Change the Skirmishing line to the name of :
Ranger = Expertise , the more you trait further into the Expertise line Reduces the cool downs of Utility skills and Elites , each Teir adept 6% , Master 8% , Grandmaster 10% cooldown Reductions on Utilities, in addition to the Traits that can give % off like Quick draw it would not effect weapons.
this will allow the use of traits on a reduced cooldown and Utilities on a cooldown , lighting reflexes is 32secs traited with 20% total 35% if you take x,6,2,x,x it will put LR on a 26sec cooldown, allowing the ranger to take useful Utilities instead of Dual signets or Dual Survival skills for condi removes/stuns as Shared anguish + LR would be enough to sustain the ranger in combat, freeing up two slots for more variety adding in a spike Trap with larger radius+ ground targeting with reduced cooldown inaddition to Moment of Clairty as a grandmaster , the trap becomes a low cooldown Soft CC Utility rather than traiting it for damage.
doing this can allow a rangers utility to be ether traited for Soft or damaging CC just be changing a Grandmaster thanks to the lower cooldown the trap will do damage more often , and do more soft CC more often .
with Trap master as a grandmaster trait it will allow a total of 30% off Trap Cooldowns, it will reduce Spike traps cooldown by 7.5secs , down to 17.5secs for this to work and to be more balanced for fights , Adding the Gound Animation of a small sized Bramle bush/thorn/rose bush(if using Kudzu) on the ground (20yards square) the more often use of this Utility will give rangers More CC options while traited for full Expertise aka Skirmishing
of course Utilities would have a Slight increase in Cooldowns but this will allow for some Extreame Custom Utility builds , and it won’t effect too much of the Utilities that are already on a low cooldown .
this would also reduced the Cooldown of Rampage as one and Signets without the use of Signet mastery (then Signet mastery Can be Removed or Changed)
i think each class should have somthing like i Suggested to Deepen the depth of the classes even more.
warroirs Burst mastery : inherit 1 adreniline per hit/ hit taken at an Grandmaster lvl if they take max Burst mastery it will allow up to 3 per hit and 3 per hit taken,
balances out so Burst mastery builds have a Natural higher out up of Adreniline ,
to balance increasing the amount of adreniline needed to use the f1` to balance the amount of Adrenline gained , traits in other lines can be used to gain adrenline but doing so Equals less traited for Burst mastery Reducing the % gain.
Necros: increased Life siphions 2% adpet, 4% master 6% grandmaster for soul reaping would allow more hp sustain for Siphion builds built with soul reaping or parshall soul reaping for a % increase traiting else where would Reduce the gain of %, there for reducing Sustain gain.
Mesmers : need a added boost to the Inspiration line, Clones/Illusions have increased hp , 4% adpet, 6% master, 8% Grandmaster, clones live longer giving the mesmer more time to plan attacks and higher damage sustain when not Using shatter Tactics.
Thiefs : Increase stealth durations , attacted to the shadow arts line , Adpet +1sec , Master +2 secs , Grandmaster +3secs , this would reduce the amount of stealths needed and reward a near stealthless build where only one stealth is needed adding Benifit of being able to take a Extra Utility for damage or somthing that don’t grant other source of stealth . thanks to the increased duration.
Guardains , Radiance trait tree Added effect in addition to Precision, Condition Damage stats. Reduce the recharge of Virtues , 2% adept , 4% master , 6% grandmaster.
Elementalists , Arcana= reduces the cooldown of Attunements 4% adept , 6% master , 8% grandmaster , a few slight ajustments to Elemental Attunement and Elemental surge to prevent power creep from Switching Attunements fast , though it wouldn’t be too much of a Overall Boost reducing the above traits by 2% will be made up for slightly more often Attuement swaps.
other builds and benifit from slightly fast attunements, giving the Elementalist s tiny bit more Freedom to attune swap, and could open more Rotation choices.
if class machanics need improving i think this is the best way around it rather than causing things to fall out of Balanc/imbalance adding somthing Unique to a trait line for each class might be a way forwards broadening the depth of trait lines that effect class Machanics .
Reason for the Ranger one being different , since Pets are in a Hard place to Balance thanks to Ai, gw1 Expertise increase the Effectiveness of the rangers Ability to Kite and use CC to kite doing what i Suggested would also do the same effects but Restricting them to Utilities only, so if some one wants a weapon to improve its Kiting Ability Weapon Traits still apply.
