Portal Advice (PvP)
Cap home first, drop a portal, go mid. Use blink/phase retreat swaps to get there really fast, and you won’t miss much of the first fight. This is a great use for portal because it doesn’t rely on your team and it can be crucial to maintaining point control in the beginning of the game. Make sure that if you do this, you keep an eye on home and instantly port back if you see someone getting there.
Depending on how things go, that may be the only thing I use portal for in a match. Sometimes they’re really aggressive at pushing, and I’ll just be responding all the time. Other times I’ll drop it at mid then go roam and port back for helping in the mid fight.
Ultimately, just view portal as a potent mobility tool. Don’t try to do any fancy schmancy plays with it, because that probably won’t work without VoIP. Just use it to facilitate your movement back and forth between important spots on the map very quickly.
Most of the time, put down portal at mid point and roam to either far or close.
This way you have the most control of the map. It even becomes possible to play far and close on some map.
If you have mimic, you can get a really nice uptime with portal. Cast the first portal spell, creating the entrance. Then, before you cast the 2nd spell and create the exit, cast mimic. This will result Portal Entre being off cooldown almost immediately after you create the exit.
If you have mimic, you can get a really nice uptime with portal. Cast the first portal spell, creating the entrance. Then, before you cast the 2nd spell and create the exit, cast mimic. This will result Portal Entre being off cooldown almost immediately after you create the exit.
Never do this in PvP. Having higher uptime on portals is not worth blowing a 2nd utility slot for, you need that far more for other things. This is a trick more appropriate for WvW portal shenanigans.
drop portal at one node, open it at another
voila, you effectively add 1 more player to your team for the duration of the opened portal
Alex Shadowdagger – Thief – Blacktide
Here are some situations where you can use portal:
You Have the Point:
-Drop portal and hit another point. When you see that point becomes contested, open your portal and hop back to wreck the person.
You Don’t have the Point:
-If someone’s on the point (and it’s unwinnable) drop a portal and head somewhere else. The person will either have to stay there to protect the point and do nothing for 30 seconds, or cap it when they leave.
-Also note that just decapping a point, and dropping a portal to come back to it to full cap it later is also valid in some situations.