Guild Wars 2

No, roaming on my thief in this video because since the patch the balance is extremely different now between WvW thief and Conquest thief.

A few duels are from before the balance patch but I wanted to include them anyway. The Majority are recorded after the patch.

Hope you enjoy.

Nice Clips fam.

For those hating on the 5 or so acro clips just go back and watch the numerous DA clips. Pay attention to the steal timings and impact plays on both acro and DA. It’s easy to sit back and flame a safer build, but to dismiss the skill shown in the video is ludicrous.

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NationalNacho.5972:

Im sad they removed evades cuz they’re active defense etc

When you have such a ridiculous amount of dodges I don’t think it’s the same thing as active defense. That’s like saying Endure Pain is active defense. The nerfs are justified.

I can’t tell if you actually read what I said because by the looks from your reply I’d say you did not. I have zero issues with them toning down acro, I feel it is a good thing they did (if you had read what I said you’d have seen that I would have rather’d them remove H2c entirely, which is 2 dodges and a passive stun break).

All I’m saying is that they could have toned down the build that was the major issue without reducing the number of effective builds. (DA Staff).

Also the utility endure pain is active, you have to press it. So are dodges. DA really did not have excessive dodges. Acro did for sure on top of a lot more initiative gain (for more staff 3’s.)

Personally I’m more upset with the fact they greatly reduced the sustain for DA staff builds by removing the active dodges gained from SoA/CV. The only reason I can see for toning these two things down that affect every other build would be to tone down the map presence that the meta conquest build has by removing some movement speed. (I’m a bit surprised they didn’t go about nerfing this spec around its +1 potential via reducing the damage of PI or adding an ICD/out play factor to it.)

I’d have much rather seen the removal of H2c (give acro might stacking or a dmg modifier for when endurance is not full instead of a passive get out of jail free card that rewards 2 dodges) and a nerf to the evasion trait at 50%. Id have also been fine with the nerf to upper hand if they left SoA and CV alone – This would have left the gap between DA/acro very small in terms of dueling across all match ups.

Looking at the changes that actually happened now though, upper hand I’d agree was an uncalled for change (it’s potentially 2 initiative/10 seconds less then before, a huge reduction in the traits effectiveness) CV/SoA dodge reduction hurts other builds more than the ones that had issues with dodge spam (Acro builds). H2c is still a carry trait as is every passive stun break traits. I also wish you could still cancel vault with weapon swap (it was good baiting and mobility).

Moving on though, I don’t see DA staff being used much anywhere, outside of the mirror match up between thieves. Now since it now clearly loses a lot more match ups than acro does when both classes are played optimally. I feel acro will become the more common duelist spec, even though it was nerfed more directly than DA was. Staff thief was already a meme in pro league before these changes, now its pretty dead in high tier conquest.

Much shorter roaming video up now.

~ Cheers

New Video – DA Thief Mirror Duels.

This is a longer video, there are time stamps in the description if you just want to watch a few duels against a few different people instead of the entire thing.

For those who would rather watch a shorter clip, I’l be uploading a roaming video that will be significantly shorter than this dueling video in the next few days!

Most of these clips are older, from about 2 months ago (any of them that what I’m wearing doesn’t match the chat cover.) Back when I was learning staff, and before I started playing with the guys in FEAR.

Cheers.

About: [qT] Is a 4-8 man roaming guild full of high level duelers, roamers, and small scale oriented players. We Spend our days outnumbered fighting on BL’s or EBG, dueling in OS, and GvGing other small scale groups in NA T2.

Play Time: We are an EU to late NA based guild. (2pm est – 2am est)

Roster: Current size 9

Competition: The fights in NA T2 are fierce, if not incredible. There are many skilled small man guilds around for us to fight during all of our guilds time zones as well as many great outnumbered GvX fights against skilled militia players from other servers.

What We Are Looking For: Our major goal of this post is to recruit a skilled guardian to add to our ranks during the NA time slot. As we currently only have one, very skilled, guardian whom generally plays EU to early NA. We are also looking for another skilled D/D Ele and a Warrior.

Whats Expected: Team Speak 3, Play frequently, Don’t rage, Accept build advise, must play given role.

How We Play: When out numbered fighting and GvGing we peel and kite for each other A LOT. Ex; Someone is Low on health, our DD ele swaps water dodges and heals them, while our guardian/warrior/ engi drops CC’s behind them, our thieves hard focus the person who’s doing the most pressure to said individual. Until they are back in a strong fighting position.

Current GvG Record: Undefeated 11-0 in 3v3’s-7v7’s

Cheers /w for info

They say their casual… but try taking their BL, I wish you luck because there is nothing casual about it.

awesome people who enjoy the being in the nude, you cant get a better mix ^^

We are still activly recruiting! Wisper myself (Reçkless) or thieftix in game!

Bumping for visibility, please address the C&S system!

We record our Guild roaming in WvW, we have raw footage at this moment because my editing software is not working. This is just to let you know, we are serious about our havoc groups :P

Any other small roaming groups/guilds from other servers are also welcomed to transfer and merge into us, details can be discussed about this later on.

lastly we can provide some (not all) financial support to guilds who want to merge into us.

hey, we should talk about a few things! do you have a public Team speak that I could join you on to discus a few things?

Also give me a time to talk.