Guild Wars 2

just remember guys it could of been worse anet could of double cast time of backstab over putting a 1 second CD on it.

you can not blind a lord anymore ? i did not know that i have not tried to solo one in a few years now you could run perma eva staff

shadow shot is more reliable hit then doing full combos. if your fighting a huge hp bar like a nerco probably want to rely backstab to get threw there hp bar faster. but if your fighting something squishy you should relying on combo that do quick burst dmg.

but more or less what it come down to is it better to rely on instant cast skills then skill with cast bar.

like if i am fighting a slow class like warrior sure i will backstab him all day but if i am fighting something like a another thief you try to do that to him he instantly kill you lol.

Main problem with rev as a healer is honestly the traits are garbage.

Shrouding mists is impossible to upkeep over 50% i honestly think this trait should be merge in to selfless amplification

Selfless amplification should scale on 75 healing power over 100 honestly i run almost highest healing power in game it only 23% it kinda weak for a grand master at 75 it would be 38%

natural abundance should be changed to drop 1 healing fragment every 3 seconds make them last for 10 seconds.

Tranquil Benediction should just be merge in to natural abundance

Nourishing Roots be buff to make tablet interval 1 second heal over 3 seconds.

core of rev healing itself is well design it just traits are sub par to it

all you do is drop black powder and win unless your running full zerker.

aerobatic need damage to be worth looking at thief does not have HP to run a bunker line sadly. you may get a lot more dodging in it but dodging has punish frame in itself so more or less a gimmick to rely on.

best way to fix it would be to add to assassin reward gain +5% dmg mod for 10 seconds after eva an attack and can be stack 5 times.

that give the line what thief core needs to be able to support running it. i know it sounds like “power creeping trait” but it because of the way a net design thief weapon skills all there base skill by default are insanely low damage main reason they output high is because thief trait have so many global passive damage mod on it.

my dream thief would be able to cancel mid dodge to flashy op dmg move

it use to crit and it did game breaking dmg XD

Let me rephrase If they put crit back in game you fought a glass cannon vs glass cannon steal probably be enough to 1 shot him xD.

yeah maybe i factoring outside number with out thinking about it. i never run trait myself i prefer 14s heal

boon ripping goes do not quite me on exact number but if i remember off the top of my head it. when thief steal a boon it has it own timer prebuilt in to it that you can use boon dur to extend it.

Swiftness 20 seconds
might 20 seconds
regen is 10 seconds
fury is 10 seconds
vigor is 10 seconds
retalliation 10 seconds
quickness 5 seconds
ageis is 5 seconds
protection is 5 seconds
stability is 5 seconds
resistance 2 seconds

if i am wrong please correct me but i believe that how it works.

anet stated only way to fix it was upgrade the sever it was a waste of money in there view.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoYVn0MBtNhFmCmOBkmiFZCzbL0G+QzbwRYJUbPNFCAA-TVyCQB1b/RfAAOCARStELpqxxOFAVRZwFV6lgHAQLVCSKAI2VB-w

that the best i could come up with trying to use viper in a build. personally i think it just to all over the place to be really effective.

i really like the bali use with pulmonary impact i never thought about that one : )

what you do is if you see him use flanking strike wait till end of animation. then you just blow him up because .2 punish frame on move lol

thief had direct dmg on them to begin with they removed it for trapper set .

top be honest i think needle trap is one of the top 5 utility thief has. it need no buff.

Ambush trap never have 2 thief that would imply you going to give thief guild 3. honestly that trap should just be removed from the game it was a bad design.

shadow trap mech just need to be changed to portal mech. so it can not be LOS by anything.

Tripwire should become a 4 second ward. of when you pass threw it you get knockdown.

that all traps need if you “want” to buff it.

best tip i can give is record yourself think of a zerg as a ying yang they always rotate in counter active to one another to try hit other one back line.

fields will stay active even if there max charge is achieved be aware of your group pre pulse interval of skills(so if your in a zerg fight they cast a field most last 4 seconds if it been active for 2 seconds it most likely no longer active because it only achieve a max value of kittens Wards are exception of 10 hits) to be able to weed your way threw visual distraction.

break zerg in to 2 types are they “con or are they power” if there con use rev to block with resistance if there power use some form of healing to out heal them such as ele rev druid.

understanding how to destroy a front line you want skill such as nul field(mesmer) or wells(nerco) that rip boons(mainly stab and resistance). it ineffective to try use such skills as wards or CC move to remove stability now that it has internal CD on being removed.

always try to take the high ground in every fight if you cant achieve it should back off try to find a better way to engage. (main reason you take high ground is so your backline has superior targeting in warding game.)

after all that it just practice now your match up remember guild tag how they run you will get good fast.

im sure most of what i said was already covered but i just recapping it.

if a camp is defend it become to what class you are fighting. WvW to vague to give you a solid answer on how to deal with it but more then likely answer remain the same.

focus on nuking the scouts then whatever class is in the camp. if your running a power build scout should only take 3 hits to kill.

best way currently is probably just go dagger storm stand by scout put on staff vault couple times camp done. probably clear it in 30 seconds.

So wait… we talking about lotus training ? not lotus poison?

Sorry i have to correct myself for some reason i thought lotus poison was dagger training. statement is the same weakness is low CD combo with Daredevil is top tier weakness trait.

And needle trap is easy to land on people if you understand how game generate traps. trap always spawn on a 90 degree angle of whatever you are facing so you just have to do funky camera angle changes it 100% hit always.

build design is another topic overall. i am welcome to suggestion i can also upload the template i used if you guys would like to make your own to see how we can compare them.

emkelly.2371:

You say that until you have to deal with my condi thief on point, alone

needle trap on heal skill give you fair superior value then that poison trait will give you.

lotus poison was rated low based on duration of poison.

shadow embrace only remove 1 con after 3 second of stealth it is worth 1 point

So this tier list is based on how i view the game just to help newer players with how good a trait is. based on a rating of 1 – 10

http://i.imgur.com/TekCrmq.jpg

i used the art from http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ hopefully they wont get mad ^^

once thief hit around 17k hp pool in WvW you basically become unkillable assuming you know all match up.

took me about 2 days to get new mech change do not even notice it anymore.

Yeah i got what overall topic i was just trying to see if forums had a different insight on it to see if i had been playing it wrong : )

Yeah i agree with you i think it if was healing effect below 50% that trait mite be worth wile looking at in current state i think it may be just unplayable

i believe if i am not mistaken it even blind you if you try to eva it but i am only 50% sure on that one.

Oh sorry maybe my question was not so much about shrouding mist but how to generally keep your upkeep over 50% to see value from you it o.o?

when it says “unblockable” it refer to the blind mech on the skill not the damage. so the shot from the pistol that hit a player will blind you but the dmg can blocked.

backstab should not be touched with any con type if anything backstab should be buff in becoming unblockable now that stealth move are not spamable but that stretching it a bit far.

please do not try to get thief nerf on adding random garbage to one of best burst skill in the game lol.

i wanted to know how viable is Shrouding mist for healing bonus on it. because i play a rev for about 3 months i never been able to keep my upkeep above 50% so my question is how would one do it?.

any help would be great.

i know there was a time when it was really chunky around season 1 but it seem fine now

i disagree the line is far more useful then a circle like if you take needle trap you set it up a target that leap directly toward you the immo will proc at max range it make his leap miss.

i love tablet on rev : ) may not be perfect but it is only healing class i enjoy. main reason i take tablet over any other class is because it healing does not create any global effect so my allies can spam more impotent fields if they need another water field they just drop it.

normally are WvW comp only run 1 ele and 1 medic rev that all the healing we normally ever need.

if we played in a meta where it was more dps or fight desided in like 2 hits i would agree that tablet is garbage but current meta of WvW i think rev healing is fine.

i run mostly cleric myself with few pieces of minstrel to buff my boon dur

i use to run a zerging melee short bow build just basically spam choking gas take whirl dodge trait easy to kill people with venom share xD probably even more effective now that you do not have to take venom share anymore.

Jack Skywalker.5674:

@Varezenem
I had no ideea Templar was a thing or that those amulets are op for spvp (except for zealots’)….and no 2, I’ve already admited that I know it’s op and that I can’t think of a decent for Ventari to cover it’s weakness in a way that doesn’t ruin it’s flavor.

For no4 that’s just personal taste, I think Ventari has the potential to become a better condi healer than Malyx,provided the devs agree with us having 2 upkeep skills with a cost over 6 …also the water field would be a nice touch to keep us competitive in terms of utility with a druid.

@Zenith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUmfazDy6A

Based on the video for WvW I would say Ventari tops druids in terms of utility….I mean to able to heal whilist blocking projectiles…for me at least Ventari is the 2nd best class for dealing with projectiles (mesmer is 1st and guardian is 3rd).

as a reply to my own video i did math last night. in one of my video i avr 300k healing over course of a 1m and 50 second fight <3

yeah this happens to me all the time now.

Wondering if anyone be able to make a healing pre second meter. i am just curious of the numbers and i have gone threw counted it myself but healing every second make it very tiring lol.

i know there a DPS meter i am not sure if it can be change to view healing number too o.o?.

omgomgomgomg so broken love it thx for tips

http://i.imgur.com/dLB69Ci.jpg <3

here my medic wvw rev i running for past 3 months ish.

Coronit.9432:

Taobella.6597:

Huskyboy.1053:

Not quite sure what you mean. Could you reword that?

oh i am sorry i never saw this message. daredevil is classed as a specialist class. so it unaffected by the trait because only effective thief base line uilittys. if that make sence

No it doesn’t, because daredevil utilities “physicals” GET affected by improvisation. Got integrated around pvp-season one. Not sure how it works if you don’t use daredevil at all, but if you use the traitline physicals are part of the improvisation-pool.

Oh i see i tested in beta never look back but thanks for the update that may lead to some interesting build design.

d/d is straight broken in WvW lol.

Huskyboy.1053:

Not quite sure what you mean. Could you reword that?

oh i am sorry i never saw this message. daredevil is classed as a specialist class. so it unaffected by the trait because only effective thief base line uilittys. if that make sence

main reason i suggested it that way is “thief was balanced to be more supporting of it allies” by changing that way you go from 2 boon removal to 10 every 3 seconds(4 seconds in spvp) assuming you could find a way to keep getting in to stealth. i think would be worth a grand master slot.

current state it just a minor trait filling in

Change it from stealth skill to any stealth move done. and i am not sure what order boon ripping does but it should fallow sigil of aborption go in this exact order.

stability,resistance, aegis, retaliation, swiftness, might, regeneration, quickness, fury and vigor.

this would make it interesting enough to look in to a front line thief if he could share that effect to his allies.

it in current state it just another trait that never see use.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Taobella.6597:

well out side of the fact that zerg did not engage in to that convex instantly wipe you. you could of chain CnD walk around in the zerg to find a target.

I don’t think it is really possible with today’s date of gw2. There a a lot more passive defence and blocks denying cnd, not to mention the amount of aoe dropped. Also people are a lot wiser since when you could chain cnd back when d/d meta was shadow arts.

On the contrary about there isn’t much left with d/d. Started playing it again and it’s actually a pretty good dueler, it struggles a bit vs ranger who know how to play or anything pew pew ish. You can toe to toe vs warriors as long as you death blossom their burst and kite with dash. Recording some fights so i will post them

i would agree with most zerg fights it unreliable to try an do it but there was so much open ground in that zerg fight you could of gotten away with it pretty effectively

well out side of the fact that zerg did not engage in to that convex instantly wipe you. you could of chain CnD walk around in the zerg to find a target.