Guild Wars 2

Hi guys Shikamaru X here I’ve been bit up-happy about the upcoming thief changes so I haven’t felt like doing anything thief related but here is a video of me being heavily out manned and a funny encounter involving thief clones ejoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTX0tqx_qHc

Really entertaining vid and lmao @ the thief clones shooting lightning bolts.
I like the way you made boxes helping us keep track of the fights and commenting.

Would be nice to know your build too, looks pretty balanced with high cond dmg, decent direct dmg and quite good survival. I would guess 5/0/30/20/15 with a mix of Celestial, Carrion and Rabid.

Yes it was funny see my thief clones shooting Ether Bolts. I can only imagine what my enemies must have been thinking.
"Oh what the? How is this thief shooting ether bolts"? " Oh nvm its just his clones". "What the heck this thief has clones"!!!
This isn’t only instance I have seen thief clones and I am surprised its hasn’t been brought up before.

WoW really great vid! thats was alot of enemies to engage

That’s just sad to watch. I like how you use the Ranger as your health battery. :P

Lol yes I remember this Thief clone thing…

Not sure if it’s a bug or not, but it happens when you reflect a Mesmer’s third hit in the Scepter auto chain. Hilarious when it does happen.

Nice video btw.

Chaining of C&D immediately after Stealth wears off is a bit of a cheap tactic but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do in a 4v1. Regardless, I think this is something that probably needs to be changed since it makes attrition builds have access to way too much sustain in target rich environments like these.

Kaon.7192:

Chaining of C&D immediately after Stealth wears off is a bit of a cheap tactic but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do in a 4v1. Regardless, I think this is something that probably needs to be changed since it makes attrition builds have access to way too much sustain in target rich environments like these.

it cant be done more that 2 times on a row due to init cost, i don’t see any problem with it.

Actually, by the time you leave Stealth you’d have regained 3 out of the 6 spent ini if you’re heavily specced into SA. So in practice you can chain a lot more than just 2 in a row, and even more if you also have Infusion of Shadow.

In fact, post Dec 10, you can chain it indefinitely with 0 initiative deficit if you have Infusion of Shadow, i.e. regain 2 ini on use, another 4 ini for 4 seconds in Stealth.

I had to stop watching, terrible players that kitten stand right in your caltrops and don’t even realize the ranger is giving your position away clear as day while rapid firing. Not to mention caltrop on dodge gives your position away every time and when an enemy see’s that it’s a BIG RED CIRCLE on the ground.

How can people be so bad… this build is boring it takes you an hour to down someone.

vincecontix.1264:

Yes it was funny see my thief clones shooting Ether Bolts. I can only imagine what my enemies must have been thinking.
“Oh what the? How is this thief shooting ether bolts”? " Oh nvm its just his clones". “What the heck this thief has clones”!!!
This isn’t only instance I have seen thief clones and I am surprised its hasn’t been brought up before.

We used to bring our warriors into WvW at the south camp and have 1 friend on an enemy server use scepter only during shield stance traited to reflect on block. After about an hour we could get about 100 clones of our warriors all standing at south camp. It was super hilarious.

Great gameplay man! For the video i would recommend you cut it into smaller segments. A lot of people wouldnt have time to watch the whole video, but would watch more 5minute videos. Other than that, I think its awesome!

Mathias.9657:

I had to stop watching, terrible players that kitten stand right in your caltrops and don’t even realize the ranger is giving your position away clear as day while rapid firing. Not to mention caltrop on dodge gives your position away every time and when an enemy see’s that it’s a BIG RED CIRCLE on the ground.

How can people be so bad… this build is boring it takes you an hour to down someone.

In that first incounter I get that ranger(who I agree is so bad) from like full to 10% in around 10sec but you have to bear in mind there are 6 players of which are 2 guardian and 2 warriors so obviously I can’t just attack carelessly esp since I not running a stun breaker. The second time I open on him he drops in 10secs.

Players of 2-3 die much faster things get be tricky when its 5+ players esp if they wars or guard who have access to lots of cc group support and if build tanky can take awhile to kill. I honestly don’t need that amount of survivability I have and alot of the times I drop a untility and break a venom(most skale venom) to increase my dps. Most players die in around 20sec, its WvW terribad players everywhere actually that is what the majority of wvw is like.

i didnt see you using it but consider it but guessing you know it

when stealing from a ranger use it and use unload to get healed

always in 1vx i look for the thief and ranger as they are the best still in 1vx

Would be nice to see your build and gear.

vincecontix.1264:

Most players die in around 20sec, its WvW terribad players everywhere actually that is what the majority of wvw is like.

Probably true in your World’s tier, but not in my World’s tier.

Not saying the video didn’t showcase skill, but those were some of the worst players I have ever seen. Ever. Watch the ranger for example at 6:00, on the left side of screen