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Posted by: Agemnon.4608

Agemnon.4608

Here’s the video. I know I could have done much better and I’m still a bit rusty on thief.

“Beating” the Revenant on the road though felt kinda cheap and I made the mistake of stealing into the Infused Light. I wisened up and started attacking again when the effect wore off and his energy was obviously too low to do anything. I set up some decent ambushes with Shadowstep too.

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Posted by: Wargameur.6950

Wargameur.6950

Always nice to have people posting videos of their thieves. Personally I wouldn’t have the confidence ^^

One advice though, you shouldn’t use shortbow that much. you would provide much more support attacking people at the margin of the teamfight using d/p and applying pressure with timed headshots, or just decapping somewhere else.

D/p is a wonderful set, so learn to use every bit of it properly, not only using 1-2 skills at a time.

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Posted by: Agemnon.4608

Agemnon.4608

One advice though, you shouldn’t use shortbow that much.

I figured as much and will try managing my initiative better. Sometimes I get aggressive and know being near a downed isn’t safe sometimes given my squishy nature combined with the tendency of enemies to zone near downed making stomps and cleaves unsafe (as a Mender’s elementalist and druid too I employ such tactics myself sometimes between overloads and Natural Convergence with Lunar Impact as a nasty interrupt) so poison reducing healing could secure a finish.

The poison tends to be underutilized in general but at the right time can make downed and people who need healing feel a sense of despair. I even have the sigil on shortbow that grants 20% extra poison duration without any condition damage since reduced healing on downed helps.

I aim for the margin when I can and that flank against the druid was nice, chased them to mid where the team ganked them. Druids are a mixed bag, they typically feel fair fighting and could go either way. I still need to practice against scrappers since they’re a steep uphill battle and I find myself getting engaged by them a lot.

D/p is great though I don’t always have the target I want for the headshots but earlier I headshotted and interrupted a Signet of Stone and earlier in the match some random CA form abilities, that was sweet.

I know D/p wasn’t meant for dueling but there were people I faced that were easier than certain PvE mobs in unranked. I’ll have to get out of the habit of engaging druids on far in 1v1’s once I cross Ruby again however but even in unranked whenever I see a warrior, engineer, or guardian I say screw it.