Guild Wars 2

Upgrade the trait from adept to master, now signets clear 1 condition on activation , this along side the the 20% CD reduction. To make space for it, downgrade geomancer freedom to adept trait.

Discuss

You’d have to increase the base cooldowns then of all the good signets which would wreck all the signet builds.

Way overpowered.

Why increase CD?

We’re talking about eles going 30 in earth in order to maintain the benefits of the signet with Written in stone.

Furthermore it’s a single condition removal for signet in a game where some professions can apply 3/4 condis with the auto-attack, you then lose all the benefits of cantrips…no way this trait would be OP with the suggested change

If you add an additional feature to a trait, you have to add a drawback due to “balance philosophy”. Increasing CD for the signets would be the first thing to pick. This will hurt players who don’t play with 6 in Earth most.
The Ele has so few build variety (competitive play) at the moment and it would limit the use of signets outside of builds with Written in Stone even more.

All the changes the Ele had the past two years has not changed the Ele in any significant way. Water, Arcana, Cantrips is the “holy trinity” of the profession that is still untouched.
I agree that buffing signets could break that trinity, but if you look at Glyphs and Arcane skills, they might even need more help than Signets.

Mesmer have condition cleanse on signet use alone as a IX trait in Chaos, I’m not sure if it would be fair to have condition cleanse + CD reduction in single trait on master level…

but I’m all for it, it could reduce the cantrip meta a bit, ele need more defensive options in other lines, because he is a dead meat without somehow defensive spec

how about scrapping the Geomancers freedom and adding the condition cleanse on signet use instead of it? so you could pick the CD reduction adept, condi cleanse master and written in stone grandmaster… what do you think?