One thing I immediately noticed in small skirmishes (less than 5 people) in WvW, conditions were the bane of my existence. I’m forced to use the Shadow Returns almost immediately to purge conditions of no allies are around.
I was wondering how you S/P guys deal with conditions? Examples would be greatly appreciated
This drives me crazy too, because I’m pretty much bored of stealth at this point and wanted to play something more like GW1 Assassins.
But they shove stealth into our faces as Shadow’s Embrace is really the only strong way to save your squishy little body from the cond meta, and those nasty perplexity spammers.
I’m S/D though mostly~
I was irritated enough to stick a Sigil of Generosity onto my weapon and went for 30 trickery for the high ini, buffs, cc and steal spam. I use the Signet traits to reduce cd and give might to make more use of Signet of Agility and Malice (cuz I just love it too much in wvw.)
With all the conds flying around it still doesn’t feel like enough though. Makes me wish Infiltrator Strike put down a light field~ then I could make more use of Dancing Daggers and remove conds at same time. :x
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As soon as you pick up SB or S/P, condition heavy builds will be your anti-builds.. As long as you get hit by them.
Otherwise:
Runes of Lyssa and Basilisk venom. All conditions.
Infiltrators Strike>Return. 1.
Withdrawal. Movement imparing.
Hide in the shadows, burn, poison and bleed.
Shadow Step>Shadow Return. 3 conditions.
Pick up 10 points in shadow arts and add some stealth. 1 per 3 seconds.
Pain Response from traits. Bleed, Poison and Burn.
Ranger Stolen healing field. 1 per second?
As you linked my build I think I can give you some advices:
1. Don’t be afraid of conditions with soldier+knights(barbarian). Mostly you will engage from 1400 distance and when you get controlled – disengage with shadow return.
2. Usually I cast BV with Lyssa when have 4 or more conditions on me or (if that’s on CD) → shadowstep twice. This will easily will keep you on your rotation, since you do not need to constantly remove them
3. Engineers can be pain, but when BV timed correct (after all burning is applied) – they usually not a big deal.
All other classes are usually stack one type of condis on you and it shouldn’t be too hard to deal with.
As s/p pressure and interrupts are your best conditions preventers.
As you linked my build I think I can give you some advices:
1. Don’t be afraid of conditions with soldier+knights(barbarian). Mostly you will engage from 1400 distance and when you get controlled – disengage with shadow return.
2. Usually I cast BV with Lyssa when have 4 or more conditions on me or (if that’s on CD) → shadowstep twice. This will easily will keep you on your rotation, since you do not need to constantly remove them
3. Engineers can be pain, but when BV timed correct (after all burning is applied) – they usually not a big deal.
All other classes are usually stack one type of condis on you and it shouldn’t be too hard to deal with.
As s/p pressure and interrupts are your best conditions preventers.
3. Engineers can be pain, but when BV timed correct (after all burning is applied) – they usually not a big deal.
Do watch out if one is using the flamethrower. You’ll want to watch for when they activate incendiary ammo, let them use it on you, and then try to remove the burning. Otherwise you can end up with a very long duration burning that can kill you (possibly 30-60 seconds of burning if they’re built that way). If you remove every tiny bit of conditions (i.e. one stack of bleed), you won’t have the condi removals when you actually do need them.
A decent amount of engineers in WvW will also run perplexity runes, so don’t go killing yourself if you have 8+ stacks of confusion. Fortunately that tends to be more of a problem for dagger thieves.
As dDuff said though, they often can’t put condis on you if they’re being controlled. You can even try using blinding powder to make their attacks miss, although that will be initiative heavy.
