Guild Wars 2

Why isn’t this classified as a shout?
And therefore be affected by shout buffing traits and runes?

My best guess is that it would be more beneficial to warriors, trait wise. Runes, I’m not sure.

3 Classes have traits that affect shouts, Warrior, Guardian and Ranger.

and 1 rune that I know of that affects shouts.
Superior Rune of the Soldier (rank 6 – shouts remove conditions)

Either way, I think they’re probably trying to avoid making it benefit from a particular class. The runes should be allowed to work though, IMO.

We already have skills that are only benefical for a certain profession : “Hidden pistol” is mostly designed for engineers.

Why shouldn’t this skill be considered more particuliar as to remove it from the “shout” classification ?

1) Racial skills have no official category. For better or worse, that is ArenaNet’s stance on the matter. They always want a Racial skill to be less desireable than a Class skill.

2) ArenaNet already nerfed down Battle Roar towards the end of Beta to its current state. The only true advantage it still has is the superior 1,200 range AoE radius (instead of the standard 600 range). If the skill was re-classified as a Shout, then that range would be reduced down to 600 and ArenaNet would probably make the skill even worse than it currently is (by increasing the recast timer or lower the AoE buff benefits).

I only use it for the different audio anyway… FGJ for instance sounds really stupid. What is it even talking about? Battle roar actually mentions specific things and isn’t the same every… single… cast. If they would only put that level of detail in normal shouts I wouldn’t even care.

“REMEMBER ASCALON!”

Sometimes I used battle roar to buff my condition damage for my necromancer

“CHARR NEED NO GOD!”