Solo PVP Made Easy - 1400+ Hour Player's Perspective | Dark and Darker How to PVP Guide 

Quick Note - You should use Protection and Health pots before and during fights, I touch on this during the full fight breakdowns but didnt include it in the first two sections of the video because I wanted to touch on more advanced topics and didnt want the video to be 50 minutes long. So, I know a lot of you already know to use potions to gain an advantage but I also know there will be some people that watch and then want to comment that they cant believe I didnt recommend potions, so this is a preventative countermeasure to that haha 😂 Yooo, Whats up chefs! Had some issues with the rendering process of this video so it came out a bit later than I wouldve liked. Good news though we got Fiber internet now, which also took longer than expected but we got it, so the streams should be higher quality moving forward! 🥳

Everyone always talks about matchups and the rock paper scissors type of gameplay, but no one ever talks about the matchups specifically. I play bard mainly and would love a matchup video. But I would also really like a video going in depth about why each of these matchups is good or bad. Eveyone always says "oh paper beats rock," but no one explains why paper beats rock. If anyone has any good videos they recommend watching, I'd appreciate it.

Adopt the "nah ,i'd win" mentality, understood

Today, I had an awesome Warlock on Warlock Longsword Violence encounter in a narrow hallway in the crypts. It was so good. And I won. That was nice, too.

Also for classes that don't have access to bows or crossbows, mostly just talking from Barb experience here, going into the dungeon with extra throwing axes is a great idea. Not only is it the only source of range damage you can use as Barb, but throwing axes also have a movement penalty if you hit the enemy with it, making closing the gap easier.

Great video, not just for Dark and Darker, but, for PvP in general as well from beginner to advanced. Nice work!

Good video man I watched as soon as I got home. The map you linked on stream worked and I’ve gotten a good amount of pvp in since but this is even better

This is an insanely useful video!! Thank you

I'm so down for a full hour long video explaining each match up tbh, would be invaluable for the new player experience(hi, that's me!) ❤

Really good job Vin

W video👍

Amazing video for a new player. Feels great to see some high level gameplay! Not like my lobbies lol

I've gone from losing all my fights to stalemating a lot of them simply by remembering to use my class resources. Forgetting to phantom as a warlock? Yeah you're gonna have a bad time.

Great vid and thanks for the lesson, making sure all my friends watch this to improve! Anyway you could go more in depth with what matchups counter what and same with what abilities work well against other classes?

I just doubt I'll ever get into the mindset of "win every fight I take." A phrase I stick by is "I would rather lose a good fight than win a stomp." I have no interest in fighting anyone I have a significant advantage over or take by surprise. I want them to see I am there and prepare to/expect to engage in a fight if they so choose to. Today alone I had three different instances of trying to avoid a fight at all costs that lead to the other players death because they wouldn't just leave when I had a VERY clear advantage, and when I gave them time and time and time again (I even lead one aggressive player to a stairs exit) and they just pushed and kept attacking. I lose most fights in PvP because while I try to avoid them, I am not as skilled at PvP due to my avoidance and reluctance, and my distaste of using anything I would regard as being a cheap tactic. Again. I would "rather lose a good fight than win a stomp." and ambushing people just doesn't do it for me. I pray I'm not the only person who can "win a fight" and just feel bad about it. *edit* I watch PvP guide videos to learn how to protect myself. The second the warlock went away from you, I'd have been too content to just let him go. I'm probably one of the least aggressive people ever, hah!

bro thanks for making this videos

Yo great videos and content thank you! Liked and subbed. Im a bard main and would be hella down to see and have matchups/strats explained!!

Interesting to see the other side of this. I play a maxed health barbarian build and am not fast enough to chase most other classes. But I've been realizint that most classes like you showed in the video will engage in a blow for blow fight if they think they have an advantage. With bards I have successfully baited a few by fake running after taking 2 arrow hits and "playing panicked" while still having 200 health. Once they melee its usually over since they overstimated their advantage.

Please do a bard matchup video! Thanks for all the content

would love a matchup vid - finally trying to learn pvp properly myself and there really isnt much content out there going over the specific matchups and how to play against what

I can’t seem to win almost any fights as a rogue, is hide really the only way to win?

as someone who plays a fair bit of warlock, the situation with slayer fighter hiding behind a corner to force phantomise will not really work because I can just keep spawning hydra in front of him, slowly wearing him down and activate flamewalk before attempting to curse, making the chase impossible, this matchup is not fair The only way slayer or rogue can win is landmine

Nice pvp and commentary after! Favorite class so far?

I quit trying to pvp around playtest 3. I just sit when I see someone now.

Understood, play barb, get MS gear, wait for enemy to be an idiot and run into you then kill him. Otherwise just run away. P.S. Always run away from PDR guys they are slow.

As a begginer who installed yesterday, this video was just what i wanted, thank youuuuuu keep up the good informative data and analysis centric videos 🙏🏻 this game could use some more, better quality guide content on youtube "stratgaming" style

I started playing 3 days ago, 9k gold now, only played with squire eq ☠️ Funny enough, I have 0 PVP Kills and my Druid is level 50 now. I hope it's okay that I died 3 times fighting someone :(

“Barb beats everything so nerf rogue” valid 😂😂 rogue was a cosmetic class at one point from all the nerfs 😂

Thanks

Solo druid here who doesnt have access to bows or axes and just dreamfire, how should I be engaging targets? Should I be aggressive and corner targets or kite them with dreamfire. Im struggling to find a good rule of thumb to pvp as druid.

This vini guy kinda cookin

I took this advice and have since not lost a solo pvp interaction wish i could say the same for trios but in that case we just get ganked by barbs

Any tips for Wizard matchups? Thanks for the video! It’s very informative.

I love the content and the videos have been really helpfull! PS: That slow yo at the start.. Not good in my opinion. Very iconic to you tho, havnt seen anyone else do that, but its not good Honestly the only critique i have Keep up the brilliant work!

I really want to get into this game, but the matches being so short and the fact that 25 gear score is the threshold for geared lobbies is really putting me off everytime i try to play. I equip white pants and green gloves and apparently that makes my level 7 ass (deleting to try new classes on free acct) equal to level 70s in full blues and epics in every single slot lol. Always feels like im rushing too, only to loot 2 rooms before I need to extract. The pvp looks fun and intricate like in this video but it never plays out like these for me

You cant dodge swing weapons unless you get away for it to not reach, its not like chivalry combat, even if it looks like it, its so easy to redirect attacks , unless they are poking with spear or using overhead downwards attacks its not really possible to dodge unless done perfectly with timing, its way better to trade, block or run out of range

Fighter won’t beat up anyone if they just stay distance and shot him , even survive bow can’t save fighter … for now fighter is not in a good place he should be , specifically there’s a upgrade fighter calls barb.

Nice hat

if sea of thieves taught me anything its that chasing after someone is just running into an ambush

Bard solo match-up plz 🙏😂

Your microphone gain is too low. Do you use an audio interface like voicemeter banana? you can adjust the microphone gain on there till you see it's about too redline

How do fighters beat dot and run warlocks? Even if I hit my shots when they go to cast, they heal the damage and are faster than me so they phantomize my sprint and that’s the game.

Why do you use the dagger instead of the rapier?

You'll never become better avoiding to fight better geared/skilled opponents, i believe. You have to do it, or you'll be stuck on that level where you're not improving anymore.

rondel dagger buckler fighter.

Need mor bard tips

Can you turn up your input volume? You're so quiet on max volume.

cool thanks i like bard more=)

Fo yo final challenge, make a vid that aint a banger. Aw hell naw jigsaw you tweakin

Man "Bard vs 2 Warlocks" means they fight you together, not one by one.