with them, they are usually on the eastern side of it iirc