So, I’m pretty much just wondering how everyone is going about spending their trait points. Everytime I get a new trait point I put it on the trait that has less points than the others, and I distribute them all equally. I’m wondering if thats a good idea, or if in the long run, it will be a waste of my time. Thanks in advance for all those who give their advice
Upgrading ranger traits with trait points.
Just depends what you want to do with your ranger. Traits offer passives and stuff like that to compliment your playstyle. Just look on the wiki at what the traits are and decide which ones seems most interesting to you.
Don’t worry so much about getting the points. Like Marksmanship offers points to power for example. You will be getting all those stats from gear. So I would pick the trait lines that offer you the best traits for your style of play.
I don’t think we know what the soft caps on attributes are yet so everyone is probably just experimenting at this point?
Bleu I would recommend looking at the major traits and finding some passive ability that you would like to have. At that point focus on that line to get that ability. If you are a low level, you wont be able to go past 10 points in any one line. After hitting 10 and getting your first major trait, move to another line and get 10 in that depending on what 10 point passive you want.
When you can afford the higher level books, you can look at the 15 and 20 point abilities and go from there. It is super cheap to respec at low level so play around with it a bit.
If you love shortbow, start in Skirmishing. If you like the pet start in BM for Masters Bond.
If you love a certain weapon type, look at a trees 20 point abilities, and youll find cooldown reduction abilities for specific weapons, thats a good way to know where to start when just starting to learn about how the traits work.
While most of the Marksmanship traits are uninspiring, I really like the AoE ability I get with Piercing Arrows, even on a shortbow. Your mileage may vary, I just like that my Axe/Horn weaponset is now ‘I need some utility/group buffs’ set instead of my ‘I aggroed more than 2 mobs’ set.