With the good news, that Robert is listening to the community and reworked a part of the lackluster ‘Blood Magic’-necro-support trait line, I think it is time to get back to this thread.
Minor-Traits
Persisting Images - I like the +Health part, don’t care about Retaliation.
Protected Phantasms - CD should get removed.
Phantasmal Healing - Radius is too small.
Adept
Feedback - perfect
Mender’s Purity - The strongest trait in the whole trait. This would be my definition of a grandmaster trait.
Vigorous Revelation - At least it needs a scaling with the number of illusions shattered.
Master
Warden’s Feedback - perfect; maybe an overkill, but would love to see ‘Phantasmal Warden’ with permanent swiftness.
Restorative Illusions - maybe with aoe?
Compounding Celerity - With the requirement of three illusions up, I want to be faster than with swiftness; how about increase 10% to 13% or 14%?
Grandmaster
Shattered Conditions - not sure.
llusionary Inspiration - looks good for PvE
Temporal Enchanter - Probably best used for Portal and Veil; wouldn’t use it unless I’m in a WvW-Golem-Zerg.
Mantras
Most traits look good, or at least fine, but there is really only one trait why I’d consider this traitline: ’Mender’s Purity’ when playing with ‘mantra of recovery’. But unless the problem with ‘Deceptive Evasion’ and ‘Harmounious Mantras’ is fixed, I can’t even play with ‘mantra of recovery’ anymore.
Scaling
The biggest problem I have with the traits is scaling. F.e. ’Mender’s Purity’ is super strong with ‘Mantra of Recovery’, good with Mirror, but only ok with Ether Feast,. and lackluster with ‘Signet of the Ether’. How about adjusting the strength of the condi cleans depending on the healing skill you are using?
I have the same problem with the shatter-traits.
Let’s take ‘Shattered Conditions’ as the most problematic: 1 aoe condiremove every 13 seconds from mind wrack is ok, but in a pvp battle, the damage portion is far more important. There I have to shatter when the target is vulnerable (f.e. immobilized, no blocks up etc), not for the condi remove. Therefore I can’t really qualify the condi remove on mind wrack as ‘on demand’ but rather as random.
How about increasing the numbers of conditions removed depending on the shatter skill you are using?
strongest traits
1.) Mender’s Purity
2.) Medic’s Feedback
[Great, the (at least for me) two strongest traits are both adept :/ ]
3.) Shattered Conditions
(With focus Warden’s Feedback, and ’Signet of Inspiration for PvE)
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