I loved my Carrion Condi Ranger before the Trait changes, but based off an hour or so in Silverwastes last night, felt it was lacking.
I have submitted a bug report for Hidden Barbs – 20% in game, 33% in the patch notes. This may just be a toltip error, but nonetheless.
The lack of Keen Edge Trait. My condi build has no precession, so ‘on crit’ is at first glance useless (I did muck about with opening strike on fury etc, so know its possible, as Sharpened Edges shares with Primal Reflexs and you need that to make Light on Your Feet worthwhile…) making it harder to stack bleeds. I used to strafe the target anyway as Shortbow Condi, getting behind as much as possible for the bleeds from shortbow 1, but losing Keen Edge has made a difference. This also used to proc Survival of the fitest for more condi cleaning as well, so thats quite a big loss.
WS – Grandmaster adapt Trait adds +% Critical rather than damage. Again, or no use to most condi builds (apart from Sinister) so Dire/Carrion/ etc lose their extra source of damage.
Light on Your feet. Condi builds are forced into this for the pierce and recharge, but rather than the spoiled movement based +% damage, we get a dodge trait that does not last long enough to be of benefit. 5% for 4s?
I have a Zerker Longbow ranger as well, and loved most of not all of the changes. Sadly, I think my tanky Condi Carrion will be replaced with a glass Sinister instead