I disagree. You are still misunderstanding me.
It’s hard for me to believe that you are not angry given your accusations, saying I’m “full of kitten,” attacking things out of context, and most importantly, not understanding my posts.
lol. talk about “attacking things out of context” when you did just that. lol.
It’s hard to get angry on how ridiculous your posts are. Seriously, this is pure entertainment.
If the misunderstanding is due to your view that my writing is sloppy (perhaps it is given how big my posts are), then I will summarize hopefully more clearly below.
No need, we’re done with that. I know what you’re trying to say and I’m telling you you’re wrong.
I’ll put my succinct point-of-view in a Spoiler tag as to not further bloat this post.
sigh, fine. Let’s see what you can come up with this time.
1. I see two arguments that are not entirely dependent of each other. I believe you are combining these two and that is why I believe you do not understand me.
See, you don’t even know what I’m referring to.
2. First argument: It is ok for me to use “many” instead of “some.”
It’s not about grammar. It’s about proper communication. If you don’t want to have to explain yourself every time, you need to construct your post in a humble manner because making a bold, unsupported statement, distracts the other party from understanding your post.
It might be correct grammatically, that is not your fault. Your fault is in your assumption.
If you believe that people should always be “humble” when using “many” or “few” …
If you insists, then that’s your choice, but don’t be surprise if you are perceived to sound like a jerk or arrogant making bold claims as if you know or have evidence to support that claim.
You have posted a misleading statement, implying that a “large” number of Necros run with Rabid Condition when in fact from your very thread shows that there are far more Necros runs other build other than Rabid Condition.
I see nothing wrong with my saying things such as, “There are many people in my town who go to my favorite restaurant.” In this scenario, I do not know the number of people in my town who go to my restaurant.
It is wrong. That statement either makes you look stupid, naive, or simply clueless.
First you don’t know if all the people in your favorite restaurant is from your town. What if they are from out of town and there’s only you from your town goes in there?
There’s a name for this fallacy, I just can’t remember right now.
Second, you have an overall view of all the number of people in a restaurant that you don’t have when it come to the Necro players. In a restaurant, you can make an approximation by comparing the number of people at the time of your visit to the number of people in the restaurant you actually know who lives in your town. Then you can estimate whether the number is large or small. You have neither to support your claim about the Rabid Condition build.
…But you have no basis on where you draw the line when an “indefinite” number can be considered “large” in this regard (and in our argument’s regard.)
You have no basis either. What if the “large” number is from out of town?
Your premise and your reasoning are both flawed.
3. Second argument is another argument. I believe Rabid is popular for Necros based on my evaluation of the Necro community.
No. Just go to the Necro forum and read the Builds Thread. No need to do any mambo jumbo evaluation.
The purpose of this is to show you the diversity in builds that invalidates your premise that in comparison to the number of builds, Rabid Condition is not a “large” number at all.
So I made a post in the Necro forum with the question, “Is Rabid a popular choice for Necros in PvP?”
From the responses there, I believe the Necro community’s atmosphere suggests that Rabid is popular.
lol, from a couple of people. lol
Don’t be ridiculous. In that same thread, you’ll find others suggesting Carrion over Rabid, or other build other than Rabid.
Rabid is not as popular as you think it is.
It seems to confuse you that I’ve talked about a technical point of view and a non-technical point of view and you aren’t willing to separate the two, thus arguing against something neither of us are putting forth.
Either point of view will find your statement to be false as I pointed above.
Actually I love bathing in AoEs because of my Pack runes. I just heal myself and sneak attack someone and keep going. Another thing about SB is the sneak attack is the biggest middle finger in the game. It’ll screw people over so fast who overextend or fall behind.
lol, you’re crazy.
When traited, Pistol screws isolated people too, but most of the time I simply use my S/D to take them out.
I find SB combo field better for support. Blind cost a lot of ini, but Vuln can be ultra spammed, and Cluster Bomb blast can do all kinds of helpful things with other classes. Spam aoe heal with Ranger springs, spread retaliation everywhere with Guardians and so on. Can also aoe stealth people if you use D/P with it.
As combo finisher yes, SB is more versatile, but it still doesn’t stand out even in that situation because you can really do without those.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Paralyzation
Note at the bottom:
The duration increase of various stun and daze effects vary wildly and often round up to the next second.
So it works for Daze applied on Steal for sure!
That’s a general note about how the duration is rounded and not about the Sigil specifically.
P/P is pretty decent guys
P/P is ok, but IMHO, it is way better than the horrible Shortbow.
I have been using P/P since Beta and I still have not changed my opinion about it regardless of what other say.
The only time I would switch to SB is when defending a wall in WvW, but ever since the range nerf, there’s really no other good reason to use SB anymore. I rather use the Arrow Carts.
Counting to 4 is never a viable tactic because you don’t have any knowledge on how the Thief is built before hand. What if his stealth only lasts 3s instead of 4? Or if he choose to extended it beyond 4s? You’ll look like an idiot wasting your dodges because you’re trying to be psychic.
Retaliation while in Death Shroud removes that guessing and the counting.
What I can’t believe is that you’re trying to defend an ineffective way to deal with CnD. There’s no merit in that tactic because it relies on luck and wastes valuable defensive resources.
I agree that counting is a pretty ineffective way, especially since not all thieves feel the need to wait out their stealth and are confident they can kill you without the extra initiatives. Also wasting a dodge as a Necro can be game breaking.
But Spiteful Spirit’s Retaliation kind of sucks for many Necros since many are Condition and have low Power.
I disagree. With Necro’s high Health pool, they can invest all their gears and items to improve their Power. Also with their Death Shroud mechanic, they really don’t have to worry much about their survivability, thus they can focus more on improving their damage output.
Of course they can. That’s why I said it sucks for many Necros (those who choose not to get Power.) I didn’t say it sucked for all Necros. A lot go Rabid, so those don’t see it as a worthwhile option.
Yes you said “many” when it should be “some” because by simply checking the Necro forum, you’ll know that you should say “some.”
You say “many Necro” yet “a lot go Rabid.”
Either it sucks for “many” which implies they don’t take Rabid, or it doesn’t sucks for many because “a lot go Rabid.”
Which is it? You’re contradicting yourself here. :/
really dont think it can be done in 7-8 seconds ? :P
It seems that you got lost in the conversation. Your video further support my skepticism to your claim.
I said;
“It’s hard to believe that to be a duel since whoever you are dueling didn’t even try to defend themselves. :/”Then you post a video beating up on a golem…. >.<’
well sorry i didnt have a video of THAT duel. but even if its 1 in 100 u dont think thats likely? ok ill do a few duels tnite. ill def do it to 1 person. wanna make a bet in gold that you will renig on?
I’m not saying that it’s unlikely, what I’m saying is; you might have done it as you say, but it’s not a duel.
well it was a duel….. i dont carry infil sig on my wvw build. period. or basilisk venom. stun and BV can really disorient people and allow you to get off combos. try it out. u might be surprised.
If that is so, then we go back to my original post;
It’s hard to believe that to be a duel since whoever you are dueling didn’t even try to defend themselves. :/
That’s the part that is hard to believe, the part that you’re in a duel with someone who simply stood there. In your post, your stun only last for 2s, but the fight lasted for 7s according to you.
My question is, was your opponent has quite a big bugger that he was picking his nose while letting you kill him? Otherwise he could’ve defended himself in the next 5s.
But whatever, if you killed him, then you killed him. But I remain skeptical that in a “duel” someone will simply allow themselves to die without a fight, unless they are trying to remove a Total Recall tracking device.
dodge roll is the only thing you can do during stun other than stun break. the full combo for 7-9 stacks only takes 1 second. :P ive been using scorp wire lately too. im in love with it
I use Scorp Wire after Tactical Strike to keep my target CC’d. I never use it on the move or on moving targets.
Here’s my combo;
Stealth – TS – SW – IS – CnD – TS
This keeps them in place for a good four to five seconds (filter wants me to spell it out), which during a team fight, it’s like forever.
You can even spice this up a bit by swapping to an off-hand Pistol to extend the CC time using Headshots.
The key here is to time your CC correctly. You’ll know when you messed up because they will dodge away.
I like this combo a lot because it is persistent against stun breaks.
+1
lol brilliant!
@OP
You can try to do what is being adviced in this thread, but you’ll eventually learn to choose your battles — and this is one of them. You simply cannot win them all.
You can CnD the illusions, you can Backstab the Mesmer, but in the end of the day, you’re the one with a banner on your chest.
You would need the necro chill build. Condi/chill duration. 8+ seconds of chill on 4 different skills. You won’t burst him down, but he sure as hell won’t kill you. Also, use a staff. He will be forced to switch to sb to hit you, but he won’t be in stealth when he does that.
If I remember correctly, Choking Gas does not break stealth. I don’t use SB so I wouldn’t know, but I’ve seen a Thief spread CG while in stealth.
When he CnDs you, count to 4 and dodge forward and turn around.
lol, sorry but this is too funny.
What if the Thief attacked you at 0.5s? Or after 2s? Or 2.8s perhaps?
Within that 4s, you’re at the Thief’s mercy and the best you can do is what I suggest above. Spiteful Spirit + Death Shroud when they go in stealth.
From: A necro who despises stealth.
You hate it yet you have not learned from it. That’s just too bad. :/
Pls stealth res me thief, I love you unless your name is red!!!!!
lol, pure comedy!
