Guild Wars 2

Half of the Tempest traits are absolute trash because of the way they are implemented. We literally have every trait fight against every other trait to achieve the same thing they try to achieve but in different ways and fail miserably.

Look at the Daredevil or the Berserker or even the Reaper trait lines. There’s clearly a trait that helps with survivability, with raw dps, and with condi. With Tempest… we have traits that literally don’t make sense. The entire major and grandmaster trait lines do nothing but support. Stuff like Latent Stamina and the Warhorn trait support so kitten terribly, no one has a reason to pick them. Why pick 20% boon duration on a class that was made to PROVIDE AURAS when you provide heal on auras — and why the hell do we have two grandmasters that both achieve support? Why would you put an on-aura regen/vigor in the same line as the shout trait (as terrible as it is)?

Yeah. Only one choice for grandmaster, two for master and maybe two for adept. It is pretty lame.

I’ve seen some people wanting Elemental Bastion nerfed to oblivion. So I was wondering what he’d expect Tempest to do without it.

I play Marauder Tempest: there is no reason to use anything else at the moment.