Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to request that the balance team take a look at the beastmastery trait titled intimidation training. The trait causes Canine an Spider F2 attacks to cause cripple.

I run mostly canines (wolves), and I dont see why the canines have this as their trait. The wolf causes fear with his F2 skill (cripple doesnt make that any better, and arguably makes it worse), the white wolf causes chill (Cripple not any help), the hound causes immobilization (cripple not any help) and the fern hound causes regen so the cripple could be beneficial there, but that’s 1 out of the 4 canines. I believe similar set of circumstances apply to the spiders as at least 2 of their F2 attacks cause immobilize.

I would like to see this trait reworked to apply something like a few seconds of weakness or vulnerability to enemies, with weakness being preferred. If not that, then i suggest a slight buff to the ranger along the lines of a few seconds of might, fury, or something defensive like protection or regeneration.

Any consideration to this would be greatly appreciated as I really enjoy using the wolves as my pet and would like to get a more reliable bonus for using them on an almost exclusive basis.

Agree. I’ve also found this trait to be rather useless, one of many.

In fact, all of the BM special traits should be combined into one (with special abilities still applied to specific types of pets), and new traits should be added. Current implementation makes it not optimal to combine different types of pets = less diversity = less fun gameplay.
It feels like they went out of time and/or ideas before release by letting these very specialized traits through. A complete trait overhaul is probably planned though (for all classes), but it may take at least 6 months before they change anything.

In total agreement. I was so confused why canines (mostly AOE f2 skills) and spiders (mostly immobilized f2 skills) would cause cripple. Several of the canine F2 skills don’t even target an enemy because their AOE howls. Would cripple still apply to enemies?

Was going to post the same but found your post through search.

I still think they should completely abolish the pet family requirements for those traits, and just make it so if you take intimidation training ALL pets F2s cripple, or if you take the vigor one whenever ANY pet is pulled out it grants vigor, or whenever ANY pet crits it bleeds etc.

That would make those traits a hell of a lot more useful than they currently are.

+1

The family requirements must be erased! It should apply to ALL pets!

Durzlla.6295:

I still think they should completely abolish the pet family requirements for those traits, and just make it so if you take intimidation training ALL pets F2s cripple, or if you take the vigor one whenever ANY pet is pulled out it grants vigor, or whenever ANY pet crits it bleeds etc.

That would make those traits a hell of a lot more useful than they currently are.

Yes, this is a better suggestion than mine above, so +1 indeed.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Durzlla.6295:

I still think they should completely abolish the pet family requirements for those traits, and just make it so if you take intimidation training ALL pets F2s cripple, or if you take the vigor one whenever ANY pet is pulled out it grants vigor, or whenever ANY pet crits it bleeds etc.

That would make those traits a hell of a lot more useful than they currently are.

Yes, this is a better suggestion than mine above, so +1 indeed.

I would take that too. Just something that at least makes sense to use and actually makes the pet better/more effective.