Guild Wars 2

Just wondering if traps have been looked over by anets “balance team”. Is there any changes coming to traps to make them more viable in tpvp?

YUS Changes with patch:

Poison trap now a poison field (2 seconds)
TRAPS NOW VIABLE
./cry

Lol yea i thought somthing more was goin to come to traps other then that lame one

The devs have not said one single word that I know of about the ranger updates/CDI. The thread was locked and that was that.

That 2s poison field is too short to combo sword 2 through. It really is a huge joke change.

Ryan.9387:

That 2s poison field is too short to combo sword 2 through. It really is a huge joke change.

Not only that, finishers trigger on the oldest initiator. So if you want to utilize the poison field, you have to throw it down first/it needs to trigger first. Which makes combat a bit more clunky in the sense of having to think about which trap to throw first :/

I noticed it’s been too short to leap with sword two so I mostly sword 2 evade, drop it, if it triggers (if they get to me fast enough), I leap when I still can. I usually don’t bother unless I’m in a tight space.

Casey.9687:

Just wondering if traps have been looked over by anets “balance team”. Is there any changes coming to traps to make them more viable in tpvp?

More viable? They never stopped being viable, the meta just shifted to where trapper wasn’t as useful because it was weak vs condis…. but now the condi builds we were weak against are now no longer in the meta, so dust off your trapper builds and bunker down on that home point because it’s hunting season!!

Traps could use some non-traited radius increase. They’re too small now, especially chilling one.

The only thing I think traps need is some trait compression. Cause face it, without traits, they’re not much of use.