Guild Wars 2

With the unveiling of the Ranger specialization, traits were either improved, moved, made baseline, or merged, but there were also a handful that did not make the cut. A few of them were lackluster while others provided a fair amount of utility.

On there own, some were never selected, but if merged with other traits, they can be great assets. Here are a few suggestions to (hopefully) restore some of these traits by merging their functionality with others.

• Intimidation Training merged into Predator’s Instinct.
• Circle of Life merged into Instinctual Bond.
• Hide in Plain Sight merged into Shared Anguish.
• Stability Training merged into Vigorous Training.
• Carnivorous Appetite merged into Rending Attacks.
• Master’s Bond merged into Companion’s Might.
• Vigorous Renewal merged into Natural Vigor.

Thoughts?

1 – Yes, the loss of intimidation training is quite big for some of the builds I liked.
2 – Yes, makes complete sense.
3 – Yes, although just bringing back HiPS would be good too.
4 – OP, stability and vigor every 15s is too much, unless the durations were quite short.
5 – Yes, makes perfect sense. RA needs something else right now. Bleeding plus life steal on hits instead of bleeding on crits imo.
6 – Yes, but would need to reduce the duration on the vigor on heal or it would be OP.

I do agree that if Stability Training was changed to affect nearby allies, there needs to be an internal cooldown on the trait beyond the default pet swap. If it was merged currently as it is, I think it would be fine.