Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I don’t own a ranger yet (I’ve used all character slots), but I wanted to take a look at the traits, and saw this one:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Moment_of_Clarity

I feel it is unclear on some issues, though:

1) is the bonus +150% damage or +50% damage? The note says one thing, the tooltip says something different.
2) When me and my pet get Attack of Opportunity, can we spend it separatedly?
What I mean is: If we both have Attack of Opportunity and I use an attack, does the pet retain his attack of opportunity until it attacks too?

Thanks for your attention, and sorry for the laziness.XD

Its +50% damage which equals 1.5 or 150% damage. It can be confusing i know and there seems to be alot of this going around on the tooltips, it also adds to peoples confusion when they are aware that many of the tool tips are outright wrong in the first place.

You and your pet both receive the buff, so the next attack each of you deals is 50% stronger.

Its a bad trait imo and tbh there isn’t enough burst available to take full advantage of something like that. Also take the greatsword for example, #5 is a stun/daze (interupt) and it already applies the opportunity to your pet, they do not stack…

I see, thanks!^^

Well, the only thing that might work with it might be sb/GS, you use sb #5, then attack with pet and with GS #2, then GS#5 and #2 + pet seconds later. Or axe #4

Too bad GS#4 works only on block, and this means it will rarely interrupt someone.

And still I’m not sure this would deal good damage.

(This was the build I wanted to try first when I’ll get ranger by the way: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJARVjEV51NWeVg2BgVh9YPOUxFdPK1zTzYlFk9A-ToAg0CnI4SxljLDXSus1MsYZB)

Neoheart.2750:

Its +50% damage which equals 1.5 or 150% damage. It can be confusing i know and there seems to be alot of this going around on the tooltips, it also adds to peoples confusion when they are aware that many of the tool tips are outright wrong in the first place.

You and your pet both receive the buff, so the next attack each of you deals is 50% stronger.

Its a bad trait imo and tbh there isn’t enough burst available to take full advantage of something like that. Also take the greatsword for example, #5 is a stun/daze (interupt) and it already applies the opportunity to your pet, they do not stack...

Depends on your pet and your build.

A signet zerker build can hit 10k+ with Maul. Path of Scars can hit something like 8k (initial hit) on a crit as well. While it is awkward as hell to do, Counterattack can hit big with signet buffs. Drake Tail Swipe can do over 8k on a crit.

Meanwhile, some don’t use it for the damage amp, but for the stun duration increase. Hilt Bash and Concussion Shot go to a potential 2 second stun each. Some take it further with the +stun duration sigils. Canines with the pet +condi duration trait are added into this. Some use the Boar’s Forage for the Skull Fear. MoC + condi duration buffs/sigils/runes can turn that into an 8+ second fear.

Bascially, you build around MoC.

Neoheart.2750:

Its +50% damage which equals 1.5 or 150% damage. It can be confusing i know and there seems to be alot of this going around on the tooltips, it also adds to peoples confusion when they are aware that many of the tool tips are outright wrong in the first place.

You and your pet both receive the buff, so the next attack each of you deals is 50% stronger.

Its a bad trait imo and tbh there isn’t enough burst available to take full advantage of something like that. Also take the greatsword for example, #5 is a stun/daze (interupt) and it already applies the opportunity to your pet, they do not stack…

It’s far from a bad trait, you do NOT take the trait for the damage but more for the longer CC (2s stuns/dazes on SB and GS as well as longer fears, stuns and dazes from any environmental item you pick up), the attacks of opportunity are certainly nice, but if you’re running MoC, it shouldn’t be for the “burst”

Its ok now with the changes, as you can do some interesting things with it, But if you’re Asura it becomes silly, its a bloody 6 second Daze with TB now.

Thanks for the info!^^

It’s indeed an interesting trait! It brings me back in the day where I had to do stuff like this with my warrior too… (manly tear is shed).

Seems like ranger is the new class which is full of potential and raw power, but hard to pull off.

I was wondering, does this trait work with the Asura Technobable racial utility? It could potentialy become a 6sec daze with this trait. :P

Ambrecombe.4398:

I was wondering, does this trait work with the Asura Technobable racial utility? It could potentialy become a 6sec daze with this trait. :P

From the videos I’ve seen, it does. Too bad I wanted to use it on spvp.XD

redslion.9675:

Ambrecombe.4398:

I was wondering, does this trait work with the Asura Technobable racial utility? It could potentialy become a 6sec daze with this trait. :P

From the videos I’ve seen, it does. Too bad I wanted to use it on spvp.XD

You might consider a Boar as a pet then. A point-blank fear is 6 seconds, the skull crack stun is 4 seconds, etc. A drawback though is that the Skull environment weapon has a very long CD after use (120 seconds or something.)

Ambrecombe.4398:

I was wondering, does this trait work with the Asura Technobable racial utility? It could potentialy become a 6sec daze with this trait. :P

See my Videos on my page, I was working on a new Technobabble Video till Shadowplay started being screwy.

But yes, it does work with TB, other fun things about TB, It can be used if you’re stunned.