Guild Wars 2

With the upcoming Balance Patch, I thought I would put forth my suggestion to help alleviate some of Issues facing Warriors in competitive play, specifically the (in)ability to deal with conditions, and the ability to keep pressure on an enemy utilizing conditions.

Trait Name: Gritted Determination
Trait Line: Discipline
Investment: 20 Points

Description: Reduces damage taken by 2% per condition on the Warrior. Movement abilities ignore slowing effects of cripple, chill, and immobilize.

This would of course replace the current 20 point trait; Mobile Strikes, which currently only breaks immobilization effects.

The Idea of the trait is to allow warriors to stay on their targets without having to worry about wasting their movement abilities because their movement is impaired, while also weathering damage being applied to them inbetween these moves.

Please Note: This isn’t designed to REMOVE slowing effects, but rather to temporarily negate their effects, for instance; Warriors who use the Rush ability on the Greatsword while being crippled would be able to get the full distance/speed out of using the ability, but remain crippled after the animation has completed.

Isn’t there already a trait that increase toughness when under the effects of a condition. So isn’t this just moving to another trait or increasing its effect.

No, there isn’t. You may be thinking of Dogged March though, which reduces the duration of slowing effects and grants 3 seconds of regeneration, and while that trait is ‘good’ it does nothing to alleviate the fact that all our movement skills are affected by these conditions and make it almost impossible to land them on a player kiting the Warrior… and the regeneration portion of Dogged March is, well…. plain laughable.

Um… Conditions are immune to damage reducing effects.

What’s the sense in getting damage reduction when under conditions when it won’t reduce the condition damage you’re taking?

Well we already know Warriors will be getting access to some more condition removal in the balance patch, so it becomes a choice for the warrior when he should clear those conditions. If he is being focus fired then this trait really begins to shine, otherwise the dots will keep ticking, also condition builds still have a small element of power attacks, either to apply the conditions or as a filler for inbetween applying conditions while the enemy waits for cooldowns.