Pourrissage du PVP II

Trickster Rogues:

Trickster rogues are really annoying for most peoples, they hit hard, they daze you and, worst of all, they are invisible!

First of all, the most important thing when facing a trickster is not to be scared. Here's a few reasons you shouldn't:

Tricksters are forseeable, they ain't no tricksters.
Tricksters only have three skills with any damage potential (not including their ultimate).
Tricksters can only roll(dodge) twice.
Tricksters are squishy.

Before I go into how to defeat tricksters, I've got to explain to you guys what tricksters can and might do.

Lashing Blade: The big sword coming from the side. A guaranteed critical strike if it hits out of invisibility. Melee range if not a little more.

Impact Shot: 3 charges of brute damage which adds a small push/stun. If cast to break stealth, it does not consume any charge and add a real stun to it.

Dazing Strike: Jump in the air and fall back down, disabling you for a few seconds. If it breaks stealth, the animation is 50% faster.

Deft Strike: Teleport behind you and hit you once, adding a massive slow. If cast to break stealth, it gives 20 extra range and allows you to teleport on teammate.

Impossible to Catch: Turns them dark/black and gives huge mitigation. If used out of stealth, it makes them immune to pretty much anything.
*I will add a section about this spell and how to deal with it. It's annoying but not that bad in the end, once you understand some concepts.

Smoke Bomb: Creates an area where you are dazed. If cast to break out of stealth, it adds an annoying slow to it.

Shadow Strike: Looks like they are trowing a dagger at you like they are out of some kung fu / james bond movie. Does SUPER TINY little damage. But it refills their stealth bar no matter what you do. Just refresh stealth and add a TINY daze it if they use it while in stealth.

Bait and Switch: Make a clone and dashes in a direction (always a stupid direction too). If used during stealth, it refreshes their stealth bar but does not do any dash. If it's not moving, has 3 bar of health and shouts "tricked", ignore it. It's a clone.

Whirlwind blade: A blue circle around them, avoid it if you can, but not that dangerous.

Bloodbath: A low-level daily which will make them teleport around you and hit you. Nothing to do about it, just wait till it ends and don't waste your teleports / freak out. It would result in the same as someone trying to avoid a CoI damage by rolling around. Not really problematic.

Shocking Execution: Jump in the air and fall back down. Does more damage the lower hp you are. Only way to avoid this is by killing / using crowd control on them. Hurts.

Lurker's Assault: The most dangerous and vicious of all. It extends their stealth by 10 seconds by regenerating it at really high speed. Their attacks will also deal 60% increased damage. Really annoying, beware of it. It's the most dangerous of all.

Cloud of Steel: An at will that trows daggers at you. They have 12 charges with 3s to recharge each dagger. It does increasingly higher damage the more consecutive hits they get on you. Does not break stealth.

Sly Flourish: A basic attack, nothing special about it, they just slash and slash with no special effect.

Duelist's Flurry: A very very slow hit, followed by another very very slow hit, followed by a dozen of light speed quick hits stalking your target with teleport. It also adds bleed on you and can add a few buffs on themselves.

Anything else than what's on this list such as blitz which trows small daggers in a bunch while recoiling back or path of blade which makes daggers come out of the ground in an AOE. Laugh at it, it's ridiculously bad and useless.

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Now we know what those pesky little things can do. Knowledge is power, and this is all the more true against Tricksters. The first step in defeating a Trickster rogue is spotting one of the 4 indicators that tells you "Hey, Trickster here!"


1~ A mount with a trickster mounted on it running straight at you(or at least an individual) which suddenly disappears into nothing. In case you wondered, no the mount didn't fly off into the sunset. The trickster just activated his stealth. This is also valid if you see a trickster looking around your way and going invisible.

2~Projectiles being thrown your way. That's cloud of steel, and in rare occurrence impact shot.

3~A weird distortion or seem like movement of some kind right beside you. Usually really brief. No it's no eye-trick. It's a Trickster.

4~ A Trickster running around in circle, trying to find a spot to hide and regenerate his stealth. Just your usual lost trickster, somehow seems to be more abundant in the Hotenow map (fire one).

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Scenario using the first(1) case.
Once that first step is done, meaning you spotted the Trickster, it's time to act. What you should know is that tricksters are NOT interested in guardian fighters, neither great weapon fighters and rarely clerics. They crave wizards, you are a wizard.

Knowing they got limited time for their stealth and that they want you and think you are stupid and that they are so much smarter. The conclusion we can get is they are going to run straight for you.

Two options might happen:

They will start trowing daggers at you nearly immediately.
~View case 2 to see how to deal with this.
OR
They will run straight to you and try to cast one of their fancy skills. Usually lashing blade, sometime smoke bomb and more rarely around 60: dazing strike.

This second scenario is the most common and most easy to deal with. You know what they will do, and where they are going with the trajectory.
Imagine a straight line going from you to wherever they disappeared first. Then imagine they are running at you with a speed slightly lower than a regular t1 mount. As soon as you think he reached you, wait about .25 to .5 second to let him position himself and start casting (if you got balls you can also run towards them, can make it a little easier, just shorten the waiting delay). Then teleport. About a second later, you will see a rogue appear at your previous location, wondering where you got your psychic powers.
~I suggest teleporting backwards as it will keep him in your field of view.
~This might take you a few times to get the timing down, but it's very easy once you are used to it.

His stealth is down, his highest damage or disabling skill is gone.

There is now two options:

He will stand there a second too long trying to think what to do or cast some fancy other skill.
~You can just trow your regular combo in there, and you can be sure he's dead meat.
OR
He will teleport behind you using deft-strike.

As soon as you see him disappear, you should know it's deft strike. Just quickly teleport somewhere else. You are then free to kill him with your regular combo.


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The second (2) scenario is the annoying scenario. This kind of rogue will run around invisible trowing daggers at you then either running away or coming to finish you off.

The first step in this situation is to deal with the Cloud of Steel daggers. It's damage is exponential, meaning it will start with really low damage and go higher and higher the longer he can keep on attacking you with it.

Step 1.1: Locate where it comes from.

Step 1.2: Walk away from that location until around 4 daggers hit you.

Step 1.3: teleport away from him.

Step 1.4: Repeat step 1.3 if he hasnt stopped shooting daggers at you.