Guild Wars 2

With all of the trait merging happening, is anyone else a little disappointed that they chose not to merge the larger marks with 20% staff cooldown? It seemed like a good opertunity to free up 10 points that alot of necros would use towards other traits.

Is anyone else a little disappointing about this missed opportunity?

I’m disappointed that Greater Marks isn’t baseline and the unblockable added to Staff Mastery

agreed.
every single build i have has 10 points into Death Magic just for improved marks to get the larger area effect.

Would be nice if they were merged into one but i feel then i would be too strong for a adept trait. It would be likely if they did to be moved up to a least master

I mean, yea, it’s disappointing, but given everything else we got I’m willing to overlook it for another month or two.

I can only agree. Staff without greater marks is pretty useless… Not sure why they made them so small…

Magi.8643:

Would be nice if they were merged into one but i feel then i would be too strong for a adept trait. It would be likely if they did to be moved up to a least master

If they make it master itll kitten mm EVEN MORE than it already is. Minion cd reduction is adept but we have to pass on it to get 50% increased hp for minions in master and still get greater marks. Greater marks trait existing kitten es me off

I am hoping it was because they didn’t want to change too much. I like some of the changes like the well cooldowns, but this was a big one on my list. Most necros use the staff so freeing up 10 points would free up more build diversity I think

but then, they could have dropped flesh of the master down to adept. honestly, no one is going to take that trait unless they are going MM and putting 30 in death magic. then make the improved staff in the master tree. minion cd reduction is meh imo.

Spiteful Marks also could have been thrown in to with other staff stuff.

Dagger Mastery & Quickening Thirst, and bump it up to 25% movement speed. (Anyone acutally go 30 points blood magic to get 10 or 15% movement speed with dagger?!!)

Dhuumfire – Curse’s tree no Spite? It use’s Cond Dam & requires Pre to trigger it. Shrugs

They keep it ready for the 2015 update, they won’t sell easily what the community want.

While I wasn’t really expecting staff mastery and greater marks to get mixed together, I felt like having 4 staff/mark traits was sort of low-hanging fruit for trait compression. Maybe another time. :/

Greater marks and the cooldown reduction in one trait would be a little much I think… What would be good is having soul marks merged into one of them

Jewel.1457:

Greater marks and the cooldown reduction in one trait would be a little much I think… What would be good is having soul marks merged into one of them

That would fix all of about nothing

Woodycooks.7152:

agreed.
every single build i have has 10 points into Death Magic just for improved marks to get the larger area effect.

Yup, the staff is such a great weapon for either condition or power build its almost a must in my opinion. Sad greater marks arnt baseline.