I have been thinking a lot about this trait and after recent changes to Sigil of Energy I feel this trait should be buffed.
In theory it’s a 10% damage increase but in practice there’s little “effect” in this trait. In order to benefit from this trait you need to avoid any dodge-roll which is a bad design. Dodge roll is a core mechanic in GW2 and shouldn’t be counter-productive like this.
Also, while pet is supposed to be a core portion of your DPS – it isn’t affected by this trait. (I also believe all traits, boons and buffs should be shared with our pet baseline)
And last but not least – if compared to Warrior’s trait Stick and Move (that is baseline while we have to make a choice), warrior’s get all their DPS increased by 10% at 99% stages of their endurance amount (and other traits encourage them to use dodge).
- To keep us in line with other professions and their modifiers I suggest reducing the limitation of Steady Focus trait to while above 50% endurance and making it include pet as well.
“Observe, learn and counter.”
Yeah, it’s a freecasting trait. Punishing people who ignore you and let you freecast. Endurance is easily replenishable by time
Making the modifier active at 50% endurance would make it almost permanent, denying the embedded mechanic of the trait. It’s fine as it is, imo.
That’s the point.
Warriors have it active 99% of the time.
Why can’t we when we are so behind in scaling ?
“Observe, learn and counter.”
You don’t have to avoid dodge rolling to get its benefit.
You need to position yourself in such a way that you can free-cast to get its benefit.
But if I had to make a change to it, I would liken it to:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lead_Attacks
a thief gm minor trait that increases dmg per initiative unspent.
So maybe it could be modified to increase dmg per 10pts of endurance?
Well, that’s the point. There’s no place in the world where you could “AFK LB #1”. If there is – the environment has nothing in common with the competitive part of the game.
I like the idea of damage per endurance. +1
“Observe, learn and counter.”
The current implementation even tells people “dont dodge” which is kind of horrible.
Well, I think you can read it in a different way: “Don’t waste your dodges; position yourself better”.
In PvP it says:
Stay at spawn point and never leave it
In PvE it says:
Camp the most overrated weapon we currently have and never attend raids.
“Don’t waste dodge when you clearly need to” is a horrible counter-statement. There isn’t a single environment in GW2 where dodge rolls are not needed.
“Observe, learn and counter.”
Seems like that trait just doesn’t suit your playstyle or smth. I’ve been using it with my old pre-hot power ranger build and I was quite ok with its unreliable uptime (30-40-ish%, I guess) cause I thought it still was a good modifier; and it also synergized pretty well with WS minor adept trait “Natural Vigor” and good vigor boon uptime through LR…
The only thing it seems for this trait to be is that it’s inferior to the very same kind of modifiers of other classes.
And that’s all there is to it.
Warrior’s one is the one with good Synergy. They even use dodge roll in their DPS rotation because their dodge was made to deal damage and actually results in DPS increase.
Our trait has no synergy with stuff, tbh. Compare the glorious synergy with Light on Your Feet, please. I’ll wait for your argument.
“Observe, learn and counter.”
Seems like that trait just doesn’t suit your playstyle or smth. I’ve been using it with my old pre-hot power ranger build and I was quite ok with its unreliable uptime (30-40-ish%, I guess) cause I thought it still was a good modifier; and it also synergized pretty well with WS minor adept trait “Natural Vigor” and good vigor boon uptime through LR…
The only thing it seems for this trait to be is that it’s inferior to the very same kind of modifiers of other classes.
And that’s all there is to it.
Warrior’s one is the one with good Synergy. They even use dodge roll in their DPS rotation because their dodge was made to deal damage and actually results in DPS increase.
Our trait has no synergy with stuff, tbh. Compare the glorious synergy with Light on Your Feet, please. I’ll wait for your argument.
I don’t really want to argue, I just expressed my opinion that this trait is quite alright. It suits ranged playstyle of lb ranger pretty well, while both warrior’s traits suit his melee playstyle more. May be “Steady Focus” should affect pets too, which would be in line with the overall ranger profession theme, but I’m really hesitant to suggest that with all the recent bristleback “hype”.
No one really uses that traitline for damage in PvP.
And your opinion says exactly what is wrong with the trait.
It promotes AFK bearbow playstyle. And that’s a wrong thing to have.
It doesn’t offer almost anything to correct game-play (which includes melee combat on weapon swap, too).
This game should be balanced around competitive environment and this trait is one of those which do not meet the expectations. It’s user-unfriendly.
I’m aware it does the trick at AFK LB “pewpew” builds – but those builds have nothing in common with competitive PvE or PvP at all.
“Observe, learn and counter.”
yeah, but there are lots of even worse passive afk stuff in this game, why then you’ve been picking on this one petty trait? making it dynamic to the proportion of endurance you currently have (“damage per endurance” idea you have supported) won’t make it less passive.
It will, however, make it more competitive.
You can’t create a game where everything is active. You do need passive or semi-passive traits. And making this trait a mini-game of endurance management rather than 1-0 switch sounds like a good change. Especially when you are stuck at 0 for much more than not.
Most importantly it’s not fair that our class is discriminated in comparison to any other class with +10% modifier. In both efficiency and uptime.
We are the class with the least effect while also being the class with the lowest scaling in the entire game.
Other traits with horrible design have been discussed and explained countless of times. This one, however, was not.
“Observe, learn and counter.”