Guild Wars 2

Pure of Sight
+10% damage to anything outside 600 range
^ Its a dragonhunter. It has a longbow. I understand this
-> However. This specifically tells players “sorry melee weapons are not welcome here”. If there are traits in the line that give more of an advantage to melee than to ranged, and this is in place to balance it out, that’s OK. BUT if this is put in place to encourage the Dragonhunter play style than there has got to be a better way. Maybe just a damage bonus for anybody with a negative condition on them? Anything but long range being the requirement. Because

1: It works kinda oddly with the virtue of Justice tether. You have to keep them far, but not to far

2: I was hunting dragon spawn loooong before this specialization. Lemme tell ya, never once did I feel the need for them to be anywhere but close enough to GS#2

think of it as traiting zeal while playing sword torch scepter focus. :p

Q.Q sword torch is my offhand, Ive always had to avoid the zeal line because of it. I was hoping I could use Dragonhunter as a second offence line. Also you’d have the same issue with that setup, half of it wouldn’t be effected by zeal minors, the other half wouldn’t be effected by pure of sight. RIP

So how do you feel about ‘Stone Splinters’? The new Spec. uses longbow. Having traits that increase damage of the longbow is not out place in this line. Scepter can also take advantage of this trait. The DPs GM looked pretty ‘melee friendly’ if I remember correctly.

I like it. It makes appealing and enticing options.

Yes the 15% GM seems too good to be true

There are tons of traits that give bonus damage to X weapon. It’s the same deal here.
It’s even compatible with all of guardian’s ranged options.

It’s a longbow trait. Of course it’s made to primarily benefit the longbow…

Rabbit, there ARE plenty of traits that give damage to X weapon. and they are all OPTIONAL. They don’t punish you for using a trait line together with over half the weapons available to your class.

P.S. Big game hunter. Still usable with longbow. Pure of Sight, still not useable with everything else

P.P.S. Remember at the reveal of the new trait system how they said they didn’t want players to feel bad for picking traits? Yeaaaaaaah this is kinda that thing

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Rabbit, there ARE plenty of traits that give damage to X weapon. and they are all OPTIONAL. They don’t punish you for using a trait line together with over half the weapons available to your class.

P.S. Big game hunter. Still usable with longbow. Pure of Sight, still not useable with everything else

P.P.S. Remember at the reveal of the new trait system how they said they didn’t want players to feel bad for picking traits? Yeaaaaaaah this is kinda that thing

Oh, it’s a minor trait? Then, yeah, I agree with you. They went to great lengths to make sure minor traits are compatible with all builds, and that was something they focused on during the trait revamp video.

Maybe they could switch it with Hunter’s Fortification.