[Suggestion] Relocation of some traits

[Suggestion] Relocation of some traits

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Posted by: Valderro.6389

Valderro.6389

Honed Axe and Empathic Bond should be swapped. It is silly having two condi clears in the same tier. Empathic Bond makes more sense in the Beastmaster line because it depends on the pet. Honed Axe is not a good trait, ferocity doesn’t really fit a weapon that has limited power scaling. If something else like condi duration (stacking buff?) was added, and then it could be combined with the increased condi damage from the offhand trait for a bit more synergy than currently.

Shared Anguish should move in place of Two-handed Training, which moves to Skirmishing instead of Strider’s Defense. Shared Anguish just makes more sense in Beastmastery. Choice of masters in Skirmishing is lacking, either Spotter for power, or Hidden Barbs for condi.

Strider’s Defense is a bad trait design. If it went to Wilderness Survival it could be reworked as protection against stuns, rangers used to have two traits to deal with stuns. It could be replaced by bringing back Hide in Plain Sight, or get new functionality like getting Whirling Defense effect (shorter duration) when stunned (the cd could be affected by Honed Axe in the grandmaster slot).

[Suggestion] Relocation of some traits

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Posted by: Dojo.1867

Dojo.1867

While I agree with many of your points I think only the first one is that nearly everyone agrees on.

Swap Empathinc Bond and Honed Axes and redesign both of them:

  • EB needs to transfer more often (every 3 second 1 condition) because on 10 seconds it will miss way too much condis since they became intensity instead of duration stacking.
  • Honed Axes should add 150 ferocity per axe equipped and double the might duration of Axe 1 (and ofc lower axe cds). Nobody will miss AoE on Axe 3, not sure why you came up with that.