Guild Wars 2

Since the stats from trait lines are going to be removed in the near future, and instead, having armor stats boosted to compensate for this, what is going to happen with the trait lines that give bonuses like condition duration? Because condition duration armor doesn’t really, well, exist. I mean there’s armor for boon duration, but nothing for condition duration.

And will Giver’s weapons still give condition duration? Or will that change?

Will we also ever see Legendary weapons provide the option for giver’s stats? I think it’s a bit odd to have an exotic version of it, but not a legendary version.

And finally, will there be runes/sigils/traits etc. to make the ‘slow’ condition in HoT, longer?

One of the following will happen to giver’s gear:

1. Improved stats (Gear is getting higher stats with the trait change.)
2. Be replaced (A new set of stats that doesn’t include condi/boon duration… perhaps Heal/Tough/Vit or Heal/Tough/Pre)
3. Be removed, and no longer be craftable (You will have the option of choosing a different stat combination)
4. Remain as it is, but no longer be craftable (An extremely weak and extremely rare, forgotten combination)
5. Remain as it is (No change, but much weaker considering other gear got improved stats)

I believe the trait lines that gave condition/boon duration will have them moved to a trait. For example: Lingering Curses got upped from 33% to 100% condition duration, most likely in part to make up for loss of duration from trait lines.

Yup was wondering about this as well, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Giver-s-Armor-reminds-me-of-the-old-MF-armor

Probabaly will happen: nothing. The two stats get a boost when all armor gets boosted but the % remains the same.
Potentially happen: replaced like mrdevi mentioned. Existing sets would become statless and selectable new stats like the old MF gear.

It’s really odd how the weapons have condi instead of boon. Maybe they will merge them at this point.

Perhaps next wintersday we will see ascended giver recipes drop. They may add the stat to legends at that point.

Speculation on what HoT will have, no idea. Taunt/slow/etc may be odd conditions (and the new boons) that won’t be affected by things like that. Similar to how quickness is not and daze only has a few modifiers.

True. Yeah it’s weird how the weapons give condi duration but the armor gives boon duration. Always found that quite odd.

Hope Anet can answer these questions to clarify everything – although I don’t expect an answer on the slow condition thing cause they haven’t finished up the specs and traits yet – would be nice if there was some info on it though :P

I have a feeling my fear-based necro is going to be nerfed to smithereens if the condi duration from trait lines isn’t applied to something else when it’s taken away from traits. I think the most logical sense would be to add a new armor stat that includes condi duration, or like Aro said, perhaps it will come in the form of new ascended recipes.