Guild Wars 2

Cultural Armor isn’t too hard to amass the money for over the long-run. I may only have about 50g on my Thief, and have never had more than 120g ever at once, but money comes in and money gets spent all the time. One can easily buy each piece individually through normal play over time.

The only thing I could see wrong with regen in its current state is how one’s lousy regen boon can make one other’s stronger healing regen boon get overwritten in potency.

But that’s a complex in its own right.

You activated my Trap Card: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder!

Bad move. Now everytime I see a Ferg, I’m gonna have a flashback to The War and start flipping out on his corpse that I somehow mangled in my rage.

Oh, you mean when I was still Kaineng? Yeah, I can’t comment on anything in ET’s history until after the War Machine mass transfer, when I left to look for another server and settled on ET after exploring IoJ and NSP. I don’t know of ET’s situation before I went there.

All I can say is that I’ve seen Ferg’s lame playstyle during the entire Dev/Ferg/Kain 8 week fiasco, and even when Chris Ivey was there keeping the borderlands in check and giving Ferg some good rep for stellar defense, you guys would try to gank our Garrison from us while we were dealing with Devona(And Devona would NEVER leave our BL. We had a big rivalry). And I used thief stealth capping to save our structures when you guys did that numerous times, with one particular garrison save when I staved off 2 omegas and an army of 30 in the lord room’s circle for 3 mins while our army mobilized to get there are wipe you. And they did.

I know your tactics from pure experience, Ferg. While Chris may not be leading you guys anymore, you didn’t change much at all.

I’ve been at THREE separate backstabs by Ferg at the ET keep when we were red, when SF was already taking it. One before the alliance, one during its talks, and even the week we stopped caring.

Trust me, we LOVED the feeling of doing the same back to you guys. I even lead my own charge where we took your keep back from SF right as you guys broke in, and pushed you back to spawn. I asked in mapchat if we should do to ferg like they did to us and backstab their keep from them, and it was pretty unanimous among the vocal.

And I’d do it again, because I personally got fed up with the backstabbing. And I’m not talking about alliance backstabbing, I’m talking about Ferg picking at us while SF was already upon us. Them actions can be described with some words not fit for forums, but I myself would no longer ‘tolerate it’.

And I stopped caring the week before we became blue. I prioritize Fergs over SF any day now if they’re looking for a fight, because the sooner we break their cowardly will, the sooner we can get back to fighting the real enemy one-on-one.

Spare the rod, spoil the child. I ain’t sparing anything against Ferg now, they hamper our SF war efforts too much when they come around to bother us.

PS: I love me some trash talking. Take it personally to if you want to, I won’t complain.

7 characters. All Norn.

1 level 80 Thief with 1300 hours on it. He’s a commander for WvW, has 100% map completion, enjoys his build(has only respecced once in 2 months, and it barely changed my playstyle), and is the character I have had the most fun on. He was not the first character I made, but the only one that kept my attention(and so well). He has done every dungeon in story and explorable(But I am confident it was myself, not the character, that gets the job done in dungeons). I have an ascended backpack and an ascended amulet, but no ascended rings as Fractals bores me to death and is unforgiving with bad dungeon players, even on low difficulties(I cannot carry a party in Fractals like I can a normal dungeon). I am a WvW player at heart, however that did not influence my choice of Thief. In fact, Thief Commanders are not for the faint of heart, as we have to work twice as hard in zerg battles to live since we’re usually out in front. I do not run a survivalist build, but I am also not a pure glass cannon(but I lean towards the glass cannon side).

The rest are all not very high level or played much. I think my highest level alt is a 42 Guardian. I jump on my level 20 Mesmer sometimes for WvW, really only for portal, and when I start playing I’m always thinking ‘I could be doing so much better in this situation if I was on my Thief’.

My 8th slot is open, and is reserved for the day a new race gets released. Then it’ll be a necro. Or it’ll be a new class if that gets released. Or both.

I have never had more than 120g on my account or characters in my entire GW2 career. I currently have 49g on my Thief.

As a Thief who does dungeon regularly, I cannot stress how many bad thieves I’ve seen, so that hate isn’t unjustified.

I cannot recommend if the Thief lifestyle of dungeoning is right for you. I don’t know how you play, or if you are in-general a good or bad player as a Thief in dungeons. I can, however, tell you that Thieves bring options to the table that other classes only dream of, and a well-played thief can carry a dungeon of bad pugs(but I hate doing that).

Knowledge is power as a Thief. Know what will hit you and kill you, and dodge before it hits you and kills you. No matter your build, you should always be playing in the mindset that a direct hit on you is an instant kill, and play accordingly. If you’re constantly dying and bringing the group down, then you may be better off with a Warrior or Guardian for dungeons.

Do not be afraid to use Pistols/Shortbow in a Dungeon, even if your build isn’t optimal for it(Pistols are not optimal for my build, but I bust out two of them in dungeons when appropriate and don’t miss a beat). You do not have to melee everything, and both weapons can do great damage and have great utility uses in dungeons.

It is all about the traits a Thief has. They change how awesome you are in a dungeon, or how fail you will be.

I run 15/0/10/15/30. My steal gives AoE might, fury(the best part), swiftness, and gives two boons to my allies that I rip off my enemy, while also dazing the enemy(burning defiance or using it for daze), while also poisoning and weakening him(since my poisons do weakness), and good damage via mug. However, being in melee range is bad is most cases, so I steal with my Shortbow out, and use disabling shot to put distance between me and the boss since it has one of the best built-in dodges. The 15 in acrobatics gives me tons of dodge(I can essentially dodge 3 times to your 2), and the 10 in Shadow arts lets me regen initiative by stealthing with Shadow Refuge as WELL as its other benefits of regening init(so that I can continue my burst faster with any weapon of choice).

Utilities should be Hide in Shadows(So you can reset yourself in a fight if you take a hit and live, while also giving you another means to stealth and maybe regen init, or do a sneak attack for a weapon, sneak by a part, etc), Shadow Refuge(No brainer, aoe lifesteal for projectiles, aoe healing, aoe long-duration stealth, awesome combat rez, cluster bomb it for blinds), and then the other two should switch as needed. Caltrops is a fantastic cripple to help your teammates kite, as well as does nice bleed damage. Smoke Screen blocks projectiles, gives blinding shots, and also can be cluster bombed for aoe stealth(I’ve made other thieves go HUH?! when I do that, they need to learn their class more). Blinding Powder is another way to stealth a downed ally, or to stealth yourself and get initiative, or to inflict a blind, or get a sneak attack, etc. Scorpion Wire can be used to pull in some enemies safely out of groups and is also a knockdown to burn defiance. Signets for power and precision can be put on when you need more damage for a specific path or run style(and precision signet lets you dodge more when used, too, as it refills the energy bar). Haste is useful when you need to pump out DPS really fast, or maybe haste-res someone or to activate a switch faster(safest at range because of the lack of energy to dodge afterwards). Thieves Guild is great for soaking up hits and putting some out at the same time, and Daggerstorm is fantastic in areas where you need to put the pain on a room full of enemies, or where you really need that reflect or stability for a short time. Racial elites could also come into play.

Morale is high and spirits are soaring in ET. We fight against overwhelming odds and do better than ever.

We are also letting Ferg reap what they sow. Most of us ET commanders have no more feelings of an alliance. We extended the olive branch, and you spit at it. Enjoy getting treated the way you treated us in the past.

And SF has the numbers, but are sloppier than ever. And I see both sides capitalizing on it.

ET will make sure the Blue Keep in EB gets used like it should. And we have.

Eduardo.4675:

Why build a car that turns left when you steer right? to have funny driving.

Motorcycles turn their handlebars left to go right.

If you want to be a jack of all trades, I suggest Celestial accessories where able(karka trinket and celestial rings and amulet from fractals. Any orbs should be Ruby, for your other earring and back, for example.

Runes should be Divinity. Armorial type should be all Berserkers, but change if you feel like it.

Make your steal as awesome as possible. Steal is our class ability and should always be strong. 10 in deadly arts and 30 in tricks. Trait mug, thrill of the crime, bountiful theft, and daze on steal. Other points can be put where you please, but they should focus on making your gameplay more fluid.

I run 15/0/10/15/30. Weakness on poison makes my shortbow awesome, and lets my steal and dagger weaken too. 10 in shadow arts lets me get 2 init back on stealth, which makes init management and burst stronger. 15 in acro for swiftness, might and endurance gained back on dodge. Extra dodging means I live so much longer.

I make up any lack in crit chance with food, oil and the fury gained every time I steal. I hit like a truck and my conditions do more damage than pure berserker, and I have a bit more survivability with the divinity and celestial gear stats. Condi sits somewhere near 500, crit damage is same as pure berserker, and pose and precision values are barely lost. Essentially, I am not very glass cannonish thanks to my traits and celestial gear/divinity runes, but I do glass cannon-like damage and put out decent bleeds too.

South East Asia

Ever held a broken wall as a chokepoint for an extended time?

ALL I EVER SEE ARE RANGER PETS. All over the place. They’re the only thing assaulting us.

Alright, I got two exciting pictures for ya.

First is ET’s conquest this morning of just about all of EB. We decided to stop and NOT attack the SF keep. We know our limits, after all, since we do NOT have an endless amount of players like SF does.

Second shows how badly SF wanted to take SM… and how badly they failed too. They outnumbered us, but proper siege placement and high quality siege made sure that we could stand toe-to-toe against their numbers and tactics, even with inferior numbers. I love this action shot.

I have a mystic forge conduit, so I have a mystic forge anywhere I go.

That being said, when my inventory fills up and I’m not near a vendor, I try to turn my greens into yellows to make more space. Extremely easy to do with a conduit since I can do it anywhere in the world.

However, I typically sell greens if I am at a vendor. I can’t be bothered with all the sorting, and in the end its only a few silver to maybe 50 silver difference in how much money I’d have made if I had some luck(hint, my luck sucks).

I respond to white swords on ANY objective when I am commanding for Eredon Terrace, real threat or not. This change will only make map awareness more important to those that don’t utilize it, and make me a threat since I utilize map awareness in my strategies already, both on offense and defense.

This change isn’t going to kill T8, mate. It’ll make multiple commanders in T8 that much more valuable though.

You have no right to complain about population imbalance without caring about T8 at the same time, because if you were green in our tier, you wouldn’t be making this thread right now.

You don’t know the meaning of the words ‘Low Pop’.

Bleed and especially Confusion would be OP if they could crit.

Especially confusion.

25 stacks of bleed = 25 chances to crit every second. That’s nuts.

And a confusion crit would nearly one-shot some classes depending on how many stacks of confusion are on you.

Nah, there is no way I’d ever care enough about black lion chests to open them in mass.

I destroy them in my inventory when I get them these days. Not worth selling on the TP.

If I ever get a key, I just grab one of the hundreds of chests I have in my bank. If I’m feeling real lazy, I’ll buy one for a few copper off the TP.

No fix to keys will make your Black Lion Chest investment worth it. There are just too many chests compared to how many keys are bought/found, and impossible to manipulate due to the sheer volume of chests.

PS: Why you’re bothering to sell Black Lion Chests when they’re worth 20% of one copper ore is beyond me. It’s as bad a decision as speculating in cinnamon.

Other than the [Rage] I DO have, I gave up on legendaries and sold off all my T6 mats due to the cost of the precursor for the dagger. By the time I get 700 gold for the dagger, the price will inflate even more.

Fate is a cruel mistress. All I can craft is frenzy if I work towards it. I don’t really want frenzy at this rate. I could sell it on the TP, but who the heck would buy it?

Well, T8 is out of the question so I’m not gonna advertise mine.

Some popular around-the-clock servers are places like Jade Quarry, Blackgate, and Fort Aspenwood.

FYI, you can use Shortbow 4 while stealthed without breaking stealth. So you can spam that at enemies to heal up while stealthed if needed, while still staying on the offensive.

Caltrops will also not reveal you.

Shadow Refuge is the only skill with a guaranteed spot on my bar. I do NOT like taking it off. I feel naked without it.

Signet of Shadows goes on when going from point A to point B. I change it before combat if I can though, since I have swiftness on dodge for speed for combat. I do use it to blind when stomping if I fight with it.

I usually run blinding powder for the other utility and not shadowstep. In fact, I rarely run shadowstep. Maybe it’s because I’m a shortbow/dd thief and know how to avoid getting hit in the first place and can use infil shot to cover ground if I have to, and can use blinding powder if I get CC’d anyway.

When swapping out SoS, usually it’s caltrops. Sometimes haste if I’m going all-out. But the SoS utility can change to anything. Blinding powder only changes sometimes. I rarely ever change shadow refuge.

PS: You can NEVER have too many blinds.

Not liking the 2-5.

1 seems fine as long as the bleed and vulnerability duration isn’t too high. Duration is the important part. The sneak attack looks like it’s a glorified mini-stun, but whatever, I have no problem with it.

2 is too much utility in a mainhand weapon skill. Especially a shadowstep WITH a blast finisher. Overall it feels like a skill that doesn’t belong on a thief.

3 should be dual attacks. I need to know about every possible setup. The 3 you have makes you too stationary and will die too easily.

4 seems more like a utility, not an offhand, and seems like it’d have little use in general outside of gimmick builds.

5 isn’t as good as it sounds. A block with a counter isn’t great for the greatsword rangers since it roots them when it activates. Same would happen to the thief, making you vulnerable. And a thief that stands still is a dead thief.

Everytime caltrops applies bleed, it will heal you.

AKA, while they stand inside the caltrops, it will trigger signet of malice. Once they leave it, it will no longer trigger it(unless they walk back into it, of course).

As far as conditions go, thieves can trait to remove a condition every 3 seconds they are in stealth. It ALSO removes a condition the moment they enter stealth. Trait is in shadow arts.

As far as general poison, bleed and burn removal, Hide in Shadows would be the heal to run. It removes those on use, and stealths you too(which would remove more conditions if traited for it).

CnD is still functioning as normal in WvW.

With celestial-type gear(Mostly found with ascended accessories or the karka event thing), you’ll get a little healing power without hurting your main stats much. Same if you use Divinity Runes. And healing power scales pretty well with a thief.

However, if you have high crit, Omnomberry Pies are the way to go.

PS: Signet of Malice works with Caltrops(both on dodge and the utility skill). Using SoM, if you drop caltrops with a large group chasing you, you can get healed for quite a bit if they stay in it.

Ambush trap is amazing. Use it, wait until it cools down. Trigger it, use it again on top of the enemy to trigger the second one, and then use thieves guild.

Bam, you have your own instant party of 5 thieves(4 summoned + yourself).

The spike damage of 4 of these guys together is amazing(when used in tandem with thieves guild).

Heartseeker when just moving from Point A to Point B with no threat of combat to throw you off. You’ll win a race with an infil user every time in that situation.

Infil for actual combat movement, movement up hills or certain terrain, and other general usefulness. I wouldn’t use heartseeker for movement in combat, too unreliable. Infil is superior in that regard because of movement when immobilized, crippled, chilled, clearing guardian lines and rings, and other things that only a shadowstep can do.

The only way I’d take player housing was if it was done in the same fashion as Asheron’s Call.

In-world housing, for players, the rich, guild mansions, etc.

Great gold sink when rent comes around too, and great place to have meetings/show off stuff.

And have instanced apartments for the masses, the same way Asheron’s Call does it. This way everyone can have a little place of their own.

I am an active WvW player since launch.

I have 7 real life friends who also started at launch.

3 of them no longer play due to moving on to other hobbies.

1 logs in on patch day, then logs out and starts complaining about stuff. WvW killed his love of this game due to his desires not being fulfilled or something.

1 logs in once a month.

1 logs in only during school holidays.

1 refuses to log in at all other than to maybe do BLTC stuff, but not actually play the game.

I am sure other people know people who no longer play. Those are the accounts that are sold, but are not active. It adds up to numbers that do not play in WvW.

Shame, ET and FC could have banded together a bit to fight back against SF too.

You know, if FC didn’t backstab ET all the time when SF was hitting us.

I want to have feelings of pity for FC, but I don’t. And I can tell you that while the outlook is grim, morale at least is not low on ET. We know our limits, and stick to it, farming the SF Zergs as they come for our heavily fortified structures until they overwhelm it with numbers from the other maps, but are so broken from the fight they can’t take the next structure.

We call them Pyrrhic Victories.

Defense from the wall is mostly to stall an attacking enemy until your reinforcements show up, or to stall time for others to build siege behind where the breach will be. It should not be used as your primary and only means of defense against a large group.

And if you want your arrow carts to last as long as possible, place them as far back on the wall as you can so that only lucky Elementalists/Rangers can nail them with Meteor Shower/Barrage. It will give you more longevity. If a thief can cluster bomb it, it’s a bad spot for an Arrow Cart.

PS: When outnumbered, use Superior Siege, especially Superior Arrow Carts and Superior Ballistas. That’ll show those mass revivers who is the boss.

Intigo.1653:

Darxio.5672:

Honestly, we should have had that ratings reset, but they should have set it to one-day matches for a week so that the servers could tumble through the rankings MUCH faster for said week while the servers find their newest partners.

We really need a compression of the ratings. A reset would accomplish that.

No, we don’t. Look at the matchups. Everything except for tier 8 (and 7, for EU) is in a good place.

I play in Tier 8. But it’s not only Tier 8 that needs some shuffling.

Honestly, we should have had that ratings reset, but they should have set it to one-day matches for a week so that the servers could tumble through the rankings MUCH faster for said week while the servers find their newest partners.

We really need a compression of the ratings. A reset would accomplish that.

I run a full berserker Thief in CoE. There are attacks that can one-shot me. I have more than enough ways to ensure I do not get hit thanks to dodging and built-in dodges in my weaponry.

Once you learn his attack pattern, it’s a piece of cake. The problem comes from when more than one person gets downed by alpha at the same time. That’s hard to recover from.

PS: Rally off tendrils if you’re downed near them.

Oh, just go to the mists for dueling. Keep it out of PvE and WvW, w’here some people do not want to bother with people constantly ‘challenging’ them over trivial matters.

Besides, we don’t need the mists being more of a ghost town.

Tybalt is the sole reason I keep trying my hands at an Engineer.

I honestly thought I was going to hate the Order of Whispers storyline the first time I ever did it. I have yet to finish any other storyline thanks to Tybalt.

I do D/D + Short Bow. I run 25/0/10/15/20. I wear full berserker armor. I use runes of the traveler for the extra move speed(You can use runes of your choice, to be honest).

I am a Steal-focused thief. I trait Mug and Dagger Damage in the 25 line, 2 init back when I stealth in the 10 line, fall damage reduction in the 15 line(or might on dodge, I switch it around depending on terraion), and both steal traits in the 20 line(for fury, might, swiftness, vigor, and boon stealing from target).

I pick a target, preferably with a boon or two on him already. I wind up CnD, hit steal just before it finishes, and land both, thus stealthing myself, stealing up to 2 boons on him for myself, giving myself might, fury, swiftness, vigor(in an aoe for the first 3), getting 2 init back, and putting 3 vuln, poison, and weakness on my enemy. If I am lucky, my daggers or mug may have procced a lightning strike(I run a sigil of air). I am buffed with Skale Venom(consumable, may proc more debuffs), Mango Pie, and the best Maintenance Oil.

With the first Cloak and Dagger > Mug Combo, I should already have the advantage on my enemy. I don’t backstab immediately because 99% of the time, they WILL start spamming dodge. Twice. Instead, I follow them and backstab the moment they use their endurance up, while lining up my backstab at the same time. If this combo bring health below 50%, heartseeker 3 times and then CnD> backstab if not dead. Else, autoattack chain once, then CnD > Backstab > Health Check Enemy.

Remember, you should be initiating and be on the offensive. Pressure him. Make him burn all skills, but don’t overextend and kill yourself. If it gets hairy, pull out the shortbow, use your 3 to dodge skills when your endurance isn’t full while trying to finish him off, and/or infiltrator shot away to live for another day.

Once downed, CnD > Finish. If not enough initiative to CnD, drop Shadow Refuge to pulse and give me back initiative. If Shadow Refuge was burned, activate Blinding Powder to give back 2 initiative and stealth > Finish.

For elites, switch between Daggerstorm for taking on Zergs, and Thieves Guild for roaming. Thieves Guild, when first summoned, your melee thief uses Scorpion Wire better than you ever will, and you can take advantage of it, as well as using the extra DPS they provide to burst someone down.

For utilities, Hide in Shadows should be your heal, Shadow Refuge should always be on your bar, Blinding Powder should almost always be on your bar, and Signet of Shadows when running around, and when not running around, change it to a better utility, such as smoke screen, scorpion wire, or caltrops. If you are fighting with it on, remember that you can activate it during a finish to blind someone trying to interrupt you, such as a ranger daze or warrior hammer.

When fighting zergs, stick to shortbow. Choking Gas and Clusterbomb them, detonating it before it hits the ground to hit as many people as possible(since each explosion has its own 5 target limit), and to inflict more bleeding on enemies. For shortbow sigil, use Fire for aoe damage, or one of choice.

Do not be afraid to use Death Blossom to dodge/hit 3 enemies when the opportunity presents itself, but don’t burn out your initiative. As a non-condi thief, it’s only worth using against 3 foes, but you’re also in danger if you’re within 3 foes.

Remember, your autoattack both poisons AND weakens. As does choking gas(aoe though). Use it to your advantage, and use stealth to your advantage to regenerate initiative when able. If your initiative is on empty, drop Shadow Refuge and refill it. Or steal. Or pop Blinding Powder. Use everything at your disposal.

Just remember that you can steal Aegis from a guardian if it’s one of two buffs on them with this build.

Try being a Thief and getting accepted into random parties in dungeons.

That’s Hard Mode right there.

(Worst part is when you, the thief, ends up carrying them)

I have had [Rage] for 2 months. I am not close due to cost in crafting it outright.

Yes, I am going for the Speargun Legendary. It is equipped. I will craft [Frenzy] someday.

I am a Hardcore WvW player, Casual PvE player.

You gotta hold alt, click, and drag to an open inventory slot.

A box opens up with a prompt asking how many you want to split off.

I was running a group of people with my commander symbol across Tyria during Halloween for the Mad King’s Memoirs. In… Sparkfly Fen(or was it Bloodtide? They both look the same), an event popped up with a ghost zombie saying that they were going to send me to the same fate as Tybalt, my mentor from my personal story.

Nobody calls out my favorite character in the game. Nobody.

I stopped the Zerg Train and we slaughtered that Veteran so furiously and without mercy.

Never forget~

There’s like a couple % difference between master and Black lion kits for ectos. Honestly, I use masters for Ectos, but only if I don’t have a Black Lion on hand(I do like that extra few % chance, it does help in the long long LONG run).

But for short term salvaging, there’s practically no difference between master or black lion.

I will say that after some patch a while back, both master and black lion produced less ectos overall. So bad luck became more common for me, so your case could happen.

But in the end, luck is luck. All you can do is push the odds in your favor.

Butter feels like it’s in a good spot.

Chocolate, Vanilla, and Chili Peppers, however, need help. Especially Chili Peppers.

Honestly, the best way to put it IS a cease-fire treaty… that random people keep breaking. Usually Ferg since they do have more pop than ET, thus probability states it is more likely that people will be lame and backstab.

We don’t intrude on Ferg’s territory, even though we could get easy points that way. Typically, Ferg doesn’t intrude on ours, and they could get easy points too. We’re too busy fighting SF all day everyday until the end of time. They’re also too busy fighting SF all day every day.

But trust us, we CAN and WILL dedicate resources against Ferg when they become d-bags and take our stuff WHILE SF is already crushing us at the same time. But we don’t want to. There is no need to invite third-party rage when SF is the major threat on every map.

While we may not be able to stop Ferg’s random 5-man camp cappers in our borderland, and vice versa, they aren’t backstabbing our keeps. As long as they don’t backstab our keeps and towers, we don’t take their keeps and towers in their borderland. Simple as that.

But seriously, Ferg, next time I see a backstab against the Overlook in EB when SF is already breaking everything… I will have no mercy on your borderlands.

No mercy. At all. Ever again.

Ferg has Backstabbed enough when I was a Kaineng commander when it was Devona/Kaineng/Ferg for 8 weeks. They have a HISTORY of it, which is why they fell to last place for a while, after all. I will not stand for it again, with Ferg doing the same thing against two different opponents.

So Ferg… there is SF to deal with… don’t bother us… we don’t bother you… I KNOW you have to deal with SF, they can’t all be going for ET alone.

Because the next time I see Ferguson’s Crossing Invader in MY Overlook when Sorrow’s Furnace already broke the doors… and you take all 4 surrounding towers and the 2 camps… so help you Flying Spaghetti Monster…

Guest around and take a look. It’s not like guesting costs anything, but it’s the best method available.

I foresaw what was going to happen when I heard ‘War Machine’ was moving to Kaineng. No ‘celebrity’ guild moves without a bandwagon following them.

I moved to ET and get the same feeling as Old Kaineng when I am on the field. I regret nothing, I was happy to have served Kaineng in the past, and am happy to serve Eredon Terrace now, as I know Kaineng will never be the same again.

Edit: After all, I moved to Kaineng originally because a low tier, low population WvW experience is what I wanted, where one person made the difference.

As an ET player, I would say No Deal. These things never work.

Besides, I like fighting the random Fergs every now and then. They spice up the fight rather than a sea of green.

Dodge Alpha’s insta-kill AoEs. Stay all up in his grill so you can deal with the crystal and so dragon tooth doesn’t murder you. Have a way to heal so that the residual burning doesn’t grind you down. Dodge the ice/earth.

If you can’t dodge them, then fix the reasons why you can’t dodge them. Every class can dodge to mitigate damage.

Endurance the problem? Eat stew then. +40% more endurance regen and it even gives might on dodge. Don’t waste your dodges and you won’t have a problem.

Usually what holds people back is the fact that it’s the same people in the party getting murdered by Alpha’s AoEs, and then you’re crippled fighting him with 2-3 people. That, or people die ressing the people that constantly get downed.

Rally off tendrils and undread asurans, depending on which alpha you are on if you do get downed.

Oh don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic in a real 1v1.

But in WvW, you don’t usually have the time to dedicate to the finesse, intricacies and beauty of combat. It’s do your combo and get out, especially when you have a commander tag on you like I do. Paints a ‘Kill me now’ target on a class that doesn’t want to be targeted.

Now if it hit 3 targets like the autoattack did, I’d be all over it like white on rice for WvW fights, even if it fails the back hit.