Ferayth's Semi-Cele WvW Roaming Videos

Ferayth's Semi-Cele WvW Roaming Videos

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Posted by: Colt.9051

Colt.9051

First time making my vids public to forumers and seeing all the awesome roaming videos I’ve seen on these forums kinda made me nervous about making my own, but since I got a new comp, I’m deciding to give it a shot to show everyone what I’m made of with my own defensive spin on a celestial build inspired mostly from a vid I saw here about 5ish months ago. (User didn’t disclose their build so I guestimated and adjusted to my liking. Thankfully that person’s playstyle mirrored my first build; an apothecary engi build so it was quite easy to get used to from there, cept for using a rifle…) I know I might get some flak for not using bombs or nades, but I’m satisfied with my DPS without them. I’m focused more on active mobility and kiting and good HoTs to better deal with pesky condi builds. I won’t exactly disclose details on it tho, but any critiques and tips are always helpful, but most of all, I just hope everyone enjoys the videos! I know these are quite long, but I do have fun bonus footage on some of them if u keep watching! And I know they’re quite dated footage from WvW Seasons, but I’m catching up! >.<

Roaming video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcq1byoNszY

Roaming video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPn5zSeCS0Y

Roaming video 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NexrTx0gloY

Roaming video 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCFbmAyVYQ

Roaming video 5: (May not be available in HD yet as I JUST uploaded it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dHjo3frxo

Daeaera ~ Leader of Grape Justice! [FGJ]

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Posted by: coglin.1867

coglin.1867

You will get asked a lot what build your using, so you might as well go ahead and link that, or them, if they are different between videos.

A video on what weak PvPer’s and WvWer’s want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3em9s5I4c

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Posted by: Dimes.6024

Dimes.6024

man, your dps is realy aweful… if u dont like bombs or nades try SD or even FT…
u got so little pressure – it is about your mates to kill someone, u just cant realy hurt.

engi+thief that cant kill ele on their own supply – that makes me sad

and u need to try to build some rotation, cause u spend a lot of cd on nothing – for example use your magnet after net shot or overcharge then enemy wouldnt dodge it
use your blasts and leaps on your water – you can jump shot(or acid bomb) regenerating mist

on most videos i dont see you using food (condi duration + or -)

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Posted by: Colt.9051

Colt.9051

man, your dps is realy aweful… if u dont like bombs or nades try SD or even FT…
u got so little pressure – it is about your mates to kill someone, u just cant realy hurt.

engi+thief that cant kill ele on their own supply – that makes me sad

and u need to try to build some rotation, cause u spend a lot of cd on nothing – for example use your magnet after net shot or overcharge then enemy wouldnt dodge it
use your blasts and leaps on your water – you can jump shot(or acid bomb) regenerating mist

on most videos i dont see you using food (condi duration + or -)

This build is moreso focused around single target pressure and soft CCs, so its probably better suited for solo roaming than groups, which was mostly my purpose for it.(Though a lot of times I’d wind up having a guildmate or a couple come along) Yeah, without nades or bombs, AoE pressure is next to none, but what it mainly excells at mostly are 1v1s, duels, and anything else really small scale… prolly maximum effectiveness is like versus 3ish ppl. I usually prefer 1v1s or 1v2s most, and this build does well against those odds.

I admit, u might be talking about the 1st vid, which is terrabad, and meant to be so b/c I was just starting to get used to my engi by that point, so I didn’t have a lot of experience. (Btw the other guy was another engi, I think with a similar build to me) I’ve gotten much more used to this by now compared to then (Which was 4 months ago). I’m getting my rotations down now! I normally Magnet Pull, Prybar and Rocket Kick to apply conf and burn. By then most ppl evade right after the rocket kick lands so then I Net Shot after the evade and Overcharge Shot them, after which I then Jump Shot and Blunderbuss them. That’s my usual opening rotation nowadays anyways, but people can be unpredictable, so I only act based on most probable actions depending on who I face. I don’t really prefer to follow one set rotation. As far as blasting in water fields, I admit I still have work to improve doing that on the fly, but I’m getting better. Also for foods, I don’t really get to micromanage my foods that well, but I normally use Koi Cakes and Toxic Focusing Crystals to make my condis last anyways. Its tough when 1 timer is on 20 mins and one’s on 30 mins… but hey, if I win a fight w/o em, its more rewarding, right? Thanks for the critisism!

I also recently made a build using similar traits and gear, but I use bombs and pistol/shield instead, so my AoE pressure is amazing, at the cost of less mobility. That should start showing up in future vids.

Daeaera ~ Leader of Grape Justice! [FGJ]

(edited by Colt.9051)

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Posted by: Dimes.6024

Dimes.6024

Nah, man, I meant your single target pressure – u got only 3 big damage skills on big city and small amount of permanent damage(little amount of condi and rifle1). I don’t remember number of video but u and thief were fighting one ele for about 3 minutes and didn’t kill him. That is awful, seems u can’t solo anyone except maybe thief, or uplevelers. Try to get more damage skills – ft2, SD, mine.

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Posted by: Colt.9051

Colt.9051

Nah, man, I meant your single target pressure – u got only 3 big damage skills on big city and small amount of permanent damage(little amount of condi and rifle1). I don’t remember number of video but u and thief were fighting one ele for about 3 minutes and didn’t kill him. That is awful, seems u can’t solo anyone except maybe thief, or uplevelers. Try to get more damage skills – ft2, SD, mine.

I don’t rely on big bursts of damage much as my only real big bursts are Jump Shot, Blunderbuss and Prybar, rather I let my condi damage and duration work as my sustain, as with Incendiary Powder and Rocket Boots burn ticks about 550ish to 630ish a second (depending on my might stacks) on top of any direct damage done. Blunderbuss and Prybar also do a fair amount of damage after application as well and will last a while. That’s the beauty of engis, and I’m happy with it the way it is.

To be fair, that ele (still think you’re talking about the first vid) he was fairly tanky and did fairly well at kiting me. If you saw any of the later vids and fights, you might see despite my “shortcomings”, I don’t have too much of a problem taking people down in 1v1s or 1v2s that aren’t thieves or up levels. Yes the first video is bad, I was just getting used to engi again then, but it does get better and better, trust me on that.

And I did say this is a more DEFENSIVE spin on a celestial build. This isn’t made to specifically mow down the masses, but rather with maximum mobility and survivability in mind, but IMO it does still have decent DPS too…

Daeaera ~ Leader of Grape Justice! [FGJ]

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Posted by: Colt.9051

Colt.9051

Thanks! And yes I do sometimes run into the issue of simply not having enough DPS in especially bigger group fight situations and capping camps sometimes, but I did recently make a 2nd version of the build I’m using that utilizes bombs and pistol/shield (Mainly wanted the reflects for those lul-power rangers, but rifle can work with it too of course!) It definitely wreaks havok on those unfortunate enough to try to rez downs

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Posted by: Dimes.6024

Dimes.6024

man, i’m not forcing u to play different and not tellin that you play bad or something, i’m just trying to help

for example -
rocket boots vs mine
both have blasts,
mine grants u additional CC
mine strips boons
tool belt skill grant you better burst chain (immob->jump shot->mine field blast)
mine deals more damage

rocket boots vs ft
both have blasts
both provides burning from tool belt
ft gives you (and allies) fire field to blast
ft gives you CC and range reflect
ft gives you blind
ft geals more damage

best in rocket boots is saving from cripple and imob, but u have riftle4 already, and with mine or ft u can do chain Detonate(300) or FT3(400) + Riftle4(+450+300) + EG4, which will give you up to 1600 or 1700 distance from your foe

(edited by Dimes.6024)

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Posted by: Dimes.6024

Dimes.6024

ah, this + smth + formulas will kill my brain, trying to edit last sentence