Guild Wars 2

Another nitty gritty thing I was wondering the other day. Should the trait minion master that says “Reduces the cooldown of minion skills by 20%” also effect their summoned abilities, like rigor mortis, blind, etc? What do you guys think?

I don’t play with this trait, or any minions except flesh golem for that matter, but if I had to guess I’d assume that this trait already affects both.
If anything the tooltip suggests that their abilities have lower cooldowns.
So imo yes, it should reduce both cds, I’d maybe draw the line at increasing their regular attack speed.

It does not affect both, I know this for a fact; log time MM. However I feel like it should.

It doesn’t, it never has.

I’m not sure. Obviously it would only affect 3 abilities anyway: Haunt, Rigor Mortis, and Charge. But I do feel like it might be a bit too strong of a 10 trait if it did that.

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t mind if it did, but I just wonder if it’d be a bit too good for such a low investment.

You mean it sould also increase their regular attack speed?
I know you’ve been a MM in sPvP forever, so I can’t really argue with you when it comes to balancing minions. However, considering that all other “X Mastery” traits of main hand weapons just reduce cds of their utility skills, this might be a gray area for minion auto attacks.

I’m not asking about auto attacks, it shouldn’t make them attack faster, I’m referring to how Charge, Rigor Mortis and Haunt are minion skills but are not affected by the 20% cool down reduction. I just kinda feel like they should, since a majority of the time that CD is what you watch in a fight, and they are minion abilities.

in my opinion it should effect both