Guild Wars 2

Hey Dragonhunters!

I fought two DH, one near the start of video and one near the end.
Was wondering if there were things that I or the Dragonhunters could have done better.

As a Reaper running my current build, I find it very hard fighting block-heavy builds/classes like Dragonhunters. So any tips would be much appreciated!

Saddly DH is crappy and predictable. Today class with more attacks and skills wins : Reaper, Herald, Scrapper, Chrono, Tempest, Druid.

Why warriors, DH and maybe DD suck. Cause every class above got new better skills to press and old ones got buffed and made better.

Guardian got LB #2 and #5, block on same cd as before, and heal “turkey jump” that is easily interruptable. Left with lots of useless traits and utilities and skills….

DH was badly designed, players love it due how easy is to ji trap targets with lots of damage, but at the end it fits on the game, kill at first contact of be killed.

Eremite, you did a good job of playing to your strengths. In general, I’d say power reaper vs. DH is either neutral, or in DH’s favor. Power reaper’s best chance of winning is dodging big blows early on, and then sticking to the DH like glue. Between your application of weakness, blind on shroud 2, chills and huge damage output, you will always beat a DH in melee range.

The DH you fought weren’t that great and seemed to be new to the class (as roamer/duelers). A good DH would kite you like crazy and would only stay in melee range to hit off certain attacks (immob you + GS 2, GS 5, or GS auto when you’re out of shroud). You may struggle against DH due to their high block uptime, but they go down quickly once they run out of blocks, and you demonstrated this nicely in your 2 fights. I noticed that you didn’t seem to be dodging big blows a lot (true shot, mostly) and instead seemed to face-tank a lot of DH’s damage. Luckily, they did the same to you, so your damage in melee range won out.

Here are some tips for you:
-Familiarize yourself with DH’s strongest attacks, and watch for/always dodge them. I especially am referring to Longbow 2 (Trueshot) and GS 2 (whirling wrath).
-If a DH leaps on you with wings, and you become immobilized, this means a big attack is coming. Condi cleanse and dodge. This still works out well for you as the DH is now in your melee range.
-Consider carrying around a warhorn. Warhorn 4 does wonders when fighting guardians, especially if they use shelter as their heal.
-If you see a DH lay traps/you pop them, be sure to go reaper shroud, and pop your stab. DHs almost always burst right after traps activate.
-Boon corrupt DH when you see them pop their shield. Not only will it interrupt them (corrupts stab), but it will likely give them weakness (corrupting might) which ruins their burst.

if the DH is traited for immob on wings of resolve then his non dragon’s maw traps don’t do any CC.

The first DH was really bad and the second one was way too aggressive against a Necro. He popped his CoP with almost no conditions on him and was using Wings of Resolve for locking down instead of the extra 8k of healing he needed to last the entire fight. I’m surprised they both had a great-sword and the first DH though it was a good idea to open against a necro with GS. You beat the second Guardian fairly easily, but I wonder if he would of killed you if he had Virtue of Courage off cooldown to start the fight.

Thanks for the advice everyone!
Especially Arcaedus. I think I learnt a lot just by reading your post =D

Hey folks.
I dueled another DH which I feel is one of the strongest I’ve fought against so far.
He won about 6 times to my 3 wins .
What are your thoughts on the fights?

If you ever see a guardian get down to less than 50% health and he hits Renewed Focus (3s invulnerability and reset of all his virtues) he is trying to reset his Wings of Resolve to heal back up. It can be interrupted easily if you have a hard CC off cooldown. Our virtues go on full cooldown even if they fail and that will cut off 5-6k of his healing.

I’m not sure how many Guardians still use Shelter as their healing ability at this point, but if you have unblockable marks you might save your fear to counter Shelter, which would cut off another ~5k healing.

Indure.5410:

If you ever see a guardian get down to less than 50% health and he hits Renewed Focus (3s invulnerability and reset of all his virtues) he is trying to reset his Wings of Resolve to heal back up. It can be interrupted easily if you have a hard CC off cooldown. Our virtues go on full cooldown even if they fail and that will cut off 5-6k of his healing.

I’m not sure how many Guardians still use Shelter as their healing ability at this point, but if you have unblockable marks you might save your fear to counter Shelter, which would cut off another ~5k healing.

Going to be hard interrupt Shelter with staff#5 unless you got super fast reflexes or you’re waiting out for the guardian to Shelter with fear mark already ready to set down. Shelter is 1.25s, and staff marks are .75s, giving you half a second to react – and that’s if you’ve got no other skills on queue.

Indure.5410:

If you ever see a guardian get down to less than 50% health and he hits Renewed Focus (3s invulnerability and reset of all his virtues) he is trying to reset his Wings of Resolve to heal back up. It can be interrupted easily if you have a hard CC off cooldown. Our virtues go on full cooldown even if they fail and that will cut off 5-6k of his healing.

I’m not sure how many Guardians still use Shelter as their healing ability at this point, but if you have unblockable marks you might save your fear to counter Shelter, which would cut off another ~5k healing.

I find it quite hard to interrupt wings of resolve as a reaper. my best option is to time my elite shout to interrupt him as he comes out of renewed focus. but my elite shout has a big tell.
won’t be easy for me to land a staff 5 fear i think as he is jumping around.
also won’t be easy for me to land a shroud 3 fear which is in melee range =/

mambastik.8735:

Indure.5410:

If you ever see a guardian get down to less than 50% health and he hits Renewed Focus (3s invulnerability and reset of all his virtues) he is trying to reset his Wings of Resolve to heal back up. It can be interrupted easily if you have a hard CC off cooldown. Our virtues go on full cooldown even if they fail and that will cut off 5-6k of his healing.

I’m not sure how many Guardians still use Shelter as their healing ability at this point, but if you have unblockable marks you might save your fear to counter Shelter, which would cut off another ~5k healing.

Going to be hard interrupt Shelter with staff#5 unless you got super fast reflexes or you’re waiting out for the guardian to Shelter with fear mark already ready to set down. Shelter is 1.25s, and staff marks are .75s, giving you half a second to react – and that’s if you’ve got no other skills on queue.

I agree with the above.
i used to run unblockable marks and it was not easy interrupting the heal =(