Guild Wars 2

Is there any chance to update Dragonhunter elite specialization in PoF ?
~ Make longbow autoattack and True Shot a bit stronger.
~ Symbol of Energy flying speed faster.
~ Rework Virtues for Dragonhunter specific for example: After using specific bow or any orher weapon skill or a trap your Virtue is updated with aditional effect ( *after using True Shot your Spear of Justice has increased damage or knock back.
*after using Deflecting Shot your Shield of Courage is modified so that after created shield infront of you expires it launches that shield forward and has an effect as Deflecting Shot but larger)
By reworking Virtues like that will make Dragonhunter versetile!!

Heh be lucky if they dont nerf DH cause firebrand will be worse than base guardians so compensation is to nerf DH to the ground. (look at staff nerf, totally not needed and they did it anyways).

Longbow was nerfed a couple of times (specially True Shot) so there’s no chance of a buff in short time.

Ragnarox.9601:

Heh be lucky if they dont nerf DH cause firebrand will be worse than base guardians so compensation is to nerf DH to the ground. (look at staff nerf, totally not needed and they did it anyways).

Just because Firebrand is likely to be a more supportive elite spec doesn’t necessarily mean that DH will be nerfed. DH is clearly meant to be a direct damage specialisation. I think when we have 3-4 elite specs per profession we will begin to see real differentiation between them and they will allow a profession to further specialise into a particular job.

I share your cynicism to a point. Maybe they will be tempted to nerf DH to make Firebrand look better in terms of damage. I imagine ArenaNet wont want Guardians to feel like there is nothing in PoF for them if all they want to do is play power based builds. I hope they don’t nerf DH though, and I don’t think they need to. It’s completely acceptable for an old elite spec to remain good in PvE and for a new elite spec to shine in other areas of the game, such as raids, fractals and WvW.

Sarie.1630:

Ragnarox.9601:

Heh be lucky if they dont nerf DH cause firebrand will be worse than base guardians so compensation is to nerf DH to the ground. (look at staff nerf, totally not needed and they did it anyways).

Just because Firebrand is likely to be a more supportive elite spec doesn’t necessarily mean that DH will be nerfed. DH is clearly meant to be a direct damage specialisation. I think when we have 3-4 elite specs per profession we will begin to see real differentiation between them and they will allow a profession to further specialise into a particular job.

I share your cynicism to a point. Maybe they will be tempted to nerf DH to make Firebrand look better in terms of damage. I imagine ArenaNet wont want Guardians to feel like there is nothing in PoF for them if all they want to do is play power based builds. I hope they don’t nerf DH though, and I don’t think they need to. It’s completely acceptable for an old elite spec to remain good in PvE and for a new elite spec to shine in other areas of the game, such as raids, fractals and WvW.

5% of game community raids. Me personally dont like raids, they are borring, no real rewards compared to time invested, plus Anet gave us legendary armor iv wvw and pvp so ppl dont need to grind this anymore.

Second if elite spec is only capable of making an impact is fractals and raids, then guardians got really kittenty spec to play with. (mesmer and druids are and will stay kings of raids)

In wvw I dont see it get used, cause bunker guard is better, cause it has better cd’s, better utilities and quickness is not that good in wvw cause of boon corruption and everything, especially with staff nerfs, only thing matters in wvw is protection and stability. Firebrand has long cd’s of virtues, everything is 3/4 cast time which isnt good in any type of competitive or pvp environment (especially when you have PoF classes now who can cc you to death while doing insane dmg). Plus guardian is worst at mobility and for a firebrand melee this is not a good news.

Anyways we will see on friday, but frankly I dont see a good use of firebrand, too slow, too much 3/4, awfull cd’s, no blocks except aegis (which is useless due to so many pof and hot unblockables), no teleports, etc etc…

Rewoken.1209:

Is there any chance to update Dragonhunter elite specialization in PoF ?
~ Make longbow autoattack and True Shot a bit stronger.
~ Symbol of Energy flying speed faster.
~ Rework Virtues for Dragonhunter specific for example: After using specific bow or any orher weapon skill or a trap your Virtue is updated with aditional effect ( *after using True Shot your Spear of Justice has increased damage or knock back.
*after using Deflecting Shot your Shield of Courage is modified so that after created shield infront of you expires it launches that shield forward and has an effect as Deflecting Shot but larger)
By reworking Virtues like that will make Dragonhunter versetile!!

The balance update for PoF was already made. Do not expect additional changes, aside for the new elites. Long bow is currently lack luster. It may see changes in the future, but surely not before or with PoF.

As for the virtue changes for DH, that is not gonna happen.

DH needs to be weaker than FB that is the class progression system this game has… they arent equevalent choices.

Still sadly ANet moto, they dont change class stuff that gone wrong, they just progress blindly…..
DH is bad and will always be a bad class due its utilities… ANet expect players to use more the trap spamming than actually use the bow…

I’m really happy about how my dragonhunter currently is, and it’s the only one of my toons that I doesn’t want to either switch back to core or push to the new elites.

I’d be really sad if they mowed my DH just to make firebrand more appealing, because even if I’m trying my best to read all the stuff, I just don’t feel hyped for firebrand… It’s just my taste though.

Now, as Sarie said, Firebrand should be a supportive (maybe not too far from Druid ?) class, inclining more to condi damage-wise, while DH is a pure damage spec, so I’m just hoping those two will be different enough not to interfere with each other.

Aeolus.3615:

DH needs to be weaker than FB that is the class progression system this game has… they arent equevalent choices.

Still sadly ANet moto, they dont change class stuff that gone wrong, they just progress blindly…..
DH is bad and will always be a bad class due its utilities… ANet expect players to use more the trap spamming than actually use the bow…

What exactly is wrong with DH? It is one of the strongest dps in PvE and is strong in sPvP. It has several usable weapons. Currently its only issue is LB is a bit weak. And as far as the information available and comments from devs new elites do not substitute old elites. In all likely hood DH power build will remain top dps.

otto.5684:

Aeolus.3615:

DH needs to be weaker than FB that is the class progression system this game has… they arent equevalent choices.

Still sadly ANet moto, they dont change class stuff that gone wrong, they just progress blindly…..
DH is bad and will always be a bad class due its utilities… ANet expect players to use more the trap spamming than actually use the bow…

What exactly is wrong with DH? It is one of the strongest dps in PvE and is strong in sPvP. It has several usable weapons. Currently its only issue is LB is a bit weak. And as far as the information available and comments from devs new elites do not substitute old elites. In all likely hood DH power build will remain top dps.

I just hate traps and how DH uses them, just a personal feeling of being carried when i play them, IMO one tihng that i noticed when played DH trap spam with bow, felt more like the traps were my main weapon than the bow.