Guild Wars 2

So i have just started doing pvp and wow! i suck!! i made a video mainly for my self to watch and see what i can improve on – which is a lot lol!

I do not know any blink spots and I apriciate feed back

s/d zerka amulet 2/0/2/4/6

• 0:48 No Basilisk engage though you had time to whip it up.
• 0:55 Probably should have CnD, either way you whiffed the warp and only did 600dmg which isn’t worth the cooldown.
• 0:59 You had less than 1 second of Fear left, wasted your Shadowstep to stunbreak nothing. Also you used Shadow Return for no reason. You could have used your infiltrator’s strike to return to the fight and kept the Shadow Return to cleanse the poison, burn, bleed @ 1:07 then combo’d it with your again active Infil-return and have mitigated a lot of damage as well as gotten the full effect of your heal instead of having it reduced. That in turn would have allowed you to keep your shadow refuge off cooldown instead of using it as a panic retreat.
• 1:32 There were 3 enemies in the immediate area and you had F1 AOE fear. Missed opportunity. Also referring to the first point, your basilisk would have been up again at this point.

-The Rest of the necro fight was fine-

• 2:26 You had full init and no cooldowns. You should have basilisk engaged there to keep the enemy off the “point”. The ally you had in mid also may have been able to assist in the fight.
• 2:44 You disengaged to get out of the immediate condi threat area which was good. You should have swapped to bow in order to throw some ranged pressure in though, or at least thrown the gunk at him before your reengage at 2:49. Your immobilize would have guaranteed at least 2 condi ticks from it.

-You played really passively which is understandable against bunker/condi engi, but you missed opportunities to put ranged pressure on him. Your teammates were the ones who ended up pulling the majority of the work on this fight.-

Sorry if it sounds overly critical, I’m not trying to make accusations of you being bad or anything like that. I’m just trying to show you the moments you could have optimized more during. Looks like you’re a bit afraid to engage on condi builds, but that’s all you showed in the video so I can only speculate. You also didn’t engage with Basilisk either fight. If you’re afraid to engage with S/D, as previously shown, then swap to bow and get some early ranged damage and a poison in. Keep practicing, thief rewards precision inputs more than any other class. Learn the timing and situation awareness and you’ll be fine.

1. Change your build: I think those 2 pts in shadow arts do not give you as much of a return of investment as you would get putting them into acrobatics. You’ll get additional HP, you can add Pain Response, Vigor on heal or might on dodge, and you’ll get a nearly 100% up-time 10% damage bonus. Run 2/0/0/6/6

Those sigils are optional, you can switch accuracy out for +5% damage or fire, generosity on sb for any of the aforementioned.

2. Watch some top S/D thieves play: During peak EU hours, watch Sizer and during peak NA hours check out Toker…

Sizer

Toker

gl/hf and don’t give up!

Uhh…You seemed confused. Just be more aggressive and pressure. If you are outnumbered, it’s your role to disengage and move on to the next point to back cap.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

I do not know any blink spots and I apriciate feed back

If it’s within range and there is an unobstructed walkable path to it, you can port to it. This means if there’s a step down or jump up, you won’t make it. You can also put your green circle underneath an area to port on top of it, such as in temple as you are leaving mid, look up and see the bridges, put an infiltrator’s arrow underneath and you’ll port onto it. You can do the same on Khylo, Legacy and Spirit Watch. There are also steps up from mid; putting the green circle on the side of the steps will port you onto the steps, avoiding the walk to the bottom and up to that point. You can do this on steps everywhere, such as Khylo, Forest, Spirit Watch. For Legacy you can’t see the sides of the steps, but you can point to the level they lead to and bypass the steps altogether.

Khylo is excellent for ports. Coming from the blue base going straight, you can port onto the wall. On either side of the map as you approach the clock tower, there is a building that you can jump onto to begin jumping onto the side of the clock tower. If you stand to the right of that building in line with the corner, you can port up onto the walkway. If you go closer to the wall it won’t work, but you will instead be able to port onto the roof. You can port from the middle point onto the roof and to the walkway on the sides. You can infiltrator’s strike from the point to under the clock tower and vice versa. You can port up to and down from the trebs. You can’t infiltrator’s strike down from the walkway on the side of the clock tower, but you can leave a return point there and jump down, then return to the point with more flexibility than infiltrator’s arrow due to the extra 300 range. Approaching either of the side points you can port up onto the wall, avoiding the steps. There are a number of port-spots on the clock tower walls for shadow shot, where if you stand up against the wall in those spots and shadow shot it will port you inside the clock tower.

KeyLimPi.9031:

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thanks for the feed back. after watching this video several times I can see where i made mistakes. there was time wehre i just stood there and did nothing, i dunno why tbh lol

i totally see your point about the condi engi and not using bow, i know i should of.

Lettuce.2945:

Uhh…You seemed confused. Just be more aggressive and pressure. If you are outnumbered, it’s your role to disengage and move on to the next point to back cap.

yes, i was confused a lot, unsure of the maps still and still not figured out what build does what. and them kitten imps do not help being so small to see what they do ^^