Guild Wars 2

So Jon Peters, when discussing the 5 point Minor traits we get, admitted that Fire (Flame Barrier) and Air (Zephyr’s Speed) needed work.

Here’s an idea I have for Flame Barrier; I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Flame Barrier: You have a chance to block attacks used against you by burning foes. Only triggers while attuned to Fire.

I know this sounds too powerful for a 5-point trait, but careful balancing of the chance to trigger (or adding an internal cooldown), combined with the fact that it only works while attuned to fire, would ensure that it isn’t too powerful. To have access to it outside of Fire, you’d have to spec into Lingering Elements, so it would have some utility for high Arcana builds as well. It would also have synergy with the new Burning Fire and especially Ember’s Might. Plus, it matches the theme of all our 5-point non-Arcana minor traits being defensive in nature.

This would give us a low-cost defensive option to spec into Fire and away from Water/Arcana. And maybe One With Fire could also be reworked to improve Flame Barrier’s chance to proc the block, because at the moment these two traits are garbage.

Thoughts?

Get rid of One with Fire and combine it with Flame barrier at still keep at 5 point adept problem solved. Chance to proc starts at 30% goes up longer your attuned.

I honestly don’t know how One with fire even works looking at the wiki it says it is 20% interval 10s. So is that 20% more after 10 seconds or does it go up over that 10 second interval for an additional 20%. If 20% is the cap on the chance to proc thats low. 40% max? It fits thematically the just the chance and implementation is bad. Pump it up to maybe 2s and you would have a kind of Retal for Ele’s but better than just straight retal since it can’t be stripped.