Guild Wars 2

Runes of the Trapper: The stealth and superspeed effects of this rune have been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.

Guess they were fine until guardians started to use them..

They were fine until you could use them in spvp.

Anet complete balance kittenup… Hey let’s nerf trapper runes and in doing so nerf rangers too because we made DH traps too strong.

#kittenrangers.

Everything that we guardians touch gets nerfed)))

So there has been around 10 nerfs since HoT and 8 of them are aimed at Dragonhunters xD
I guess its nice to be the center of the attention?

Acotje.5689:

They were fine until you could use them in spvp.

+!

they should never been allowed in pvp. They would have been fun to use in WvW. I never used them in pvp i prefer Pack runes on Dragonhunter.

Trapper rune shouldn’t even be in conquest. Perma stealth guard is stupid and cheeses up my class. Which used to be respected. I hate the use of trapper runes. Use pack runes and a medi/trap hybrid. Then you"ll get the most out of Dragon hunter. Renewed focus>dragons maw. Dragons maw is dodgeball, it bugs and misses, etc. A 3 sec invuln and a 4k virtue heal plus 2k meditation heal is 10x better than dragons maw. With a full trap build you barely have any Condi clear too. Just play with respect and dignitity. Don’t noob stomp in perms stealth with a full trap build. That doesn’t inspire good play. A good play will range your kitten and have his finger on the dodge/invuln/telport button to avoid all your “high level strats” play well and be smart. I use hammer and only one trap. Procession of blades +ring of warding is an amazing combo and the opponent has to disengage no matter what. Try to have your build be good in all or most situations. Please stop with the noob stomping

good thing about this nerf is that it nerfs those cheese stealth trap thieves in wvw a bit.

“Cheese builds” and “profession respect” are figments of your imaginations and devalues your opinions.

TBH it is mostly the 3 seconds of superspeed i cared about most, it really helped in and out of combat. Without it i feel so slow as a full trap guard.

Ghotistyx.6942:

“Cheese builds” and “profession respect” are figments of your imaginations and devalues your opinions.

Such substance. Your posts always add sooo much to a topic.

Trapper runes did not belong in PvP. I blame these runes for the influx of kitten DH’s. Any fool can go invis and lay powerful traps down. That is dumbing down a class to a whole other level.

There is a reason why thief traps are terrible, and that is because of their heavy stealth game would suck trying to see those nuke traps.

Thanks for the compliment. I always strive to match my level of effort with that of the posts in quoting.

In my opinion ANet should have left the runes as they were and simply not have them available in PvP. But once again … nerfed because of PvP.

ArenaNet fighting symptoms instead of the cause since 2012.

Agreed that for sPvP trapper runes are OP, as I never used it this nerf willl not affect my build, but I know a lot of rangers that use it in WvW, they might not be happy right now.

albotelho.2931:

Agreed that for sPvP trapper runes are OP, as I never used it this nerf willl not affect my build, but I know a lot of rangers that use it in WvW, they might not be happy right now.

We aren’t.

~ Kovu

albotelho.2931:

Agreed that for sPvP trapper runes are OP, as I never used it this nerf willl not affect my build, but I know a lot of rangers that use it in WvW, they might not be happy right now.

Ya I stated on a reddit forum that they had no place being in pvp and everyone down voted me because they wanted op stealth nukes to be a thing. I was really looking forward to testing it in wvw but I guess that wont be happening now.

Not sure who to thank more, Thief or Guardian. To be honest, they are adjusted due to sPvP. They went months in WvW and PvE just fine.

Side note, Guardians haven’t been as impacted as Rangers/Druids post HoT launch. While I do feel your pain, I have a Guardian, it is very clear 1 Beta weekend wasn’t enough for Druids and they are suffering due to it.

Akijo.7395:

So there has been around 10 nerfs since HoT and 8 of them are aimed at Dragonhunters xD
I guess its nice to be the center of the attention?

hahah remember when everyone was freaking out the DH was gonna be trash? now everyones freaking out because meditraps is even more ridiculous than burning

I am using this nerfed traps and they are ok-ish. They nerfed this rune because this is only way for us guardians to escape from fights. We should not be able to escape fights, our good spot is 100% in combat(or downed state right?) :P

Ragnarox.9601:

Everything that we guardians touch gets nerfed)))

It is maybe because there is no guardian in abjured team ;-)

Akijo.7395:

So there has been around 10 nerfs since HoT and 8 of them are aimed at Dragonhunters xD
I guess its nice to be the center of the attention?

We gotta get back to that sweet good spot yo !