Guild Wars 2

Many of the old traits and utilities are absolutely terrible and need to be updated before the pvp season takes off. All classes suffer from this problem, but since my main is currently a warrior, I’ll use it as an example.

The trait thick skin in the defense line is one of the worst offenders. It gives 120 toughness while above 90% health. This is around a 1-2% reduction the first time you are hit… it might as well give you nothing.

As far as utilities go, the “On My Mark” shout is an obvious outlier. Literally all it does is apply 10 stacks of vulnerability to a single target, and it has a 30s cooldown. Like what?

For the sake of build diversity and balance, please work on this anet.

I agree, for example my “QQ” how outdated core Necro is: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Reaper-and-core-Necromancer-problems-in-PvP/first#post5732250

As someone who mains a warrior, don’t play it in PvP. It’s grossly underpowered atm. The new elite spec is utter kitten and honestly not worth taking it in place of any strength/defense/discipline. Rage skills are worthless (who the F designed them? lol) and so are most of the primal burst skills.

I really agree. I would really love if the devs went and did the same process for each core skill/trait than they did for the elite specs: asking for feedbacks and listening to them.

It could go slowly, weapon by weapon, skill categories by skill categories, traitlines by traitlines. If this was done, the balance between core and elite spec would go back to a much better state.

Warriors i think need the most love…… Poor old great sword. RIP

There are good warriors out there, but problem is lots of aoe and cc going in expansion so warriors as single target killers suffer a lot.

It’s more important that they tone down some elite specs and a handful of core traits first.

+1 Don’t let this thread die. Anet please give attention to the core traits/skills and not just HoT stuff. Especially important for those of us still running the vanilla game.