why waste your points and lock yourself out of sertin skills when you can buy mines and destroy the combat of the game with them?
Well I kinda have to agree that traps sucks in Lona...
Fragmines are great but heavy and You cant buy infinite amount of them, using regular traps is kinda worthless, it cost insane amount of time, collecting rocks takes also time and You waste tons of stamina to install few traps.
Simple solution... never get traps perks... as they are indeed like You say worthless and waste of points.
Perhaps need more variety of mines to flesh out trapper build?
Like
1. Arrow mine, fires 6 arrows in a straight line in 6 directions when triggered.
2. Fire magic mine, guaranteed burn enemies in 3x3 tile.
3. Aphrodisiac mine, enemies cancel attacks command, become horny and increase sexy, in a 7x7 tile. And then it turns into gay orgy.