Sorry, I’ve been out of town without decent internet beyond my phone lol :-)
I suppose for every two nice comments its only reasonable to expect some critical ones
@MrSimpleMan – thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’m currently experimenting a bit with consumables and sigils, but I’m running http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZEQNAoYVlsMp0plPx7J0PNRPBtdAi9D4eEZIEdlCA-TVSDwA53f4wDA4pyvEHBQJ4iDBAI9BAMBN4EAET9HCBUeLA-w
@Yamsandjams – you’re close, but I drop some of the tankiness your build suggests – good spot on the food though :-) yeah, stealth traps suck :P
@Evalia – awww, aren’t you sweet :P The answer is no, fort aspen wood is currently ranked 7: https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw
Also, you’re quite correct, thieves can perma-stealth with the right set up – however, if you notice, at no point in that fight did I have more than a few seconds out of combat… Furthermore, I was not running D/P or Smokescreen, so I could only stealth using CnD. Since the changes to thief init regen a few months ago, it is now standard (and advisable) for a thief to change infusion of shadow for shadow’s embrace. Since I was not receving 2 init return on stealth – and had no other source of extra initative outside critical strikes (which is insufficient init sustain for these purposes); it is actually IMPOSSIBLE, for CnD spam to keep you PERMANENTLY in stealth – you can manage 2-3 in a row before you’re out of iniative, if you don’t do “something” in the meantime. You’re right, if there had been any forethought to this (which if you read my intro text, there genuinely wasn’t
) I could have done it quite easily, but there wasn’t!
@messiah.1908 – I’ll be entirely frank with you, I’ve only just started streaming/recording, and this is only the second video I’ve recorded and then properly edited for youtube. Someone in my guild heard about this fight, and said I should put it on youtube on the understanding that somebody somewhere would enjoy it :-) So I took it as an chance to experiment with some editing features. Please let me know what sort of content you’d rather see. And yes, I had fun for the first few minutes of the fight, then it began to get boring. What you may notice though, is that in the early part of the fight I DIDN’T just harrass with CnD, however, due to the AoE nature of many D/D elementalist attacks, it became increasingly difficult for me to have an open window to attack, so the latter portion of the video is far more defensive than the earlier portion…
TL;DR
@MrSimpleMan – thank you kindly!
@Yamsandjams – pretty much – just a little squishier – stealth traps suck :-)
@Evalia – aww, you’re sweet -_-
@messiah.1908 – give me some feedback I can actually work with :P it was fun though :-)
P.S. Excuse my typos, I’m exhausted lol, long few days irl
