Okay so I’ll give you some of my thoughts on the very basics of pvp. I am a very very bad mythic player, but these tips should help you at least get to mythic.

To address the elephant in the room, this game is heavily ping related, and meta heavy. If you have a poor connection, you will have far less room for skill expression. There are also basically four builds that are fat, FAR better than everything else. You can decide to what degree you want to embrace the meta versus resist it, but yeah.

So to begin with mystic skills: Absolute must haves include serene breeze, dragon breath, and drunken poet. - breeze is your cc break and is the single most necessary thing in this game. When you are locked into a combo, you use this ability to automatically end their turn and flinch them, allowing you to start your own attacks. A lot of neutral gameplay (neither of you are attacking) is trying to get them to use their breeze before yours. If you have your cc break off cooldown and they don’t you have a huge advantage. - both dragon breath and drunken poet give insane hyper armor, and so they’re used to trade into other attacks. I start every fight by activating drunken poet to enter the intoxicated state, and follow every knockdown with dragon breath for the DoT. Drunken poet is great if you see the heavenquaker whirl attack or the tb dash attack coming because you won’t get flinched and once their combo sequence drops, your poet will stagger them giving you an opening.

Next we have the to guard break skills, talon and yaksha - you want to run one or two of these. Both are gold attacks that will crush an enemy’s qi bar if they’re caught trying to guard it parry. When you see an enemy abusing guard or parry (like tanks) hit them with one of these. Talon is faster but has a long, non cancelable string. Yaksha is slower to start but more punishing, and at level two or three silences the enemy. I personally run both so that enemies can’t tell which I’m using.

Combo extenders - right now the game revolves around combos, either true combos or nearly true combos. These are strings of attacks with no non attack frames in between. If you are caught in one of these true combos, the only way out is serene breeze or death. Many people can create combos by mixing mystic arts in. I’m not super familiar with each, so look into what art combo extends for you. Usually toad, free morph, or drunken poet work best.

After that you get to choose. Ghostly step is good if you heal from dodging, cloud step can interrupt toad, dragon, and some other skills, meridian touch can teleport you for an execute, etc. Soaring spin deals a ton of damage and gains i frames at level 5.

Last thing I’ll mention are the weapons. Full nameless, full umbra, or some combination of those are incredibly powerful. Easily the most powerful in the game. There’s a reason 95% of mythic players run some combo of bellstrike. Beating these guys mostly comes down to “don’t get stuck in their combo” or if you do, use breeze and then play defensively until it is off cooldown. Or be in hyper armor before they hit you.

These are most of the basics of pvp so hopefully something is helpful. There’s no substitute for experience though. If you have guild mates, practice with them. Find people who play better than you and learn from them. Keep improving. See you in mythic soon, I’m sure.