Guild Wars 2

The meta trapper guardian is probably the most boring profession to play against. They camp on their traps, shoot you with their longbow. But maybe it’s alright, maybe you can ranged them down. Then they pop their 6 or 7 second reflect and then you’re kittened, unless you wanna use evade to run through their traps, taking damage because they’re more than likely using procession of blades.

ArenaNet’s idea of making lasting physically damaging traps that are AoE damage, and much more powerful than the other classes traps, was when I started liking this game less and less.

Not to mention that the PvP matchmaking in this game is TOTALLY screwed.

Hendrix.9763:

The meta trapper guardian is probably the most boring profession to play against. They camp on their traps, shoot you with their longbow. But maybe it’s alright, maybe you can ranged them down. Then they pop their 6 or 7 second reflect and then you’re kittened, unless you wanna use evade to run through their traps, taking damage because they’re more than likely using procession of blades.

ArenaNet’s idea of making lasting physically damaging traps that are AoE damage, and much more powerful than the other classes traps, was when I started liking this game less and less.

Not to mention that the PvP matchmaking in this game is TOTALLY screwed.

What if I told you Guardian (trapper) was of the bottom 3 professions in the game right now?

Makes a statement about guardians
OMG BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SO MUCH BETTER

ronpierce, I don’t care if they’re in the bottom 3 professions, I’m saying HEY, they’re REALLY really really REALLY BORING to fight against. Has nothing to do with OPness or the like.

Hendrix.9763:

Makes a statement about guardians
OMG BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SO MUCH BETTER

ronpierce, I don’t care if they’re in the bottom 3 professions, I’m saying HEY, they’re REALLY really really REALLY BORING to fight against. Has nothing to do with OPness or the like.

What if they are boring, its not your choice to play against “fun” classes. We chose what class we want to play, just deal with it or dont play pvp then? Simple as that.

grimster.4503:

Hendrix.9763:

Makes a statement about guardians
OMG BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SO MUCH BETTER

ronpierce, I don’t care if they’re in the bottom 3 professions, I’m saying HEY, they’re REALLY really really REALLY BORING to fight against. Has nothing to do with OPness or the like.

What if they are boring, its not your choice to play against “fun” classes. We chose what class we want to play, just deal with it or dont play pvp then? Simple as that.

Exactly. It has every amount of relevance. There are a lot of “boring” things to fight. But that doesn’t mean you get to just start flipping switches where it’s not appropriate…

ronpierce, you keep reading things that aren’t there.

I didn’t recommend any changes, I was just hoping to get other people’s thoughts. particularly guardians. I’m not bashing that they’re underpowered, I’m bashing the meta. It’s stale.

They’re decent point holders because of the aforementioned scenario you brought up in the OP, but at the same time, there are ways to mess with their setups. Yeah, they might be “boring” to fight against for some, but I enjoy fighting them more than I would a Scrapper.

As a Dragonhunter myself i actually really like to fight other dragonhunters for the most part. Its a lot more interesting to 1v1 them than most other classes, theres soo many variables, dodge the trueshots, remember the trappositions, try to get my own traps to hit! avoid getting pulled into the traps, etc.

However, i almost dont even remember the last time i lost to a dragonhunter 1v1. Most DH’s really arent that good at 1v1’s at all. They use their CDs poorly, they put their traps down thinking you will simply run into them, which wont happen unless youre forced to play melee obviously (sorry melee classes, rip).

Now i gotta say tho that i can imagine that not every class has potential answers to all the things DH can do, which can be a bit frustrating. I could give some advice but i dont think you specified anywhere what class you are playing.

On a sidenote however, traps really aren’t what they used to be, and for the most part they are only used by noobs who want to spam traps for a quick kill, and when that fails they will die and try again. While Procession of Blades can be a deccent trap, simply walking out of the aoe nullifies the whole thing.
And if they are using this trap, it means they are either not using their teleport (HUGE mobilitycut, maybe better in 1v1’s, but they can’t rotate properly at all anymore).

Or, they chose to skip Contemplation of Purity, a must-have condi clear vs necro’s. Without this extra condi clear its almost impossible to beat good necro’s, so send your necro at em.

Or, they chose to skip Smite Condition, another insanely useful condi-clear which is needed to deal with the many necro’s in ranked atm.

So yea, while DH is considered one of the weaker classes atm, i can understand your pai because DH actually does quite well against most classes 1v1.

Totaly easy to beat the classic meditrapper ….
DH is a very nice class and good to play for average players or even beginners and it beats down bad players. I personaly prefer a varaint without dragon´s maw and CoP. Test of faith and the healing trap are the realy good ones and judge intervention is so great ….. Just puting down traps on a point and wait is not successful against good players…. I personaly keep a dodge for the traps or true shot (better reflect the last ^^). Watching his traps and reactive play to his bow wins you the fight ….