Guild Wars 2

I got caught in a myriad of DH traps in the middle of nowhere, well kitten happens, right? Except I couldn’t dodge out of them, I used Lightning Reflexes, a stun breaker no less, and got interrupted mid cast, dodged again, and died mid dodge, with 5k hp left. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced this issue with any other skill except pre-nerf ranger taunt.

What the hell.

Sounds like the elite trap, which requires stability to get out of. Think of it like the slickshoe oil put all around you.

You were in dragon’s maw. The elite trap. It holds you in a barrier that you can’t leave for a few seconds. If you didn’t see a visual dragon mouth holding you in, then that’s because I think the skill is bugged and sometimes doesn’t show it

Yeah it’s dragon’s maw, and I believe Skyline Crash is right – sometimes the visual doesn’t play, which is extremely annoying as you get slammed on your kitten consistently before you realise what’s happened.

I’ve had this happen too many times myself.

It doesn’t have to be even a trap. LB #5 makes cage around you, which will knockdown you whenever you try to leave, what is more… it’s often invisible due to bugz.

Yeah has happened to me a few times, this is actually the first thread I have read where people give a reasonable explanation of what is going on. In most other threads about it (that I have read) people just say “you have to dodge” or “L2P.”

Morwath.9817:

It doesn’t have to be even a trap. LB #5 makes cage around you, which will knockdown you whenever you try to leave, what is more… it’s often invisible due to bugz.

Not just Lb#5, got killed by an invisible dragon’s maw today. Also none of traps in the fight displayed their effects. But yeah it’s totally a l2p issue, just dodge all those things only seen in combat log. The game in its current state is a kittening joke.

Dragonhunter traps and longbow skills would be a lot less annoying if they weren’t so hard to see / didn’t bug out their animation/visual clues.

Happens to me pretty often that I get hit by one, try to move away, knockdown myself twice before the thing ever appears clearly.

Go to Settings -> Graphics -> Effect LOD (bottom tick options).

Make sure Effect LOD is NOT ticked.

If Effect LOD is ticked then it will limit graphic particle effects, this causes Dragon Hunter traps to be invisible.

TRy doesn’t work…still the same

I usually manage to deal with traps and stuff, except in those cases where I’m in a fight and suddenly my HP are decreasing rapidly cause I’m in the middle of traps and stuff before I even realize that a DH appeared seemingly out of nowhere… and well, in a case like yesterday, where I have dodged out of the traps twice and the DH somehow pulled me back in at least twice.

DH is fun, if you get dragonmawed you are basically dead.

dragonmaw and lb5 and you die, but theres is an issue with dragonmaw visuals, sometimes they appear sometimes dont, like with lb5. blame the engine and visuals :P

Thanks for clearing it up.

This game still has a long way to go as far as clarity and counterplay are concerned.