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Posted by: Ominous.7583

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I liked the bow, it has potential if its tweaked the way people mentioned. Such as a faster projectile for the one skill and skill 3 is pretty useless and to situational ihmo. The traps could be really cool but there is one huge flaw with this spec and that’s the fact that we have to place them in melee range can they be changed to kits or given aoe placement which would make vastly much more sense consider dh is supposed to be ranged ? I see no benefit at all using the traps in any situation over shouts meditations with them being placed at your position only. This spec is kind of like an oxymoron because of this and the traits mostly all need scrapped and have some synergy with other stuff and how about one trap with a Condi cleanse or a stun breaker. Oxymoron spec. Like for the cool down time on these I should be allowed to throw them where i want from a rangedposition. Idk maybee not even kits they should be more like wells in my opinion since they are magic

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Posted by: Silhouette.5631

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Traps are traps. You set them. You lure people into them. They are not fireballs or explosives, you don’t cast them at people.
You people don’t like traps. That’s ok. But please stop trying to get them changed. You want ground targeting? GO GRAB SOME CONSECRATION

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Posted by: Black Box.9312

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Traps are traps. You set them. You lure people into them. They are not fireballs or explosives, you don’t cast them at people.
You people don’t like traps. That’s ok. But please stop trying to get them changed. You want ground targeting? GO GRAB SOME CONSECRATION

People want the traps changed because the way they’re designed makes them very ineffective. Nobody likes anticipating something new only to be disappointed by receiving something that isn’t going to be used anyway.

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Posted by: quaniesan.8497

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Traps are traps. You set them. You lure people into them. They are not fireballs or explosives, you don’t cast them at people.
You people don’t like traps. That’s ok. But please stop trying to get them changed. You want ground targeting? GO GRAB SOME CONSECRATION

How about you go play a ranger or a thief.

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Posted by: Fashion Mage.3712

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Traps are traps. You set them. You lure people into them. They are not fireballs or explosives, you don’t cast them at people.
You people don’t like traps. That’s ok. But please stop trying to get them changed. You want ground targeting? GO GRAB SOME CONSECRATION

Well, you can still just set them in melee, and you’ll have the same problem. If they really wanted them to make them like real traps, they would’ve increased the setting time. The real issue here is that these are intended to be utilities for a ranged elite specialization. Either this specialization shouldn’t have gotten a longbow, or it shouldn’t have gotten (melee) traps. I’d say the former, because the new virtues clearly don’t fit a ranged specialization. Unfortunately the devs were obsessed with making it a ranger wannabe, so they gave it both with not much derivation from what a ranger has.

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Posted by: Silhouette.5631

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Traps in PvE are no issue. Mobs are stupid. Traps in PvP? Well that forces you to think abit but seeing as 90% of gameplay revolved around taking points you should be able to get people with them there too. Im not seeing the problem*

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Posted by: Arnath.2319

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Simple fix, make them Wells!

Seriously Arena Devs, making them Wells would fix almost every single issue.

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Posted by: rbbthole.9074

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Traps are traps. You set them. You lure people into them. They are not fireballs or explosives, you don’t cast them at people.
You people don’t like traps. That’s ok. But please stop trying to get them changed. You want ground targeting? GO GRAB SOME CONSECRATION

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Posted by: CandyHearts.6025

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Simple fix, make them Wells!

Seriously Arena Devs, making them Wells would fix almost every single issue.

But then the other classes who use traps would want the same thing. In return classes with wells would be like …really?!?!<

The fix isn’t really simple. Though I wish it were. DH was my obsession until current beta. I want it to be fun to play so badly.

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Posted by: Silhouette.5631

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I think the solution to this issue..is that none of you want to use traps. Because you obviously want wells.

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Posted by: Ragnar the Rock.3174

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Besides the damage buff traps also need something defensive or there will be no reason to take them over meditations which are instant, provide as good or better damage and heal you.

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Posted by: Black Box.9312

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I think the solution to this issue..is that none of you want to use traps. Because you obviously want wells.

Yes.

Yes, that’s exactly it.

Because wells are just flat out superior to traps in every conceivable way.

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Posted by: Silhouette.5631

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Despite the fact that u can trick people into walking into 4 traps at once. and with wells you can only cast them one at a time and they get blocked and dodged. Oh ok. Guess that makes sense

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Posted by: Black Box.9312

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Despite the fact that u can trick people into walking into 4 traps at once. and with wells you can only cast them one at a time and they get blocked and dodged. Oh ok. Guess that makes sense

Wells can be placed immediately wherever they are needed (within range, obviously) because they are ground targeted.

Wells have a much shorter cast/activation time.

Wells are triggered on the terms of the player casting it and are not dependent on the enemy making a misstep.

Wells typically have a wider radius and last longer.

Wells cannot be preemptively dodged by someone who knows where it is ahead of time to neutralize the entire threat.

I could go on and on about how traps completely counteract this game’s combat design and mechanics, but I think that should be enough to at least get the picture.

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Posted by: Ominous.7583

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I will use concentrations. What im saying is traps suck and make no sense on this class and they should be wells since they are magic based anyways would make way more sense seeing as we cannot kite.

As it stands now why would I give up shouts or meditations for lol traps hell spirit weapons as bad as they are would be more useful in pvp at least. That and the longbow skill three is a freaking joke it should be some sort of cc not my arrow blocks your arrow and the ground target for it is awful bad should just be a button push and a large wall. Wells would be better with longbow don’t know how many other ways I can explain or say it gaurdian has enough useless skills as it is we don’t need more. I’ve played literally nothing but gaurdian since beta and I know what works and dh is inferior and worthless as it stands now. Or idk call them magic traps and give me a 500 casting range to summon them would make more sense.

Pardon any grammar errors in uaing my phone atm and my keyboard on it isn’t the best

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