D/P Build Suggestions
Well, if nobody wants to provide a guide, I will provide (a very sarcastic) one. This is based off WvW (I hate sPvP okay) and is mostly based around D/P + Shortbow. You can alter it for S/D if you want by going 0/10/30/30/0 or something like that, but it’s up to you.
Equipment:
Berserker or Valkyrie for lots of crit damage. I’d just use berserker because you already have it, and with such high crit damage, the returns on precision are nice too (for everything that is not Backstab)
Cavalier on jewelry for even more crit damage (toughness works well with 30 pts in Shadow Arts). You can just buy this from the Temple of Balthazar for 42k karma, and they aren’t even soulbound so just get on your main and put them in the bank.
Divinity Runes and whatever jewels that add crit damage. It doesn’t even matter, just stack your crit damage really high (>90%). Obviously you want high power too.
Traits
0/30/30/10/0
Important traits
-100% crit chance in stealth. Obviously. If you don’t take this, I will cry.
-Health regen in stealth. Why not?
-2 Initiative on stealth. This lets you use BP-HS a lot more (it even gives you back initiative if you are already in stealth, which I think is kind of stupid)
-Remove a condition in stealth. This will trigger the moment you enter stealth, and 3 seconds later. It’s amazing and stacks with the condition removal from HiS.
-50% Move speed in stealth. To land more backstabs, duh.
You can also use 10/30/30/0/0 if you like Mug, but whatever.
How to play:
Spam 5-2-1-5-2-1 forever. Press Blinding Powder or HiS or Shadow Refuge if you don’t have initiative. Use Shadow Shot (#3) if you are far away and have lots of initiative or just like teleporting around for no reason.
Use Shortbow to immobilize/cripple people if you want to kite them around or land daggerstorm or whatever. Use Shortbow #5 to get out if something goes wrong (it looks like it breaks stealth, but really, it doesn’t).
That’s it.
TL;DR: Stack crit damage, spam 5-2-1, win.
0/10/30/30/0
Knights\Zerker\Knights\Zerker\Knights\Zerker armor
Zerker trinkets except Knights earrings
Cavaliers\Soldiers Backpiece
Zerker Waeponry with: Bloodlust on SB, Fire on MH Dagger\ Accuracy on OH Pistol, Air on MH Sword\ Force on OH Dagger
Withdraw\Blinding Powder\Infiltrator’s Signet\Signet of Shadows\ Basilisk Venom (Thieves Guild\Daggerstorm, swap as needed)
Nothing else to say, figure the rest yourself.
a random derpling
“Use Shortbow to immobilize/cripple people”
How do you immobilize with BS? Dev Venom + SB?
I love the sunflowers setup above but i find people can kite me. How do you get them to hold still to kill them?
You can immobilize with the Shortbow stealth attack. It’s especially nice to use with the stolen skill from a Warrior (or Daggerstorm)
The build isn’t particularly good at making people hold still – instead, you kill people by being really good at chasing. Shadow Shot seems to be bugged and still lets you land Backstabs(although…I suspect this might be nerfed soon)
Alternatively you can use some kind of crippling/chilling poison or caltrops, or just shoot someone running away with your Shortbow (I still get a pretty high hit rate on those auto-attacks, not sure if people are exaggerating) as it does nice damage and has a spammable cripple.
Edit: Just make sure that if you switch to Shortbow, you have no need to stealth any time soon, or if you do, have at least one utility stealth ready to use.
(edited by Sunflowers.1729)
“Shadow Shot seems to be bugged and still lets you land Backstabs(although…I suspect this might be nerfed soon)”
spam 3 – 1
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