Guild Wars 2

Just an fyi for those of you out there. It gives a couple of seconds of duration of the boon, not what you actually get in duration. It also does not share stability.

Just for those of you curious about running a build with 10/25/10/25 build for 10% damage with full endurance, 10% from flanking, and 5% with boon up. Going into the traitline seemed interesting for Fortifying Bond but it’s actually a waste compared to putting those points in BM.

If you haven’t already seen, Wiki has the correct numbers on boon share; it gives a fraction of the duration you would have received: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fortifying_Bond

Yup, I checked the wiki immediately when I noticed that the boon I had hoped to apply to my raven while testing it on mobs was only a tiny fraction of Call of the Wild’s duration.

There’s no reason to make it a fraction of the duration, but I’m sure there is some perverted logic to be found to explain this trait behavior.

The tooltip is still misleading.

The fraction that your pet gets is also increased by boon duration. Looks like you have 25% at least. That’s a pretty nice bump.

I think if you look at fortifying bond being the only source of boons for a pet then it is a little underwhelming. However when you include other sources it ends up being 100% uptime for almost everything along with multiple stacks of might.

Might applied by Rampage as One lasts for eight seconds. every stack on might that gets applied to you, from what I’m seeing here, would also apply to the pet at 12 seconds, so you’re actually getting more time out of it.

jewishjoyride.4693:

The fraction that your pet gets is also increased by boon duration. Looks like you have 25% at least. That’s a pretty nice bump.

I think if you look at fortifying bond being the only source of boons for a pet then it is a little underwhelming. However when you include other sources it ends up being 100% uptime for almost everything along with multiple stacks of might.

It’s pointless, because with fields you can stack any boon just fine, as you can with shouts.

In CoF speed runs you can get 25 might stacks for your pet just fine without this trait.

So, if its only use is with RaO, and might particularly, it’s an underwhelming trait. If it needs group application methods to be good, it didn’t need fortifying bond anyways since at the rates of application in a group this is pointless.

Your pet won’t gain buffs in a 5 man group without this trait.