What Legendary Traits Are You Using?

[Fingoldrom]

This is thread for hunters to discuss what legendary traits they have equipt, and what ones they think are best and why. No need for it to develop into a fight about DF, or anything else.

Before the update, i would have to go for Bards arrow and rain of thorns. But now, bards arrow is practically useless in PvE, although after the update i spend more time in the ettens hunting creeps so bards arrow is more usefull now. But rain of thorns has stupidly long cooldown, which maks it a little less legendary again. It hardly compares too a LMs ents trait; like 450 dmg to 5 ppl, AND 4 sec stun, now thats legendary..oh and same cooldown

Also, how many hunters have bow of the rightous? I have only seen 1 person with it so far i think. Maybe it wil hepl some low lv 40 hunters decide which one to search for too

[Bell of Eternity]

Easy to answer. None, as I haven't completed any. Nor am I in any rush to, seeing most of them are close to worthless. The only one that actually interests me is the power regenerating one. That... Press Onwards or whatever it was called must be one of the most worthless "epic" abilities I've seen in any game.

[Farstrike (temp)]

Rain of Thorns and Bard's arrow for me, personally. We need all the CC we can get, even if it is very unreliable at times.

Press Onwards seems only semi-useful as it has a 5 sec induction (i.e. no quick emergency heal during getaways).

Bow of the Righteous, while useful, can be replaced by drinking a power pot, if necessary.

[frolix22]

I use Rain of Thorns and Bard's Arrow. I disagree with the assessment of Bard's Arrow: despite being considerably reduced in power I still find it a very, very useful skill to have and use it often.

[zimoo]

Rain of thorns and bow of the righteous, although I really wish bow of the righteous effected auto-attacks :(

[Scappydog]

Only one I have equiped and use at the moment is Rain of Thorns, but with the increased resistance to it since Book 11 it is no where near as effective as it once was.

I now consider Bards Arrow to be too dangerous and unreliable to use in most circumstances. I did try it post Book 11 and found that it caused more problems than it was worth. Still equiped in a trait slot, but not used now.

Press Onwards is another practically useless skill. Out of Combat, long induction. No real incentive to equip it.

Don't have Bow of the Righteous yet and don't feel I really need it at the moment.

[Fingoldrom]

Yer, Im completely confused as to why turbine felt the need to not only nerf all the hunters aspects, but to then to go and make our hardly legendary traits even more useless. A minstrels lv 2 skill, (not even as good), a '**** of every servant of sauron in site' and a 75% miss chance cc.

Give us something back

[MéLAnoR]

Solo fights : i prefer Bow of the righteous and bard's arrow ( but i hate it , its so buggy and dangerous im crowded areas.) I dont prefer RoT for solo fights anymore due to the fact that it's incredibly much more resisted or ignored by mobs unless for specific hunting where i cant use bards arrow which is not appliable on certain mobs.
Fellowship fights : Bow of the rightous and RoT ( again Rot is not very usefull for pVE grouping unless you have a very organised fellowship watching your shots closely.
Moors : Havent tested fear effects there yet ..

[THE_WARLORD]

Im using Rain of Thorns and Bard's Arrow. Yes, they are alot weaker then they were, but i think they are still usefull when your out there fighting many mobs. And compared to the other legendary traits these are still the best. Not much to choose from is there.

[MéLAnoR]

Btw did you know that Bow of the righteous used to give 50 power back with each succesfull shot pre-book9?
Yeah at those times we hadnt had any power issues and the skill was overpowered indeed so gone stealthnerfing sometime between book 8 - book 10 , but im not sure which patch it was.Now it gives up to 19 power back which is a decent feature for hunters having power issues but other 3 leg skills have become less usefull and i pity everytime i pay 161 silver switching leg skills. ( bards arrow and Rot)

[Pingu]

Press onward is a waste of bar-space IMHO
I've had all of them slotted at some time or another, but Bow of the Righteous & Rain of Thorns seems best for my playstyle.

[Tyranno85]

i have press onward and RoT slotted, but only use RoT since press onward is completely useless in-combat, its the only self-heal (besides pots and food) hunters have and should be made in-combat skill, since when you're out of combat you'll start a fire and ready to go on within a min, so no one will use press onward outside combat...

personally, if they want to make our "legendary" traits legendary, they should make press onward in-combat skill, and RoT can't be resisted.

[zimoo]

As much as I think we need something new to increase our survivability, a full self heal/power regain in combat isn't it ;)

[Kuku]

As much as I think we need something new to increase our survivability, a full self heal/power regain in combat isn't it ;)

I agree... I'd prefer something different, or even to be given back our old damage mitigation skills. They worked after a fashion, and they did set us apart from other classes as well.

[raiders7]

Hi,

book 11 changed a lot of things...

Press onward : completely useless as not usable in combat mode.

Bard arrow : nerfed then only usefull if you have too many people on you...
But be carrefull, as you'll have to attacked the feared mob back quite fast otherwise you may have even more mobs on your back quite fast.
In addition to this, the BA is bugged as I saw many time the mob running away 3/4 feet and coming back without any reason.

Rain of thorn : less useful than before as wince book11 all traps have been nerfed...
Mobs "resist" more often then before.
For example : I face many time the situation in which I :
Spot 2/3 mobs... put a hunter trap (got Sturdy traps in my trait) and use ROT.
There is always at least 1 who "resist" my ROT and run toward me.. and at least 50% of the time the same mob resist and go thought my manual trap.

Now is there any interesting things to have... well with the last book nerf.. honestly you can live without any of them.. or at least don't spend too much money to buy the respective book/pages.

I personally kept Bard Arrow and RoT (got all 3 legendary trait before book 11).. but not use them very often.

Just a question of choice...

Later