Guild Wars 2

I’m struggling hard against Scrappers since they’re introduced in the game.
They have reflect skills,extremely high dps from hammer, and high sustain.
If they are low, they can use sneak gyro for reposition or final blow ambush.
Trueshot can hit only 2k-2.5k because they have incredible protection up time.
But mostly they will wait Trueshot channeling for extra damage with reflect.
In WvW, most of them use boon duration food or rune, and it makes me harder.

Could you give me some pieces of advice?

you don’t, the only build that can sustain or decap a scrapper is mender’s symbolic

Scrappers are definitely killable, even in 1v1. I was able to regularly down them last season and since then we’ve been buffed and they, nerfed. As far as I know, they have no stab/stunbreak on cc traits so watching their stability and ccing them appropriately should allow you to get in plenty of bursts. They do have plenty of on-demand stunbreak though, so limit your comboes to 1 or 2 hits following cc. Stay out of their melee range (unless you have protection/f3 shield up), save your stunbreak/gap opener for after they use hammer 5 & 3, and consider using GS & Sc/X as you have plenty of non-projectile options against them with this weapon set. I usually kill them by pulling/knocking them through ToF, and then dpsing them down from there.

All factors considered, it’s a pretty close fight. A skilled scrapper only needs to get a few key skills off on you in a row, and the battle goes down-hill but once you learn to recognize their burst (it’s quite predictable), and they yours, the battle becomes a stalemate.

Darknicrofia.2604:

you don’t, the only build that can sustain or decap a scrapper is mender’s symbolic

Do you or anyone else run a good Scrap and like to duel? Only fought 1 good scrapper whole season so as much as I want to give input, i’d be bias.

if you’re fighting to hold on to a cap or trying to get a decap and you don’t run shield, its next to impossible.

outside of running 5 traps on your bar, a scrapper’s on point AoE pressure still far surpasses what a LB DH can put out in a 1v1.

with menders symbolic, the worst you’ll do is stalemate and can time your immobs and shield 5s enough times to get a decap every time.

scrapper is dangerous when he pops out hes reflective dome, after that just kite him and he will die.

if you’re stuck in LB while he pops reflect, you essentially give them a 5-6 second free disengage, on a build that already outsustains power LB.

Thanks very much for those kind advice.

Darknicrofia.2604:

if you’re fighting to hold on to a cap or trying to get a decap and you don’t run shield, its next to impossible.

outside of running 5 traps on your bar, a scrapper’s on point AoE pressure still far surpasses what a LB DH can put out in a 1v1.

with menders symbolic, the worst you’ll do is stalemate and can time your immobs and shield 5s enough times to get a decap every time.

This post pretty much covers it.

Watch for stability before popping shield 5. It’s possible to kill an engi, but you need to time your interrupts right to interfere with his rotations, but don’t expect an easy kill.

you’re not going to kill a decent engie unless he just messed up, but with mender symbolic, you have more leeway with mistakes.

engie will need to pull off something like moa + rampage proc to kill you.