Guild Wars 2

Yesterday in WvW I dueled a warrior on a lock down build. We had like a dozen duels with a very even win/loss rate. The last duel we had was so very intense. We fought for what felt like ours in that duel. I often was close to dying but could somehow survive, once with like 10HP.

And then there came this moment. When you go jogging, do you know the feeling of:“oh my, I am can’t run a single step any more”? And do you know, when you keep pushing, that suddenly you can jog for so much longer while feeling super energetic? I had a feeling like that yesterday in the duel. Suddenly everything felt so easy. I could do what I wanted, and it did actually work. It felt like controlling the fight completely. Maybe he was also a bit exhausted, but I felt like a spike of endorphins. I was able to punish him through rampage and finally downed him.

After that fight I was literally shaking… It was an awesome moment and the most fun I had since the release of GW2. I never had a game, competitive or not, that could make me feel so exhausted and energetic at the same time^^

About a year ago I was dueling this condi warrior as a typical shatter mesmer (yeah, I know its not a good), who manage to get a good start against me and push me to 15% (40% after I mistakenly use heal while poisoned).

For some reason I start getting the pace of the duel and manage to rotate my defensive abilities, heal and condi cleanses. That duel lasted for about 15 minutes and I only notice the time when my friend tell us to stop haha. There are dozen of occasions when I’m down to 10-20% but manage to heal back up. Eventually the warrior downed me, but I was strangely satisfied by how long I can last with such a poor start. Probably because of that duel, I become much more careful with condi cleanse management.

The only time i start shaking is when playing at like 5am when a part of me already sleeps and the other part wants to focus on gameplay

Usually, i’m quite calm while playing. So calm that my gameplay sometimes goes on auto pilot against classes like cele D/D ele and i keep repeating basic rotations without thinking about it ^^