Guild Wars 2

After reading the blog posts about specializations and the fact that you can in HoT spec in 3 lines and get 3 GM Traits i started to think about some builds that will get a huge buff from this. It’s a little early since we don’t know if some Traits will get deleted or changed but let’s speculate a bit.

I’ll give you an example:

Condition Mesmer: If all the Traits remain you can in HoT merge the MtD & the PU condition builds and create something far more powerfull. In the current state of the game getting PU & MtD together means sacrificing the Deceptive Evasion trait that is vital to both builds. NO MORE! You will be able to use them all together and still get another GM Trait (Harmonious Mantras perhaps?). Sounds insane right?

Now…post a build that you think will gain a lot with the new changes!

Except the “if all the traits remain” isn’t the case. You are stuck with picking 1 trait out of 3 per tier of Anet’s choosing. Which could indeed be all garbage traits. (Deceptive Evasion might not even exist.)

If Deceptive evasion is tied into something critical for a Mantra trait for instance, sucks to be you. You can’t even slot the grandmaster to take it now, since they are all locked.

Old trait system is removed.

I doubt they will remove Deceptive Evasion even though I can see them moving it to the GM Tier. The build would still work on that case. And you don’t need Mantra Traits on these builds….they work fine with no Mantras.

If they keep the DE, MtD & PU in the lines they are at the moment the Spec would be way more powerfull than it’s now. And they intend to remove garbage traits…not create more. It’s all speculation (I know that) but I can see the Spec getting a lot more cheese if the key parts remain.

Let’s hope you’re right though…

Eolirin.1830:

There’s no way to speculate on any of this right now; just as an example, the current Water XIII grandmaster trait is now a minor trait, and the minor grandmaster is a major. It’s impossible to know how any of this is going to look.

Deceptive Evasion could very well end up as a minor trait.

Agreed! Let’s just hope for the best then.