Trevor Boyer i understand you might not have as many matches with DH as me, or some other people (or you may even have more, no idea, i speak from experience, i have around 50 matches over last 3 days) not counting the ones i tried before.
I validate some of your points, and i agree DH is strong, but only in certain situations. The hunter is not weak like people say or think, their traps are underpowered compared to the DH ones, but no hunter will use that since they are stronger in another build.
There is really no point in nerfing the DH here’s why:
Mesmer, Necro, Ranger and Ele in a strange build
Their summons/pets will and do trigger the traps, which makes them hard to kill or engage, most of the time you won’t kill them that easily if they know how to play their class, especialy necros with their Reaper spec, i die easily to them as a DH.
Examples:
MEsmer: Can’t get to him, i can only use my bow skills, which is in all honesty only half of my dps when i use traps, it does good dps but mesmer usualy drops me before i drop him, his ilusions always set off my traps, i try to not engage them at all.
Ele: D/D Ele usualy runs away to get help before i kill them and survives my traps, unless in a strange build with staff, then they are easy kill IF they walk into your traps
Ranger: Most rangers go in head on, thats why they die, i had a guy who killed me every time i engaged him, we now due que for pvp lol.. hes too strong, he knows how to play against DH, not to come into range, their bow skills are better and they do more dmg with their pets, no way to sustain all of this, if you run your usualy dead.
Necro: This one is kinda 50/50, if they are not reaper build from what i noticed, i can kill them more or less easily unless their buff me full of condis, but a reaper, he procs all my traps if i manage to bait him, he survives them and kills me. If they know how to play properly.
The killable ones:
Warrior, Thief and Engi
Warrior, unless hes running full meelee you will always kill him, you can kite him into your traps, pretty easy.
Thief: If you see him come, hes dead, if you don’t your usualy dead.. But i usualy see them come, definitly the easiest class to kill for a DH.
Engineer: 50/50, if hes in his Elite, hes hard to get rid of, he can survive traps, but you can usualy kill him if he makes a mistake.
After these few days of PVP i can say im getting increasingly frustrated at how easily someone can proc your traps with DH, i would welcome a nerf to traps, under a condition that they can’t be proced with pets/summons, that would mean i can engage other classes normaly, not run/hide or die to them just because HALF of my dps died to a mesmer ilusion, a ranger pet, or a necro summon…..
ALSO to point out, ANYONE can roll out of traps, the problem is, DH seems op when you die inside the ELITE trap, which actualy holds you long enough for the other traps to do dmg..
Usualy people trigger my traps and roll out, they take maybe trap 30% dmg..
Lengthy explanation for your lengthy logic.
