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Stealth allows you disengage and reset some cooldowns, or set up for a large burst.

Stealth also has the added bonus of resetting the target for the enemy team, making it more difficult to coordinate burst on you.

The downside however is that whilst stealthed you cannot maintain capture point contribution, just as if you were invulnerable.

The vast majority of players are very predictable in their movement. Predictable movement means that it is often very easy to hit large attacks.

By changing up how you move, you can significantly reduce the opportunity an opponent has in a fight of hitting you.

Examples include:

 Moving through your opponent.

 Randomly changing direction.

 Using movement skills to constantly engage and disengage the target.

 

Movement Speed also takes a vital role in being able to kite effectively

Movement Speed is capped at 139% of out of combat speed.

Additionally, speed boosts don't stack!

Having access to at least 25% movement speed boost is very important as it allows you to kite more effectively.

Common Movement Speed Boosts:

 Swiftness (33%)

 Superspeed (100%)

 Class specific trait

 Rune of the Lynx

By varying how you move, you can avoid large attacks like Arcing Slice.

Steal

When engaging in a fight, classes with ports usually have an advantage as they can force players immediately to be defensive.

Using a No-Port spot obviously prevents them from engaging you, meaning you have an opportunity to engage them instead.

That said, these spots tend to not be on or near points, meaning you cannot cap and be safe at the same time.

An example of a good time to use a No-Port spot would be when being +1ed by a thief. By preventing them from hitting steal, you extremely limit their usefulness.

 

Rotation:

Basics of GW2 PvP

video version: 

 

Roles in Conquest

Each Role has a specific task that it needs to achieve. These roles are also shown on the class specific build pages.

The optimum strategy for winning is to outnumber the enemy team on nodes either through rotating or kills.

 

Rotation over extending

What is 'Overextending'?

Overextending is the act of trying to gain a map advantage that your team can't sustain.

When does it happen?

The most common occurence of it is when you teamwipe the enemy team at once, this means that they have no staggered respawns.

Staggered respawns are important because they prevent the enemy team from regrouping fully without players waiting in spawn for the rest of their team.

When groups respawn together and push their contested close node then they will often outnumber your team, resulting in easy kills for the enemy team.

This gives them a massive map advantage, enough to completely turn the map - and the game - around.

How can you prevent it?

Engaging the third node after a teamwipe from the enemy team isn't a bad option, however you need to understand that holding it for extended durations is not a priority.

Like with any fight, as soon as you start losing, players low, or low on cooldowns, you should begin disengaging.

By disengaging before dying, you limit any momentum the enemy team would gain. You also give yourself the opportunity for your team's Roamers to decap the point in the immediate future.

The best play possible, is to disengage and have your mesmer (if your team has one) leave a portal on the point you are disengaging from. This gives your team a massive advantage as they are then forced to track your mesmer's portal.

You can also use a mesmer portal to help you disengage if you lack serious mobility. Simply porting to anywhere else on the map is effective, and gives you an opportunity to re-engage if you can by going back through.

 

How to Turn a Game Around:

Understanding how you reached this stage

There are two key reasons you may be behind on points and nodes captured:

    You overextended, see above.

    Your team has been outrotated up to this point.

Take control

Don't panic. Don't flame your teammates either.

Regroup as a team, do not push nodes one by one!

The first fight you engage, you want to outnumber. This is important as you want to quickly build yourself up an advantage over the enemy team via kills and a node capture.

From here, you want to spread out as a group. Unless the enemy team disengaged, you should outnumber them on the map. In this case you can quickly gain map control of your close point and the mid point.

If you find that you cannot win that first fight after respawning, quickly disengage and move to a new point. This is particularly good if you can leave a player holding an outnumbered fight on the point you left.

Make sure not to overextend onto the far point. By the time you reach it, the first kills after your respawn will be in that area of the map. Make sure to keep an eye on your close point, as its likely they will also look to engage that.

Maintaining control

Don't make the same mistakes that led you to this situation in the first place.

Don't overextend after killing the enemy team. You can read more about overextending here.

If you're struggling to maintain three caps, pull back and just rotate between two.

Don't have long fights on enemy captured points! This wastes significant amounts of time.

Always keep an eye on enemy respawns when rotating. You should always be aware of what players are on the map, and where they are.

Using secondary mechanics

With the exception of Battle of Khylo, Eternal Colisseum and Forest of Niflhel, all secondary mechanics can prove to be an effective strategy to turn around a game.

On Revenge of the Capricorn, Temple of the Silent Storm and Skyhammer, the frequently spawning, timed secondary mechanics can force enemy players off nodes they are camping.

Keeping an eye on these timers, and positioning yourself so you are prepared to engage them can give your team the mechanic, as well as an opportunity to get decaps with little to no resistance.

In the case of Legacy of the Foefire, a Lord push can result in the enemy team panicking, and sending multiple players to come defend.

The area around the Lord is a very good area to kite multiple players, giving your team an opportunity to outnumber the enemy on the rest of the map, as well as giving you an opportunity to gain 150 points.

It should be noted however, that this is an extremely risky strategy, and should only be carried out as a last resort, as it puts your team at a massive disadvantage if you do not get any benefit from players being pulled to defend, or if you die too quickly. Even players not coming to defend, and a free lord kill being acquired can result in this tactic being a failure if the enemy team maintains a triple cap.

 

Guides to each Maps or at least the major ones links:

these will help you understand map mechanics and placements of where you can be as some classes.

Capricorn https://www.godsofpvp.net/capricorn

Colosium https://www.godsofpvp.net/eternal

Forest of Nifhel https://www.godsofpvp.net/forest

Skyhammer https://www.godsofpvp.net/skyhammer

Legacy of foefire https://www.godsofpvp.net/legacy

Kyhlo https://www.godsofpvp.net/khylo

Temple of Silent Storms https://www.godsofpvp.net/temple

 

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