Guild Wars 2

Me and a lot of other people. On my elementalist I run a not so meta build with full knight’s gear. On my trait-lines I got 0 2 0 6 6, also granting me a sizeable boost in vitality and healing power. With the upcoming seperation of stats from traits though, it looks like instead of this nice ballance I had going, I would have a load of power, precision and toughness without any vitality and healing power. This not only screws over my health bar, but it’s also going to screw over my runes of exuberance. I could shift to celestial gear probably, but then that would mean that all of my hard work on my ascended knight’s gear will all have been for naught.

I am sure that I am not the only one who’s going to get screwed over in this way so basically, my question is if I can still keep my build the way it currently is without having to make crazy expensive changes?

You’re only getting screwed if you don’t adapt. Welcome to life.

Shoulda went zerker.

the seperation is fine. item aquisition as only stat adjustment is annoying with current armor system.

game definately needs an armory system, or perhaps unlocking stat combos.
ascended needs a big rework, having to do that multiple times is trash

I like the concept. We’ll so it plays though.

Kisai Hikaru.1052:

Me and a lot of other people.

So you’ve had a conference call to decide this already?

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Shoulda went zerker.

No reason why he can’t mix armour types to get a similar effect.

She* and yeah, me and likely a lot of other people I should have said. I know of quite a few people with unorthodox builds.

This is actually something a lot of people have asked for since the beginning. It offers a bit more flexibility in build crafting. It just means people are going to have to relearn their meta and possibly have to buy new armor/runes/weapons/sigils.

Or as Anet likes to call it: new gold sink.

Now: You can share ascended gear between multiple characters, and tweak each one’s stats using traits.

Future: You can share ascended gear between multiple characters and you can’t tweak their stats without buying additional gear.

Question: Which gear will have boon duration and condition duration? If combinations of those are limited to specific types of gear, there are some builds that may no longer be possible.

I never really liked having condition damage on a power build because it was paired with precision or power, or when I wanted ‘n’ trait. The new system sounds fine to me, going to wait and see.

Stats seperated from trait lines is a fantastic idea! Should have been like that from day one. So glad they are making this change. And I really like the way the trait lines and their selection works. Really looking forward to seeing these changes in action!

@misterdevious – In answer to your question, it may well be that gear will get more stats added, not just number increases. Put it forward as a question in the AMA, I am sure many (myself included) will want to know the answer to this question.

This isn’t going to change the Zerker meta.

Stats will still be on gear, and since there won’t be any new dungeons, people are still going to use zerker gear for them.