Guild Wars 2

Except for the obvious reduction of falling damage? I can’t think of a single reason why anybody would pick those traits instead of another one for PvE/PvP/WvW.

Are they joke traits or something?

There might be mild reasons to use it in WvW. There are some big ’ol cliffs in there.

Well there not permanent you can switch them to fit your needs. If you trying to explore it is sometimes easier to jump off of big cliffs.

I’m aware of this, but it’s strange to have traits that are that situational with little to no use in an actual fight.

Why give them additional effects if people are only gonna use them for the falling damage reduction?

I’m not sure how useful each class’ effect is, but jumping from a wall in WvW is enough to trigger it so some people might like jumping into an attacking force as a warrior for example and knocking a bunch of people back.

They help a lot with jumping puzzles.

Mesmers is pretty good. A chaos storm at your feet is ideal since you can do the jump then do another chaos storm shortly after.

in www i have seen people getting goomba stomped when defenders just jumped down and ended up killing attackers with those effects (well guess they threw aoes same time too. )

Yeah, they are actually useable in WvW.

When it’s time to switch from defensive to offensive in a keep battle, the best way to get down and into combat quickly is to hop off the wall. Which is enough to do a little falling damage, and thus trigger these traits.

I don’t know if they’re actually GOOD. But they’re totally usable.

The mesmer’s falling damage trait is definitely good in certain situations. Having another trigger for chaos storm means you get more aegis, which is always nice.

wvwvw keep warfare, i think you take a small amount of dmg jumping off walls

It’s very useful in WvW – you can jump from walls for the effect to activate when you want to chase off straggler invaders, also helps very much in borderlands, while going south from the main spawnpoint for the owners – the cliffs there take a bit of skill to navigate down without dying, while with that trait, you can just basically slide down most of them without a second thought.

It’s also useful in jumping puzzles, allows certain shortcuts, which wouldn’t be otherwise available.