Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been fighting a lot of the same Guardian lately in pvp..

they come in and do that annoying vortex skill and a chain of cc that all together can’t be avoided once you’re in range and will instadown a lot of people. As a necro I have to let it burn out a whole LF pool and come out with a shred of my life to fight back or try to get out of it. Can’t use skills, stunbreaks, etc.

I’d like to learn how to combat this build if anyone knows of it, as I feel its completely gimmicky and unskilled.

I try to stay back and boon strip them/kite them or see if they have any tells/waste their cast but sure enough they do the same thing every time, but if I manage to survive it, the player tends to not know what to do after they’ve done it and i just push their faces in.

Is there another way to combat this build? Or is it really un-breakable/undodgeable?

I’m gonna need more details than that

It seems its this build:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Dragonhunter_-_Meditrapper

even when running condition pressure, it seems you can’t touch it until it blows all its CDs. kind of a bummer.

It like any guardian trap build has one major weakness.

The daze applied by traps comes before any of the damage does.

If your reflexes are decent dodge asap when you see the daze.

This is the main reason why dragon hunter was not a favorite and did poorly in the ESL.

Once you know enough about the spec & realize the tells you can negate allot of its usefulness due to the fact that once it blows a CD it doesn’t offer much.

yeah, there is a tell but my god if you get caught in it, its pretty much death sentence.

Sheobix.8796:

yeah, there is a tell but my god if you get caught in it, its pretty much death sentence.

It’s a L2P issue. Just keep practicing. Guards hate condi pressure.

I’m fighting DH on my swordpistol Thief XD. Its upsetting and annoying, but I’m getting there. Which means you can Mr.Reaper.

Vortex=Dragon maw and Procession of blade with Focus 5 during a Judge’s Intervention, more than likely combo’d with Whirl of Wrath and Smite (or Litany of Wrath+Whirl of Wrath+smite). Its a very bursty combo. That or… I have no clue. But I run it =)