Guild Wars 2

Is there any reason why a trait that must be taken if you want to go into Death Magic and which tends to more often be a hindrance than a help cannot be toggled on and off? I can’t count the times I’ve been glad for the minion (I’m not running a MM build) nor can I count how often it’s screwed me over – the former because it’s so rare and the latter because it happens so often.

In a game where positioning is so important it just feels weird that we are punished for taking even 5 points into one of the trait lines.

It should be toggled right off the passive auto pick, and into the optional traits.

This has been complained about for months, and ignored for months, while they make random changes to other things out of the blue that aren’t even under discussion in the community. It’s bizarre.

Both the first two passives in the Death Magic line are gimpy, next to worthless to a non minion master.

Yeah, Protection of the Horde is useless to a non MM although that is still something I can understand (minor traits sometimes have limited usefulness). It would be nice if it was made into an optional trait but at least it’s not actually detrimental to take it like Reanimator is.

They should switch around the minor traits a bit there, or make it so when the thing dies I at least get life force for it.

Can we have a toggle for all our traits? I feel like if every single player turned off the same few traits, it would be the slap in the face necessary to rework some of these said traits. I say this remembering my necromancer days with that reanimator trait and of my more recent days as a thief with that godawful last refuge trait. Toggle is a good thing.

Making the DM auto traits blatantly favor one theme (minions) over any other was just a bad design decision that should have not made it past beta.

Especially in a game that punishes you for having AI dependent performance.

Or just make it not terrible.

MMs don’t even want the traits… they’re just all around terrible