Guild Wars 2

As the title suggests – what separates an average shoutbow warrior from a top level shoutbow warrior in PvP? I’m not concerned about global things that apply to any build like dodging and LoSing.

im not a top pvp player, but as a long time shout warrior i am still working on these things:

- condition managment (esp. traited warhorn)
- landing the pindown and final thrust
- maintaining might stacks / burns

Everything actually speaks for itself and can just be done by logic brain. => some things you’ll probably already know.

-Hitting ALL geo/doom swaps, (this can be done by cleansing blind before swap/or even just after the hit #veryEffectiveAgainstTeef)
-Actually using pindown when you have blind so (good) players wont dodge it, but cleansing it mid-air
-In teamfights try to line up your pindown to ther furthest enemy so you can double pindown
-spamming 1 as a mofo and ALWAYS being on the back of your enemy. ALWAYS spam 1111111111. you have to keep the pressure up
- actually being able to keep your enemy in your firefield ( by positioning yourself so that your enemy can only hit you while being in the fire field)
-Always leap trough your firefield ( fiery aura grants a lot of might + hit’s as much as an autoattack if you keep it up => more pressure )
-never using shouts on poison. Cleanse poison first with wh or burning field
-never use flurry in a 1v1 ( except if you can kill #cancel+finalthrust)
-Being able to actually burst. ( Cast pindown, and mid animation you use Fear me => arcing arrow 100%crit => final thrust(if lower than 50%) ) µ
-managing your bursts. F.e. only bursting an engi AFTER his heal.
- juking/kiting ( pretending to jump off things and not doing it, knowing all the jump spots, LoS’ing as much as possible while kiting) like a crazyfool + trying to never die. It never is usefull to die, even if you still have the point ( except if your mate is like 200%sure he can banner you)
-precasting banner. Every blind kitten can see a banner being casted when someone is downed already. That’s why you precast it on his spot when you see he’s dying. Takes some practice but is very effective

rest is kinda based on the class you’re fighting against. f.e. it’s really usefull to fake cast your pindown against a (good) mesmer because they will try to reflect it, wasting their distortion

for teamfights:

-be supportive as kitten. like, if you see someone casting pindown on an ally f.e. you can even blind him with your smoldering arrow. And if you’re on sword, you can just use Charge to cleanse him instantly.
-even tough you’re fast ‘n kitten, try to not be the thief who decaps. Let the thief just do that ( not in soloQ tough)
- map awareness => you can overextend a bit cuz you’re OP but the only reason why to overextend is to help someone disengage
- Try to be asd much as possible in the teamfights and call all your immobilizes.
- Use you immobilizes when you actually know someone of your team has smth up( if you’re with a necro it’s usefull to coordinate the wells and immobilize by luring their first cleanses and using the full immobilize+wells after )

Tl;dr? Hit ALL geo/doom and you’ll just do fine