Guild Wars 2

The new Hunter’s Fortification, which is said to remove conditions on a block with a 1 second internal cooldown, is a fantastic concept, and if the trait functioned properly, it would be a Grandmaster trait worth taking and definitely worth going the Dragonhunter route with.

However, through extensive testing this BWE, the trait just… doesn’t work.

Hunter’s Fortification should have synergy with:

Aegis
Shield of Wrath
Shelter
Shield of Courage

on a scepter/focus build. However, when I blocked with any of these, conditions were not removed. I haven’t tested the 10% damage reduction, mainly because the part of the trait that people will take it for (condi removal) isn’t functioning almost all the time.

I’ve tested this with friends in WvW and PvP. The trait simply doesn’t function properly to remove conditions, or the ICD was mistakenly coded at 10 seconds instead of 1 second, resulting in me not noticing any conditions being removed.

Please look into fixing the behavior of this trait. If it functions properly, it can serve as cleanse for a Dragonhunter and really open up some build diversity.

Same here, I’ve tested this trait with friends in PvP and doesn’t remove any condition.

Strange it felt like it was removing them for me at the begining of BWE3 maybe it was just more of block the condition attack application. If this is the case this really needs to be fixed as we can’t really test how effective this removal on block with the 1 sec ICD is.

Let’s face it, the 10% damage reduction is not what any1 care’s about, as a DH we need to be able to get rid of condi’s somehow and to do that remove the ICD and we all would be happy.

I I.7359:

Let’s face it, the 10% damage reduction is not what any1 care’s about, as a DH we need to be able to get rid of condi’s somehow and to do that remove the ICD and we all would be happy.

If you ask me removing the ICD would make DH essentially a hard-counter to condition builds if also specced into virtues and valor. 1 second ICD will work great. Just make sure the freakin’ trait works.

10% damage reduction isn’t the important part of the trait but I’d also like to see it changed to something useful.

I think it only works with Aegis.

Then it would be an extremely useless trait even for a minor, not to mention a Grandmaster Major. I would like an answer on this because the trait is simply not performing like it should. There’s no way the design could be that bad, imo.

ventusthunder.5067:

Then it would be an extremely useless trait even for a minor, not to mention a Grandmaster Major. I would like an answer on this because the trait is simply not performing like it should. There’s no way the design could be that bad, imo.

Hehe, just because a trait doesn’t work like you want it to, you call it useless hehe.

Hehe hehe hehe.

Lemme spell it out for you. Please turn your vision to Pure of Heart, which says “Aegis heals when it blocks an attack.” Hunter’s Fortification reads “Remove conditions when blocking attacks,” not “Aegis removes a condition when it blocks an attack.”

If Hunter’s Fortification is supposed to be the pile of garbage that it has been this weekend, be my guest and run a trait that gets thorougly outclassed and teabagged by Big Game Hunter.

Hehe. Hehe. Hehehehehehehehe.

ventusthunder.5067:

Hehe hehe hehe.

Lemme spell it out for you. Please turn your vision to Pure of Heart, which says “Aegis heals when it blocks an attack.” Hunter’s Fortification reads “Remove conditions when blocking attacks,” not “Aegis removes a condition when it blocks an attack.”

If Hunter’s Fortification is supposed to be the pile of garbage that it has been this weekend, be my guest and run a trait that gets thorougly outclassed and teabagged by Big Game Hunter.

Hehe. Hehe. Hehehehehehehehe.

Lol, if Big Game Hunter removed conditions then we could talk but it doesn’t. If the trait is supposed to only work with aegis, that would be synergetic with the rest of the line but if it’s meant to proc on block then it’ll be fixed. No need to get antsy about it. Heh.