Guild Wars 2

This kind of trait should affect our pet by default. Prime candidate for merger with Opening Strike.

Then move Steady Focus into the Master Minor slot and create a new Master trait. Something that has synergy with Vulnerability or Movement Impeding conditions.

Oh and can we get Predator’s Instinct duration and recharge cut by 66% and have the health conditional removed, please? It is just never used because of that and yet it has such great potential.

Steady Focus is more in-line as a GM minor when seeing other profession trait lines. Doesn’t mean much at 80, but level progression and all that jazz. Anyway, I wouldn’t mind seeing Alpha Training merged with Opening Strike, and possibly have the old trait that allowed Pet F2 to cause cripple back in the Master slot.

It fits the line with one cripple themed trait in each tier and Irenio won’t have to come up with something new a few days away from launch if he wants to shoe-horn this change in.

Alpha Training’s a big reward for taking Beastmastery so no, I don’t agree that rangers should get the Beastmastery goodies for free. If you want the stats then spec the line.

Frankly I’m extatic they made Beastmastery such a great line for my playstyle – pets and greatsword.

If you have a problem with Marksmanship then okay, the 3 Opening Strike minors probably should be a single minor. That leaves 2 marksmanship-themed minors: say extra critical damage vs vulnerable foes for one and a chance to inflict vuln on crit for another.

I don’t like the idea of arbitrary cripple spam on minors, nor do I like minors in markmanship that have anything to do with taking advantage of snares. I’d prefer the theme to be around vulnerability and damage multipliers.

Marksmanship should be about precise, killing blows without much nonsense.

Cirian.8917:

Alpha Training’s a big reward for taking Beastmastery so no, I don’t agree that rangers should get the Beastmastery goodies for free. If you want the stats then spec the line.

Frankly I’m extatic they made Beastmastery such a great line for my playstyle – pets and greatsword.

Alpha Training is a Marksmanship trait.

Cirian.8917:

If you have a problem with Marksmanship then okay, the 3 Opening Strike minors probably should be a single minor.

That is what the OP is asking for.

I’d like to see the Marksmanship minors merged and add might stacking as theme of Opening Strike as well.

Predator’s Instinct is also a terrible trait and definitely needs either big CD reduction or complete redesign

There are a bunch of traits that the devs needs to go over, for all classes. I really hope they will find time for that now after HoT release.

It would be nice if pet’s got the condi cleanse from Wilderness Knowledge as well. Maybe then burn guards wouldn’t absolutely #rekt my pet.

OGDeadHead.8326:

There are a bunch of traits that the devs needs to go over, for all classes. I really hope they will find time for that now after HoT release.

They said they would do balance patches 2 weeks before each PVP season, which would be about 4 balance patches per year after HoT (assuming once per season). I hope/expect traits will be looked at or just flat out replaced to keep the game a bit more fresh.

Levetty.1279:

Cirian.8917:

Alpha Training’s a big reward for taking Beastmastery so no, I don’t agree that rangers should get the Beastmastery goodies for free. If you want the stats then spec the line.

Frankly I’m extatic they made Beastmastery such a great line for my playstyle – pets and greatsword.

Alpha Training is a Marksmanship trait.

Cirian.8917:

If you have a problem with Marksmanship then okay, the 3 Opening Strike minors probably should be a single minor.

That is what the OP is asking for.

It’s like they didn’t read my post at all and just posted based on the thread title.

Cirian.8917:

Marksmanship should be about precise, killing blows without much nonsense.

Precise killing blows in a line that is taken for a weapon that machine guns arrows and a sword that kills through 1000 cuts?

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