Guild Wars 2

Since Druids appear to hard-counter DHs in most scenarios, want to ask for some pointers on dealing with them, particularly 1v1. I’m surprised people complain about DH’s being overpowered when the blatant outlier of ‘most bs class to handle’ has, by far and away, been Ranger/Druid.

I’ve heard one of the only real ways of doing so is the Symbolic build, which let’s you negate all the LOSing/running in circles they do through aoe damage symbols. Any other advice?

I’ll copy paste what i posted in the guard forum:

Menders symbolic is only one that can stalemate them, yes. You can however steal the point away from them as their CA will make them lose the point, and you can also push them off the point with shield 5. So technically you win that match up. You might wana save shield 5 for the bristleback though.

If we can pull off the initial high burst pressure while continuing to pressure them on point, we have a chance of winning but no competent Druid will stand there and take all the symbol damages, ToF pull/push damage, etc.

Best we can do is bunk Druid off point with shield#5 + Scepter#3 and maybe force him to go stealth to contest the point, then pray we last long enough for something to matter before he demolish us.

Play something else. DH can’t solo kill druid unless the druid is terrible. Druid is countered by classes with easy to apply CC, mesmer and warrior are both good.

You should take the point since you can apply enough pressure to force them to heal/kite, but on any dps build they’ll outsustain you and just kill you from range. Just hope someone notices the minimap and comes to +1 before you get trashed.

On Menders Symbolic, you won’t die but you also won’t do anything to them.