Guild Wars 2

Let’s take a different approach on Opening Strike within Marksmanship. Too many times, the suggestions involves just the minors and the GM, with not much else.

Instead of just altering minors and a single GM, a better approach to make Opening Strike more useful is to have interaction with it on every single Grandmaster trait.

Bear with me on the suggestions, as these are just ideas that outline what I mean.

Minor Traits:
Opening Strike: You and your Pet gain an Opening Strike when out of combat.
Precise Strike: Opening Strikes always critically strike.
Relentless: You and your Pet regain Opening Strike when you kill a foe or gain Fury.

Grandmaster Traits:
Predator’s Onslaught: You and your Pet deal +15% more damage to disabled and movement-impaired foes. Opening Strikes also inflict Cripple (2s).
Remorseless: Opening Strike deals +25% more damage. You and your Pet gain Might (5 stacks, 5s) when you deal damage with an Opening Strike.
Lead the Wind: Longbow skills pierce, recharge 20% faster, and attack 10% faster. You and your Pet regain Opening Strike when you gain Stealth.

Best idea I have seen for Opening Strikes ever.

Ya don did it again with the ideas, this would actually make the opening strike not be a wasted trait when you don’t take remorsless and actually give the marksmanship line real synergy, really like the idea

Good idea but piercing LB should be baseline..

This weapon is proven to not doing that much damage in the first place..

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Best idea I have seen for Opening Strikes ever.

Never agreed so hard on a forum post.

For the remorseless suggestion: Instead of might they could add quickness. We can already stack might pretty fast with an adept trait. With quickness it would give the trait synergy with soulbeast and would improve dps overall.

The ideas are good but with Relentless being a minor trait they are SUPER strong as Fury is so easy to reapply currently, but love some of the direction you went with these.