I’m one of the full carrion P/D & Shortbow happy fun times stealthy bleedy leafy thiefs. Thieves. Whatever. I beat my head against the 5 gambit deal (don’t pick the extra boss) until I stopped trying for 24 hours and it came to me.
I used D/D instead, against Subject 7. No crazy long Revealed in this fight, so Poof Powah!
Signet of Malice for the heals, Caltrops, Shadow Refuge, Spider Venom, Thieves Guild.
Get the Black Citadel charr buff for the extra condi-pain, pizza and agony sigil your way over 75% condi-duration for moooar bleedy.
Shadow Arts V, VI, XI: Blind and +2 Init on stealth, regen in stealth
Acrobatics IV (why not) and IX (2 Init/10 sec)
Trickery V and VIII, moooar Caltrops
I popped Spider Venom right off and Infiltrator’s Arrow right to the blob (for the blind!) and proceeded to make with the Caltrops, elite Thieves, and Death Blossom. Steal for Initiative and hope for awesomeness. I got Pla$ma first.
You can use C&D for a breather if you’re freaking. I did a few times. Eventually I dropped down the Happy Hut for Init and the regen. I did shortbow poison from in the hut, a habit from wvw, not sure if it helped or hurt. Might have helped, since the poison venom had probably worn out… Silly me, not keeping track of 7’s debuffs. Bad thief. Baaad.
I did have to rally 3 times at the end. But you should be bleeding a lot of lil oozies. I did get to steal a 2nd time, gunk worked nice.
I hated this content by the way. It feels like a bloody arcade game. Kill kill kill. Insert coin. Repeat. Idiocy.
Beat your head against a wall frustrating. Sure it felt wonderful pulling this off and all, but it’s not a good challenging. My opinion is that it really starts forcing you to respec, maybe regear, just to jump through their hoops. That’s bad challenging. Grr. All that.
Top that off with having to shut down some graphics, not to mention trying to see the red circles during Liadri on a grating floor, grr. Not that I’ve beat her yet, that’s next. Oh, and hoping someone comes by to rez you? Ticket farm?
At least the gold has been awesome. I think I got the ranty off my chest now. Good luck peeps!
Or you could just do the exact same strategy against Strugar and Chomper, with Crowd Favourite instead of Exhausted. The Quaggan isn’t even worth paying attention to. Dodgetrops your way to certain victory.
... I almost want to try, now. Almost. ^^
It occurs to me, the best way to sum up what’s wrong with all this is, once I got it, I didn’t feel "ha ha yes!" I felt more "grr, how do you like me now, ANet?" I didn’t do it for the fun. I did it out of spite. Grr. Sheesh, I’m still feeling grr.
Wow, maybe I need to go unwind and get over it.
I was having an annoying time trying to get it with condition build so I changed back to my Zerker stuff.
When I finally pulled off a strategy for 5 gambit achievement Deadeye got stomped so hard and fast it was hilarious. :s
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