Guild Wars 2

I remember guard used to have a boon stripping trait before the last update. I was looking for it recently and couldnt find it. Did I miss it or was it removed?

It was in radiance if i recall it, got removed.

It got removed, sadly. It was a really neat idea that was only a few number changes away from being a core trait in burning builds.

the cd on it was too long anyways

I used to use that trait. It was one of only two ways that guardians could strip boons.

Now the only option is Superior Sigil of Nullification, which is only a chance (60% chance on critical to remove a boon).

The trait should not have been removed.

Anet like to nerf guardians. I always hear crap about how “we are in a good place” but that’s bullkitten if all the other classes keep getting power creeps and we keep getting stealth nerfed.

Yeah, it’s gone.

I covered this a bit in my comments on the stickied upcoming Dragonhunter balance changes thread. It seems like there’s quite a few good places it would fit on the Dragonhunter, and it fits in with the theme of the classs really well. Would be the perfect thing to add to any of those incredibly underwhelming or unsynergetic traits the Dragonhunter has to add a bit more value to them and make them much more worthy of consideration, especially in sPvP (an area of play the Dragonhunter is very notably lacking within).

Alas, it appears my thoughts on the subject have fallen on deaf ears.

now i’m gonna jus thro this out cause why not, they already removed the trait

but what if we could get the same effect on torch #5, since we also ain’t gettin any self cleanse there

what if it, cleansed condi on allies, burned boons on foes?

not as good as having the trait back but, would give us a boon strip

They should put it back in place of the useless Radiant Retaliation. Reduce the cooldown to 7 or 5 seconds. Then we would have more options in Radiance line (Healer’s Retribution is also very weak).

It was a pretty garbage trait considering the 10-second ICD and the fact that it proc’d on burn, giving you basically no control over it since Guardians are pretty much always applying burn.

I would have loved to see it get reworked to something more useable instead of just outright cut, though. Reduce the ICD a bit and put it on something you can actually control (maybe Justice’ active effect, or perhaps even something like “After swapping weapons, your next attack strips a boon”) for instance. But oh well. Its gone now and probably won’t be added back in unless they pick up the idea for a later elite spec trait.

Jaxom.7310:

now i’m gonna jus thro this out cause why not, they already removed the trait

but what if we could get the same effect on torch #5, since we also ain’t gettin any self cleanse there

what if it, cleansed condi on allies, burned boons on foes?

not as good as having the trait back but, would give us a boon strip

I love this idea, it would give me more reasons to use torch 5 instead of just to see the animation.

I would really like a trait in Radiance that makes your VoJ active remove 3 boons on the next hit (only for the guardian). Some effects are pretty bad if they are applied randomly, and boon removal is one of them. Since the power level of different boons varies a lot, you would only want to remove key boons, the old trait was bad because of that.

merchantchuck.4875:

Jaxom.7310:

now i’m gonna jus thro this out cause why not, they already removed the trait

but what if we could get the same effect on torch #5, since we also ain’t gettin any self cleanse there

what if it, cleansed condi on allies, burned boons on foes?

not as good as having the trait back but, would give us a boon strip

I love this idea, it would give me more reasons to use torch 5 instead of just to see the animation.

1 of the prime complaints against torch #5 is the dps for the channel is lower than just auto attacking

if it also had the added benefit of boon stripping, maybe the lower dps wouldn’t matter so much