cant wait to make another toon,
when the patch hits, I will make a ranger
to hunt all the traits
(btw no sarcasm…)
Please don't make traits start at 30
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So much blablabla about low levels benefiting from traits at level 10-30. BS. Pure and utter BS. The stat boosts from traits aside (which are matched or exceeded by minor runes), the actual traits you gain are next to useless because the stats your character has are that low. The traits are truly capitalized on when your character has far more stats. That doesnt happen at the low levels because gear has a single stat, usually single digit at that.
Minor runes matching/exceeding stat points from traits is incorrect. By level 30, one has 20 trait points. If spent to gain a rating of 10 in two lines, that could mean as many as 400 points across 4 stats. A minor rune provides 10 points to one stat and a second provides some other benefit like +Burn Duration. By using six different minor runes you could get 60 stat points, and would exceed that by level 14 via traits.
While some Adept traits are underwhelming, some can be a benefit. You suggest that the actual traits are of greater benefit with more stats. While you might make a case that this is true for some traits, it certainly isn’t true of all of them. Skill recharge reduction, for example, is independent of stat points. Regardless, I don’t see how you can argue that there is no benefit to Adept traits, and the new system is definitely removing benefits from characters.
I hate this change so much. Unless ANet plans on balancing content to make up for the fact that you don’t have any traits until level 33 (which they probably won’t), leveling is going to be even more of a tedious chore.
They have already stated that they are going to balance early content to make up for lack of traits. Why wouldn’t they? It is an incredibly easy thing to do.
so AC becomes allot easier?
They could just as easily lock you out of higher tier traits and skills depending on how down-leveled you are.
uhmmm, AC is a lvl 30-35dungeon, i never said anything about a down scaled character.
So much blablabla about low levels benefiting from traits at level 10-30. BS. Pure and utter BS. The stat boosts from traits aside (which are matched or exceeded by minor runes), the actual traits you gain are next to useless because the stats your character has are that low. The traits are truly capitalized on when your character has far more stats. That doesnt happen at the low levels because gear has a single stat, usually single digit at that.
Warrior signet precision trait is at its best at level 20, and gets worse as you level. Once you get that trait at level 20, and go all signets, you get around 100% crit chance. It becomes much less effective as you level up, basically becoming ~2% crit chance per signet at level 80. Also to a lesser degree there is the mesmer 50 precision for using a sword trait. That 50 precision is worth a lot more when low leveled.
I think OP doesn’t realize that you get skill points you can use to unlock things starting at level 2.
That should satisfy your “put points into things” fix.
Play a Mesmer sometime and then come back and tell me what you think of no traits until 30 and no grandmaster traits until 80.
I have a Mesmer, I don’t know what you are referring to. I forgot to even put points into her traits while leveling up. I don’t play her competitively I guess, I much prefer Guard or Ele.
I won’t stop because I can’t stop.
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
I think OP doesn’t realize that you get skill points you can use to unlock things starting at level 2.
That should satisfy your “put points into things” fix.
Play a Mesmer sometime and then come back and tell me what you think of no traits until 30 and no grandmaster traits until 80.
I have a Mesmer, I don’t know what you are referring to. I forgot to even put points into her traits while leveling up. I don’t play her competitively I guess, I much prefer Guard or Ele.
you may have forgot, but mesmer gets a lot of power from traits, its like night and day
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