Guild Wars 2

To gain more survivability and make rangers less locked into spending 30 into WS, I suggest that Empathic Bond is swapped as it is with Hide in Plain Sight.
Hide in Plain Sight can be buffed to have a place as a grandmaster trait with either shorter CD or made into a Stealth.
Empathic Bond is not fully a cleanse because conditions are transferred to our pet. That includes immobilization, chill and cripple which severely limits the damage output of the pet. In some cases, heavy damage conditions are transferred and it forces the ranger to swap his pet to avoid the one minute cooldown. It might be that the pet was a Wolf with much needed fear which can’t be used because a swap was required, a Moa’s screech that now can’t be used or a Spider’s venom that would have helped with kiting.
Empathis Bond is not a trait that only improves the ranger because the player also accepts the fact that the pet has to be swapped if there are too many conditions.

That’s my 2 cents to it.

This has also been posted in the ranger forums