Guild Wars 2

DS is a tricky thing, it’s a wonderful stun break every 10s that allows you to take no direct damage, and hurt people.

I’m not saying I’m an expert, however I like to believe I’m more of a strategist then most others so this is by no means law of the land just my opinion.

for the most part I use DS as a pure defensive/supportive ability. As stated nice stun break invun, but also a very good fear that can be casted during your sustain ability. Generally I use it for such instances as waiting on a pistol whip thief to blow haste so he’s out of his resource then punish him for poor timing, try to juke (by remaining low health which is dangerous) a mesmer shatter before a large consume condition heal, and the list goes on.

mainly you need to become comfortable with the abilities that do major damage of other professions before you can utilize DS to its fullest potential. Staying DS till your life force is depleted is probably one of the worst things you can do (unless the situation calls for it which is only during large teamfights or waiting on teammates to rez for a cap) considering you do exponentially less damage while DS as that bar becomes empty. Approach the ability more as a defensive utility rather then a damage/nuke, and you’ll see how flexible it is within the gameplay.

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