Guild Wars 2

That new guardian 30 virtue grandmaster trait thats supposed to come out. Purity of Body. Its supposed to give a 15% increase to allies endurance regen. GREAT idea(seriously)…just bad execution. Here are the issues with this trait
1. It requires another grandmaster trait to be even remotely effective. This is wrong, this is bad, this is the kinda thing that causes trait lines to go out of whack.
2.Energy increase caps at +50%. That means if ANYBODY in your party uses vigor, its ruining the synergy of this new trait
2.a.Seeing as the only reason to take this trait is battle presence, your going to have vigor on crit ANYWAYS from the honor line, so just by using this new trait your ensuring that it will be negated part of the time in its use
2.b. Most guardians use honor line. Id say one in every two. I run with guardians a lot. Useing this trait with them would be like saying “Heres some increased energy buuut im sure you wont notice”
3.Its another grandmaster trait in the Virtue line that barely at all benefits from Virtue Cooldown, and like the others doesn’t benefit from boon duration

What needs to be done to fix this
1. Have it not as a multiplier but as an addition to the energy gain (like what happens with sigils of energy but much much smaller)
Or
2. Have it apply a second of vigor every 3 -5 seconds. Yes this would scale off boon duration. I can see that being very overpowered. I can also see it forcing support guardians again to make that decision being healing power and boon duration. And that’s the whole point of the traits system isn’kitten forcing decisions
-ALSO implementing it this way would ensure that it has some solo use(without being combod with battle presence), as many a shout guardian will be taking this line for the boon duration anyways. This sadly does nothing to increase its synergy with other lines but hey that’s what the other two grandmaster traits are for.

P.S. I play a battle presence guardian, I’m really excited about this trait coming out, I just don’t want to feel like i’m kneecapping myself whenever I use it