Guild Wars 2

So i was reworking my build for pve/dungeons, and was about to use “blade training” +50precision and recharge sword skills by 20%.. sounds great right? i love sword focus. as well as sword sword. but turns out the recharge only affects skill 2, and has no affect on offhand sword.

so i started looking and it is the same for the pistol skill, you only get 2 skills with pistol, and recharge only affects skill 5. same thing with the greatsword, only affects skill 3 and 5

is this because the unaffected skills are generally phantasms and since i already have more than 5 points in illusions i already get the 20% recharge on summons? so recharge is capped at 20%?

are the skills still worth taking just for the added bonus to prec or power?

Do you also have 5+ points in Illusions?
This gives you another -20% CD on any Clone or Phantasm spawning trait, but, the tooltip does not reflect this.

In other words:

• Blade Training = -20% CD on all skills on the weapon
• Illusionist’s Celerity = -20% CD on all clone or phantasm skills, i.e. Sword #3 or Pistol #4
• Both of the above = -40% CD on Sword #3 or Pistol #4, but the tooltip only shows -20% (use it, check the actual CD!)

ok so the tooltip just does not reflect the actual number, i admit i did not sit there and time the skills. was just reading through all the descriptions in the traitlines and noticed nothing changing on the tooltip when u swap in the specific trait.

Thank you for the clarification.

Actually, blade training is bugged not to work on sword 3, which is very annoying. It does, however, work on all 3 other skills that you can have from swords.

If anything I find Blade Training more useful for the spear.

The 2 seconds less on BF is completely unnecessary if you’re switching weapons regularly in your rotation.

The cooldown reduction skills are lacklaster because they only effect 3 out of 5 skills.

it effects all of them. and stacks with clerity

At least the Mesmer cooldown skills all have additional effects as well as the CD reduce (and some are quite good, like the Focus). Professions like Guardian get nothing but CD reduction on their similar skills. Not sure why traits are so uneven like that between classes.