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Just finished Liadri with my thief.
Traits:
Critical Strikes 30: V, VII, XI
Shadow Arts 10: I
Acrobatics 20: VI, VII
Trickery 10: III
Skills: Hide in Shadows (heal), Shadow Refuge, Signet of Agility, Signet of Shadows, Thieves Guild (elite)
Armor: Twilight Arbor breastplate (P/T/CD) along with the rune it came with. The rest of the armor was carrion (P/V/CD) with 5 Superior Rune of the Krait (because I’m cheap), and the trinkets were all chrysocola (P/V/CD).
Weapons: Used p/d the entire fight. Pistol was P/V/CD with a Superior Sigil of Agony, and dagger was P/P/CD with a Superior Sigil of Hobbling.
Consumables: Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew, Master Tuning Crystal, and a Black Lion health generation buff I had lying around
Phase 1: For the first two orbs I pretty much followed the video that Orpheal posted. As soon as I threw the second orb, I hunted down the cosmic rift orb and killed it, then led a vision into the third portal and threw the orb.
Phase 2: As soon as I threw the third orb, I used Thieves Guild for some extra breathing room. I have no idea if they did anything, as I was running for my life to find the first safe spot so I could begin rotating in a clockwise direction (it doesn’t really matter, but that’s what felt comfortable for me). If she ever crippled me, dodging took care of that with the trait skill, plus the dodge caltrops slowed both her and the visions down a bit. Basically, making sure I missed the aoes was the first priority. Otherwise, I just turned around to shoot her with skill 1 whenever I had a chance and knew I was in a safe spot. Shadow strike could work if she got close, but it’s a little risky if you’re not positioned correctly and might teleport into an aoe. Also, dancing dagger would have been useful on Liadri for more cripple, but I kind of panicked too much and forgot to use it… Mostly, it came down to the fact that the stars aligned on the attempt where I killed her: the rifts didn’t pull me into any aoe, visions didn’t spawn on top of me, and everything went smoothly. Because I knew with my awful internet that I needed to focus more on being completely inside a safe spot and only had time to turn and shoot Liadri on occasion, I relied a ton on my condition damage to take her down. That’s why I made sure I had a lot of it.
Tips:
*Under graphics in options, turn post processing to None so her weird blind thing doesn’t affect you.
*Use Free Camera was nice for me so that my camera (which was hard enough to control already in that stupid dome) didn’t jerk around whenever I picked up an orb.
*Turn off Melee Attack Assist so that it’s easier to hit rifts on the run.
*Always use Cloak and Dagger to hit rifts. The invisibility gives some breathing space, and you can’t kill the rifts with projectiles quickly enough.
*Signet of Agility can refill your endurance when activated, but I never used it. Just remember it’s there if you get dodge-happy.
*If visions get to close, you can always use Signet of Shadows to blind them so that they don’t hurt you when they explode.
*In phase 1 when waiting for a vision to reach a white portal, strafe back and forth a bit so that Liadri’s projectiles miss you.
*Use the northernmost dome, where the white portals all spawn the same distance from the edge of the dome. The other domes have portals that spawn either really close to Liadri or half on the edge of the dome. (Really poor design, making only one dome suitable to fight Liadri in when we have to wait long enough already in the queue).
*Don’t attempt this at 4:00 in the morning when you’re sleep deprived.
*Have fun? I know I didn’t. I was shaking in the end. Didn’t even feel proud, just lucky and relieved. It’s got to be the most frustrating thing I’ve ever done in GW2 thus far, and that includes tier 4 candidate trials.