Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m not the most experienced focus use for the Ele. I’ve used it maybe twice, ever, just to unlock all the skills. So I’ll admit off the bat I’m clueless regarding the focus’s tactical strengths (or weaknesses.) Having said that, why is there no trait available to Eles that reduces focus skill cooldowns? All other professions that use foci (Guadian, Mesmer, Necromancer) get similar traits. Would providing Eles with such a trait simply be OP?

Thanks.

in which traitline would you put that?

Probably in Arcana, seeing as how that trait line is needed most of the time, and already has traits benefitting other weapons like Blasting Staff and the scepter endurance trait.

I guess that’s because we got traits to reduce cds of whole attunement lines, regardless of weapon, other classes do not.

Yeah, there aren’t any weapon-specific cooldown traits on Ele. Not dagger, not staff and not scepter. To add a trait specifically for focus CDs would seem out of place.

That said, the fact that there is no focus trait at all I consider a problem…also, how useless the dagger and scepter traits are compared to other traits in that line seem to be a problem too, barring Blasting Staff for it’s niche use.

Leo G.4501:

Yeah, there aren’t any weapon-specific cooldown traits on Ele. Not dagger, not staff and not scepter. To add a trait specifically for focus CDs would seem out of place.

That said, the fact that there is no focus trait at all I consider a problem…also, how useless the dagger and scepter traits are compared to other traits in that line seem to be a problem too, barring Blasting Staff for it’s niche use.

smacks forehead Duh. I can’t believe I forgot that Eles don’t get any weapon cooldown skills period. I guess I was so focused (lol) on the focus that it slipped my mind.

Yeah, I’d like to see a focus trait added. But honestly after looking around the forums more it seems like it’d be better to first get bufs that make the focus actually viable. Anyway, thanks for your clarification.

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