Guild Wars 2

5s of Vigor on a 15s CD with a 300 range that requires a pet swap is pretty underwhelming to me. I’ve never seen anyone actually use it in a build to date. I tried it a few times myself but found it pretty meh in comparison. There is really no use for this trait because Evasive Purity is far better and Windborne Notes at least affects a weapon and Clarion Bond.

Since when you swap pets to gain the benefit from this trait, the pet appears at your location, you lose a lot of DPS and utility as the pet needs to cover this distance again.

Vigorous Training; “Whenever you swap pets, you grant 5s of Vigor to allies in a 600 radius. Your pet shadowsteps to your target and gains 5s of Super Speed.”

That would bring a much needed gap closer and mobility for the pet and a lot more usefulness to the trait. Anyone else have ideas for this trait?

The shadowstep portion reminds me of “Strike As One”. I wish that was on Hunter’s Shot and/or Sic ’Em. I agree Vigorous Training needs to be “dealt with” as the placement and purpose is mediocre.

Personally, I would love to see Stability Training make a return and be altered so that swapping pets grants nearby allies 1 stack of Stability for 3s and is a Stun Break.

Man I love the pet shadowstep idea. I really want that somewhere available for rangers now! Also, I was wondering how you guys would feel if there was a way to keep just the boons on one pet and give them to the other on pet swap. Probably not on this trait also but maybe somewhere else? Might stacking on axe to do a beast master sorta thing would be a bit easier.

I agree that Vigorous training needs more, but it should remain as a supportive trait, where what you’re suggesting makes it a tad bit more aggressive.

That being said if they wanted to add that shadow step for the pet to say, idk Sic’Em, or another skill, that’d be beyond fantastic.

I think it’d be cool if vigorous training gave AoE vigor and like swiftness or something + the 600 range increase. Or super speed, that’d be amazing but I’m not holding my breathe

We have plenty of sources of swiftness already. What if it say refillled 25 endurance for nearby allies as well?

Soilder.3607:

We have plenty of sources of swiftness already. What if it say refillled 25 endurance for nearby allies as well?

That would be amazing actually, I always forget that Anet is moving away from the “you can only support via heals and boons” mentality. If vigorous training gave some flat endurance and vigor it’d be great even at 300 range.

Durzlla.6295:

Soilder.3607:

We have plenty of sources of swiftness already. What if it say refillled 25 endurance for nearby allies as well?

That would be amazing actually, I always forget that Anet is moving away from the “you can only support via heals and boons” mentality. If vigorous training gave some flat endurance and vigor it’d be great even at 300 range.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Latent_Stamina