Guild Wars 2

I tried out a power build with the new Nature Magic GM trait and I’m a bit optimistic about it now. Here’s what I ran:

Longbow/Sw&horn
Marks – III (Keen Edge)
Skirm – I (Pet’s Prowess), X (Quick Draw)
WS – VI (Wilderness Knowledge)
NM – VI (Nature’s Protection), VIII (Evasive Purity), and XIII (Survival of the Fittest)
Berserker Amulet
Rune of the Ranger (since it was buffed)

Air/Bloodlust on bow
Fire/Bloodlust on Sw/W

Anyone else played around with this trait yet?

yes it is..combined with the sigils of purity gives a fair great cond removal..no more need for EB imo

I’m missing EB a little but probably because Im so used to not thinking about condition managing. Got hit with a >10 sec cripple, didnt know they went that long :p

I’m still on the fence, but I didn’t get a chance to play much last night. I run a 6/0/1/6/0 build and I was running with TU, MT, LR, and SoR.

MT was working out great because I pretty much want to use that skill every cooldown. LR on the other hand does not make a good survival skill to pair with this trait IMO because it’s rare you want to use a defensive skill to both escape and clear condis. Since I was holding back using LR I found I needed SoR to help with random condi removal. Especially since I was running TU as well.

I want to try and swap in Healing Spring and remove SoR in favor of QZ to see if 2 more offensive oriented survival skills provide me adequate condi removal, but it’s hard to justify when you consider SoR’s passive is still stronger overall.

We’ll see though. It’s the only new trait I have any real interest in using.

Kilger.5490:

I’m missing EB a little but probably because Im so used to not thinking about condition managing. Got hit with a >10 sec cripple, didnt know they went that long :p

Yea, if you’ve been running EB for a long time, it’s going to take a good bit of getting used to.

@ Atherakhia: Yea, it’s a bit awkward managing LR as a condition removal when it’s such a clutch ability for snares, but I found that MT generally works well enough on its own. QZ I still used primarily for burst or fast rezes, but syncing up a burst with a time when you have a condi on you isn’t too bad.

Tested it last night and the trait is bugged with Entangled.

Never mind the wrong tooltip, and I know the trait works outside combat because MT grants the fury.

Atherakhia.4086:

We’ll see though. It’s the only new trait I have any real interest in using.

Pretty much the only trait anyone running power builds have any real interest in running.