Guild Wars 2

Shooopa.5632:

Carrioncrow.6872:

As Once you use Black powder then Heartseeker, you are stealthed on the Leap attack and the heart seeker has 100% chance to crit, but because the attack gave you stealth it doesn’t kick you out, so you follow it up with a backstab.

Actually you need to perform heartseeker after black powder to get stealth. The smoke field is an status effect area and heartseeker is a leap finisher.

Heartseeker doesn’t have 100% critical chance either. How much damage it causes depends on the target’s HP. Backstab however will critical hit nearly all the time, and even if it doesn’t it’s very powerful.

I believe he was referring to the trait that gives 100% crit chance when attacking from stealth. Though I never thought it would apply to such a situation (applying to the attack that brings you into stealth) so some confirmation would be sweet

Edit: yeah I was assuming the conversation was more comparing backstab spec d/d to backstab d/p. but yeah DB for condition spec most def

thanks, that helps a lot as Im lvlin up im trying to put together a list of things that I want to try out. Since im currently going for a spec much like the one posted above its nice to know I can try out D/D and D/p with same spec.

So what exactly does D/D have over this? (in pvp)

If the Bp>Hs stealth works like that I would at least put it on par with C&D and since 3 and 4 are not used in D/D anyway how is D/P just not straight up better?

auto attack?

I was waiting to hop in to wvw until a little later, but recently realized that running in a well coordinated group (which I have the ability to do almost constantly) gives much better xp / time then solo pve so Im planning on gravitating towards leveling only in wvw and because its a lot more fun for me personally.

My only concern is gear, through solo leveling my mmo instincts kick in and im able to pretty much gear up as I lvl with the goal of hitting max lvl with a decent set of gear without spending anything to get it. In WvW is this still viable? it seems like it would
be harder to keep up on my gear if I am lvling constantly within wvw.

Awesome. Keep doin watcha doin