Guild Wars 2

I’m a norn elementalist. I like bleeds and would love to use this skill rather than my signet of fire but there is no reason because signet of fire has lower cooldown, over 2x more damage and a signet passive.

Add a bleed refreshing feature on the owl skill and then I might use it. Like if the target had 12 bleeds and the time on them was about to run out, use your owl and increase bleeds to 15 and the time is refreshed on all bleeds to 8 seconds.

And then it would be 100 times better for your build than for anyone else’s.

Racial skills are deliberately gimped- in no small part because they have to work with all 8 professions and NOT create a synergy with any profession that makes that the go-to race for that profession.

Sorry .

It’s already a great addition to some bleed focused builds…

For example, when I was using a condition build on my thief, using Call Owl would allow me to reach the 25 bleed cap on my own (For 8 seconds)

Now imagine if your buff was applied to the skill – I’d be able to maintain 25 stacks of bleed for much longer without having to use other cooldowns and would be able to save up my initiative to fill up another load of stacks after…

Also think how it’d interact with short term bleeds from other classes minor traits (Warrior, Engineer, Necro) and Sigil of Earth which are balanced around their low durations meaning they can’t stack up very high on their own.

It would make it a very powerful skill, which would also make any bleed focused build almost forced to go Norn (Though there are other reasons to roll Norn, such as them being awesome…)

I see what you mean. I was suggesting something without thinking :P
Noticing that guardians and mesmers don’t have bleeds it wouldn’t benefit them much at all.

Well anyways call owl needs a little buff. I can’t see any reason for me to use it over signet of fire (unless I used both). If Anet added few (1-2) bleeds more and maybe even a few sec cripple it might then be useful.

I use Call Owl on my Norn Ranger mainly for the flavour. I already have a cat/wolf/drake following me around, and I RP it that she also has a pet owl that she calls on to help her in battle.

While I would like to see racial skills buffed so that they are on par with other profession skills, I agree that it’s a delicate balancing act. Perhaps Call Owl could be modified so that if used on a target that is already Bleeding, the target is also Blinded?