Guild Wars 2

I’ve been running shattered aegis builds on my Guardian/DH since the beginning of Season 2. It did pretty well. My question to the forum users is why it isn’t considered decent? You have fine condition clear, you have blocks for days, and you do about 1-1.5k of AOE per block. Using the fragment of faith traps on hit/skill, you get a ton of blocks and it can be given to allies.

I feel like the only play style for DH is just to nuke the point but there are other ways to do aoe that can sustain you far more than just traps. People can dodge the traps but if you have aegis up, they still have to hit you.

Just my .02

What do you consider pretty well? If you’re running the zeal line it sounds like you’re not using DH. So, you’re old school medi? But then it sounds like you use traps.

The damage coefficient is low and there isn’t really enough access to aegis. I haven’t actually tried it with the aegis trap, but it seems hard to optimize because there is no guarantee your teammates will walk into the aegis. SA can be frustrating when fighting ranged opponents, who will bust your aegis and be outside the range.

The other side of it is, going into Zeal means you’re losing out on condi clear, stability, and stunbreak, and virtue cooldown reduction from virtue traitline. So your taking a big hit to sustain in a landscape that already puts targets over DH’s heads.