🛡️ PvP Fundamentals · Lesson 17 of 17

Positioning, Trinket & Defensives

In PvP, where you stand and when you press your buttons decides the match more than your raw damage.

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Positioning

  • Use pillars and line of sight to break enemy casts and body-block CC.
  • Stay close enough for your healer to reach you, but not so stacked that you both get hit.
  • Do not overextend onto a target where you can be CC'd and killed.

Trinket and defensives

  • Your PvP trinket removes one CC on a cooldown - save it for a lethal moment.
  • Layer defensives when you are the target: pre-press before their burst, then rotate.
  • Recognize the enemy burst setup (cooldowns plus CC on your healer) and defend through it.

Target selection

  • Focus a target you can actually kill - often the one with weaker defensives or no escape.
  • Swap targets when your kill target trinkets or defends.
  • Call your swaps and CC so your team hits the same target.

Key takeaways

  • Use line of sight and pillars to neutralize casters and CC.
  • Trinket the lethal CC, not the first one; rotate defensives under pressure.
  • Focus a killable target and coordinate swaps with your team.
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