Guild Wars 2

I’d been running a 0/25/30/0/15 build for a while with berserker gear and survival utilities. Today, I swapped to 0/30/30/0/10 with carrion gear and traps.

For the most part, I adore the build. But god, what I wouldn’t give for that last number to be a 15. I really miss loud whistle. I -really- miss it. Being able to refresh pets and have a little quickness burst every 16 seconds instead of 20 was amazing. It hurts my heart to give it up.

I tried some different things. I tried taking points out of survival to put in to BM. But this meant giving up empathic bond, my big condition removal. I considered trying to swap from troll unguent to healing spring, but the amount of derailing in to healing power and regen duration it takes to make healing spring actually keep my health up seems ridiculous, and it’s frustratingly immobile condition removal—6 conditions over 15 seconds over 30 seconds would be great if I was ever actually able to stay in the field without putting myself in much more danger than it’s worth. It’s such a clunky spell.

I tried biting my lip and sticking out the 20 second pet swap time. But it hurts. Especially with them soaking up conditions from empathic bond.

I’ve been considering swapping to signet of purity, but then my pet would be slow or else I’d have to take +30% speed on them over +30% damage, and -I’d- be slow, and feel much worse off for it.
And if I just had one trap I wouldn’t be much of a trapper.

I tried mentally wishing arenanet would somehow let me turn the 25 point surv trait in to the 15 point BM trait but that didn’t seem to work. Apparently my latent psychic abilities are still very latent.

And I sure as hell don’t want to give up trap potency.

I don’t know what to do. I can’t think of any way to have traps, loud whistle, speed, a properly flexible heal and a properly flexible condition removal all in one.

Is there some way I could make healing spring work better? Use the combo field somehow to its use? I know about the sword leap finisher. I wish I had some way to make the regen last longer without traiting and gearing like everything for it.

Halp.