Guild Wars 2

This is not a question of was it removed, but “why” did it not carry over to specialization, and importantly will it be reinstated? This is mostly for PvE (at least for me) to provide a wider range of the banner’s effect to allow more flexible space for party members to fight in. Warriors used to have a trait that reduce 20% of cooldown of banners (cooldown time 120s… 2minutes long…). Both effects of increased radius radius and reduce cooldown were on the same trait. Please consider making it an option again.

Yeah, removing that trait really messes with my favorite support build. There’s just too much down time now between recasting a banner, and without the improved radius it is difficult to spread the potential bonus across the maximum number of allies in WvW.
I’d like to see Anet bring this trait back, but it’s probably gone for good. Would be nice to hear an explanation from Anet on why they removed it, as it’s not exactly an OP/balance issue.

what’s the warrior’s elite spec?

nathanjameson.3542:

what’s the warrior’s elite spec?

Unrelated to the topic at hand but what very few datamining was done on the topic revealed something potentially called “berserker”

I mention it purely for posterity’s sake and to please you as it was done from very poor and shallow datamining

k, just idly wondering if it would use banners, but doesn’t sound like it

I was expecting banner cooldown reduction to be rolled into baseline, but it wasn’t. :\
Pretty sure the banner changes were so we couldn’t have almost 100% uptime on it.

The radius drop seems to be an overall design decision, since most area support got dropped to range 600 or less (banners, soothing mist, etc). Probably more risk-reward and synergy that way, but.. eeeh.

Yes please bring back banner trait. The cooldown reduction and increase radius made it more flexible to use. Hard to believe that trait was forgotten(?) in specialization.