Guild Wars 2

I can melt glass cannons if I get the jump on them with the CnD>Mug>Backstab combo if I get 2 of the 3 to crit. And if they’re underleveled 80s in WvW, the damage reaches stupid amounts, crit or not.

Keep in mind, I am just as easily destroyed if I get hit.

I rarely use it to blind people because it puts me in severe danger. At a whopping 6 initiative, you’re cutting off a good majority of your escape, especially since you just shadowstepped on top of the person.

But I have used it to blind to save an ally, just very rarely. I don’t think I have ever used it legitly to blind something that was hitting me… I’d rather just d-shot to evade whatever it was throwing at me that use a blind.

But the blind has the potential to save an ally, so it gets used to help them. Rarely. Very rarely. Normally I will not have 6 spare initiative in a fight.

I do use blinds in my fights though… I carry blinding powder and use shadow refuge with cluster bomb all the time.

With Haste, flanking Strike can be a monster for those 4 seconds.

After that, prepare to fly to the right half the time.

Flanking Strike is best saved for PvE or those rare 1v1s that may show up. Though every now and then I accidentally initiate a fight with sword/dagger since I was using sword’s shadow step for mobility and forgot to swap back to dagger. I tough it out and fight, and sometimes I’m surprised by what flanking strike can do.

But tactical strike is and never will be on par with backstab, even with the stun, so it makes me sad every day.

And looking at next week’s potential matchup, we’re going to be murdered.

ET WvWers mostly accept their fate of ‘Hard Mode’ though, so it’ll be ‘fun’!

A Dwarf Fortress kind of ‘fun’.

If that’s the ‘fun’ you seek, join Eredon Terrace!

When I do dungeons on my Thief, I recognize that I can die at the drop of a hat, and must play accordingly. By not dying and still outputting awesome ranged DPS with my shortbow or pistols, I contribute to my dungeon groups.

Proper shortbow usage is key to dungeoning with a Thief. It’s fine to have a melee weapon, but know when to use it. You WILL die if you don’t dodge, and shortbow not only keeps you at range, but it gives you a dodge with the 3 skill. Also, shortbow has fantastic AoE damage, and even good single target damage with clusterbomb(when you blow it up just as it hits so the target gets 3 stacks of bleed and 3 hits of damage). Poison, mobility, blast finishing, bouncing shots, the shortbow does it all for a Thief in a dungeon. And to survive, you dodge. You don’t tank. If you live, you deal damage and don’t slow the team down.

Thieves bring a LOT of utility to dungeons, and can do things other classes cannot. The amount of stealth they have lets them sneak past groups with their entire party better than even a mesmer can do, and more easily. They can use their shadowstep skills(utility, sword, shortbow, etc) to trivialize some dungeon puzzles or fights. They can res downed people easily with stealth skills. And with proper traits, they can dodge tank forever, cripple enemies permanently, apply weakness 100% of the time in an aoe, steal important boons from enemies, and interrupt crucial bosses.

You guys underestimate what a Thief can do. Thieves underestimate what thieves can do. But the average thief will not live up to their dungeoning potential, unlike how easy it is to thief in wvw.

For a dungeoning thief, knowledge is power. Know what weaponsets to use on what boss, know what you can do to easily pass a puzzle, know what trivializes a boss fight, know how to make it so your party can fly through the dungeon due to your unique skillset.

Bring every weapon type in your inventory as a thief. There are encounters that work best with Dual Pistols, Encounters that work best with Dual Daggers, and yes, even encounters that work best with Flanking Strike. Or Dagger/Pistol. Or Sword/Pistol. Or Pistol/Dagger. Everything has its place.

Examples: A thief is the only class that can rapidly burn defiance charges with multiple headshots. Built right, you can headshot 4 times, shadow refuge yourself, wait 3-4 seconds, then headshot 4 times again. This is if you HAVE to burn the defiance charges to prepare for a stun, not to just spam headshot willy-nilly. Some bosses require stuns, like the Dredge Machine or Ice Elemental in the Dredge Fractal(If they don’t get hit by the molten metal, you can interrupt their heal super easily with headshot while moving to the next bucket).

Flanking Strike allows you to stay up in Subject Alpha’s face in Cruciable of Eternity. You can autoattack all day, and when the AoE of death pops up, just flanking strike before the earth ring pops up. You dodge it automatically and keep doing damage to alpha without missing a beat. Save steal for breaking out of his crystal prison(keep shadowstep on your bar for breaking out too). The dodge trick works for Death Blossom and Shortbow’s D-Shot as well, not so well for Pistol Whip due to the timing involved.

In Caudecus Manor, for the centaur boss, you can go under the raft underwater, go directly under him, and spear him to death. Do it at max range and you’ll autoattack him without being pushed back(you will have to manually hit 1). Since your spear applies poison on the third hit, if you trait properly you will apply weakness all fight without ever being hit, making the fight easier for your party and doing great sustained damage nonstop.

Again in CM, against the guardian boss, you can spam headshot to burn defiance, then use scorpion wire to pull her out of her retaliation symbol, making the fight so much faster for your team.

In CoE, you can shadowstep past the laser grid with the shortbow and/or the utility skill. Same for any dungeon with traps.

In the crazy cat golem fractal, at the stairs that send electric waves down, a thief can go up and shadowstep to deactivate all 3 by himself, shadowstepping after each one is deactivated.

There’s so many other tricks one can learn to master the dungeon as a thief. I bend the dungeons to my will, and so should you.

The Sorrow’s Furnace Zerg may march like ants and strike fear into the many.

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But they also die like ants against the prepared few.

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We cannot hold our position forever, but we shall force them to work for our tower and bring numbers immeasurable compared to ours. We kill them off, while they slowly whittle us down from the front and below on all sides.

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But we do not retreat. We fight to the last man, with no man left behind unless EVERY man is left behind!

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We fight for the glory of Eredon! We fight to preserve that which we each may hold dear! We fight to survive!

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But alas, disease, plague, and famine take hold of us, as we are wiped from the face of Mendon’s Gap. But not without taking plenty of lives with our small, motley crew.

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Everyone on that defense deserves a medal.

stereoblind.4736:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

No one’s gonna pay to transfer to a server just for that. You’re not gonna get more than a small handful of people

I’ll take a small handful of people any day

Agreed! A small handful of people would be appreciated on Eredon Terrace! If that’s all we get, then they’ll make the biggest impact a small handful has ever made! We welcome those small handfuls with open hands!

Dhampyr.2104:

Might want to check your facts. Even in the dark days of T8 and last place, Kaineng never went below 100k for the week.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/NS-530K-Kaineng-40K-Fubuki-s-Guide-to-Losing/first

Millenia doesn’t have all the history from way back. But luckily, Fubuki , the War Reporter that brought me to Kaineng kept a good journal of the blowouts of ages past.

And oh man, this picture brings back memories. This was BEFORE our 8-week long fight.

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But I digress. The Kaineng I knew is no more, as they have had transfers from all over just swarm it. Instead, I now lend my aid to a server that does need it, Eredon Terrace. Just like in the old days when I left Darkhaven for Kaineng, I go where I am needed most.

Eredon Terrace, where you can make a difference. Join today!

Superior Siege is quite good the way it is right now, other than maybe the Omega Siege Golem.

But make those golems too accessable, and you’ll have a problem. Remember, those golems can break walls(at range too), unlike Alphas.

Tired of waiting in queues that are hours and days long on your server? Want to be able to play WvW? Want to join a server where truly one person can make a difference? Come transfer to Eredon Terrace.

As a pioneer of the old days of Kaineng, when the score was only 40k for Kaineng for the whole week, I know a thing or two about playing on servers with a low population. Eredon Terrace has a low population that can use a small boost right now. This server doesn’t have any overwhelming guild influence, because every guild in WvW works towards the same goal: Survival of Eredon Terrace. They all work in tandem, even when the odds are against them greatly. The numbers they kill are astounding for the numbers they field and can usually hold their own until nightfall, but they cannot take ground easily since, after all, that requires numbers.

Some more dedicated WvWers coming to Eredon Terrace would help even up the three-way fight we have going on, and give us the chance to go more on the offensive. Queues are nonexistant other than on reset night in EB. And only EB. You’ll be able to find a map that can meet your WvW needs easily here on Eredon Terrace, and a community of players that you’ll see day after day, time and time again in WvW, defending Eredon’s ground. And this community, I have found, keeps the internal server drama mostly away… we’re too busy being outnumbered and slaughtering zergs on the defensive, after all.

So if you’re up for the challenge, grab some gems and come over to Eredon Terrace. This is truly a place where even one person can make a drastic difference, and the server as a whole would appreciate anyone coming along for the bumpy ride. This server is NOT for the faint of heart. You will be outnumbered at all times of the day. However, Eredon’s knowledge is quite unmatched, and our defensive maneuvers for such a small population are astounding. You might just enjoy being the underdog for once, especially when we take Stonemist(Happens a couple times a week).

Have a good day!

General.7803:

meaningless words

No, their words are worth listening to, regardless if they were the natives of Kaineng. Maybe they aren’t spreading misinformation. Maybe they’re actually talking the truth, and the truth hurts.

I think I know what you’re doing. You’re just not going to play next week with your ‘Transfer Coalition’ so that you guys can rank poorly when the server scores reset, so that you can once again go on a roflstomping spawncamping rampage from tier 8 upwards with servers not in your league. You know, the stuff that the Kaineng natives are disgruntled with.

You are a shameful display of leadership unfit for the true Kaineng name. Go back to Stormbluff Isle.

Mystic Forge has a recipe to make them. It’s random.

Just remember: If you see a little golem swimming on the ground towards you… reflect it.

It counts as a projectile. It can be reflected and thus work to your advantage. You can wipe out the user’s own team if you reflect them properly.

I’ve killed my own teammates by accident with them getting reflected in large zerg fights. They must be used wisely.

Dhampyr.2104:

And for the love of everything that is holy, why in the world would you pick DUKE of all schools?

What, you feel like you deserve an Alabama analogy? No, Kaineng doesn’t get that respect.

You guys should be receiving lots of criticism for how you win. Your numbers don’t belong in any of these tiers by a long shot. Period. And I hope you keep getting criticism that makes you uncomfortable.

What you have is Duke going up against a middle school in a game of football. It’s not fun to watch or participate in for anyone other than Duke, who gets to beat up the weak.

I wonder what Fubuki, the man whose advertisement drew me to Kaineng back in the day, would think about Kaineng’s current state of affairs.

Oh man, that time in EB between Eredon Terrace overlook and Stonemist today… complete Trench Warfare with a real No Mans Land.

Treb shots and arrow carts and ballistas and catas all flying everywhere, dead people left and right, complete and utter chaos… so beautiful.

StormWolf.7645:

Continue getting your Loot Bags, I will continue getting mine…difference is, I’ll be doing so while winning.

It’s not winning in it’s current conditions.

If this were, say, football, and one side had 10 people, and the other side had 50 people, and the side with 50 people dominated because they crushed the opposition no contest thanks to the pure numbers, is that something to brag about?

There is no need to be unruly on the forum, guys. Lets all be nice, polite, and have a good time talking about how many flame rams were planted on our corpses after we died this week.

Eredon – 5519

Ferg – 4384

Sorrow – 3274

ET starts off strong on reset day, but can we actually maintain it this week?

Lets do this with dignity.

If Kaineng is Little Mac and WvW is Punch Out, then Bandwagoning Server Transfers are Cheat Codes.

Just sayin’.

Or for a real world analogy, Steroids.

War Machine is milking this all the way to Tier 1, destroying innocent servers on the way, some to the point of implosion. I expect nothing but blowouts to tier 1 with all these bandwagon transfers.

But once you get there, I expect Blackgate, Sea of Sorrows, and Jade Quarry to decimate this ‘false Kaineng’’s rear end. Prison style. Like they did when WM was on SBI.

Kaineng brings great shame and dishonor to me in its current state. Especially the ‘fight clubs’. Anyone who can’t see them as a PR stunt to put their spawncamping in a positive light deserves to be swindled.

Shameful display, Kaineng. Shameful display. Especially you, Chaster.

Arrogance speaks. Humility listens.

Thief Cluster Bomb was a pretty solid AoE, you know.

I wish I could guest to play with my Euro friends in dungeons. That’s all I ask for.

Jayne, did you do the 100,000 supply that the title Ultimate Besieger requires? Or did you get the 20,000 mark?

It’s the one I’m working towards(eventually). At about 38,000 out of 100,000, and I’m an extremely avid siege person(not farming flame rams at a camp either).

Every supply run is .01% towards the title’s 5th tier. It’ll be a while until I finish it. Maybe June or so. And even then that’s not the final tier.

That, my friends, was a beautiful assault on Stonemist.

The Mines of Eredon hold firm against the Sorrowful tide.

The Great Flame Ram Wall prevails.

A fair warning to my old Devona friends…

90% of what you will be fighting next week will not be old Kaineng. Transfers and their numbers will be what makes Kaineng victorious.

Want my advice on dealing with Kaineng?

Take SM.

Hold SM.

Don’t lose SM unless it’s to the non-Kaineng server.

It’s a morale booster for your side, and a morale breaker for the enemy side.

The two guilds in T6 against Kaineng will have to work together to beat them(or at least ‘contain’ them). They have too many transfers at the moment for a nice 1v1v1.

I left Kaineng as one of their commanders because the state of affairs there disgusts me. I don’t condone transfers spawncamping my enemies. I don’t condone heavy spawncamping at all. DE, RE and WM were NOT part of the ‘Old Kaineng’, and are using my old home as a ‘project’. I don’t appreciate it one bit.

If you want to have a chance, have a night presence, control SM, and try not to attack each other if you can help it. Watch for silver swords, do your upgrades on all the towers, and try to beat them out of your borderlands by upgrading your own borderlands as much as you can.

Do not lose your keep in EB. If you lose it, it’s game over for your EB time, and they’ll go into all-out spawncamp mode using your keeps as bases of operations.

Good luck at reset.

Oh look, Drednyte’s causing drama again! I have him blocked and I STILL see his mayhem.

What else is new.

Here’s hoping he doesn’t do something lame to you guys in the future like he did to Kaineng back in the old days when he came to Kaineng for a day to ‘Enjoy the awesome night crew’ (Take orb and purposely lose it to his PRO mates when I told him to stay at the alter with it). DR deserves better, especially with undeserving Kaineng on the rise.

This is not the old Kaineng, the Kaineng I loved and enjoyed.

I cannot embrace this incarnation of Kaineng.

Hey, Devona.

I told you so!

99% of the time, my Arrow Carts, Ballistas, and Flame Rams do NOT despawn or need to be cycled. If they ‘despawn’, it’s due to people destroying them, or quaggan lightning in a borderland keep.

Catapults for me are funky for me. Half the time they remain, half the time they despawn. I had a particular case in Woodhaven where one catapult would despawn if not cycled, and one would never despawn. Ever.

Trebuchets and Golems obey the 30 minute timer faithfully.

Now, I have many examples of rams, arrow carts, and ballistas that stays for DAYS, and I know for a fact they were not cycled. So the cycling myth is just that, a myth. Good myth to circulate though, since it does keep people cycling the vital siege like trebs.

And if/when they do fix the despawn timer, we’ll need people to keep cycling.

I know I might be going nuts, but isn’t there supposed to be an advanced warning now about new builds in WvW, with a not-so-accurate timer but still an advanced warning nonetheless instead of the 10 second warnings that typically happens and just happened now?

When did this happen?

I noticed the other day when my Snow Leopard released caltrops when I dodged(I’m a Thief). Sure enough, when I jumped off a cliff, I also received fall damage reduction and went invisible. I also got swiftness when I dodged too.

Therefore, minor and major traits are now effecting my animal forms. I noticed since the Wintersday patch. And it’s an awesome, indirect buff to the animal forms. I hope it stays.

With this in mind, any fun traits that may work with animal forms? Any Norn Mesmers able to find out if you leave a clone of a Man-Bear if you dodge, for example? Or any other interesting things?

Golems are a good money sink right now. 10 golems dropped is 10 gold out of the economy off the bat, which may or may not be collectively reimbursed to the zerg if objectives are successfully taken with them.

Besides, use guild golems if you don’t have access to badges or money or time for jump puzzles. 500 influence a golem is easy to get.

I’ll chime in that while some PvE commander braggarts are annoying, Commander is REALLY useful in PvE on low-pop servers when doing map events(especially Temples).

Best solution, imo, would be the ability for the individual person to ignore commander icons of other people. On a selective scale even, if possible.

This is how siege warfare progresses when there is a defense being put up. Lets say they show up late to the fight, the defenders.

-Invaders show up to fully upgraded tower, no defenders. Start breaking cannons and oil. Oil breaks and drops 3 rams. Lets say they get built. They start ramming.
-Defenders show up and get inside successfully while the enemy was making the rams and was distracted by other defenders dying. They make a catapult behind the gate and start making arrow carts.
-Catapult finishes and starts knocking enemies away from the rams, slowing down progress. (You can still ram when there are catas, however. They only inconvenience you by knocking you off it).
-Arrow carts start finishing and begin to push enemies away(we will pretend they are smart on both sides so they don’t just go suicide). Some invaders begin to shoot down arrow carts with cluster bomb and barrage, but the majority get pushed back from the rams.
-Rams get destroyed. Tower still has about 480/700 supplies and gate is at 80% thanks to repairs.
-Invaders fall back and start dropping 2 catapults outside of arrow cart range, facing 2 destructible walls/gate.
-One catapult print dies to an arrow cart JUST in range.
-Other catapult print dies to the mortar on the tower.
-3-4 invaders go destroy mortar.
-Invaders throw down 2-3 more catapults. They build them. Ballista might go up next to them to protect them too.
-Defenders get a second, better positioned catapult up to take out the catapults. Defenders keep making arrow carts while some invaders keep attacking the gate. If they stop shooting with the arrow carts, rams WILL go up, after all.
-Catapults eventually go down. Fortified walls are at 80% and tower supplies at about 220/700.
-Enemies back up further. Now it’s Treb time. Treb print goes up far away from the catapult. Mortar might hit it, but it’s still down, and probably at least one invader is making sure it stays down.
-Defenders make a counter treb and take it out while still beating down attackers at the gate. Supplies are at about 60/700
-Attackers make a treb JUST in range of one specific wall and JUST out of range of any possible counter-treb from defender walls.
-Defenders now are forced to sally out to take out the treb, or have its walls broken. Supplies is used for repairs and building a few more defenses. Some defenders run supplies from nearby keeps with waypoints to buy some time.
-Invaders make ballistas to guard the treb. More trebs go up in the area to speed up the trebbing of the wall.

At this point, it’s only a matter of time. As long as the invading force denies the defender yaks(which I have presumed they did this entire time), the tower will eventually fall, though it’s never a quick fight.

When golems are not in the equation(and they typically are not when towers are well defended unless in extremely large quantities), it plays out like this very often. Every siege weapon has a purpose in a siege, and when one checks the other, another comes into play. And so on and so on.

Oh, and by the way, siege weaponry has their place on the offensive too.

Did you know that Ballistas can take out far-away siege placed on cliffs and towers with Shatter Bolt? Even if it only hits the wall below it? Explosions radiate through terrain, after all, and Shatter Bolt is no exception.

Arrow Carts can also be used offensively to take out arrow carts and siege on walls too. For example, that treb spot that shoots down Lake tower from the Hills keep? Arrow Cart it, it’s not invincible.

Catapults and Trebs can also be used to take out siege on walls if needed. They’re not just for walls. Place it right the first time and you’ll be able to hit every spot of the tower when needed to destroy anything that many pop up.

Behind-the-door Catapult giving you the blues? Get your own arrow cart on it since they ignore terrain. Oh, place it on an angle and away from the door a bit so the catapult doesn’t just shoot over the door and nail you, or at the door to nail you if you’re too close.

And seriously, where are your teammates to support you on offense? Swirling winds to block those rangers shooting you while you do your siege work! Smoke screen too! Heck, those two block catapult, ballista and treb shots too! Get a guardian to drop some bubbles on you as well, especially sanctuary. No support means your team was never serious to begin with.

It all comes down to discipline. Either you have it or you don’t. Don’t blame the siege.

PS: And Rams are archaic. They’re for non-reinforced gates, and if that is the case the tower is not upgraded and thus not going to be well defended. If you want to take out an upgraded, defended tower, why do you want to use rams? That’s like trying to use a hand shovel to dig the Panama Canal, you CAN do it but there are better tools for the job.

You could always, oh I don’t know, break the wall or gate out of the AC’s range if they’re turtling with carts. Simple as that if you don’t want to bring in the non-personnel(golems) to deal with the anti-personnel fire.

And just because maybe you can’t hit it, doesn’t mean your other allies can’t. Barrage and Meteor Shower can do amazing things to well placed siege(as can your own arrow carts, or even ballistas).

I understand mass amounts of well-placed arrow carts suck to be up against, but that’s when you take a step back and siege the place from afar when they’re bunkered in like that. Now if your men run to ram the gate with their face instead of listening to orders to stand back and catapult/treb it, then that’s a different issue altogether.

My original guild spent 2-3 weeks saving up 100 gold for my commander tome that I won in a vote. Not a dollar of real money was spent on the donations into the guild bank for the commander tome.

While many bought their icon with money from their pockets, I can proudly say I earned my commander status through the eyes of the people deeming me worthy. Does it make me any better? Technically no, but the people chose me for my ability to lead, not for my ability to spend money. Some people that spent money for their icons are also good leaders too, but personally, I don’t judge commanders until I see them in action.

Let your actions speak for your capabilities. That’s what I stand by, and it’s what all commanders should stand by. Obviously many people are let down by a lot of commanders from what I read on forums, but if they let you down, just don’t follow them. Simple as that. Believe me, in the end commanding is not something glorious, it’s actually pretty damn draining on us commanders when we do our job with little recognition.

Some skills STILL don’t need line of sight to cast, so more camera zoom would break the game more than it is already broken.

Heaven forbid all three sides get into the Stonemist capture point, because it will cause earth-shattering lag that will effect the entirety of the map until the fight is over. And in a fight like that, it’s a crapshoot.

I hate the Arrow Cart mechanic, but they’re fine right now. Not too deadly, but deadly enough if left unchecked. Should have less HP though, in my opinion. And maybe cost 10 silver like ballistas do.

Now if you want to see some OP Arrow Cart action, chuck down a trio of Superior Arrow Carts. That’ll teach a zerg a nasty lesson real fast.

Even more deadly is dual Superior Ballistas. Hilarious when the zerg tries to res someone and the two Superior Ballistas go Shatter Bolt them all at the same time. I tell you what, Superior Ballistas are addictive when placed right.

They should make guild variants of the Arrow Cart and Ballista already. However, they should cost 20 supply(So that one person with the supply buff can’t make it solo).

Dunno how I’d feel about guild trebs. Trebs are already annoying enough as it is, but a half supply treb would be great for counter trebbing.

Either way, guild siege needs the guild’s name tag added on to the end of its name(like banners). So it’s be ‘Guild Catapult[NAME]’. That’d be good for giving credit where it’s due at least.

Just make all the forms able to move and attack with their 1 skill, like Snow Leopard.

That’s all it really needs.

Well, some servers legitimately do have a lot more players than others, so they’re trying to get them to go to the less crowded servers.

From what I understand, the number of people logged into the server has to be below a specific threshold for you to be able to access the server for transferring. However, with the amount of people that went to many top servers for WvW, the more that transfer, the less of a time window there is when the server is not full. At any time.

Best you can do for now is join a different server and join your friends in dungeons and overflow maps, since those are cross-server.

I hate going in the jump puzzle, but I will agree with Predator and kill ANY enemy in there to prevent them from getting free siege when I am in the jump puzzle. If I can’t kill them, I will inconvenience them as much as I can.

You’re my enemy. You’re not my friend. You’re not my ally. Even if you’re the other lesser server, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

If it’s in my advantage to take you out, I’m taking you out. As will every other person with a sound mind. If you want people to camp it less, go with more people and/or fight first instead of /waving.

Glass Cannon Thief on Glass Cannon Thief is all about who hits first.

If you don’t want to die in that combo, change your build. Or get twitch reflexes and run Roll For Initiative on your bar to avoid their backstab if you can catch the Mug(especially if they have basilisk venom).

If you know a Glass Cannon Thief lurks about and you’re also a Glass Cannon Thief, you better be changing your utilities at that exact moment to trump him or else you deserve to be insta-gibbed.

I fight cowardly Glass Cannon Thieves in my WvW tier, so I’ve adapted to catch them off guard so they can’t even run before they can crush me… as long as they don’t bring more thieves onto me, which they do after the first two killings. You can mindkitten so many other thieves when you know how your class works and how the mechanics works.

You gotta blow up second place on the tier 8 ladder to move up, Devona. You can’t just pick on the last place guy to move up. That’s how a rating system works.

And don’t think you can just do it when you want, either. You keep letting Ferg reinforce their borderlands when you leave to pick on Kaineng, making it harder for you each time you want to go there.

Looks like we’re keeping you another week at this rate unless you utterly destroy Ferg. And I’ll bet an Abyss Dye that’s not happening.