Guild Wars 2

As title. I don’t see what the scepter trait is doing in the symbol line while its other counter part (right hand strength) is in Radiance. Why not merge them together.

RHS already provides reduced cooldowns for sword skills along with the increased critical chance. I think adding this one to it would make it too powerful, particularly for sword/scepter builds.

I think the greater issue here is that the scepter trait is competing with Fiery Wrath, which, even post-nerf, is still far and away the best selection for Zeal’s adept trait.

You could say the same thing about the axe or GS sword for warrior though. I don’t even mind if they move it up to other tiers.

Zeal is about burns and symbols. Guess what smite procs a lot of? You guessed it. VoJ burns. What with the way things are currently, I understand why they can’t make smite a symbol without reworking the entire tree to balance the kitten out. If you grab that trait + strength sigil, you can actually drum up some rather decent might on a good duration too. RHS and the radiance minor traits ensure that you enjoy a solid 25% boost to crit rate, which makes cele very appetizing and rampager just over the top in terms of crit.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Zeal is about burns and symbols. Guess what smite procs a lot of? You guessed it. VoJ burns. What with the way things are currently, I understand why they can’t make smite a symbol without reworking the entire tree to balance the kitten out. If you grab that trait + strength sigil, you can actually drum up some rather decent might on a good duration too. RHS and the radiance minor traits ensure that you enjoy a solid 25% boost to crit rate, which makes cele very appetizing and rampager just over the top in terms of crit.

Fiery Wrath is 7% damage, meaning you’d need to produce roughly 7 stacks of might more consistently than you can simply keep things burning. The amount of situations that will happen is incredibly small. This is certainly one of those trios of traits that is imbalanced, something that they were supposed to be fixing with this trait change. This trait needs a little extra oomf, and the Aegis→retal one… yeah…

SlayerSixx.5763:

Guess what smite procs a lot of? You guessed it. VoJ burns.

Assuming all the hits landed yeah. Last time I check, enemies like to move around. Radiance burns too, alot more. If you dont have symbols, you waisted few traits on symbols already.

quaniesan.8497:

SlayerSixx.5763:

Guess what smite procs a lot of? You guessed it. VoJ burns.

…. Last time I check, enemies like to move around. ….

Zeal could be so much better designed over all its just sad.

To make any real use of the tree as is you pretty much have to have mace or hammer.