Guild Wars 2

Started playing around with the focus for the first time in PvP and noticed there wasn’t a trait in the Arcane line (or any line!) that specifically benefits focus users. Yes, it took me this long to realize this! Anyway, every other weapon set (scepter, dagger, and staff) all have traits to benefit them. I do realize that those are all the main hand weapons but the dagger trait does give a bonus for having a dagger in the off-hand. Just curious if anyone knew the reason for this.

I couldnt tell you tbh they should give a trait for focus users. Though nobody really uses the traits for dagger or scepter that I know of staff trait is almost always taken though.

Focus could have some traits indeed, but I have hard time to imagine what anet would give us. Maybe just add “and focus” to the dagger traits In the end hardly anyone picks these. Since focus has mostly defensive type skills some trait with regens or bonus toughness come to mind – dunno, maybe some day we see something. Some new GM traits coming soon, so in future maybe other traits get replaced/renewed, especially the ones never used (10% faster resurrecting etc)…

I’m using condi build atm and with earth traits I took 20% faster recharge, really nice to have these 2 skills back up much faster. Air #5 is very long cooldown and it often misses if enemy keeps dodging around or you fight thief/mesmer/guarian with lot of stealthing or blocking (aegis) – wasted often, but cba to go into air just to reduce cd on that. Water chill and comet have ok cooldowns/effect imo. Other than that not much useful/needed skills there.

Yeah it would be interesting just to see what they came up with to see a trait for the focus. Blasting staff has its uses , vigorous scepter sometimes gets used (although the vigor on crit is basically better if you crit at all), and the dagger one could be useful for people that lack swiftness… its at least nice to have those options.