Guild Wars 2

I’ve had tunnel vision lately and haven’t messed with my build or my alts for quite some time. I used to have a pretty good grasp of all the classes, some more than others. I’ve been loading alts and messing with new build system and obviously some traits are gone now because of the limited number. I didn’t pay much attention to all the pre patch talk, just excited for some balance changes. I was wondering if someone could quickly answer a few questions or at least give a quick re-cap. Thanks!

Questions:

1. I’ve been searching for a comprehensive list of the traits that were removed and I was wondering if anyone knows of such list or someone could make such list? If I use quick math there were 13 major traits before and now there are only 9 per trait line. So that means 20 removed traits per class at 8 classes so around 160??? I’ve heard that some were rolled into base class mechanic like blasting staff. So how many are completely gone from game and not there in anyway shape or form?

2. Is there any reason about why certain traits were removed? Ricochet is one I am thinking of. Fun trait that gave pistols some lovin’.

3. What was the reason for only having 3 traits for each tier now. Seems to remove build diversity, doesn’kitten Granted there were many traits useless or “niche”, but still I liked having room for creativity.