Guild Wars 2

Hi Guys

I just wanted to ask if the Adrenal Implant (50% Endurance Regen) GM Trait in Tools stacks with vigor such as the Optimized Activation Minor Trait which also gives 50% Endurance Regen. I did test it yesterday but it seems with the Adrenal Implant trait selected , even though i have vigor from the minor trait, it doesn’t seem to regen any faster than when i do not have vigor from the minor trait.

I’m not too sure how Vigor works but i would think that with the 50% endurance regen from the minor trait and the 50% endurance regen from Adrenal Implant, I would have 100% Endurance regen, but it seems that they don’t stack and i get the normal 50% regen from Adrenal Implant thereby wasting that minor traits effect.

I too don’t see the point of the GM with vigor coming from the same trait line. Yes you may not always have vigor up, but for an entire Grandmaster to just become useless is slightly dissapointing.

I did a test on this after the spec patch, recorded both samples in 60 fps and analyzed them frame by frame. They do in fact not stack.

I made a thread about this shortly after, suggesting alternatives to stacking if having 100% endurance regen is considered to strong.
Alternatives can be giving an additional boon or effect when giving yourself or allies vigor, or have a new passive effect while you have vigor.

For example, Adrenal Implant can also read: Granting vigor also removes Weakness.
Or: Successfully evading while under the effect of vigor consume the vigor and creates a AoE dmg effect. (only active while in combat and not stealthed).

Yea , perhaps they could change Adrenal Implant to something that increases Vigor effectiveness or duration on you but i do realise thieves wont be to happy about that so maybe change it to for each vigor application that you recieve you get resistance for 2-3 secs , with maybe a 5-10 second icd.

Doesn’t stack. And yea lackluster design :/

All they need to do is revert it to the ‘toolbelt skills grant 10 endurance on use’ (20% of a dodge) that it was pre core specs. That and give us back something for the 2nd minor already.

I always thought it will stack, because max endureg you can have is 100% and Vigor gives you 50% and you have 50% passive. If it do not stack it is really a bad design

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as i am thinking about it maybe it is so that vigor gives 50% endureg of the already applied 50% passive so you have 75% increase

Swap OptimizedActivation with StreamLinedKits or rework OA