Guild Wars 2

Auras related traits:

adept major trait Zephyr’s Boon from airtraitline
adept major trait Elemental Shielding from earthtraitline
adept major trait Shooting Ice from watertraitline
adept major trait Unstable Conduit from tempesttraitline
master minor trait Sunspot from firetraitline
master major trait One with Fire from firetraitline
master major trait Arcane Ressurection from arcanetraitline
master major trait Tempest Defense from airtraitline
grandmaster major trait Powerful Aura from watertraitline
grandmaster major trait Elemental Bastion from tempesttraitline

summary: 10 traits related to auras, include 9 majors and 1 minor distributed into 6 traitslines, detailed way of distribution: 3 in fire, 2 in air, 2 in water, 1 in earth, 1 in arcana, 2 in tempest.

If we want solve problem with wide range spread accross I suggest limit auras traits to 3 traitslines: xtraitline, xxtraitline, tempesttraitline.

Full aura build would be 3 traitslines with aura tree in each, to tranparent reason they should be nicely put in one verse line.

Minor can be merged to one of major traits or into One with Fire or into other minortraits.

Even so will be worth to build full aura in traits? I don’t think so.

Without that minor it is 3×3×3 to make viable builds we should get tweaks to them that I can’t imagine atm or make it at least 3×2×2, so actual number decreased from 9 to 7, so we could make some viable builds, its means full merging 2 aura related traits, no idea which ones, the only one in my mind is: merge shooting ice into powerful aura and merge zephyr’s boon into elemental shielding.

How would you solve it? There are many topics to talk, but I started with sorting auras even views about aura type of skill is not always good.

I can´t agree to pack aura traits is good. Of course it would make aura builds more powerful taking that lines. Now you have to decide what to take, which isn´t a bad thing as long as there is enough. You just generate diffrent aura builds.

Wolfric.9380:

I can´t agree to pack aura traits is good. Of course it would make aura builds more powerful taking that lines. Now you have to decide what to take, which isn´t a bad thing as long as there is enough. You just generate diffrent aura builds.

Compacting aura related traits from 6 traitsline (they couldn’t spread it more) into 3 traitlines would be huge change, even 4 traitslines would be ok.

It makes more sense if you see auras for eles like for example clones for mesmers. They have clone traits all over their lines too because it’s a class mechanic and all of their weapons have at least 1 clone (like eles and auras).

I like having the option to spec for different aura type builds if possible.

Eles just need some defense packed into the main class with according nerfs to water+arcane sustain, and some changes to underpowered utilities and we’d be free to have some other specs besides boring old d/d cele.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

It makes more sense if you see auras for eles like for example clones for mesmers. They have clone traits all over their lines too because it’s a class mechanic and all of their weapons have at least 1 clone (like eles and auras).

I like having the option to spec for different aura type builds if possible.

Eles just need some defense packed into the main class with according nerfs to water+arcane sustain, and some changes to underpowered utilities and we’d be free to have some other specs besides boring old d/d cele.

Yeah I understand and like thematically spread. I’m just courious how it would looks compating tchem and in which way to do that.

Arcana skills could get small tweak that would give the that flavor to make tchem more popular.

Conjures needs from small tweaks to total reworks.

Glyphs need tweak.

Signets could see small tweaks.

Cantrips no longer provide might from traits so maybe some defensive boost could happen.