Guild Wars 2

So, I heard that Fragments of Faith was extremely powerful. So I decided to test it myself and I can safely say this is strong, probably a bit too strong due to the synergy of certain traits. This build has the ability to instant down people, not only in 1v1, but also in team fights. The reasoning for this is Communal Defenses and Shattered Aegis. The trap already hits extremely hard, however it also grants Aegis, and if you’re using Communal Defenses and Shattered Aegis your allies will also benefit from it. So it’s a huge damage spike for your team. Another thing about FoF is that it puts down multiple sources of Aegis; so after you use one, you can pick up another. Since Shattered Aegis doesn’t have an internal CD, this just means the damage keeps coming. Also due to the trait Hunter’s Determination, you’ll get two sources of FoF.

Here’s the build if anyone wants to test it out. For weapons, you just use what you’re comfortable with when it comes to medi guard, same goes for runes and sigils. What I linked is what I just use. Keep in mind the builder still has the old descriptions of traits for DH.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR8dnsABVDhFdCeDB8Dhl4B7afNpyBVBgGQBQe/FAPgA-TZhFABAcBAAvMgCPBABOIAzs/AA

Also here’s a quick video I made. It just mainly shows how insane the burst is and how quickly people can go down. The quality of players probably isn’t the best due to the time I qued at, however it’s just mainly to show the burst of FoF.

Looks like a gimmick at best, a 1 trick pony if you will. Simply by going zeal you have to forego virtues, and most of your team support as well as considerably hamper your condi removal and F2 heal

Back when Hunter’s Determination was made to be as it is now, someone made a similar thread. Here’s a repost of a few builds I theorised.

For these builds, just keep in mind the changes mentioned in the op. Hunters Determination drops a FoF on control effect, and Hunter’s Fortification now removes a condition on block.

Power Shatter
Heal Support
Condi Burn

Considering the changes to Shield, it might be worth replacing Focus with Shield, or replacing the two-handers and have both.

Wow nice. Thank you alot for the video. I love seeing these crazy kind of synergies I personally dont like playing Guardian at all, but this gave me a smile of appreciation.

This is great to see, showing variant builds to existing builds using the DH elite & the so much disliked Traps. Regarding your build have you tried Hunter’s Fortification. This should greatly improve your build further against conditions.

Bezagron.7352:

This is great to see, showing variant builds to existing builds using the DH elite & the so much disliked Traps. Regarding your build have you tried Hunter’s Fortification. This should greatly improve your build further against conditions.

That’s actually a very good idea, don’t know why I didn’t think of that. HF would be a better choice, since this build lacks AR from Virtues.

Updated the build/link with HF over BGH.

why would you go and beg for nerfs on an already bad elite spec? -_- this trap was pretty much the only trap I like stop trying to nerf me! grr

If you think this is only good as a damage spec, you should try bunkering with it. The trap doesn’t even need to deal damage, it would still make bunker specs better.