Guild Wars 2

Signet Dominance
Improves the Passive Effects of Signets.
Signet of Domination: Additionally increases condition damage by 80.
Signet of Illusions: Illusions additionally share your boons.
Signet of Inspiration: Now grants two random boon every ten seconds.
Signet of Midnight: Additionally gain 3% reduced damage for boon you have.

I was asked to give a go on how to improve mesmer, so here I am.

Signet of Domination: Additionally increases condition damage by 80.

Pretty basic. Okay, i think.

Signet of Illusions: Illusions additionally share your boons.

I really like this one.

Signet of Inspiration: Now grants two random boon every ten seconds.

I’d rather see it proc every 5s instead, but ok.

Signet of Midnight: Additionally gain 3% reduced damage for boon you have.

This could potentially be very op…a PU stealth build has around ~5 permanent boons (Retaliation, Protection, Regeneration, Might, Fury). That would mean 15% dmg reduction, combined with 33% from protection and possible 9% from Illusionary Defense = 57% reduced damage.

A few good ideas here but what we really need is a passive +25% movement speed so we aren’t forced to take focus, centaur/air runes or staff (spamming #2 to run from a zerg).

I like these ideas. They seem like a great way to boost signets without making them overpowered. Signets are very niche right now, and often lose out to other, more useful utilities. I think this could make them even more powerful.

I was just thinking about signets earlier today after a laughably one-sided fight I had with a condition mesmer. Thank you for taking the time to come up with some good ideas!

Some ok ideas but those concerning Signet of Illusions and Signet of Midnight would clearly be OP …

The midnight one would be OP, I really like the other ideas though!
I also have 2 other trait ideas:
Blurred inscriptions: (dueling master) activating signets applies 1 s distortion.. Activating signets are instant.
Signet mastery (chaos master): signets have 20% decreased cooldowns and apply 10s swiftness when activated.

Maybe we can add your idea and put it in domination or something! So the traits would be spread out nicely.

I think it would be cool if the signet of midnight + trait gives 25% increased movement speed as passive! In my trait rebalance thread i have a spot open in domination adept, would make open world pve allt easier at level20 ^__^.

Iavra.8510:

A few good ideas here but what we really need is a passive +25% movement speed so we aren’t forced to take focus, centaur/air runes or staff (spamming #2 to run from a zerg).

This !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I already love signet of domination with a pistol/condition build. a little more condition damage might just be icing on the cake. But I do wonder if the extra 80 condition damage would actually be worth taking up a trait spot.

Kaamau.5341:

I already love signet of domination with a pistol/condition build. a little more condition damage might just be icing on the cake. But I do wonder if the extra 80 condition damage would actually be worth taking up a trait spot.

Maybe signet of domination should do something with control effects? Or confusion?

Maybe make the traited signet give “33% increased daze and stun duration” or “inflict conditions when dealing damage to a controlled foe”.
I like the second one because its a condition signet, i was thinking 1stack confusion for 10s with an internal cooldown of 1s!

I think they’re really unbalanced as per that idea.
The ideas aren’t bad, but the power difference between them is huge for a single trait.

Carighan.6758:

I think they’re really unbalanced as per that idea.
The ideas aren’t bad, but the power difference between them is huge for a single trait.

I like traits that you can make builds around without breaking the current ones.

Yes its OP if you trait/spec for it (maybe?) but is it as good as the best build?

Maybe change one of them like midnight to a semi permanent speedbuff like other classes have. No idea how much sense that makes but the whole damage reduction is too strong and other classes will flood the mesmer forum crying =)