Guild Wars 2

About a month ago I switched to a thief because I hate dying in PvP situations. I put together a little bit of the footage, so you guys could pick it apart and give me pointers and whatnot…

Nothing fancy, no music, no flashy commentary, just footage. Take a look at it, and give me some tips and tricks so that I may improve myself. In many of the cases (especially at the beginning) I am not trying to accomplish anything, but just messing around giggling at the numbers. =)

Thanks guys!

Sorrow’s furnace has some impressive commanders

All I see is that dagger storm is an “I win” button

Ezeriel.9574:

All I see is that dagger storm is an “I win” button

That means you have no idea what are you talking about

Ezeriel.9574:

All I see is that dagger storm is an “I win” button

In 1v1s? You can use dagger storm and not hit your target once. I don’t know what that wins you but I want none of it.

In the case of the warrior or the ranger, it wasn’t dagger storm that messed them up. It was them shooting. They killed themselves. Daggerstorm reflects all projectiles. Had the warrior or ranger not range attacked me, it wouldn’t have done too much.

Fun vid.. do you ever go in with D/D first?

I love seeing 23-25 stacks on them.

ski.4927:

In the case of the warrior or the ranger, it wasn’t dagger storm that messed them up. It was them shooting. They killed themselves. Daggerstorm reflects all projectiles. Had the warrior or ranger not range attacked me, it wouldn’t have done too much.

This. Dagger storm on itself as a damage tool is a lottery. Multipple times i have used dagger storm like 100-200 range from enemy and it didnt even hit once (I know lol). It is used for stability+reflect projectiles. And many ppl are not aware of that yet, good for us.
Ps.: When ranger knocks himself back when im daggerstorming… makes me giggle…

Faeyd.5094:

Fun vid.. do you ever go in with D/D first?

I love seeing 23-25 stacks on them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LTCaT7vpf4

I had been running P/D & SB. I will switch it up and run P/D & D/D and give this a try. I won’t be using caltrops as in a fight where I would need the extra bleeds, the person I’m fighting isn’t dumb enough to stand in it. However, starting a fight with a couple death Blossoms looks like fun…

I can’t really tell what you intended to showcase with that video, but I do have a few suggestions.

The players you were playing against seemed unskilled to the point where you might have been able to get away with using p/p just to get the dps increase from unload.

You should try getting into melee weapons. D/d is good for high dps and S/d is fun to annoy people with.

You could probably have just walked up and CnD+backstabbed the people in the video they weren’t the greatest.

Also I don’t really recommend dagger storm or the other one (forgot the name) over basilisk venom if you do choose to go melee. The skills are too easy to counter. Too many times I’ve heartseekered into someone and downed them while they use dagger storm.

Tbh I’ve never been in a fight where dagger storm did anything for me… Most people just come in and wail on me taking me out. I usually go with thieves guild. It helps me force down more tanky characters or even the odds when outnumbered. If I feel I have the element of surprise on a less tanky profession I’ll use bv though.

Tl; dr I’ve never found dagger storm beneficial.

ski.4927:

Faeyd.5094:

Fun vid.. do you ever go in with D/D first?

I love seeing 23-25 stacks on them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LTCaT7vpf4

I had been running P/D & SB. I will switch it up and run P/D & D/D and give this a try. I won’t be using caltrops as in a fight where I would need the extra bleeds, the person I’m fighting isn’t dumb enough to stand in it. However, starting a fight with a couple death Blossoms looks like fun…

I’ve been in sPvP running similar and watched folks stand in skill-caltrops and 2 sets of dodgetrops whilst I stayed stealthed The Geomancy sigil adds another 3 for good measure.

Alright I switched to P/D & D/D and I am already liking the synergy of opening with Death Blossom much better than anything SB brought me. I have also adjusted my CD vs Condition duration a bit. I now have 101% duration without my damage suffering too much. My bleeds, once I build sigil stacks, hit for 125 and last for 8 sec off pistol auto atacks.

Also, I considered Sigil of Geomancy, but I find that Sigil of Doom is more to my liking.

Looking forward to capturing more footage and making new vids. I will be sure to try and include better footage, music, maybe some commentary and all that next time. Until then, keep the advice coming! Everything has been great so far!

It’s fun stuff, mate. I enjoy seeing people just enjoy what they do.

I always laugh when people keep shooting at me when I DS and then they kill themselves.