Guild Wars 2

Over the last week I got rather bored with my main account. Where Im at 55% wins due to last season (didn’t sPvP before that). This results in crappy Match Making most of the time, since in Ruby you’ll be paired with the lower MMR range, so you have an uphill battle more often than not. Interesting side point, the MM is less bad in primetime, guess that is because there is a wide enough range of players so I’m not always on the ‘lower’ MMR team.

Anyway, this means I have dusted off this old account from a friend and will be attempting to overtake my main account by ‘beating’ the MMR trap.

So far I got it to rank 20, with 9/10 unranked won. And now I’m into amber with 5/7 win ratio, going up steadily so far.

Question would be, what are the most capable vanilla specs? Currently I’m running old school D/P Tr/DA/SA which can burst rather nicely. Do miss the movement speed, but it’s still quick enough.

I’m sure that spec will hit some drawbacks once I get to the more experienced opponents. So what are my options there? Conditions? Or even swap to a core alt if needed (and which one would work?)?

d/d thief is the vanilla thief though

If I was on an account without HoT, this is what I would play:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoaVl0MhSnY5TwwJw/EHwECvXsd+0nbrTEIDA-TpBFABA8AAI4EAIeZAk2fQgDBQDHBAA

It’s meta D/P with SA instead of DD. You’d basically play it like a more stealth oriented D/P DD build.

Thanks for the input! :P And no, I will not give up on Thief just yet. 12/14 won now, even won a match where one player from my team did not load the first few minutes!

The spec you posted is actually almost what I run, just don’t have TotC, but running Flanking Strikes for superb bursting. Great when adding in to some fight!

Once I get to the point where a thief might be a problem, due to team setup or enemies, I might try to run glass ranger. Pew pew and have the ability to pull out a downed buddy.

DA Trickery SA D/P is the best vanilla spec

goodluck

got to end of ruby with vanilla da/sa/tr dp, had to switch to DD due to higher divisions being flooded with revs but till legend/diamond it is doable

Will give it a go. In Emerald now 14/16 won. Decent streak, but not going all out on this project. Wanna keep it fun!

Sapphire, 23 won out of 28. About half the games are uneven, guessing due to MMR gap. The rest are fun fights though.

Haven’t noticed many revs yet, but getting more Trap DH. Some even know how to fight off a thief. :P And the eles are getting slightly harder to kill. So practice time!

Hanza.6872:

Will give it a go. In Emerald now 14/16 won. Decent streak, but not going all out on this project. Wanna keep it fun!

Having never tried ranked until two days ago, I just hit Ruby with a YOLO build for fun. Wanting to see how far I can take it…

Zerker love ;-)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoaVl0MhenYjTw0Jw/EHwE1+CWuB1HGxRboTgAIDA-TJBFwA12foaZABnCAAPBAA