Guild Wars 2

Christ, I don’t do it often, but now I logged in to type this comment.

To some point I agree with Excelvior and Chukree.

I’m quite good player (mostly playing Warr, Rev, Thief, Nec), not a pro, but I can handle dodges, rotations etc.

So I just wanna comment “l2p and dodge” thingy.

Dodge trueshot, dodge certain traps, dodge ranger barrage and dodge f3 pull. Like all of this makes you win a fight. In 1v1 failing to dodge one of those almost certainly loses you 1v1, but dodging perfectly doesn’t win it for you. Dodging double f3 (after focus) puts you with 0 dodges left (let’s say 25 endurance, becouse he cannot instantly press f3 twice).

Now in tf (2v2/3v3/3v2/2v3 w/e), if you are forced to use all dodges and blocks (becouse 2/3 dodges are not sufficient) just to avoid kittened dmg/cc from one dude is making you vulnerable af.

I’m not claming I’m not winning 1v1 or tf vs guardian or few of them, but fact that you need to play it great to just not lose it straight away is dumb.

I’m not here to say nerf guardian pls. DH clearly needs rework to makes some of his strong skills harder to land (smaller radius/some kind of place not target skills like trueshot), what will even “skill” in fights vs other proffesions and end salt.

Also, every time I come read comments and see those DH players who are laughing from “another DH thread” MAKES ME WANNA HORSE LAUGH (yeah Chris Mannix I’m talking to you)

sophiewhite.3149:

Ubik.8315:

For a game where you might have to fight DH regularly, then unblockable gunflame power build is very effective. Typically condis are pretty ineffective vs DH and Scrapper as they have good condi clear and without taking high spike damage they also have good sustain.

do you have a link to it? i dont see it on metabattle.

Think he ment this build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJAURjMdQfH2FC2dAnIWKCMl8W0LLYMAeABg3jbyd6C-TVSBABbcIAu4BAQz+DUq+jZKBvS5He6C04IAAwFAIAACwNvZ28mBG6QH6QH6Qbn7co7co7sUABu1C-w

Hey,

have some succes with Condi Rev (standard build). Generally I know all combos and how each skill works and when to use it, but still, would like to see opinions of some more exprienced Revs.

First, how often do you use Embrace the Darkness except to proc Inferno ?

Personally I’m using it quite often, but I’m unsure if it’s the best energy distribution. If I’m not getting focused in bigger fight I’ll just turn it on for Torment stacks. One can argue that Banish will do more dmg, but unless you land it throu other targets it’s single target juke which is easily dodgeable. Often when there is downed body which I do not intentd to stomp, or if I see thief is going to jump one me (probably with venom or using steal) I turn it on. Also I use it rarely to proc Enchanted Daggers.

How often do you use unyelding Anguish except of map traveling ?

I use it maybe as dmg source on enemies, when i want aoe blind from mace3, sometimes if they dodge axe4, but in bigger team fights I tend to aim it on edge of fight/point, becouse jumping in the middle of everything tends to make me take more dmg than it’s worth.

Do you stomp or rather cleave?

I mostly cleave, unless it’s 1v1 or 2v2 (I never stomp mesmer, thief or ele). Problem is in most scenario’s enemies are able to res throu cleave, I guess it’s just how it works and i have to accept it, nonetheless what’s your opinion?

Do you rather aa with mace or sword?

I think mace deals overall more dmg, but most of it comes from Torment, so it can be cleansed.

Soothing Bastion or Enchanced Bulwark ? How much does this extra stab stack matters?

My first post on gw2 forum, so go easy one me

I know most of my questions depend on situation around, nonetheless would appreaciate any form of advice.

CutesySylveon.8290:

Spamming against said condi Mesmer is exactly how you melt yourself. I don’t play sPvP, so I can’t really say for there, but understanding everything your skills do and knowing when to use them is very important for rev.

Things like shiro evade giving extra endurance, so you can evade more frequently, being as far away from random objects so sword 2 doesn’t go after so many of the wrong things, not using sword 3 when you’re loaded with confusion etc etc. Rev can take some hits and evade a lot of them as well, but using your energy poorly or being in the wrong legend at the wrong time can make all the different.

Pay attention to what you’re up against and punish what they try to do; timing an evade skill right or using glint heal when a nasty burst comes.
When against condi, especially Mesmer, bring help, or go condi yourself to have at least some sort of defense against it.

I agree, to “git gud” you have to really understand your all combos and skills.

Quick example of being in a wrong stance/weapon in wrong moment: We were losing fight, so i disengage using shiro rolls/evades and I go for not defended far point (unranked). I swap to mallyx to use my jump to get on point faster (also swaped weapons to mace/axe) and suprise, guardian spammed all his traps on point including maw, kinda unexpected (but it’s unranked so I could expect it …) and I literally die in 3s, becouse I was in wrong stance/weapon.

Agree about confusion, using sword 3 while having more than few stacks of it is a sure death sentence, another example is using your mallyx heal when you got poison on you, but that applies to most proffesions in the game.

Overall advice to OP, try mallyx rev. Personally I feel it’s harder to utylize, but it’s easier to learn your basic combos quick.

I’m sorry I didn’t read all of this, only some.

So if you think 1s CD on BS is right, becouse of dmg it offers then you are wrong, you haven’t played thief at all, you don’t like to be +1 by thieves and that’s all …

If you actually play thief, you know that this CD hurts in only 3 matchups.

vs other thief, vs engi and vs mesmer, why you may ask ?

If you are decent thief you will just land your BS always, it’s not that hard and it doesn’t need 0.1s CD to do massive dmg. Now if you are vs someone who has acces to stealth, it’s totally a different story.

Let’s assume you are vs thief or mesmer, they stealth and so do you, becouse you want be the one engaging. You don’t see each other, so generally you would just AA where your opponent should be, but with such high CD on your AA all you can do is wait … in such situation I would actually want to have normall AA instead of BS, becouse if you hit your opponent, you see fire blast then he is donzo. There is not a single other situation where this CD is burdensome.

Peace

you can add me in game, if your hardest matchup is d/p thief, here I am …

also in the times when I was learning playing thief I really liked this dude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oVYcBxa0M

it’s fosho outdated, but mechanics havent changed so much and this clip has some really cool slowmotion actions to let you see what’s happenin

gl mate