[PVP] How to play against a DH as a melee?
From my experience with DHs, you have to make them chase you. If you try to fight them on their grounds it isn’t going to turn out pretty unless you have a stroke of luck of some sort. Every time I’ve beaten a DH by playing melee, it has been in a scenario where I’d sort of lure and tease him/her into taking the offensive, and blowing traps. A good ol’ turn n burn from there will shift the match up in my favor.
That being said, lets say you’re headed from mid back to home and see a DH bunkering your home. It’s a little bit harder to 1v1 them in this case as the DH has very little incentive to step off point or chase you.
I guess the best advice I have to offer you, is:
1) try to lure them away from any single fighting area, and keep them on the move. Burst them, and move away as they WILL lay their traps.
2) Watch for Test of faith (jail of blades), and Dragon’s maw. Aside from those two, they probably aren’t going to boss you around very much with trap dps.
3) Be aware of where the DH is during a game! If you’re headed to a point where the DH is, don’t go unless you see a team mate nearby, and engage the DH 2v1. DH will drop FAST once one of you springs the traps, then you can go in melee range and do some serious damage. They really only have their f3, and their Renewed focus to keep them alive for a few seconds.
dont go melee unless he used his traps, heals, block abilities
scrappers rarely lose to DH 1v1 unless it was camped on a point
Darknicrofia Sage – Bad Gerdian, Merciless Legend, Platinum NA Solo Que
Use evades to trigger their traps. Rev has a perfect skill using Hammer 3 to trigger all traps and return to safety. Same with scapper leaps skill.
Atm non elite specs are pretty bad and lack alot of utility/burst compared to new elite specs. If you play theif swap to daredevil condi build if your playing gard just play medi dh trapper, necro reaper and if your ele tempest is okay but its more of a team vs team build and not ment for 1v1 at all and the rest of ele specs are pretty underpowered, as for ranger its druid or go home and for warriors the best build for warriors atm is to log out delete the class and make a revenant or dh. They have made the elite specs OP for a reason and its to push people to buy xpac.
As stated above not fighting them on their terms is key. however, its very hard to make them come to you when their long range abilities are as good or better than a ranger’s.
As stated above not fighting them on their terms is key. however, its very hard to make them come to you when their long range abilities are as good or better than a ranger’s.
Rangers have the easiest time with dh and are the biggiest threats to a pure dps trapper.
Pets trigger traps.
1,500 range vs 1,200.
Long physical damage invuln.
Able to evade through traps or block through them witb greatsword.
Stability through SotP.
Higher base health than guardian.
Need I go on?