Guild Wars 2

Minor Adept Trait:

Invigorating Bond:
-Replaces Instinctual Bond. Pet heals allies upon swap.
Reason: Instinctual Bond sucks and I couldn’t find a place for Invigorating Bond.

Adept traits:

Master’s Bond:
-Pet attribute no longer resets upon deactivation.
Reason: This trait is unviable without this change.

Speed Training
-All pet skills + F2 recharge 20% faster
Reason: It is just too redundant to have two separate traits for pets.

Commanding Voice:
-Pets gain quickness upon F2 usage.
Reason: Many F2 skill have way too long of a cast time.

Mighty Swap:
-Grant Might to all party members upon swapping.

Master Traits

Stability Training
-Pet gain stability and protection when disabled.
Reason: This will synergize well with “Protect me” shout + shared anguish. Pet loses health slower in a spike.

Grandmaster traits:

Zephyr’s speed:
-Grant Quickness boon to all party members for 2 seconds.
Reason: The purpose of this trait is to be a party support trait. It synergize very well with Mighty swap and Vigorous training which will grant quickness + Vigor + Might to all party members.

Natural Healing
-Ranger and pet healing per second is switched. However, Ranger loses regeneration if the pet dies.
Reason: To give Bunker Rangers a weakness. Invigorating bond in the minor adept trait line warrants a weakness. However, I believe that the ranger’s pet dying should be a weakness.

New GM trait:

Beast’s bond- Pet leash increases and pet hit harder. +1500 range +10% damage.
Reason: The leash and damage made pets feel like an extension of their arm. I felt like I could trust my pet to keep a player occupied while I am doing something else. The split dps made microing pets fun and viable.

In my suggestions, there are three staple traits for three kind of builds that I have in mind.

• DPS BM build
• Bunker BM build
• Swap support build

DPS BM builds- Their design is to micromanage pets. One class can do two jobs at the same time. Pressure two different people at once. Uses the Beast’s bond trait for increased leash. Master Bond is great for increasing stats. Commanding Voice + Intimidation training is great for quick snaring. Rending attacks + Speed training is good for passive pressure.

Bunker BM builds. Designed to bunker. As long as the pet is alive, the ranger will be hard to kill as like all bunker builds are designed for. They uses Natural healing to keep the Ranger alive. Compassion training is there to buffs the healing power a bit. Stability training is almost a must due to protection on pet. Synergizes well with shared anguish + Protect me shout.

Swap builds. Designed to make use of the swap mechanics to support party members. If Swap builds uses all the swap traits in the BM line, it can heal + might + vigor + quickness for all party members. It is designed for an out of the box support. Such as Heal/vigor for defensive purpose, might for offensive purpose, and quickness has multiple purposes. Quickness can stomp faster, heal up faster, dps faster. In other words, the swap build is made to be a little bit useful at all areas at the same time. Uses all the swap traits to support party members. Players can drop one of the swap traits for shout mastery so they can grant Nature voice boons quicker.

I hope you like my suggestions.

I reworked with DPS BM build in mind, but after looking over it, the Swap support build looks very interesting and unique to play.