AldKai.9712

I love when new players are toxic like this, and you cannot even help them. Just before the EU servers went down, I used the time a losing unranked match gave me to explain to a newbie why hugging the trebucet on kylo is a bad idea. He started out defensive and hostile, he ended up saying that he understands my points and won't do it again. Guess what, if he turned chat off and treated everyone as an unhelpful NPC, he'd still be going treb and wondering why his team always loses on that map.Want to learn PvP? Get rid of this attitude first. What an entitled, dismissive and toxic comment, and exemplifying the very problem he was describing.

Blocks: Haha yeah oh whoops it doesn't negate any damage when you've been already hit by condition attacks, and oh when you're done blocking there's heaps more! Completely negates power on the other hand.Evades: Funnily enough, when you are on fire, you cannot evade the flames already on you, or evade the blood back into your body when you're bleeding. You can, however, completely evade power attacks that need to hit you several times to do damage.Legit big brain moment here. You also can't negate power damage you've already got hit by. Invulnerability: Oh man it's too bad not everyone is playing a Guardian or a Weaver huh? Oh wait. Since I actually play PvP, I can tell that half the players do now. Other professions, like core thief, quit. Invulnerability that also protects against Power btw. Cleanses: And now for the cheap cheap price of 30s cooldown and one of your utility slots you can remove immediately an entire stack of conditions* until it is reapplied full force one second later by the dragonhunter's fire pulse for 30k damage.I have like 5-6 traits and skills used just for condition cleansing. Death breakdown takes downed state into account where you can't cleanse, but let me guess, you didn't even know that did you?No it does not. Compare any warrior greatsword death breakdown to a condi build and you see the difference. I don't even play mirage, I play core mesmer.Don't worry, it's just as bad, and I called it. Rune of Resistance and Rune of Revenant helps a lot.Yes I'm sure -10% condition damage in lieue of what little power output I need to be slightly more relevant will help alleviate the damage that is enough to kill me three times already. It's just an option.While nothing else is an option, and that's your idea of 'good' game design? Legit big brain moment here. You also can't negate power damage you've already got hit by.Except that it is negated instantly by your defense value, defense boons and generally being fucking worthless damage wise. I have like 5-6 traits and skills used just for condition cleansing.That's nice that your class of choice can afford to do that (or even has these skills). Mine doesn't, which makes it not meta. Oh but I wish I was running the invincible ten clones cleanse on stealth supertanky dude in light armour like you do sometimes.

More bad opinions from Vallun. I guess CMC's opinions are bad as well, because when I asked him about it on the dev livestream he showed almost the same opinion as me. https://clips.twitch.tv/EnticingBombasticBunnyPeoplesChamp You can watch the clip yourself and see Ah yes one of the devs that made PvP into the hellscape that it is agreed with you about how hey guys the current cancer condi meta totally takes skill. It's totally worth the recourse to authority. I wonder how many AAA MMO games you have helped design or balance or maintain...ha yes...none I have never served in any government position either but that doesn't mean I'm unqualified to vote. I bet you never produced any wine in your life but doesn't that mean you should not be allowed to drink any? I can vote..and hope for the best and I can drink wine..but I won't be able to really discern a good one from a great one as I lack the practical experience to do so, do you get my point? @Arheundel.6451 said: More bad opinions from Vallun. I guess CMC's opinions are bad as well, because when I asked him about it on the dev livestream he showed almost the same opinion as me. https://clips.twitch.tv/EnticingBombasticBunnyPeoplesChamp You can watch the clip yourself and see Ah yes one of the devs that made PvP into the hellscape that it is agreed with you about how hey guys the current cancer condi meta totally takes skill. It's totally worth the recourse to authority. I wonder how many AAA MMO games you have helped design or balance or maintain...ha yes...none I have never served in any government position either but that doesn't mean I'm unqualified to vote. I bet you never produced any wine in your life but doesn't that mean you should not be allowed to drink any? I can vote..and hope for the best and I can drink wine..but I won't be able to really discern a good one from a great one as I lack the practical experience to do so, do you get my point?That by your own logic you are completely unqualified to judge my comments because you lack the practical experience of being me. Got it. Let's break this down shall we: 'I have never played PvP in the last month and will persist to claim that not every player in Gold+ is running condi damage for a certain reason' It is literally out there, if you bothered to open your game and play above Bronze. 90% of your death screen recaps will consist of 50k+ condition damage, you know, because if you fought someone with a power build, you'd be able to counter it and actually win. *we decline any and all responsibility for when our cleanses remove the 2s Vulnerability 1 stack instead of the 10s Fire 14

lol funny lol except that the only thieves that didn't quit PvP are condi ones. So if anything I'm the one that goes against the flow.

More bad opinions from Vallun. I guess CMC's opinions are bad as well, because when I asked him about it on the dev livestream he showed almost the same opinion as me. https://clips.twitch.tv/EnticingBombasticBunnyPeoplesChamp You can watch the clip yourself and see Ah yes one of the devs that made PvP into the hellscape that it is agreed with you about how hey guys the current cancer condi meta totally takes skill. It's totally worth the recourse to authority. I wonder how many AAA MMO games you have helped design or balance or maintain...ha yes...noneI have never served in any government position either but that doesn't mean I'm unqualified to vote. I bet you never produced any wine in your life but doesn't that mean you should not be allowed to drink any?

More bad opinions from Vallun. I guess CMC's opinions are bad as well, because when I asked him about it on the dev livestream he showed almost the same opinion as me. https://clips.twitch.tv/EnticingBombasticBunnyPeoplesChamp You can watch the clip yourself and seeAh yes one of the devs that made PvP into the hellscape that it is agreed with you about how hey guys the current cancer condi meta totally takes skill. It's totally worth the recourse to authority. EDIT: I bet you didn't even know that Endure Pain has no effect on condition damage. In fact nothing does. Every single defense in the game affects power, which requires three different stats to be effective. Only one single countermeasure exists for condition damage, and it's an active, costly one, aka cleanse. Power got nerfed while condi has not and any mesmer can do 22k damage from prone position and the average standing damage of most burn-focused classes is 54k over 8 seconds (and they say Power is burst-based...). That's why you're playing condi thief, and that's why, incidentally, you're defending it despite the blatant discrepancy with how unviable any build with power damage is at the moment. But you're hurting more than thief with this. That's also why I don't let streamers and other professional socialites think for me.

Utter shit and extremely toxic. Don't touch with a ten foot pole. Devs don't know what balance is.

More bad opinions from Vallun.

You can never tell with the current meta.

'PP/ Shortbow' has to be the funniest joke I've heard this month.

I just took 22k confusion damage to a downed mesmer. I'm sorry I tried using my skills Anet. I won't do it again.

I can't help but notice you are talking about Daredevil every time like this is the only thief that ever exists. It is not. It's the only thief people are running, however. But on that same note let me tell you that I eat these meta slaves with shortbows for breakfast and dinner. They are useless. They are bad. It doesn't matter how far they run because running is all they can ever do, but I can do killing. They suck. I'm not sorry to call them out. All they ever did was copy-paste the full mobility shortbow build from metabattle, never got into a fight, and only ever cap points. They die in every fight because they never learnt to actually fight.Their build is meant for the GW2 equivalent of fetching people drinks. It's useless in a fight.Their shortbow sucks balls in a fight. It will lose to P/P any day, because P/P actually does damage and has a daze, for what it's worth.They run Daredevil and not core thief because Daredevil is the only Thief spec with any sort of sustain, which comes in a package of obnoxious permadodges and passive defenses. The moment they encounter a player with a build that won't take their shit they fall flat on their face. Theirs has no flexibility whatsoever, mine can be adapted to several situations at the very least.

Ahem. So, I stealth in combat, a lot, in fact that's half my playstyle. The thing is that I will still die because stealth attacks are ridiculously impotent while I still take damage from all sources and can get revealed by half the classes. All it lets me do is reposition, cast basilisk venom and avoid being shot directly at for a small duration of time.

Not enough to keep it up for 15 seconds. Dash rans out after 3 dashes, and you dont regain one for 10 seconds. Heartseeker-wise, you run out of initiative after 7 heartseekers, at 6 seconds. Then you heartseeker once every 3 seconds. So total distance traveled is an average of 900/1.5 seconds for the first 6 seconds, then 2.25*400 + 0.75 *450 every 3 seconds, for lets say 9 seconds. Total distance: 3600 + 3712 = 7312. In 16 seconds. Comparision: Holo has a consistent 1.25*400 + 0.75*600 every 2 seconds, for a total of 8 times. Thats 7600. Faster, Im afraid. Oh and any more travel time makes the distance worse. Oh and it gets even worse, because Holo has other movement skills and tools they can use, like Radiant Arc. And Quickness which benefits you. The distance widens. And thats just Holo, which isnt exactly high on the mobility list. Nope, on no map is that the case. I will also let you in on a little dark secret of sPvP. Its called "inclines". Have you ever tried moving from mid to far on Legacy using dashes, vs using shortbow? Its so much slower. Good luck. And that argument is wrong, see above. Congratulations, you failed to answer the question. As such, we will now procceed with eliminating the contradiction. Well, Sindrener not using in-combat stealth is easily verified. It is true. So, only one assumption remains. "In-combat stealth is good and high tier thieves use it". Since its the only one left, it has to be wrong. Ergo, in-combat stealth is bad and high tier thieves (such as Sindrener) do not use it. Proof through contradiction. Q.E.D. Nice, thats finished then. Please do not ever try to say that its good, you have already been proven wrong. Also you really dont understand what "retract a statement" means, do you? I already said that that statement is wrong, if it pleases you. Its not really important, after all. I can already prove you wrong through the contradiction, and the question you refuse to answer. You dont need 15 sec to cover 2 bases , you need 6Your initial argument is that Thiefs needshortbow , which i have shown you they don't . Doing 2 Infritrators arrows ,12 resources , for 1800 range , while 3x Hertsseker+Dash can cover 2700 distance + cost 6resources . (if you arelockedin those animation and restorre resouces) I saw people use stealth on the tournamentsYour initial argument that people dont use steal , is not validCould you show me thread or video where Tokier+ Sind , said to the new thieves that they shouldn't use stealth , please ?Go play core thief record footage or get off the thread.

I think a fair amount of participants here don't play thief, don't know thief, let alone play PvP. I would offer to stream my gameplay so you can actually see what a PvP match looks like but based on the amount of people I have to block each game I'm afraid that it would just result in me being harassed. So show me you got balls, make a core thief, go fight in a ranked match, and show us that 'thief is fine'.