Guild Wars 2

Building squishy doesn’t seem to be very good right now. People chain invulnerabilities, and traps literally 1 hit you, or knock you down long enough to be globaled.

Paladin’s amulet feels almost required right now

3 Professions have acces to traps.
-They are completely unviable for thief
-They are more like a gadget/otp for ranger (shadowcleanse once and they have nothing left)
-They are hard hitting but easy to counter on guards.

So all in all: No. There is no trap meta and you are not supposed to have problems with traps. And you should not run paladin, unless you want to play staff and like to kite.

Its a condi meta
Can’t stand this CC meta
Trap meta is tough for a thief

Literally just stuff in the game meta

Trap meta?

Anyways please tone down initial attack of DH traps (the only culprit here). When you can be dragged in with a working pull or are forced to pretend you can outrange a DH because going in melee range insta-kills you, there is something horribly wrong.

Yeah they can be countered, by builds that can survive the onslaught of cc and damage that DH repeats. Thieves aren’t beefy by any means and sometimes even a good timed SS isn’t enough to get you out of the AoE spam before being killed.

Asrat.2645:

-They are more like a gadget/otp for ranger.

I spent far too long trying to figure out why you thought traps were a ranger’s one true pairing.

Rashagar.8349:

Asrat.2645:

-They are more like a gadget/otp for ranger.

I spent far too long trying to figure out why you thought traps were a ranger’s one true pairing.

^^ Certainly.
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