Stop defending DH…. you are comparing DH to a full tank thats also overpowered…. DH is going to get nerfed you cant stop it.
Warriors are outdated….
You can only dodge one trap… which is test of faith “ie the one thats like a jail” all other traps are instant. why is everybody saying dodge the traps? besides you can just use chain and pull them onto traps if you play dragon hunter and are stupid enough to waste putting traps on the ground for no reason… always save traps and put them down when a melee comes on you / teleport in with sword and focus block and drop them all down instantly….
You dont really even need to use "fokus"{5} in my experience of putting down traps they activate instantly and during a fight the only trap that i have seen being dodged “test of faith” which is the (jail of blades) but even then you just put them down and nobody can get in unless they roll and if they do you just walk out again…. I think its played correctly renewed focus is not needed unless you are fighting a team with a theif. But even then theifs are so squishy at the moment if he does “steal” you and lands on the elite trap its a easy (2) true shot and he is forced to back off/just dies from damage.
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And if you really want to make sure you one shot somebody put traps down throw the dragon chain thing at them and just pull them onto the traps….. Try dodging that. If you are getting melted by range? pop your 8 second deflector…. the utility is out of this world next to damage.
my soloq experience is getting kittened on by players who haven’t the faintest clue about the spec, who run into the point and get one-shot by the stacked traps. I’m talking 2-3 people at a time.
?? I have been reassured time and again by forum goers that a DH cannot “oneshot” a player, apparently that is “sci-fi”.
Just go make a DH, get it to level 3 go online find a dh trap build. Run bow, focus sword…. and see how crazy the damage and utility is…. Its great! I’m maining it right now. I have legit one shot people, i would say its the best one shot class out atm(3 traps on the ground plus 2). I use to play a theif/warrior and the damage and survival is out of this world. Its like the ranger you always wanted but you dont have to deal with pets.
No im not saying people shouldnt expect it but the overall damage is just too high…. Its not about how the damage works its just that the damage needs to be tuned down slightly. Or anet will just end up making traps garbage with massive cds with no effects……
I mean we can all agree that Dh damage is higher compared to the majority of builds…
Its about balance and with the ladders coming in next month it would suck for rangers (non druid) warriors etc to get removed as DH and reaper are just a better replacement.
Best meta for warriors right now is to reroll DH or reaper. DH and reaper are like updated warrior specs and they are top of the line. Beserk doesnt seem to be made for pvp.
The only reason why you think there is nothing wrong with DH is because you play it…. i play several classes and i also have a DH that i made a couple of days ago…. bow(2s) damage does 8k, the reflect CC and ability is great, the aoe (5) ability is OP CC and allows easy traps/get there rolls out of the way….. You cant say that DH is balanced…. you just cant Like even when you are taking damage from a range which is suppose to be you counter you just swap to sword focus, pop (5) block all attacks, teleport to them auto attack and (4) till you can get off elite trap etc…. The aoe, the CC, the ability to counter melee and sit back in team fights and pick people off. A good DH will not lose to any other spec, apart from a full druid support that can outheal and pop invul while the DH is bursting with traps. If you have having trouble on DH then its a l2p issue.
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“fight them at range” yea well you fight them at range they pop there 2 ability hit 9k then swap to sword focus pop block(focus 5) teleport(sword 2) onto you then once all your dodges are down or they have a chance they drop there elite plus 2 other traps on you oneshotting you. Plus its all aoe… i have legit one shot a whole team on my DH when i was running all traps….. you can put them down instantly and if the elite hits, its pretty much gnight,.
Its pretty funny. I think its a inside joke on black lion keys.
Make one, join a pvp match get legit one shotted by DH. Then reroll into the new meta (dh or necro). All seriousness though i love staff daredevil but during pvp with like 15k hp dh can legit hit you from range in the 8k-9ks. Then you get into melee range and you have to avoid 3 traps plus the focus block while taking the range dmg.
Although apparently Daredevil does great dps in pve.
I actually have not seen a char daredevil yet, i play a human one and the animations are alright… i would think with a big character model like that jumping all around the screen might be a bit distracting.
The thing is with berserker if i wanted to play a plate condi i would roll a torch gard…… I really wish they would just keep warrior to gsword and hammer and shield etc. Its a real shame and it seems like alot of the warrior abilities compared with other classes are a bit out matched and outdated. I’m looking forward to see what the devs response to all the outcry.
Warrior should not be a condi they should be plain damage with good aoe offensive peeling like aoe stuns and aoe damage. Right now any class can do better than a warrior (torch gard better as condi/burn spec in pvp) or dragon hunter is far far far better than ham||gsword&bow. Well and gsword you will have a better time on necro and with dual wielding one handers you will do better on revenant. Needless to say something is outdated.
As long as Toypacalypse works for grouping this year(it didn’t last year but worked in 2013)I am happy.
They did a great job with Halloween this year sans not being able to get core masteries trained. I was so excited they brought Mad King’s Ascent back.
The Quarterly balance thing is really awesome! That will keep the game fresh from a combat standpoint. I love the combat in this game for the most part and keeping it fresh will keep me engaged.
The Legendaries still not being in the game when we were supposed to get them in 2013 is really disappointing. I really wish they would have addressed the lack of HoT earnable weapons, armor and gilders. It’s not making me want to get HoT. You want me to pay $50 for an x-pac but you don’t want to bundle in “an expansion’s worth of skins” in the price? No thanks.
I was thinking there would at least be an epilogue coming for HoT. Maybe they are holding that back as a surprise.
Im guessing alot of the earnables made during that time have been sent to the black lion store.
Beserker….. just why if people wanted to play a condi plate user they would of rolled torch gard….. keep warrior to the gsword/hammer and shield pls.
Out of all of the elite specs in pvp it is so far down the bottom even daredevil cant see it.
I already rerolled to necro. If i wanted to play with torch and play a condi spec i would roll a gard, Warriors are about the gsword,hammer and shields…. not this garbage.
Guild wars 2 is in a state of unbalance at the moment.
Some professions are stronger, some are alot weaker.
Unranked que. New players. No teamwork. Noone vs full premade.
Cancer builds. Bugs, no dev responses.When I’m enjoying the game I laugh, I have fun. I stay positive. Dabble in conversations with fellow teammates.
When I lose over and over and over again my patience runs low. When premade dominates your team by zerging and your team don’t outrotate them you get sour.
At first you pretend like it doesn’t bother you, but every loss gnaws at your arrogance.
You then meet players with cancerbuilds whose only existence is there to torment and annoy players.
Yesterday that was when I had to pleasure of playing on skyhammer vs a 3 man group and their DH put all the traps right inside the portal to the skyhammer.
Because of the loading animations, your character would not dodge before it was too late.Simpe answer to your question: Block them right away. Dont waste your time or energy on people like me, because we are quite good at getting under your skin.
With the new specialization release… i just get rekt so much more.. because.. i main a warrior.. and the berserker is nothing but complete thrash so i was sticking to my old build.. I cant even touch a DH without being in range of his death traps. And some of them.. will /dance on your corpse. /s “u suck”.
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Yes sadly this is a recurring thing. Dragonhunter has got to be one of the easiest and strongest professions out there hands down. It has absolutly everything you want, and then alittle more. 8 k trueshots on a low cd, traps, CC, reflections, burning. Blocks. Hp regen.
8k? more than my warriors rifle adrenaline ability…. Rerolling.
watch this. you’ll feel a bit silly when you realise how easy the traps are to avoid.
Im on a unoffical oceanic server where most people play in the oceanic 200+ ms…. the timing on the dodge is impossible.
You counter it by being range (lol jk they teleport on you drop all traps instantly and you die)…. lets keep it simple you counter a dragon hunter by rerolling dragon hunter.
I i wanted to play a condi tank i would play gard and for a tank i would play rev….. devs just give warriors some cool stuff for gsword,bow and hammer…. thats why we play the class.
Im super surprised. Isnt there a community dev that discusses whats happening and what changes are coming? Like, right now is a super important time where everybody is playing everything is new and alot of changes are being in place…… There communication on the mordem invasion on the forums was larger than there communication 3 days out of launch…. really looking foward to some patch notes or some Dev sketch up on plans.
Actually reminds me of the wow forum. Ever since blizzard merged with activision its taken on this (dont talk to consumer) feel. Whenever they do actually communicate you can tell its all HR and dribble. Anet seem like a good group of devs i would say they are having a bit of a break after those busy couple days of launch.
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I rolled DH and if it gets nerfed into the ground ill just roll necro. I play the game for gswords and hammers and going Nuts! Beserkers damage and survivability compared to other specs is sub par and the torch is so boring to use.
its hard to dodge a trap if the drop the elite trap first which stuns you…… like you cant dodge it if they put it down its instant.
Easy to one shot my theif…… all they have to do is add a global cd on putting traps down so you cant just put down all 3 at once.
A better elite spec for warriors would be on beserk stance gsword and hammer get new abilities….. this is because Torch is lame and if people wanted to play condi they wouldnt play warrior… warriors like using the big weps. Please buff Gsword and hammer so i dont have to reroll reaper or DH
Silly question… how is Druid OP? What is OP about it specifically?
For conquest druids are very strong atm as they can hold a node and survive 1v2 for a super long period of time and depending on what class it is forever…. meaning they can solo hold a node from being capped. Pure druid supports damage isnt great but its ability to never die is god tier.
Basically every profession got new specialization that made their class stronger and different. But warriors didn’t get anything new. When warriors go berserk, the burst skills are exactly the same but becomes a weaker version of it. Take, the Hammer burst for example, regular burst gives aoe 2 second stun, a berserk burst gives 1 sec immobilize. Would u choose 1 sec of immobilize over 2 seconds of stun? Seriously, that’s what warriors got. Not to mention warriors need key trait lines to be viable, so warriors can’t afford to give up any other trait lines to take berserker. So warriors have a huge problem and that’s why Berserker has zero showtime in professional scene. In fact, I am hearing some teams are asking their warriors to reroll to another profession. It’s a sad state for warriors in pvp at the moment.
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State of warriors in pvp atm are a joke. Everything ability wise is outdated feels slow and chunky….. ew i rerolled to DH and its like the bow on warrior i always wanted.
They have a passive on the dragon hunter build if you hit them with a auto attack (bow) in a certain range the player gets knocked back, and it has a internal cd idk how long.
I hate how you are confined to one build in pvp when playing with gword and ham/bow/shield,sword. They should bring some things out of STR|DEF|DIS and put them baseline. If they simply nerf str,def and dis to make beserker more viable the warrior class will crash even harder.
Most people play warrior for the glory of the Gsword and Hammer. This Spec is under performing in PVP also neglects Gsword and Hammer. Please make it a viable option as atm it is not.
I rerolled….. i play a warrior because i like being a guy that has massive weapons like a hammer/gsword and go smash things up. But with the new beserker the way gsword and hammer have been based its only viable to play sword||axe&&Torch. The spec doesnt really tie into other weapons apart from burning. Like what you guys did to necro with the reaper spec and with Dragon hunters thats the sort of thing that warriorrs should be getting. The bow on warriors is awful compared to DH and reaper knocks us out of the park in PVP and in playstyle.
Dragon hunter is what i wanted on the warrior….. Warrior bow abilities are made for PVE not pvp and are very soft/boring to use. With that ill add that all the new revenant and rep abilities are awesome and its just leaving the warrior out dated and stale. They should of done a update on some of the older abilities 2bh.
They need to bring the beserker skill line in so it implements other wep types… Torch is so dam lame…. i play a warrior to use all the big weps (gswrd,hammer,bow). Torch is like the lamest warrior wep ever….. For a caster? yea its cool but a warrior…. i re rolled to revenant but its just too target and push cd for me (easy). Should of spent the money i spent on this xpac on fallout in a couple of days…… mistakes were made.
lol rifle engineer… havent seen one of those in years.
I would like finishers that look more “realistic”, such as your character using their equipped weapon to stab the downed opponent rather than some cartoony/silly animation that we currently have available.
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what? 14k trap? what in the world must have been all 5 traps on one location and the player not dodging them. Chronos problem is with bit too much stealth time. my reaper can burst hard but its a CD on use which is kiteable/peelable.
And as for DH, DH is anti melee. They are super squishy asthey talent into traps they hold no defensive and any range can easily poke them down.
As for getting one shot by the traps there is a way to avoid them and its to see when they put them down/ there is a small dely on them activating where you can dodge (if you dodge one you are likely to avoid all 3/4/5 trap burst as DH usually drop traps all on one spot instantly). DH is there for the traps, the only reason bow is viable in pvp is because it complements the traps, the traps have a big downtime and are avoidable with CD burn or rolling. Avoid the traps and they get reckt.
and to add to the trap 14-20k to get hit that hard you would have to try your best not to dodge and just stand still, most classes have invulnerability/mobility/stun breaks. Its just going to take a while for people to get use to the new builds and how to deal with them, as the damage is quite spikey with them.
I think if anything beserker just needs a buff aswel as daredevil as its a non stealth build and theifs are still treated as stealther’s when it comes to defensive. staff theif is the most squishiest spec out, like it can get one shot by anything.
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why do people think DH is tanky? it’s a medi Guardian with less medis and less invuns.
warrior needs baseline fast hands to make zerker an acceptable choice. zerking could use some tweaks too. no CD, or no duration, better burst skills just something. some kind of edge.
DH is not tanking at all its SOOOOO squishy, people just dont know how to fight dh at the moment…. like i am seeing people not dodging traps etc. Like if you are range you should be focusing DH as they flop. DH is Anti melee so any range just destorys it.
Zerker seems poorly designed for the current meta in pvp. Strength,def and arms i think it is are just too good to lose atm.
beserker big dissapointment. And yea Chrono is stupid right now…. expecting changes inc. I just hope they dont over nerf/over buff things… cause im likeing the new elite specs. If they nerfed Reap or scrapper into the ground it would suck
Its just another grind they are putting in the game for time purposes so people dont get bored and leave for other MMO’s before there next content is out which will be in AGES like a year or 2.
Show me a vid of a good dragonhunter/war soloing a good druid… or even both DH and war killing a good druid. I good druid will never die to a DH and War with correct defensive rotation. Stop defending it,
Wanted a game with no healer, inb4 dedicated healer druid.
Theif and war Biggest let downs of xpac. Anet need to give staff daredevil some more survivability….. And wars well they need alot.
“Additionally, I would go as far as saying that Dragonhunters hard counter Druids.”
No way, i have a dragon hunter and i play it fine and with the druid immunity to damage they can sac majority of DH burst and once DH elite skill/traps are down the other dmg is easily healable…. you must be saying this out of bias? We are talking about full on bunker druids.
2v1 its impossible on most classes to kill a good druid…. I wouldnt even compare it to a bunker guard thats just stupid its in another league. PLus people saying 3 people should be able to kill it after 35 secs…… You shouldnt need 3 people and that much time to kill one person. Arena is stale and im sick of fighting druids i think its a bad meta, would prefer gard over druid.
Druids are far over the top….. i am not enjoying arena much atm just due to there always being a druid on the other team and 2v1 its just impossible to kill it…. Far over the top.
Seems to me like a pve spec… actually most of these new specs looks like they where designed for pve….. (daredevil,bzerk etc)
I am from oceanic with 200 ping….. stay away from theif/melee classes in general.
^lol agreed….. scrapper and reaper should be far above daredevil and daredevil should be down the bottom. As daredevil is not better than the current theif build.