Guild Wars 2

wolfyrik.2017:

Where did the fire go? Same place as our fire for gadgets when we got that worthless new version of gadgeteer. Same place as our enthusiasm went after we spent months pleading not to get another kitten kittening kitten Ai, only toget another kittening kitten Ai.

I actually think the new gadgeteer is pretty awesome. I figured that, the idea is not to play with it in mind, just play the game like you would normally, you’re definitely going to get hit no matter what and when you get hit enough, you will overcharge the gadgets. It happens so fast regardless of how you play, it just feels awesome. Double throw mine never felt so good and bigger Slickshoes pool? Count me in.

But yea, the thing about the Scrapper is, I don’t think the name fits the abilties that it’s been given. Everything it has deals with lightning and swiftness, seems more fitting for someone you would call Forger.
The Scrapper name seems more fitting for someone who applies tons of cripple and bleed.

But yea, just my opinion.

Haha, thanks Daniel but F6 is a bad idea.

andrew.4309:

I’ve made some adjustments. Dropping virtues for valor allows you to maintain AH.
Also the new heal trap looks pretty good with a 24 second cool down if traited. Plus the 10 second regen its well over 11k heal if the trap goes off.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNApeWn8cCFdi1CBuCBEEhFGi6qYbgAArCmgRQu4X+oH-TJBHwALLDA4RA0b/hBnBAA

You don’t want to drop Virtues. You’ll realize this when you start playing the spec.

First boss in raid may not need guardians but that doesn’t mean the other bosses won’t.

Also Shield of Courage can be a 7s block that allows you to get rezzes on people without taking any damage. That’s gotta be useful for something.

I’m an engie main and I don’t understand why this change was originally made. No one said anything about Gyro cooldowns that I know of and so far, the Gyro CDs have been great.

Noah.4756:

quickly throw spear of justice (thanks to super speed)

Super speed isn’t quickness, it doesn’t speed up your animations.

Heh….heheh….. hehehehehehehehehehehehehe.

There are a few issues with the Trapper runes. Stealth lasts 2 seconds, you have to use valuable cooldowns to activate them and if someone steps into your trap…. well bye bye stealth.

That being said there might still be a way to use it effectively. I just need to test if I’m correct first.

Dethl.2875:

inb4 the permastealth condi ranger/thief/guard complaints

You’ll probably only see this stuff in solo queue. But it still wouldn’t be that great because the Ranger/Guard has just wasted 3 useful cooldowns to try to surprise you when the Thief could just use 1.
Thieves could use it but there are more useful utilities I believe. And with the expac launching, it’s pretty impossible for them to pick a trap over a stun break that gives you an opening on your target.

I re-editted the GW2HoT announcement trailer to be more….. awesome?

Anyway take a look and hope it gets you hyped!

Saiyan.1704:

Dirame.8521:

Saiyan.1704:

The thing is, core Guardian already had all the tools for a burn build – PF and JI.
I already knew the bow would be a terrible candidate for a burn guardian. It gets no where near the 15 burn aoe potential of GS nor the burn/sustain/utility damages of Focus/torch/shield.
Everything the DH brings is for Power builds. Even Rampage doesn’t work as well as Zerkers amulet for the spec.
As much as I’d like DH to be an even more powerful burn build, the spec itself utilizes Power stats better. To be honest, our power meta (or lack thereof) needed it.

By jove, please stop using definitive statements. There’s a few things within the Dragonhunter that makes condi guard better. And I’m just sitting here being surprised that you can’t see it. I don’t want to explain anything because I’m a jerk who likes to be a know-it-all that doesn’t say anything about anything but man, just go compare other condi classes to DH and figure out what the DH spec is giving us to simulate what the other classes have. If you still can’t figure it out then /shrug I guess.

Saiyan.1704:

Power DH builds will still outperform burn DH builds.

Definitely no doubt about that.

Definitive statements? I call them facts :P I’m more than willing to look at what ever aspect you think DH brings that the core burn Guardian can’t do more efficiently.

We all know that DH can potentially have a higher burn burst damage over the current meta burn guardian – assuming DH can hit multiple targets in close proximity of each other, with his traps. This is worse of a 1-trick pony gimmick item than GS and Permeating Wrath (15 burn stacks from WW in a group)

DH also has an additional 12s worth of burns on blocks with F3’s trait.

Are these two items the burn performance increase you’re referring too? If they are I can explain in further detail as to why it wont increase burn guardian’s performance. If not, i’d like to know why you think DH will be better than the current burn guardian’s PF/JI/CoP, Virtues/Valor/Radiance build variant.

I don’t mean to sound facetious either I generally want to know if there’s another aspect i’m overlooking about DH. I tried only a couple burn DH builds then switched to Power variants that seemed to perform a whole lot better in comparison. Wish I had a longer weekend to theory craft.

I’m just using a trait set-up that improves the effectiveness of the Condi application that the core guardian provides.

No tricks, no traps, just plain old condi guard, new and improved. New and improved? how you may ask? but that’s the art where I’ll be a absolute kitten and not tell you :P because I know you’ll figure it out eventually.

Saiyan.1704:

The thing is, core Guardian already had all the tools for a burn build – PF and JI.
I already knew the bow would be a terrible candidate for a burn guardian. It gets no where near the 15 burn aoe potential of GS nor the burn/sustain/utility damages of Focus/torch/shield.
Everything the DH brings is for Power builds. Even Rampage doesn’t work as well as Zerkers amulet for the spec.
As much as I’d like DH to be an even more powerful burn build, the spec itself utilizes Power stats better. To be honest, our power meta (or lack thereof) needed it.

By jove, please stop using definitive statements. There’s a few things within the Dragonhunter that makes condi guard better. And I’m just sitting here being surprised that you can’t see it. I don’t want to explain anything because I’m a jerk who likes to be a know-it-all that doesn’t say anything about anything but man, just go compare other condi classes to DH and figure out what the DH spec is giving us to simulate what the other classes have. If you still can’t figure it out then /shrug I guess.

Saiyan.1704:

Power DH builds will still outperform burn DH builds.

Definitely no doubt about that.

I’m pretty sure he’ll change is mind when he sees someone do a 10k Trueshot.

uhohhotdog.3598:

If you want rewards and don’t want serious competition do unranked. Unranked should also give lesser rewards.

If you want real competition and full rewards do ranked.

This is how it should be. Make it happen.

All this will do is force more AFKers and leavers who are just there for the rewards, into unranked. Hot-join has its place in giving those guys a place to do what they want without hurting the people who want real competition.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Good point. It’s not just traps. It also takes away from our vital traitlines in PvP

Right. If you don’t want to use DH because you think it’s too much of a sacrifice that’s all you.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

as well as gives us virtues that can be interrupted by skilled opponents, and these virtues don’t remove condi or give their boons until after the cast…

That’s where the whole, “requires more skill” thing comes in. I mean sure, I can’t pop my VoR instantly but I can rez whilst nullifying melee downed cleave, I mean yea I can’t use my virtues while stunned but when I’m not stunned I pretty much have two heal skills that heal me for 5k.

Black Box.9312:

Dirame.8521:

They said they wanted the new Elite specs to require more skill. Dragonhunter is a perfect example of that. Can’t handle the Dragon? Don’t join the hunt.

Laying down traps and waiting on your enemy to trigger them is not a display of skill. It’s a dependence on a lack thereof from your enemy.

This is what you call looking at things in a vacuum. The DH is much more than just traps but you’re too busy trying to claim that it’s bad to admit that.

Rabidd.9458:

DH in PvP:

Traits: Biggest problem is that they don’t go well together with the core guardian’s traits. Virtues have this physical aspect to them, which sounded cool in theory, but they are pretty bad in implementation because the devs feel there should be a cast time to them. Say your DH goes into Radiance for the instant blinds for big plays in PvP. When you do need it though, there is a cast time to it, and you chuck your spear at the enemy and you end up getting hit anyway because the blind was too slow. Moreover, you can’t hit F1 for its blind in the middle of stomp animation, you can’t heal your teammates instantly by pressing F2 (which isn’t great because it doesn’t evade during your leap and cripple/chill does affect you), and F3 cast time prevents you from producing instant blocks. Cast times are bad, DH traits don’t play well with Radiance. Similar problem with Virtues, you can’t use F3 instantly for the stab or stun break, essentially nerfing your GM from Virtues (the only one worth taking in PvP). F3 cooldown needs to be reduced to 50 or 60 seconds. Even the DH traits themselves are not designed that well. The minor on master (Defender’s Dogma) is useful only for burn builds, and the GM minor Pure of Sight is useful only for ranged builds. That’s awfully specific, forcing certain builds on you. All the GMs are underwhelming as well: Hunter’s Fortification should at least make it so that you take less damage when you DO have a condition on you because literally everything in the game now puts out condis almost passively. Heavy Light feels completely RNG based (try fighting a mesmer with it) and not worth taking at all due to its long ICD, and Big Game Hunter is way too conditional to worth having that 10% damage buff (maybe if it was, say, 20% it might be worth it OR if the spear pulled the enemy to you at the end of it along it would be good). Bottom line: DH traits are way too conditional to feel all that useful compared to the core guardian.

All your complaints have nothing to do with synergy but rather the fact that Dragonhunter isn’t closer in implementation to the base Guardian. And that’s more personal preference. You can stun break with F3 when you have the virtues trait, I know because I’ve done it. It may look like it’s on cooldown when you’re stunned but you can activate it to stun break. Same thing happens when I use Thumper turret as a stun break on my Engie.

They said they wanted the new Elite specs to require more skill. Dragonhunter is a perfect example of that. Can’t handle the Dragon? Don’t join the hunt.

The V.8759:

I have tried in dungeons but it seems really hard to use since it relies alot on waterfields. When your field runs out and want to place a new one, a guard for example already has a symbol down overwriting it. How do you manage this?

Heh, that happens a lot. You’ll just have to hope that when you want to burst heal, the Guardian has already used his symbols or you can tell whoever is low on your team to come to you.

Written Guide is now up: http://intothemists.com/guides/6508-the_burst_healerdecapper_engie

Gameplay is now up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYLCdTVgkI

Hahaha, “the only way to counter double ele is to run double ele”? That’s rich.

Every team in the ESL is a follower anyway so we’ll see double Ele rather than attempts to counter it.

Arnath.2319:

VaaCrow.3076:

rajule.8054:

Kicast.1459:

Arnath.2319:

Just want to say that there are those who love Dragonhunter.

Traps are AWESOME! Crazy powerful.

You have already lost all credibility.

Thematically, they are similar in concept to Necromancer marks, but use Smite magic fitting for the Guardian.

Except Marks are far superior in every way.

Spear of Justice is vastly superior for a condition build.

This is proof that you do not understand this class, Spear of Justice is TERRIBLE for condi builds. To play a successful condi Guardian you go Virtue traitline and NEVER use your F1, you rely entirely on the passive effect and the traits that buff that passive.

The Dragonhunter traitline is very good.

Stop… please stop. My head hurts.

This
I am really concerned about these people feeling dh is somewhat good.
It is as if we do not play the same game.
I am mostly pvp / wvw (roaming and raid)

I have been trying kitten dh with meditation with traps or even with shouts on tanky and dps builds…everything is just a huge blast of innefficiency.
Crappy damage at the cost of loosing efficient sustain and support.
I still don’t get how people manage to get high damage on longbow 2. With the time of chanelling I have same dps landing two aa in the same time.
Virtue casting time is a massive nerf to our survivability. (remember that positionning in gw2 is of very litlle added value with all insta teleport flying around)
Rooting skills is just a nogo on any semi correct oponent.
Traps…I see one thing efficient for trap which is bad design to be honest : test of faith with 10 dh staking it it can be a zerg killer. While subpar in almost all other scenario it will be nerfed to uselessness without compensation as usual.

How on earth can people enjoy the hypothetical new content that is about to be given to us ? I really hope I am mistaken…because otherwise hot will just be a “thank you guy but reroll to enjoy”
This I am not pleased to feel forced this way and will not commit.

I can’t stand crap like this. You are perfectly welcome to not agree with his opinion or assessment of the DH, but people are allowed to enjoy things you don’t. It has no affect on how you play the class so lighten up.

This, so much this. Just because you don’t like it does not mean other people are not allowed to like it, you people need to get over yourselves, the game is not designed specifically for YOU.

@OP, glad you had fun.

Except the OP is making a thread on the official forums deliberately misleading the devs into thinking the DH is in a good place.

It is hard enough as it is to get the devs to recognize the long list of problems this profession has without these misleading threads.

The OP will still have just as much fun playing the DH when it its fixed.

Which problems exactly? Let’s detail those problem here because it’s serves very little to the discussion to just say “problems” in a vague term without mentioning anything specific.

TEGG.2859:

But then, does a guard have the space for taking this trait and sacrificing utility slots for traps in the current, and even the upcoming, meta?

I think not, maybe for the current meta in some niche situations.

I don’t know why a lot of people keep thinking that if you take Dragonhunter, it means you have to take traps and the Longbow. The Dragonhunter’s Traps and Longbow have their uses but that’s not all that the Dragonhunter is about and those aren’t the only builds you can as a Dragonhunter.

The Dragonhunter traits have been improved to an absolutely solid state (apart from that 1 minor that may or may not change) so much so that it has introduced a new way to play the bunker guard, burst guard, condi guard and possibly other guardian builds.

Black Box.9312:

Dirame.8521:

Black Box.9312:

Dirame.8521:

fireflyry.7023:

Dirame.8521:

fireflyry.7023:

This spec does nothing to compliment the Guardian play-style as originally promoted and actually goes totally against the grain with very little synergy, 3 years of timesink after the fact.

It’s either you just haven’t found the right build yet or maybe you haven’t even tried. But trust me, you are so wrong, the Devil would be envious of how wrong you are.

It’s not about right or wrong. It’s about subjective preference.

If that is the case then you should’ve worded your statement differently. To say the Dragonhunter has little synergy or does not compliment the Guardian entirely is wrong.

If your statement was “I don’t like the Dragonhunter’s synergies” then we’d be having a different conversation.

Except DH really doesn’t synergize with the base class. Hunter’s Fortification is just about the only thing that has any sort of cohesiveness with what we already have, and even that isn’t as reliable as things like Absolute Resolution and Pure of Voice/Rune of the Soldier. Hell, one of the new traits actually provides aegis on CC, which is literally something that the base class ALREADY HAS. It’s almost like they didn’t even look at what class they were dealing with when they came up with this elite spec.

Dulled Senses + Wards (Ring of Warding, Line of warding etc), Pure of Sight + Scepter, Hunter’s Determination + Pure of Heart or any aegis trait, Soaring Devastation + Binding Jeopardy.

It’s either I’m crazy or I’m a genius.

Do you seriously expect wards to provide reliable cripple access?

Really?

As for Pure of Sight, a scepter/longbow build would get murdered by anything that can close a gap, and no other build would benefit enough for it to be worthwhile. The other two work, but are nearly negligible in terms of actual impact. There are far easier ways to apply aegis and 3 vulnerability from WoR is not going to change the course of battle.

The goal is supposed to be to make Dragonhunter worth taking over other Guardian builds. Right now, I don’t see a single situation where that is the case.

I’m not sure if I can convince you that a lot of those synergies are and can be powerful so I’m just going to walk away with the fact that you’ve agreed that those are synergies with the base guardian.

You can say they are weak synergies all you want (I still know for a fact that you are wrong based off of experience) but I’m just going to take my little victory and walk away.

The only problem with DH right now is that there’s a minor trait that doesn’t affect you if you decide you want to go full melee.

Apart from that there’s something in the traits for every build. You want to bunker as a Dragonhunter? You can. You want to burst as a Dragonhunter? You can. You want to do condis as a Dragonhunter? You can. You want to CC like crazy as a Dragonhunter? You can. Traps? You can. Ranged? You bloody well freaking can.

All the people who say DH is bad are just waiting for Donee or Tage or someone with a popular name to show them a build or a montage that they can then claim is the only viable build for the Dragonhunter. I find those people quite frustrating to listen to.

Black Box.9312:

Dirame.8521:

fireflyry.7023:

Dirame.8521:

fireflyry.7023:

This spec does nothing to compliment the Guardian play-style as originally promoted and actually goes totally against the grain with very little synergy, 3 years of timesink after the fact.

It’s either you just haven’t found the right build yet or maybe you haven’t even tried. But trust me, you are so wrong, the Devil would be envious of how wrong you are.

It’s not about right or wrong. It’s about subjective preference.

If that is the case then you should’ve worded your statement differently. To say the Dragonhunter has little synergy or does not compliment the Guardian entirely is wrong.

If your statement was “I don’t like the Dragonhunter’s synergies” then we’d be having a different conversation.

Except DH really doesn’t synergize with the base class. Hunter’s Fortification is just about the only thing that has any sort of cohesiveness with what we already have, and even that isn’t as reliable as things like Absolute Resolution and Pure of Voice/Rune of the Soldier. Hell, one of the new traits actually provides aegis on CC, which is literally something that the base class ALREADY HAS. It’s almost like they didn’t even look at what class they were dealing with when they came up with this elite spec.

Dulled Senses + Wards (Ring of Warding, Line of warding etc), Pure of Sight + Scepter, Hunter’s Determination + Pure of Heart or any aegis trait, Soaring Devastation + Binding Jeopardy.

It’s either I’m crazy or I’m a genius.

fireflyry.7023:

Dirame.8521:

fireflyry.7023:

This spec does nothing to compliment the Guardian play-style as originally promoted and actually goes totally against the grain with very little synergy, 3 years of timesink after the fact.

It’s either you just haven’t found the right build yet or maybe you haven’t even tried. But trust me, you are so wrong, the Devil would be envious of how wrong you are.

It’s not about right or wrong. It’s about subjective preference.

If that is the case then you should’ve worded your statement differently. To say the Dragonhunter has little synergy or does not compliment the Guardian entirely is wrong.

If your statement was “I don’t like the Dragonhunter’s synergies” then we’d be having a different conversation.

fireflyry.7023:

This spec does nothing to compliment the Guardian play-style as originally promoted and actually goes totally against the grain with very little synergy, 3 years of timesink after the fact.

It’s either you just haven’t found the right build yet or maybe you haven’t even tried. But trust me, you are so wrong, the Devil would be envious of how wrong you are.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Uh.. I was playing as a Chrono (not the future-meta Dom/Duel/Chrono though) and to be honest.. Only Revenant, one scrapper, and Reaper were any trouble.

* Dragon Hunters are silly predictable.

• Berserkers were abusing the bugged Gun Flame, when they weren’t they were only dangerous when rampaging.
• Tempests are super stylish and great for filling my screen with ineffective crap.
• The few DDs I saw didn’t even use staff.. And were still pretty bad.
• Druid… Uh. Yeah. Never faced one of note.

Soon Archangel…. soon….

You guys ever heard of counterplay? Getting interrupted is part of the game. If you don’t want to get interrupted, pop stability or Aegis before using these skills.

Video Edition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MxNKIOnjmo

After playing, fighting against and talking about all the elite specs with people who have also played, fought against and talked about them, this is my tier list;

TIER 1: Reaper, Chronomancer, Dragonhunter, Berserker

You may not believe your eyes and you probably think I’m crazy but after playing Dragonhunter and Berserker for more than just a few hours, I know for a fact that those guys are RIDIC! I shall not spell it out for you, just look forward to the Go4s after the expansion launches.

TIER 2: Scrapper and Druid

Druid isn’t as multifunctional as the Ele, it’s just a great heal bot, with some good AoE lockdown abilities. Basically a walking tome of Courage. Fact is, CC’ing them and pinning them down is easy when they are in Cele form and doing that will force them out of it early. Not so great in my opinion. And the healing is getting a reduction as well so, so much for that.
Scrapper doesn’t do anything amazing apart from long distance stomping. This alone can flip fights easily but I feel their other abilities are not as good as the Tier 1 guys and not so bad that they’d end up in Tier 3.

TIER 3: Tempest, Daredevil, Herald
Herald does what Ele already does but with lesser utility. The Revenant as a class can be useful in fights with Jalis taking the cake in my opinion but Herald can easily be replaced by any AoE might-stacking profession and we already have a few of those.

Daredevil adds evades to the thief. One particular trait could make thieves impossible to catch if they play well but that alone cannot make a profession great. The utilities are nice, especially the stun break but I don’t think the Staff will be seeing much play in PvP, unless it does an obscene amount of burst or something nerfworthy.

Tempest does more of what Ele already does, just amped up to 15 with additional might stacks and auras. It’s pretty cool and powerful but boring in comparison to the stuff that Tier 1 can do.

Tsk tsk.

The reapplication of vulnerability and cripple and the reactivation of Spear of Justice when aegis is broken, helps the DH be a better condi guard. It means that the first thing that gets cleansed isn’t burning but cripple and vuln, it also means that you don’t have to wait to kill a target before SoJ resets when you use it.

The power guard can get up to 60% damage increase by using the DH line alongside a few other damage boosts from other trait lines and gear.

Bunker DH is also a rez king with Shield of Courage.

But don’t take my word for it though. Just wait for that awesome person to show you how it’s done.

- Hammer #4 Blocks longer than it’s supposed to.

[BUG] Shock Shield blocks longer than it’s supposed to.

My Thoughts on the Scrapper:

Positives:
- Takes quite a bit of getting used to. This is a good thing.
- Has incredible sustainability when played well in both bunker and DPS specs. I feel that was intentional
- Blast Gyro and Sneak Gyro are really good.
- Hammer is great but Rocket Charge still feels clunky with the way it leaps past your target. I guess that was intended maybe.
- Traits are good, may need some tuning down on the sustain as well as the toughness on adpative armour.

Negatives with some Suggestions
-Shredder Gyro needs to deal more damage and be a like a Spinning top, revolving around the area you cast it in whilst also whirling. Would work really well in PvE if it did more damage.
-Bulwark Gyro needs to be a stun break. Either on the toolbelt or the skill itself. This will guarantee that it sees more use.
-Healbot Gyro and Purge gyro might need to be combined and a new Gyro might have to take Purge Gyros place because, I don’t see myself taking Purge Gyro or Healbot Gyro when I’ve got healing turret. I suggest a Magnetic Gyro, works similar to Blast Gyro, tag someone and pull all targets within a 450 radius towards that target. That would set up Blast Gyro and Shredder Gyro perfectly. Or if we’re not into copying functionality another suggestion would be Graviton Gyro, Gravity within this Gyro’s area of effect is greater for enemies and lower for allies, foes are slowed/crippled and allies move 33% faster.

Ragnarox.9601:

Never seen dragonhunter with hammer and traps, you just talk nonesense. I am playing 2 days in a row for over 200+ matches in pvp and seen 0 ZERO guardians with hammer (that applies to DH as well).
Maybe in theory that would work but in practice not.

I’ve seen few DH with traps, dodged their traps and killed them with ease with my DH.

Lol, you are obviously the only one playing this game and your opinion on what someone else has encountered is obviously fact. I mean, Arenanet clearly only sold 1 copy of the game, those 4,999,999 other people who bought the game don’t exist.

ventusthunder.5067:

Hehe hehe hehe.

Lemme spell it out for you. Please turn your vision to Pure of Heart, which says “Aegis heals when it blocks an attack.” Hunter’s Fortification reads “Remove conditions when blocking attacks,” not “Aegis removes a condition when it blocks an attack.”

If Hunter’s Fortification is supposed to be the pile of garbage that it has been this weekend, be my guest and run a trait that gets thorougly outclassed and teabagged by Big Game Hunter.

Hehe. Hehe. Hehehehehehehehe.

Lol, if Big Game Hunter removed conditions then we could talk but it doesn’t. If the trait is supposed to only work with aegis, that would be synergetic with the rest of the line but if it’s meant to proc on block then it’ll be fixed. No need to get antsy about it. Heh.

Bunker Dragonhunter: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAW8snXNuNSqJ7JR/kVlsgyrS4QZWJYrcskFTFhdZ0rpBWEZdWugA-TJBFABiXGIp9HW4BAAwFAAA

-Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=govr0sit2zo

Burst Dragonhunter: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRArd5flsAhyhY1QwbIwPEL+D1V4mnfg84v+xvVA0t1JA-TJBFAB2s/g4lBW4MAAwDBAA

Annoying Dragonhunter: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAT5dlsAhyhY1QwbIwPELxD21+aSlDqCAbpBgc/rAmAB-TJBFABiXGYhkitteng52fAA

Builds above are featured in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdJcdudau0

ventusthunder.5067:

Then it would be an extremely useless trait even for a minor, not to mention a Grandmaster Major. I would like an answer on this because the trait is simply not performing like it should. There’s no way the design could be that bad, imo.

Hehe, just because a trait doesn’t work like you want it to, you call it useless hehe.

DH is better than most people realize and they will soon realize it.

I think it only works with Aegis.

Dragonhunter is near Perfect imo.

It has a great bunker spec (this comes naturally actually, even when the traits were bad it still outshined the normal guardian bunker), it has a great burst spec, it has a great CC spec and I’m sure there’s trap builds and condi combos in there that will both shock and awe people when they finally realize how powerful the dragon hunter can be.

Once all the bugs are fixed with traps hitting thrice and all that, I think the DH is right where classes like the Reaper and Chronomancer are. People just haven’t seen the potential yet and when someone like Tage plays it in the Go4 after HoT launches, you’ll see all the complainers change their mind.

The Dragonhunter is now in a great place guys. Well done on the changes Karl and crew.

If you think this is only good as a damage spec, you should try bunkering with it. The trap doesn’t even need to deal damage, it would still make bunker specs better.

At the start of HoT we will probably get Leagues and that means a leaderboard reset and a race to Legendary rank. So at the start, everyone will be on the same level and thing are going to get really crazy in that time regardless of what Anet does.

Definitely doesn’t need self regen out of combat. If you can’t bring your own heals then, GG.

Are you sure the function gyro didn’t have stab?

Arioso.8519:

The problem however is that because it is crit dependent, it relies on grenades

I use Bunker down. Been using it before it changed into what it is today. It has never needed grenades.

And if you miss EiB so much, why don’t you try my guide to the Burst healer engie

…. you might need a Berserker.

This trait set-up is what I’ve used; http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAW8snXNuNSqJ7JR/kVlsgyrS4QZWJYrcskFTFhdZ0rpBWEZdWugA-TJBFABiXGIp9HW4BAAwFAAA

It isn’t a guaranteed win but it definitely helps ALOT.

I would run rifle with this set-up. I’m just not digging the functionality of the Hammer right now.

Guys ignore the teleports. Let’s talk about that crazy amount of sustain and why it needs to be nerfed.

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