Guild Wars 2

I just started playing as a Dragonhunter and had a few questions about the combination of a few traits that I’ve been unable to find the answers to online. Just trying to understand this class a bit better. Any help would be much appreciated.

First, I’m following this Metabattle build: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Dragonhunter_-_GS/LB I really like the combo of GS and LB so I’ll definitely be keeping that.

1: This link has a note that says, “No trait with such title exists. and Zealot’s Aggression don’t really fit together with Big Game Hunter. This is the main reason why it’s highly recommend to use Test of Faith , otherwise you rely on other team members to bring Cripple.” I’m not entirely sure what this means but it sounds like Zealot’s Aggression should add cripple to the Virtue of Justice passive and that this perhaps isn’t working? Is that true?

2: Do Zealot’s Aggression and Permeating Wrath work together? Does the burn area also become a cripple area? Also, does the burn area that Permeating Wrath adds add to the burn stacks on the target?

3: What is the dps increase when using the combination of Unscathed Contender and Indomitable Courage? Is it comparable to Permeating Wrath? Also, what is the exact increase in frequency of Virtue of Courage’s passive while Indomitable Courage is activated?

4: Do Absolute Resolution and Battle Presence work together? If so, would this make Guardian a viable support healer at all especially when using Receive the Light? Or is the support provided by Virtuous Solace and the dps increase of Permeating Wrath too good to give up?

5. The guides I’ve looked at suggest using Procession of Blades with Spear of Justice but I don’t understand why exactly. The reasoning I’ve heard has something to do with the Big Game Hunter trait which effects Spear of Justice but I don’t understand how this is related to Procession of Blades. Am I just misunderstanding this completely?

Thanks!

u would end doing zero damage for this support build to work with ( Absolute Resolution and Battle Presence) in a mediocre or low lvl, low health low surviability, would not work well in every gamemode.

Healing support scales very poorly in guardian, scrapper, warrior, ele, druid are far better in this.

SW spirits shield is not used for heavy fights, like its posted there, any aoe skill or even condi or cleave kills the SW, whatever game mode u use it.

Aeolus.3615:

u would end doing zero damage for this support build to work with ( Absolute Resolution and Battle Presence) in a mediocre or low lvl, low health low surviability, would not work well in every gamemode.

Healing support scales very poorly in guardian, scrapper, warrior, ele, druid are far better in this.

SW spirits shield is not used for heavy fights, like its posted there, any aoe skill or even condi or cleave kills the SW, whatever game mode u use it.

Thanks for the reply.

So for Absolute Resolution and Battle Presence, I’m not looking at the support of it so much as the dps increase. How often does Battle Presence increase the activation of Aegis giving the 20% dps increase from Absolute Resolution? Is this worth considering?

I’ve heard similar answers about healing, thanks for the input.

What is SW spirit shield?

Thanks!

What is SW shield?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_weapon

Quote from the build link:
“Additionally use Shield of the Avenger Shield of the Avenger for projectile heavy fights.”

This is completelly wrong since its in heavy figths that they dont work, they barelly work even on 1 vs 1 situation even against mobs(monsters), Anet made then to not perform well for some whatever reason.
Even the Shield of Absortion, shield 5th skill should not be used under heavy aoe since does nothing against aoe, its only a very minor heal, the domes only wortk against projectiles(single target range skills) but unblocables skills will ignore the dome and hit you.

Unscathed Contender its the trait that increases damage while your have aegis not Battle Presences, imo that deppends of your playstyle, it is a nice damage boost if u are going to burst target before target can atack you, at the time he hits back by range, conditon aplying or wathever, you loose the 20% damage boost.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unscathed_Contender

Battle Presence allows you to spread your virtue heal to a passive heal to nearby 5 allies every 3 seconds, heals arround 280ish to 300ish every 3 seconds.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Battle_Presence

The activation of Aegis i dont fully understand what are u asking about, since Aegis is a boon from several skill, and the F3 Vitue, with if ur being under atack will consume the aegis and block any atack on you.
Aegis blocks 1 hit and can be countered by unblockable skills.

IF it is a pve build only ur lookign for, equip a hammer with dps stats, some players that are used to the pve gimmcick are better to help you than i am.

Aeolus.3615:

What is SW shield?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_weapon

Quote from the build link:
“Additionally use Shield of the Avenger Shield of the Avenger for projectile heavy fights.”

This is completelly wrong since its in heavy figths that they dont work, they barelly work even on 1 vs 1 situation even against mobs(monsters), Anet made then to not perform well for some whatever reason.
Even the Shield of Absortion, shield 5th skill should not be used under heavy aoe since does nothing against aoe, its only a very minor heal, the domes only wortk against projectiles(single target range skills) but unblocables skills will ignore the dome and hit you.

Unscathed Contender its the trait that increases damage while your have aegis not Battle Presences, imo that deppends of your playstyle, it is a nice damage boost if u are going to burst target before target can atack you, at the time he hits back by range, conditon aplying or wathever, you loose the 20% damage boost.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unscathed_Contender

Battle Presence allows you to spread your virtue heal to a passive heal to nearby 5 allies every 3 seconds, heals arround 280ish to 300ish every 3 seconds.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Battle_Presence

The activation of Aegis i dont fully understand what are u asking about, since Aegis is a boon from several skill, and the F3 Vitue, with if ur being under atack will consume the aegis and block any atack on you.
Aegis blocks 1 hit and can be countered by unblockable skills.

IF it is a pve build only ur lookign for, equip a hammer with dps stats, some players that are used to the pve gimmcick are better to help you than i am.

Thanks for the info on SW, as you can see I’m very much a noob haha.

I misspoke, I didn’t mean Battle Presence in conjunction with Unscathed Contender, I meant Indomitable Courage in conjunction with Unscathed Contender. Indomitable Courage allows Virtue’s passive to trigger more often meaning more Aegis when not using Shield of Courage. This in conjunction with Unscathed Contender would mean a 20% dps boost more often. Is this a noticeable dps increase? Over Permeating Wrath?

And I’m not going to use a hammer. It may be better dps but I enjoy the Greatsword Longbow combination too much; how it plays, how it looks, everything

Thanks again!