Guild Wars 2

One of the grandmaster traits for Skirmishing, Moment of Clarity, grants an Attack of Opportunity on interrupt (5s cooldown), allowing you and your pet to deal 50% extra damage on your next attack.

The problem is that the Ranger only has 3 controlled interrupts – Longbow 4, Greatsword 5, and Shortbow 5. And one of these interrupts is redundant with the effect – worse than redundant, actually. The greatsword’s 5th skill, Hilt Bash grants your pet the Attack of Opportunity as well and does not stack with the trait. This means that the trait gives you a net benefit of YOU having your next hit deal 50% bonus damage – less than half of its intended power, given the low damage of the Greatsword.

My suggestion is to have AoO partially stack in effect, but not all at once for obvious balance reasons. Instead, each attack would consume one stack of AoO until you run out of stacks.

Last time I read a thread about it, it was tested so that you gained a Moment of Clarity when YOU were interrupted. Trait really needs to be clarified/reworked, I agree its pretty lackluster for a Grandmaster.

Fate.8673:

Last time I read a thread about it, it was tested so that you gained a Moment of Clarity when YOU were interrupted. Trait really needs to be clarified/reworked, I agree its pretty lackluster for a Grandmaster.

That makes the trait even worse….. Puts it entirely out of your control.

Lol, this is why I don’t put 30 points in skirmishing, the grandmaster traits are simply atrocious. Fear not, I think ranger is going to be reworked entirely. At least utility skills and weapon reworks are fairly well confirmed. I don’t know much about traits (but I really hope they are redone as well).

Some of the traits are good, like signets onto the ranger is GREAT, the problem is it requires you to spec to 30 in a tree, maybe if stone CD was like 60, and wild was like 80, but right now, you spec 30 points into a tree for what, 120 CD skills? thats not worth it imo. if it was maybe the 20, that would be great.

Cause look at NM, the 15 trait is “pets gain all boons that you do” this is GREAT for setting up stacking buffs, it is at 15!

Problem is it is in NM which has very little other benefits for you, and I feel like they should rework the BM line to have the “Share boons” and “Share signets” thus making people who spec into BM be able to really “Synergize” with their pet.

A whole rehaul would be cool, but shifting them around would also be really good.

I actually like a few of traits on the skirmishing line, pet prowess, quick draw…thats about it, everything else is mediocre.