Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, i finally got my Thief up to level 80 and I’ve run into a problem. I like to PvP / WvWvW whenever I can but I’m pretty bad (newish player). One of the main reasons I’m bad is cause I can ever hit cloak and dagger > followed by the backstab. Sometimes I get it but most of the time it feels like everyone is just moving away to fast or I’m just swinging in the air like a kitten behind them / in front of them.

Is there anyway to make it easier on myself? or any tips you could pass up? I’d really appreciate it cause I’m not looking forward to level another char I’m half decent at.

Its no trick to it , just practice.

This is the reason why when I give advice is to perfect your stealth, shadowsteps, and dodges at low level so you won’t run into this problem.

But since you already made it to 80 without perfecting the basics, my suggestion is to buy Level 1 daggers, Level 1 armor pieces, and go to practice with Ettins in Queensdale. The reason why it’s best to practice with Ettins is because they like to reposition themselves and will help you to understand how to counter that.

A few tips:
- Make sure you are using your mouse to turning your character and not your keyboard – that allows you to rotate much faster – so you can run through your opponent’s model, turn quickly with the mouse and backstab
- You can pre-cast skills with teleports – e.g., if you press Cloak and Dagger and then quickly press Steal you will be teleported onto your opponent just as your Cloak and Dagger is landing, you can also use Infiltrator’s Signet for another teleport
- You can use Fleet Shadow trait to have 33% swiftness while you are stealthed
- You can use Dagger #4 to slow your opponent temporarily so you can Cloak and Dagger on them
- You can Cloak and Dagger from NPCs in the game (and you can cloak and dagger on ambient creatures – the creatures that die in 1 hit)
- Try dagger/pistol – it is a better chasing weapon set – you can use Shadow Shot (#3) for chasing
- Try sword/dagger – you can immobilise (#2) and then Cloak and Dagger while they immobilised
- I don’t use Signet of Shadows myself but you may just be lacking enough speed to stay on them so give that a go
- You can use Caltrops to cripple your opponent
- You can use venoms to chill your opponent
- You can use Basilisk venom to stun your opponent

The most common use of dagger/dagger is the burst attack which goes:

1. flank your opponent (behind/sides)
2. charge Basilisk Venom
3. CnD (precast) + Steal (these must be done quickly in sequence)
4. Backstab
5. Heartseeker spam

So try to practice the CnD pre-cast into Steal.

I find dagger/pistol is far more common in WvW now. So that might be telling you something.

I don’t CnD > Backstab. I spread caltrops everywhere and spam Death Blossom in my epic quest to keep 20+ stacks of bleeding on everything. It works just as well as CnD > Backstab.