You’re in luck! hahahaha.
I present to you my hybrid build that I have honed to perfection for WvW solo roam.
Firstly, I qualify the term perfection: perfection meaning you have a decent chance of beating any other builds out there, some builds you may start off somewhat at a disadvantage against, other builds you start off somewhat with an advantage. BUT YOU WILL NOT FIND YOURSELF TOTALLY HELPLESS AGAINST ANY BUILD OUT THERE. So it comes down to skill, and not so much build because my build gives you pretty close to 50-50 chance against any other builds! (or at least those that I have encountered lol)
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Some tips, 1vs1 duels are very much about mind games. And needlessly to say, unless you fight the same opponent over and over again and learn his pattern, every engagement will be quite different and it boils down to experience to tide you through!
If your opponent a thief, dodges, should you follow up with a heavy skill straight after? Or will your opponent do a double dodge? or double dodge with evade? If he is in invis, will he try to engage you nearing the end of his invis? Do you do a random dodge to anticipate his engagement? or will the thief just hang at the edge and wait for you to waste your dodge/skills?
If your opponent is a warrior, he comes near you with a hammer, do you dodge in anticipation of his quick hammer stun twirl? or will the warrior wait for you to random dodge and waste it before he does the stun?
If your opponent is a LB ranger, you can tell his knockback animation which is a white twirl around his bow when casting and you can dodge it. But what if he, waiting for you to expend your dodge (which a lot of ppl do, they random dodge without seeing the animation because they don’t know the animation) and you don’t dodge, and he enters invis. Do you then do a random dodge in anticipation of his knockback since now he is invis and you can’t see him?
Of course, you can bait out moves from your opponent. Easiest way is to heal then dodge shortly after, before your heal is complete. To cancel the heal and to dodge what a good opponent will potentially do to disrupt your heal. Or signet of spite, then stow weapon and force a dodge or evade from your opponent.
You’re not going to always win, and you’re not going to always lose. but you will not run into an enemy build that you have zero chance of winning against assuming you are equally skilled. That I assure you!
Another tip, a lot of warriors for some reason are running Rampage elite when roaming. When they enter rampage mode, enter your elite plague form. Totally counters them and leaves them helpless…^^
Another tip, some thieves when they go invis, they are not aggressive and wait at the edge for you to do random dodges or waste some aoe skills or waste your deathshroud. They only go totally aggressive the moment you leave your DS and your DS is on cooldown. That is when you are most vulnerable especially if you are on your scepter and your weapon swap is on CD. Don’t waste your dodges by random dodging, dont waste your aoe dagger skills, don’t waste your DS. Switch to staff if you can and lay staff 2 or 3 down on you. Then run around in small circles and watch and react. If you can’t use staff and they go totally aggressive on you with your DS on cooldown, dont be afraid to enter elite plague form and force them off you because some of those thieves, when they go totally aggressive when your DS is down, can really really hurt you. Bait their fear with heal+evade.
