Guild Wars 2

It doesn’t really appear that the PVE meta is going to change all that much, if any. I can’t see much reason to use Dragon Hunter and it doesn’t match well with Radiance (two of the minor radiance traits may become useless if using Dragon Hunter). If it doesn’t match well with Radiance, you lose tremendous crit chance and gain little.

It appears that Dragon hunter also negates alot of the Virtue traits since the traits indicate on activation of the specific virtue … maybe that will be changed?

It’s also not clear to me that the new enhanced virtues are affected by the virtue recharge reduction if you spec Virtue line. Can anyone confirm?

Overall some cool things for PVP and stuff in DH line doesn’t appear to mix well with the established traits.

Where did you read that? cause as far as I know all traits will affect the transformed virtues the same way. If anything radiance is the mandatory traitline to make a condition DH with all the burn/crit traits

Vizardlorde.8243:

Where did you read that? cause as far as I know all traits will affect the transformed virtues the same way. If anything radiance is the mandatory traitline to make a condition DH with all the burn/crit traits

It’s not something I read. It’s why I’m asking the questions. Using DH will change the virtues from one thing into another. Does that change how those virtues are affected by traits?

As one example: Supreme Justice will increase burn duration on Virtue of Justice. If you trait DH, you no longer have VoJ, you have Spear of Justice. Will Supreme Justice work the same way on Spear of Justice as it does on Virtue of Justice? It’s not clear it will.

I’m not saying Radiance won’t still be nice with DH, but if it’s minor traits don’t work on Spear of Justice, that’s a big hit.

Put it another way then: Assuming all the current traits for virtues continue to work on the DH line, does the meta change much? Do you see a place for it in PVE? Something like the following with Mace+F/LB and a cripple signet?

http://dulfy.net/2015/05/02/gw2-specialization-calculator-that_shaman/#profession=guardian&traits=%22Dragon%20Hunter%22,2,5,9-%22Zeal%22,2,5,9-%22Radiance%22,3,6,7