Guild Wars 2

40 new traits. 8 professions. 5 new traits for each classes.

1.) Read the Wind

Ranger: Your arrows are swift and deadly, but in some scenarios they are not as fast as they need to be and your enemies can dodge them easily. With Marksmanship’s new Read the Wind, your longbow arrows will fire at twice their base velocity, allowing for supreme accuracy at long range.

2.) Empowered Training

Beastmaster: Your pets will now be able to hit any moving foes within its 300 radius without missing.

3.) Tree-jutsu

Nature Magic: You will be transformed into a Seed Pod for 260 seconds to heal nearby allies and cure conditions on them.

4.) Arrowcart-jutsu

Skirmishing: You will be transformed into an Arrowcart for 260 seconds to provide real impact in WVW. Ally friendly.

5.) Ranger’s Gift

Nature Magic: You and your pet sacrifice your lives to resurrect down allies to 100% health and 100% stamina. Max 5.

Number 5 is my fav.

Druid Form: You become one with nature and disappear off the face of Tyria.

You realize those wouldn’t work as traits at all right lol?

Durzlla.6295:

You realize those wouldn’t work as traits at all right lol?

Yes you’re right. LOL!

but….

since there are 4 more traits remaining for ANet to impress us. Im wondering which ones those are. If any of you could guess…

I say one of my suggestions will be the new trait which is

Companionship: Your pet receives 7% stats bonus from the Ranger Beastmaster.

i actualy see empowered training more as…

Empowered training
Pet now have a 300 aoe radius on all attack and gain 30% of all ranger stat (finaly pet actualy can serve a purpose!)

7% is not enought i said several time trought the CDI pet needs at least 20% or 30% of its stat to be tied to the ranger itself

Heh, trait #2:
Become a warrior for 10 minutes, long enough to fool your group into taking you on a run before they realize you’re really a ranger.

I love the Avatar of Arrowcart. That would be hysterical.

Durzlla.6295:

You realize those wouldn’t work as traits at all right lol?

Someone missed the joke

When I saw 3rd trait, Jew-Jutsu from South Park came to my mind.

ChillyChinaman.6057:

Druid Form: You become one with nature and disappear off the face of Tyria.

And leave a legendary Kudzu so your Warrior friend can use it better then you do when fully traited for it.

Bryzy.2719:

Durzlla.6295:

You realize those wouldn’t work as traits at all right lol?

Someone missed the joke

No, I get what he’s getting at lol, i was just hoping the joke would still have them be more traity and less skilly xD

New GM Skirmishing trait:

“Master of Roots – You will no longer get rooted when using a sword”

Aveneo.2068:

New GM Skirmishing trait:

“Master of Roots – You will no longer get rooted when using a sword”

That trait being in skirmishing is making too much sense. Make it a GM beastmastery trait since we really like our traits being all over the place.

I hope the other new traits are more of a bonus to the ranger, oppose to fixes which the ranger should have anyway.

Lévis.5489:

Aveneo.2068:

New GM Skirmishing trait:

“Master of Roots – You will no longer get rooted when using a sword”

That trait being in skirmishing is making too much sense. Make it a GM beastmastery trait since we really like our traits being all over the place.

True, so ‘Master of Roots’ will become our new beastmastery trait. Let’s see…

“Reaching Talons – Your pets will now be able to actually hit their enemies instead of playing air-karate”

But that one will probably be listed under Nature Magic.

“Endure – Your pet will take 5% less damage from AoE”

There we go, that’s probably a worthy GM trait in ANet’s eyes.

probably one new trait will cure conditions in some way because i think one dev said something in that direction that we will get new ways of condi cleaning to get out of EB.
but msybe we will see that in our old traits that will be modified

AEFA.9035:

40 new traits. 8 professions. 5 new traits for each classes.

1.) Read the Wind

Ranger: Your arrows are swift and deadly, but in some scenarios they are not as fast as they need to be and your enemies can dodge them easily. With Marksmanship’s new Read the Wind, your longbow arrows will fire at twice their base velocity, allowing for supreme accuracy at long range.

2.) Empowered Training

Beastmaster: Your pets will now be able to hit any moving foes within its 300 radius without missing.

3.) Tree-jutsu

Nature Magic: You will be transformed into a Seed Pod for 260 seconds to heal nearby allies and cure conditions on them.

4.) Arrowcart-jutsu

Skirmishing: You will be transformed into an Arrowcart for 260 seconds to provide real impact in WVW. Ally friendly.

5.) Ranger’s Gift

Nature Magic: You and your pet sacrifice your lives to resurrect down allies to 100% health and 100% stamina. Max 5.

Number 5 is my fav.

2.) Suicide Mud Trap

If you take more than 75% damage in under 3s from dual wield warrior, commit suicide and cripple nearby foes for 10s (unblockable).

Nah the Beast Mastery trait will be:

Animal Farm: In Soviet Tyria you don’t command pet, pet commands you.

Confused by the Read the Wind trait- so the skills will take the same time but the time to target will be twice as fast? i don’t know but the trait seems weak for GrandMaster

Lexiceta.4156:

Confused by the Read the Wind trait- so the skills will take the same time but the time to target will be twice as fast? i don’t know but the trait seems weak for GrandMaster

Arrows fly twice as fast. Skills work the exact same way they have before.

It’s like back when they buffed arrows speed by default except now it’s a 30pt trait.

Leader of the Pack – Beastmaster

Both of your pets are active all the time. They have to be from the same family.

Aveneo.2068:

True, so ‘Master of Roots’ will become our new beastmastery trait. Let’s see…

“Endure – Your pet will take 5% less damage from AoE”

There we go, that’s probably a worthy GM trait in ANet’s eyes.

<- is expecting to see this in the patch notes, given that the bow fix we needed is also a GM.

Coarr.3286:

Leader of the Pack – Beastmaster

Both of your pets are active all the time. They have to be from the same family.

Fnah! My coffee came out my nose…..

I’m actually kind of worried to see what the other 4 traits are.

Considering our “power” trait line sees a trait that adds projectile speed where it seems more fitting in our “precision” trait line. What’s our skirmishing GM going to be? Restore the SB’s range to 1200? Which I wouldn’t mind, but I wouldn’t take it out of sheer spite.

Hm. You know if these traits are trying to give certain builds a greater role definition, a longbow trait wouldn’t just be twice the velocity – it would be twice the range too.

That sort of a thing seems much more role defining as opposed to just patching, and would be worth gating behind a grandmaster.

“In an attempt to add more synergy between the ranger and their pet, we have made it so ranger heals only affect the pet by default! We are proud to introduce a new gradmaster nature magic trait that will allow the ranger to heal themselves as well! To allow for counterplay to this powerful new trait, the heals will only work if the pet is alive!”

New trait: Endowed Focus – ability to stow pet and gain all benefits of pet.

SM Grandmaster: “Your pet F2 skill casts faster and interrupts the pet’s current action.”
WS Grandmaster: “You can fast-travel with waypoints even in combat.”
NM Grandmaster: “If you use a signet you also clean all condition on yourself. Also apply 1 sec of immobilise on yourself for every condition removed.”
BM Grandmaster: “You can stow your pet while in combat.”
MM Grandmaster: “Your longbow’s arrow fly faster.”

Coarr.3286:

Leader of the Pack – Beastmaster

Both of your pets are active all the time. They have to be from the same family.

i like that.

1) “READ THE WIND” LONGBOW AUTO-ATTACK WILL NOW HIT TARGETS (already announced)
2) “MASTERY OF DODGE” DODGE WILL NOW WORK WHILE USING SWORD
3) “BASIC TRAINING” AXE WILL NOW DO APPRECIABLE DPS
4) “CHANCE IN HELL” PETS WILL NOW SURVIVE ZERG AOE 10% OF THE TIME
5) “OBEDIENCE SCHOOL” PET ATTACKS WILL NOW HIT TARGETS

1) “Almost had a chance” Traps will now do 10% more damage to stealthed targets
2)“Master of scheduling” All RNG abilities now have a 15% chance of being applied by/to pet as well
3) “Evades avatar” Once evades are on cooldown, the ranger merges with its pet for 5 seconds, followed by instant and cost free respawn.

Beastmastery Grandmaster: Finally a useful pet – You gain a nourishment buff giving 5,000 HP and 30% damage from the consumption of your pets.

@ Bri
LMAO “mmm bacon” as title? XD

Bri.8354:

Beastmastery Grandmaster: Finally a useful pet – You gain a nourishment buff giving 5,000 HP and 30% damage from the consumption of your pets.

We call this powerful new buff~

“Family Dinner”

Kilger.5490:

1) “READ THE WIND” LONGBOW AUTO-ATTACK WILL NOW HIT TARGETS (already announced)
2) “MASTERY OF DODGE” DODGE WILL NOW WORK WHILE USING SWORD
3) “BASIC TRAINING” AXE WILL NOW DO APPRECIABLE DPS
4) “CHANCE IN HELL” PETS WILL NOW SURVIVE ZERG AOE 10% OF THE TIME
5) “OBEDIENCE SCHOOL” PET ATTACKS WILL NOW HIT TARGETS

Seems about right. 90% sure these were things brought up for new traits in the “meetings” they had.

Ranger Fury – You get annoyed with people dodging your Bow attacks. You drop weapon and punch the crap out of the target.
Animal Magnetism – Your Pet ignores your order and tries to hump the enemies leg
Rifle Mastery – Because the Ranger would look totally kitten with one

Those could be three of them?

Kilger.5490:

1) “READ THE WIND” LONGBOW AUTO-ATTACK WILL NOW HIT TARGETS (already announced)
2) “MASTERY OF DODGE” DODGE WILL NOW WORK WHILE USING SWORD
3) “BASIC TRAINING” AXE WILL NOW DO APPRECIABLE DPS
4) “CHANCE IN HELL” PETS WILL NOW SURVIVE ZERG AOE 10% OF THE TIME
5) “OBEDIENCE SCHOOL” PET ATTACKS WILL NOW HIT TARGETS

The sad thing is that Anet is probably going to do something like this.

TROLL!!!!!

number 2 should not be a trait.. should be a AI FIX!!!!!!
Number 5 is ridiculously trolling….. why would ANET do that? Making Rangers even more useless to ourselves…

WARSaints.1502:

TROLL!!!!!

number 2 should not be a trait.. should be a AI FIX!!!!!!
Number 5 is ridiculously trolling….. why would ANET do that? Making Rangers even more useless to ourselves…

what are you talking about? these are legit and confirmed.

dead serious

Skirmish GM Trait: Master of Invulnerability – All ranged attacks will do zero damage regardless of Line-of-sight and range.

Wilderness Survival GM Trait: Downed as One – If your pet is dealt over 100% of it’s total life in a single hit it shall “Yip!” and transfer all damage to you instead.

Nature Magic GM Trait: Soul Twisting – Recharge time for Expertise skills are reduced by 50% when in range of a spirit.

Beast Mastery GM Trait: Unsympathetic Bond – Skills which direct a pet to heal a downed ally will instead cause the pet to walk over to them… and laugh.

Seth.1308:

Wilderness Survival GM Trait: Downed as One – If your pet is dealt over 100% of it’s total life in a single hit it shall “Yip!” and transfer all damage to you instead.

This made me laugh and cry at same time. It really feels like I’ve been beta-testing this trait. LOL!