Guild Wars 2

Feral Bond
Pet effects of your weapon skills are applied to you aswell.

Interactions:
[Axe 3] Winter’s Bite – Throw an axe to chill your foe. Your pet’s next attack inflicts weakness.
[Sword 1] Pounce (3rd chain attack) – Leap at your foe, striking them. Your pet gains might.
[Longbow 3] Hunter’s Shot – Fire an arrow to make your foe vulnerable. Your pet gains swiftness.
[Shortbow 4] Crippling Shot – Fire an arrow that cripples your target. Your pet’s next three attacks inflict bleeding.
[Greatsword 5] Hilt Bash – Daze your foe with a hilt bash. Stun them if you hit from behind. Your pet’s next attack does 50% more damage.

As you can see this would be a crazy strong trait. Does Ranger deserve something strong? Yes! It obviously would have to be a Grandmaster Trait which are often defining for builds and kind of supposed to be strong. Still it would need some changes and here is where I ask for you help.

The best move would propably be to replace Remorseless with this which is a terrible Marksmanship Grandmaster trait that cannot be fixed by number tweaks anyway. Still there are some problems:

• the effect on GS would be a straight upgrade for Moment of Clarity (which I already like) and be too strong
• the effect on Sword might be too strong aswell allowing for insane stacking of might (5s per chain)

Overall I like the concept of this so much that I really would like to see it happen though. Might be the buff ranger deserves.

On the might stacking, I just threw together and tested an Engineer HGH might stacking build a could easily get a dozen or so stacks of might out of combat. I don’t see Pounce becoming much of an issue. Also, this trait would in one sense invalidate Moment of Clarity when using the GS since it provides the same exact effect, except for increasing stun/daze duration.

Ye I thought about the might thing a bit more and it shouldn’t be that much of a problem as I initially though.

For Moment of Clarity: What if it would give Opening Strike instead of the +50% dmg attack. I like this. Would actually pick um what Remorseless tried to do but with more sense and in a 30-30-… build you could actually try make both traits work together.