Guild Wars 2

That trait kills me very often.

Whenever I try to stealth and get away, the bomb will attack and put me out of stealth. I can’t trait Evasive Powder Keg out.

What’s worse imo is reserve mines. At least with powder I can choose not to dodge. At 25% drop mines that you can’t detonate and sit around for the other player to walk over one to cause revealed. Again you can’t choose not to take it. : /

I guess that’s their indirect approach to ensuring that Grenadiers are at a disadvantage. X)

what aberrant said.
you have some control over evade bombs, I use them alot to improve my burst;
reserve mines however… they do next to nothing and get you revealed and you can’t avoid not dropping them. I’d rather not have a minor trait than having that.

Reserve Mines is definitely the worse Minor trait, being not only higher up in tier, but also having the snowball potential of killing you with Confusion at 25% HP. I still appreciate the extra damage of EPK (I do believe that it is the highest damage on-dodge proc in game), but there is nothing redeeming about Reserve Mines.

Do Reserve Mines remove a boon like other mines do? If so maybe the trait doesn’t suck as much as we all think it does.

Yes, they do remove a boon per mine, per person hit. It’s annoying nuking off an explosives Engie and losing the 2 minutes of swiftness I had built up because I touch one of the mines.

Yes, evasive powder keg can be annoying as hell (in the video linked in my signature it triggered revealed a couple of times) but its very high damage is very useful.

Definitely wouldn’t want it to just be removed.

Reserve mines has always just been one of the most garbage traits ever though. I mean, if it at least had a lower cooldown like 10-20 seconds, I know I’d be crazy enough to try a build that tried to stay around 25% health just spewing mines everywhere.