Guild Wars 2

This has probably been said before, but really I think it can’t be said enough, since
nothing is being done about this urgent matter.

Warriors get 3% damage increase on their burst abilities if they place 30 points into
the respective trait line. It used to be 30%, which in some rare cases turned out to be
overpowered.

This is just not acceptable.. please change this bonus because it is not fair in any way.

If the development team can’t come up with an inventive solution anytime soon, and
I agree it is not that easy to find something to replace it, at least have this trait bonus
lower the cooldown of burst abilities by 1% per point, up to a maximum of 30%.

Together with the tier 3 major trait for burst cooldown reduction, you would then
have a 50% cooldown reduction for burst skills. This would not be overpowered in any
way, as none of the burst skills are particularly powerful, and adrenaline must be raised
first as well, it would at least make the trait bonus somewhat useful.

Right now the bonus is 100% useless, so please change it sometime soon?

But at some point it would have to be changed to something proper, maybe a different
effect depending on what burst abilities are used.

Personally, I think they should put it back to the way it was.
This was a knee-jerk nerf based on limited beta exposure. There’s no way they could have properly judged this trait bonus properly in the the amount of play time offered by one beta weekend.

It’s similar to major traits now being split in to Adept’s, Master’s and Grandmaster’s.
Back in beta, you could have any major trait in a traitline occupying any slot, but they nerfed it because some people came up with good builds.
Instead of waiting to see if others came up with effective counters, they hastily implemented the poorly thought out trait tier system.
You can tell that all of the major traits weren’t originally designed with tiered power scaling in mind.