Guild Wars 2

Here’s a little game : build your pvp thief to do the highest possible damage with a backstab, pick up steady weapons, chose your favorite “Target Golem – Light”, and try to beat my score. Of course you have to do this alone.

PS : sorry about my terrible english speaking skills, we french people aren’t really good at this…

I add the normal weapon version of this shot.

Now do it vs heavy golem

As you wish, but the first post is more interesting : there is no damage range with steady weapons.

Wait didn’t you know that normal weapons are banned from sPvP?
You have to use steady weapons in these games. No wonder ppl cry op all the time.

so we have to beat your 17212 backstab?

Nope. You have to beat my 4794 with steady weapons.

Hey, whats your spec?

you have to beat 4794 backstab witha steady weapon. Obviously people can cheat this easily…no proof of steady weapon..

Cheating for what Oo It’s just a puzzle with nothing to gain… Well, maybe I’m too honnest… You can take a picture with normal weapons to validate…

I’m playing 30/30/0/0/5. You can find some clues about the traits in the screens. But it’s not an actually good build, its meaning is only to do a good backstab.

Might work out nicely to burst.

Where did you got your might stacks?

If I tell you how to do this, it’s not fun ^^ You have many ways to stack 25 might alone with a thief…

Just telling, I found a way to do better ^^

I’m going to guess this has something to do with getting lucky with “improvisation” and a crit on the final back stab…

I might try this out tonight.

Pixels.6532:

I’m going to guess this has something to do with getting lucky with “improvisation” and a crit on the final back stab…

I might try this out tonight.

Good luck.

Now we have to beat 4930. ^^

Yes this was with steady daggers.

Nice. I don’t see how… Maybe I should try other runes…

If anybody can beat this, I will be impressed.

viivi.2394:

If anybody can beat this, I will be impressed.

Not possible without outside buffs. I forgot about body shot….

Skorn.4906:

viivi.2394:

If anybody can beat this, I will be impressed.

Not possible without outside buffs. I forgot about body shot….

No outside buffs were used.

Yes I meant that’s the maximum possible without outside buffs.

Skorn.4906:

Yes I meant that’s the maximum possible without outside buffs.

I believe so too, unless I overlooked something. I had 25 might stacks, 25 vulnerability stacks on the target, max damage spec with 25 bloodlust stacks and I made sure to stay at 7+ ini for the hit.

Couldn’t really find anything else.

this is all a joke right? 5k backstab? not even going for max dmg but ill hit u one better :P

You missed the part where it was said that this was done using STEADY WEAPONS.

viivi.2394:

You missed the part where it was said that this was done using STEADY WEAPONS.

srry that means ….. without switching weapons?

no weapon switched this time no help no debuffs on target.

5557 dmg

this one is a critical ….as u see nothing but daggers.

10882 dmg

Travlane, STEADY WEAPONS can be acquired from the weapons merchant in the mists (purple weapons with very low damage and no damage interval, which is why they are usually used for testing purposes).

and how do you tell that u used that?

Travlane.5948:

and how do you tell that u used that?

There’s nothing to gain by cheating it.

I can actually think of a pretty good way to tell / guess if someone’s using steady weapons based on the damage log, but I don’t want to state it unless I think someone’s actually cheating so that people don’t try to cheese my countermeasure.

Softspoken.2410:

I can actually think of a pretty good way to tell / guess if someone’s using steady weapons based on the damage log, but I don’t want to state it unless I think someone’s actually cheating so that people don’t try to cheese my countermeasure.

i can do almost 24k backstabs in wvw. idk about these wierd wepaons. never used one.

Travlane.5948:

Softspoken.2410:

I can actually think of a pretty good way to tell / guess if someone’s using steady weapons based on the damage log, but I don’t want to state it unless I think someone’s actually cheating so that people don’t try to cheese my countermeasure.

i can do almost 24k backstabs in wvw. idk about these wierd wepaons. never used one.

iirc, Steady Weapons have a weapon strength around 1/4th that of level 80 exotics, but have zero variation in their damage ranges. This makes them useful for getting data values from skills and such or for comparing the relative DPS of various tactics / rotations, since the random variation of a standard weapon has been removed. So you don’t need to take 10 trials and average the results or anything: three trials giving the exact same number proves the concept thoroughly.

Again, you’d never use a steady weapon in actual combat. Knowing exactly how much damage you will do isn’t possibly worth reducing said damage by around 75%.

Softspoken.2410:

Travlane.5948:

Softspoken.2410:

I can actually think of a pretty good way to tell / guess if someone’s using steady weapons based on the damage log, but I don’t want to state it unless I think someone’s actually cheating so that people don’t try to cheese my countermeasure.

i can do almost 24k backstabs in wvw. idk about these wierd wepaons. never used one.

iirc, Steady Weapons have a weapon strength around 1/4th that of level 80 exotics, but have zero variation in their damage ranges. This makes them useful for getting data values from skills and such or for comparing the relative DPS of various tactics / rotations, since the random variation of a standard weapon has been removed. So you don’t need to take 10 trials and average the results or anything: three trials giving the exact same number proves the concept thoroughly.

Again, you’d never use a steady weapon in actual combat. Knowing exactly how much damage you will do isn’t possibly worth reducing said damage by around 75%.

so its solely for dps purposes.