Guild Wars 2

Just was checking out traits and noticed this:

If you pick cantrip mastery it reduces cooldown on trait Burning Fire (tooltip says its sort of cantrip trait). Ele has another trait like that, Earth Embrace – here the cooldown doesn’t get reduced even though its also a cantrip.

My guess is – it should reduce cooldowns on each of them or only on utility (not traits) ?

It does reduce the trait CD for cleansing fire. That is working as intended. The earth trait equivalent will be fixed in the future so that the CD is lowered as well. Just going to have to wait for Anet to get around to it.

Cantrip Mastery working with Burning Fire is a “new feature”, because utility cooldown traits didn’t affect any traits that triggered those utilities before this patch, and from now on they will.

I’ve asked about this to two Anet devs in-game, and their answer is that old, already-existing traits aren’t still affected by this. That’s a bug that they expect to fix “as soon as possible”.

So Earth’s Embrace + Cantrip Mastery should work someday, and I assume the same will apply to Arcane Mastery with arcane-triggering traits too.

I already posted this under the bugs section a few days ago:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Earth-s-Embrace-Ele-trait/first#post3350198

Hit it up to bring attention to the discrepancy.